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Microsoft's Ballmer to come down under
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has revealed plans to visit Sydney later this year, speaking at the Committee for Economic Development of Australia on innovation and the digital Economy. Read more »
Strike cloud clears at IBM Australia
The chance of industrial action at IBM's Baulkham Hills, Sydney facility has dropped dramatically after a workers' meeting last night broadly accepted the direction that union negotiations with Big Blue had taken. Read more »
IBM and unions still talking
Negotiations between IBM and workers at the company's Sydney facility at Baulkham Hills were ongoing, a representative from the Australian Services Union said today. Read more »
IBM workers not happy with offer
Workers at IBM's Baulkham Hills, Sydney facility were not happy with the offer IBM presented them yesterday, and have sent representatives back to negotiate, according to the Australian Services Union (ASU). Read more »
AMP re-thinks secure development
Australian financial services giant AMP has re-thought the way its information technology security team relates to the rest of the business as a result of the industry's increasing reliance on Web applications to deliver services. Read more »
Microsoft attacks potential VMware feature
Senior Microsoft security strategist Steve Riley last week criticised virtualisation rival VMware for an idea that could see virtualised operating system images patched while they were still running in memory. Read more »
Chrome's jittered JavaScript kills Silverlight?
The biggest rival for Microsoft's next-generation Silverlight Web technology will be JavaScript, not Adobe's ubiquitous Flash, according to experts speaking at Microsoft's Tech.Ed conference in Sydney this morning. Read more »
Microsoft refutes hypervisor attack claim
Senior Microsoft security strategist Steve Riley has used the vendor's Tech.Ed conference in Sydney this week to rebut claims by a Polish researcher that Microsoft's hypervisor software could be maliciously replaced on PCs without administrators knowing. Read more »
IBM splashes out on 'scab' labour
IBM has been recruiting "scab" labour to fill the gap that could be left by striking IBM Flightdeck workers, according to the Australian Services Union. Read more »
Chrome was inevitable: Mozilla CEO
Mozilla CEO John Lilly today waxed philosophical about the release of Google's new Web browser, Chrome, despite it signalling an attempt by the search giant (Mozilla's major financier) to become its biggest competitor. Read more »
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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 »
Designing Web applications
SlideShare CEO Rashmi Sinha gives us her advice on designing for Web applications and social networks. Read more »
IE's popularity plan
Microsoft's Platform and Security group manager of Internet Explorer, Chris Wilson, talks to us about how IE is planning on stemming the slow fall in market share. Read more »
Deploying with AppExchange
The hardest part of creating a successful software application is often not the coding -- it's getting that product out to its intended market. Read more »
The spider's Web of CSS
Finishing up our Web Directions South build up, we talk to Andy Clarke, Web designer, presenter and invited expert to the W3C's CSS working group. Andy gave us the low down on standards, the new way of designing Web sites and the problem with Web 2.0. Read more »
Ian Griffiths talks Windows Presentation Foundation (Part 2)
In the second part of our interview with WPF expert Ian Griffiths, we discuss the Rich Internet Application platform battle, the future of the desktop and whether now is the right time to switch to WPF. Read more »
"We're halfway there": Sun on Open Source
Builder AU's Nick Gibson sat down with Sun Microsystems's Chief Open Source Officer Simon Phipps to find out what's the fallout of open sourcing Java, what he really thinks about GPL v3 and why Sun is living on the prayer of Open Source. Read more »
Video (8)
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 »
Microsoft ditched as Anglicans go open source
The Sydney Diocese of the Anglican Church has decided to cut the Microsoft umbilical cord by moving to open source, starting with Office which will be replaced in the next three years. Read more »
Is Google sharing your information with US govt?
Google CEO Eric Schmidt yesterday admitted that the US government has made "requests" for the search giant to share information about its users – and he said Google would comply if the requests were legal. Read more »
Blog (61)
XP stays on life support for longer
-- This week's Roundup looks at Microsoft's decision to extend the life of Windows XP, the release of Microsoft Surface SDK, Firefox's new Geode plug-in, Yahoo's new tool -- Smush It and more. Read more »
Apple's iPhone engineers to tour Sydney, Melbourne
-- Aussie developers will be able to get up close and personal with some of the iPhone engineers in November to learn how to build applications for the platform. Read more »
StartupCamp Melbourne: The review
-- StartupCamp Melbourne looks to have produced just as interesting ideas as the Sydney event which immediately preceded it, but the Victorian start-ups appear to have stumbled during execution. Sydney 1, Melbourne 0. Read more »
Spellr.us needs a new dictionary
-- One of the only Australian start-ups to present at the recent round of conferences in the US was Sydney-based spellr.us, which has launched a Web-based tool to check and monitor websites for spelling mistakes. Read more »
What's new in CSS 3?
-- At the Web Directions South conference in Sydney on Friday, Jina Bolton presented "Creating Sexy Style Sheets", which gave an insight into some of the new features in CSS 3. Read more »
StartupCamp comes to Melbourne
-- In early October, Melbourne will get its own version of the StartupCamp project that saw three new technology start-ups launched last weekend. Read more »
Cinergix waves Australian flag
-- Just one Australian start-up appears to have made the final cut for the US-based DEMO and TechCrunch50 conferences this week: Melbourne-based firm Cinergix, which has produced an online collaborative process design tool dubbed Creately. Read more »
Startup Camp Sydney: The review
-- Three new Australian technology start-ups, uTag, TrafficHawk.com.au and LinkViz, were conceived and launched over the weekend in a lightning initiative dubbed "Startup Camp Sydney". Read more »
2Vouch refers well
-- Melbourne-based Web start-up 2Vouch yesterday launched the first public beta of what it dubs its "social recruiting platform". Read more »
Silicon Beach Australia
-- A group of Australian Web technology thinkers and entrepreneurs have started a new Google Group to build the Down Under version of California's famous high-tech development locality. They call it: Silicon Beach Australia. Read more »
Others (4)
Gallery: Jamming it with Web 2.0
"So what is WebJam?" the girl at the bar serving my mate and I a beer asked. She's thinking that maybe there's something to do with music happening tonight, but it's nothing like that. Read more »
Mini-Confs Day 2
Mini-conferences continued to be the order of the day at Linux Conference Australia 2007. Read more »
Mini-Confs Day 1
Linux.conf.au kicked off today with a series of mini conferences covering a range of topics Read more »
Sneak peek at Tech.Ed 06
In this picture gallery we take a look behind the scenes at Tech.Ed 06. Read more »
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XP stays on life support for longerThis week's Roundup looks at Microsoft's decision to extend the life of Windows XP, the release of Microsoft Surface SDK, Firefox's new Geode plug-in, Yahoo's new tool -- Smush It and more. Read more »
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The good and truly awful celluloid depictions of computersEver wonder why your lawyer uncle leaves the room whenever you turn over to Boston Legal? Or why your forensic science cousin can't stand crime drama? You know the answer: it’s the horrid trivialisation and dumbing down of an occupation to make it appear entertaining. Sometimes it is so unbelievable that it actually hurts and yelling at the screen is the only outlet. Read more »
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Apple's iPhone engineers to tour Sydney, Melbourne
Aussie developers will be able to get up close and personal with some of the iPhone engineers in November to learn how to build applications for the platform. Read more »
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Net Neutrality, Ballmer and bad dress -- Club Builder
Visting Club Builder this week: Steve Ballmer to speak in Australia, local ISPs say Net Neutrality is an American problem and we look at the best dressed from Tech.Ed.
