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With JavaFX, Sun seeks new coders, new revenue

With a back-to-the-future technology called JavaFX, Sun hopes to attract a new class of developer while building a much-needed new revenue source. Read more »

Facebook in $500m Twitter bid: report

Facebook recently made a US$500 million offer to buy micro-blogging site Twitter, according to a Wall St Journal website. Read more »

Yang's departure could open Microsoft door

Jerry Yang's resignation as chief executive of Yahoo opens the door wide for another Microsoft offer, analysts and shareholders said this week. Read more »

Yahoo to chop at least 1,400 jobs

Yahoo yesterday in the US reported a 64 per cent drop in net income for the third quarter, issued cautions about a weakening advertising market, and confirmed that layoffs were indeed on the way. Read more »

Oracle destroyed Ellison's emails

Software maker Oracle deliberately destroyed or withheld CEO Larry Ellison's emails and failed to preserve audio recordings sought as evidence in a class-action lawsuit filed against the software maker, a US federal judge has ruled. Read more »

Twitter buys search site Summize

Micro-blogging and social networking site Twitter has acquired Summize, a search engine commonly used to track Twitter conversations. Read more »

.NSW, .Uluru, .Oz, .footy domains coming in 2009?

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has voted to allow the creation of thousands of new domain names, from .paris to .Pepsi, in one of the biggest shake-ups in internet history, a French web official said. Read more »

Microsoft no longer interested in Yahoo?

Microsoft's efforts to reach some sort of arrangement with Yahoo have broken down again, Yahoo confirmed on Thursday. Read more »

Aussie resellers will get iPhone

The much-hyped iPhone, once limited to being sold within the flagship stores of Apple and its exclusive carrier partners, will be far more widely available once its 3G model launches on 11 July. Read more »

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Web banking: It's time to write down your password

Banks should stop forcing customers to create long, alphanumeric passwords because they can't protect against today's threats, according to AT&T computing researcher William Cheswick Read more »

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Seven essential elements of Web application design

At this year's Web Directions South UX conference in Melbourne, Robert Hoekman Jr, the author of Designing the Obvious and Designing the Moment gave a presentation titled -- " The essential elements of Web application design". During the presentation, Hoekman explained seven key design principles that should be implemented when designing Web applications. Read more »

The 10 most dangerous species of IT team leader

There are many competent and sociable team leaders in IT departments; but they don't make for great storytelling. Picking the worst and most dangerous types can help us recognise the signs and maybe even glean a little entertainment from them. Read more »

Sun's Java certifications: Are they worth the effort?

Can Java certifications be beneficial for your career? Here's a quick overview of Sun's Java certification offerings, along with my thoughts about how much stock I put into these certifications. Read more »

Top 10 reasons to avoid IT salespeople

Like the rest of us, salespeople and consultants are only doing their job -- but why do they have to be quite so annoying? Read more »

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Flash and Flex: cached and componentised

Mike Potter is the developer marketing manager for Flex, we sat down with Mike at MAX and discussed where Flex and Flash is heading. Read more »

10 tips for leading your team to peak performance

If you want to succeed as a leader, you can only do it by setting up your team members to succeed. Read more »

Learn the power features of zsh

Vincent Danen describes some of the features of the Z shell, such as tab-completion and prompt-handling. Read more »

Gosling looks down Sun's open road

James Gosling discusses Sun's decision to release Java under the General Public License, whether open source is more secure than proprietary software, how IT departments can cut development costs, and why Microsoft still owns the desktop. Read more »

Benchmarking and tuning Apache servers

Vincent Danen offers some tips on determining and tuning memory usage as a way of improving the performance of your Apache server. Read more »

Developer Spotlight: Gian Sampson-Wild

Gian Sampson-Wild is an accessibilty expert and one of the speakers at this year's Web Directions conference to held in Sydney this year. Builder AU interviewed Gian via email prior to the commencement of Web Directions to talk about accessibility, how to make it a part of the development process and where to from here. Read more »

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Charney: 9/11 attacks made security an asset

Until 9/11 security was simply a cost, says the VP of Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Group – the stock exchange being knocked out suddenly changed this. Read more »

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Ballmer's big Yahoo vision

ZDNet Editor in Chief Dan Farber talks about Microsoft's $44.6 billion cash-and-stock bid to acquire Yahoo. He analyses Microsoft's strategy in search, the potential impact on chief rival Google, and what it would mean, overall, in the competitive online-search market. Read more »

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Will Microsoft build native Mac and Linux tools?

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- If the future is in Microsoft's online services why isn't the company building native tools for Mac and Linux developers? Read more »

Google data-sharing gets authentication option

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Google now supports the open OAuth standard for sharing data through its Google Data interface, a move that could make it easier to tap into information stored at Google property. Read more »

OpenID Foundation scores top-shelf board members

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- If the OpenID Foundation were a liquor cabinet, it just got stocked with some Grey Goose, Rhum Clement, and Gran Patron. Read more »

Blogger declares shenanigans on advertisers -- piracy or plagiarism?

Nick Gibson [blogs:byteclub] -- MIT academic calls notices some suspicious similiarities between a lecture he wrote and an Australian made printer ad. Could this be piracy, or merely plagiarism. I call in the lawyers to find out. Read more »

How to make a brand homeopathic

Chris Duckett [blogs:betaliving] -- There was once a time when the word Java was used another person knew what you were talking about. It was either the language, the island or the coffee -- it was hard to take either of those three definitions out of context. Read more »

The Fud is Flying! (Again)

David McAmis [blogs:theneteffect] -- It seems like that the latest marketing technique for software vendors is to sling a little FUD and see if it sticks. Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt make for some attention-grabbing headlines and are great for scaring potential customers away from a competitors offering. Read more »

What to expect from Rich Internet Applications

Matt Overington [blogs:bricksandmortar] -- I had a look this week at what the developers claim to be the world's largest Adobe Flex application. Read more »

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