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Q&A: Flickr founder Stewart Butterfield

In an interview with ZDNet.com.au, Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield shares his thoughts with us about the web, Google, Microsoft and Flickr's acquisition by Yahoo, as well as his recent departure from the US search giant. Read more »

Flickr founder knocks Yahoo

During a visit to Australia this week, Flickr founder and former Yahoo staffer Stewart Butterfield criticised the search giant for its lack of an innovative culture compared to rival Google. Read more »

Adobe tools put desktop apps in the browser

Adobe is preparing to open source development tools that will enable existing desktop and server software to run in Web browsers, according to reports. Read more »

Powerhouse adds photos to Flickr Commons

A Flickr project to house publicly held images is getting hundreds of photos from Sydney's Powerhouse Museum. Read more »

Yahoo gets the flick

The departure of Flickr's co-founders follows the earlier resignation of Jeff Weiner, who was executive vice president of Yahoo's network division. Read more »

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Is whitelisting the new blacklisting?

The IT security industry has come to a frank realisation that the current approach to preventing malware is simply not working. Is whitelisting, which is the reverse of our current approach, the answer? Read more »

PHP, Python, Samba get security tick of approval

Perl, PHP, Python and Samba have been commended for improving security in a report analysing over 250 open-source projects. Read more »

Rootkit threatens Cisco routers

Cisco and the security community are debating the reality of rootkits attacking the Cisco's Internetwork Operating System (IOS) after a researcher presented a proof of concept attack, which threatens Cisco routers and voice over IP phones. Read more »

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Antivirus is 'completely wasted money': Cisco CSO

Companies are wasting money on security processes — such as applying patches and using antivirus software — which just don't work, according to Cisco's chief security officer John Stewart. Read more »

How do you get bought out by Google?

Start-ups and venture capitalists often dream of the multimillion-dollar buyout, if not the lucrative IPO. So technology upstarts might perk up to hear the inside scoop from Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft on their acquisitions. Read more »

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On AIR: Getting ready for primetime

We caught up with Ryan Stewart, rich internet evangelist, Adobe, at MAX and spoke about AIR, Thermo and how Ryan has covered the US in a bus. Read more »

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On AIR: Getting ready for primetime

We caught up with Ryan Stewart, rich internet evangelist, Adobe, at MAX and spoke about AIR and Thermo. Read more »

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Data as an asset

Chris Duckett [blogs:betaliving] -- Is data a business asset for your company or simply a by-product of conducting business? Read more »

Drop in on Builder AU at Open CeBiT 2008

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Got a question on open source you need answered? Need a way to help convince your boss that open source is the way to go? Or just curious to learn what all the fuss is about? Then drop in to the Builder AU Open Source Afternoon on Wednesday May 21. Read more »

Simonyi tells programmers to leave the Dark Ages

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Charles Simonyi -- legendary Microsoft programmer and space tourist -- doesn't have many good things to say about the current state of his own profession, software engineering. Read more »

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