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Will Google Buzz be Wave's demise?

If Google Wave eventually fails to live up to the promise and hype that accompanied its launch, consider its demise an inside job. Read more »

92% against filter: Whirlpool survey

Early results from broadband information site Whirlpool's annual survey has found that 91.8 per cent of respondents do not support the idea of mandatory internet filtering, with most believing the government should focus on educating parents and children instead. Read more »

IBM to offshore 150 jobs, says union

The Australian Services Union claimed today that IT giant IBM is planning to offshore jobs from a number of its operations centres to China and India. Read more »

Unveiling Apple's iPad: Live blog

After months of rumors and speculation about a slate-like device, Apple has had its say. See the train of events in this blog from the high-profile press event which kicked off in San Francisco at 10am PST — 5am Sydney time. Read more »

Google ramps up Australian hiring

Google Australia is looking to fill almost 40 positions within its local office in Sydney. Read more »

Sydney Ignite 3: Videos

October 8 marked the third installment of Sydney Ignite, a night of presentations with the unique format of 20 slides shown in 5 mintues with each slide automatically changing after 15 seconds. You can now watch, in no particular order, eleven presentations from the night. Read more »

Atlassian: $10 products for charity

Atlassian, a Sydney-based software company best known for its bug-tracking JIRA product, is currently selling $10 licences for six of its products, with all of the money from sales going to charity. Read more »

Win7 Sydney launch: Live Twitter feed

Follow the launch of Windows 7 live in Sydney this morning from 9:30am as ZDNet.com.au reporter Suzanne Tindal Twitters the whole event. Read more »

Win7 Sydney launch: Live video feed

Watch the launch of Windows 7 live in Sydney this morning from 9:30am as Microsoft broadcasts the event via Ustream. Read more »

GitHub picks Sydney sysadmins

Git-based online hosted service, GitHub, has chosen Sydney company Anchor to implement and manage its infrastructure. Read more »

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10 mistakes that rookie IT consultants make

IT consulting is a tough, competitive field, and there are ample opportunities to mishandle the job. This article offers some cautionary advice for IT consultants who are just starting out. Read more »

Why Windows 7 should be free in China

Microsoft hasn't won the war on piracy in China, so why not strike before Google and produce a free OS closely aligned to its digital products and services? Read more »

Google: Open source lets us control our destiny

Chris DiBona, Google's open source program manager, gave the opening keynote at the Open Source Developer's Conference. Builder AU caught up with him to discuss why Google uses open source, how the company open sources its software and what it is like to be a comic book character. Read more »

Security in the Web 2.0 Era

At the Gartner Symposium ITxpo 2008 in Sydney this week, Andrew Walls, the research director and security analyst at Gartner presented "Security in the Age of E-Commerce and Web 2.0". Read more »

Did Ballmer hint at a Windows AppStore?

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer yesterday appeared to hint at the possibility of a Windows application marketplace that would be similar to the Apple iPhone AppStore. But the idea is not without its share of problems. Read more »

NUI -- the new generation of user interfaces

At the recent Web Directions South conference in Sydney, the closing keynote speaker was August de los Reyes, the principal design director for Microsoft Surface. Read more »

Get started with Web vector graphics

At the Web Directions South conference in Sydney, Dmitry Baranovskiy presented "Web Vector Graphics", giving an overview of the models available for creating vector graphics on the Web and tools to make them render correctly in all browsers. Read more »

Create cross-platform database-driven applications with JDBC

The Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) API offers a unified interface to different databases, providing a series of generic functions that are internally translated into native function calls. This makes it extremely easy to create database-driven applications that work across different RDBMS types. Read more »

Introduction to the Google Web Toolkit

At the Google Developer Day conference 2008 in Sydney, Lars Rasmussen, the head of engineering for Google Australia gave an overview of the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) with his presentation "AJAX with Google Web Toolkit". Read more »

Case Study: Switching places from Lotus to .NET

For almost a decade, Sydney-based software developer Just OnePlace (J1P) had been a loyal devotee of the IBM/Lotus platform. But following the strategic review that commenced two years ago the company made a strategic switch to the rival Microsoft .NET camp. Read more »

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ADD: A creative's curse or a blessing? - Malmuth Damkar

At Sydney Ignite 3, Malmuth Damkar speaks on how ADD can increase creativity but it also comes at a cost. Read more »

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Ukulele for geeks - Christian Crumlish

At Sydney Ignite 3, Christian Crumlish spoke about playing the ukulele. Read more »

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How to be a zombie journalist - Renai LeMay

ZDNet.com.au news editor, Renai LeMay, talks about how the internet changed journalism at Sydney Ignite 3. Read more »

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Why Gen-Y should care about legacy - Simon Dikkenberg

At Sydney Ignite 3, Simon Dikkenberg says that Generation Y should think about the impact that they will leave behind. Read more »

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How online self-publishing is transforming - Tim Parsons

Tim Parson discusses how publishing one's own books has changed due to the internet at Sydney Ignite 3. Read more »

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Compassion and collaboration - Tim Ayling

It's important to intorduce compassion and collaboration into business says Tim Ayling at Sydney Ignite 3 Read more »

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Conroy ducks, Ballmer evades and Android Fails -- Club Builder

Club Builder this week takes a long look at Senator Conroy's recent attempt to explain his Great Firewall of Australia, we chase Steve Ballmer over Sydney, and find Google's biggest bug of the year. Read more »

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Chasing Ballmer in Sydney

ZDNet.com.au chases Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer around Sydney during his recent visit Down Under. Read more »

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Ballmer's Sydney speech: Full video

Watch Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's full speech in Sydney this week at the company's Power to Developers Event. Read more »

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Hyperconnectivity -- REMIX08 Keynote

Mark Pesce, Futurist and Honorary Associate at the University of Sydney, delivers the keynote for REMIX08 and says that thanks to services such as Twitter, employees can instantly relay bad experiences outside the normal confines of the office. Read more »

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Microsoft in hot water over stolen code

[blogs:syslog] -- Microsoft has been accused of stealing code from a microblogging start-up called Plurk. Read more »

LinkedIn platform opens up to developers

[blogs:syslog] -- LinkedIn opens up its platform to developers, a new W3C draft gets published, and another iPhone virus emerges. More news in the Roundup. Read more »

Windows 7 in the spotlight

[blogs:syslog] -- After months of hype, Windows 7 was finally released early yesterday morning. Read more »

Flash comes to iPhone

[blogs:syslog] -- Adobe staged its Max 2009 conference in LA this week. A number of announcements were made during the keynote, including that Flash is finally coming to the iPhone. Read more »

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Adobe releases new Flash tools

[blogs:syslog] -- Adobe launches new Flash tools, Microsoft reveals Windows 7 release date, and we bring you coverage from the JavaOne conference. More in this week's Roundup. Read more »

The festive season not so festive

[blogs:syslog] -- This is still meant to be the festive season, isn't it? When they say you should show goodwill towards your fellow (hu)man, I don't think they meant redundancy payments. Read more »

Tools for the Semantic Web

[blogs:webanatomy] -- This blog post covers some of the technologies available for creating applications for the Semantic Web. Read more »

Social news start-up Streem shuts down

[blogs:bootstrappr] -- Sydney social news start-up Streem will shut down this afternoon, according to a heartfelt notice posted on the site this morning by its founder Elgar Welch. Read more »

Crying, mooning and leaving

[blogs:syslog] -- In this week's roundup we see that continuous whining can get results, Linux users get 64-bit Flash and Moonlight previews, the latest in the Yahoo/Microsoft relationship and Senator Conroy ducks and weave in Senate Question Time. Read more »

BarCamp buzz: Let the hacking continue

[blogs:bootstrappr] -- Attending last weekend's BarCamp in Sydney, it was hard to escape the conclusion that a certain "dot-com bust" flavour had seeped into the kool aid previously being drunk by Australia's web 2.0 and early stage start-up sector. Read more »

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Microsoft shows off IE9 preview

This week, highlights from Microsoft's MIX10 conference and more in the Roundup. Read more »

-- posted by Staff
IE9's H.264 vote killed Ogg

In a split decision by the judges, the winner of the W3C/WHATWG video codec consensus is H.264, taking home the future of video playback on the internet while loser Ogg goes home with nothing but thoughts of what might have been. Read more »

-- posted by Chris Duckett
Google launches Apps Marketplace

Google launches and app store, while Mozilla plans to re-write its open-source license. More of this week's news in the Roundup. Read more »

-- posted by Staff