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Microsoft Surface sold in Oz next week

Microsoft will start selling its Surface tabletop multi-touch system in Australia next week after a formal launch. 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 »

Microsoft licenses another flash file format

Microsoft on Thursday said it has started licensing the technology behind another flash memory format. Read more »

Google Squared gets more data, better filters

Google has released a few enhancements to Google Squared, its attempt to build spreadsheets out of search results. Read more »

Open source hack could make mobiles vulnerable to prying ears

If you are using a GSM phone -- the 2G standard used by the majority of the world's mobiles -- you are likely to have just a few more months before it will be easy for practically anyone to spy on your communications. Read more »

Google Wave picks off bugs as launch approaches

With two months to go before Google opens up Wave access to a larger audience, there is a lot of work still to be done, going by a demonstration last Tuesday at the search company's headquarters in Mountain View, California. Read more »

Microsoft kicks off Windows Mobile app store challenge

Microsoft has begun taking submissions from developers to populate its upcoming App Market, sweetening the deal by announcing a competition to find the best apps and prizes for the winners. Read more »

PostgreSQL 8.4 arrives tailored for admins

The PostgreSQL project has released version 8.4 of the open source database management software, with more than 290 additions and changes to features. Read more »

Google readying microblog search?

About a month after saying it was taking real-time search seriously, Google seems to be preparing a microblogging search tool. Read more »

Adobe makes Acrobat.com a business with paid accounts

Adobe is taking Acrobat.com out of beta on Monday, and turning it into a business with paid user accounts. Read more »

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A look at ColdFusion 9's new features

This article looks at some of the best features in ColdFusion 9 and discusses why the application server is still compelling. Read more »

Introducing Linux virtual containers with LXC

This article makes the case for using Linux Resource Containers (LXC), which provide the ability to create containers to virtualise processes or systems isolated from the host operating system. Read more »

Use holiday parties to climb the ladder

Many people don't look forward to office parties, but career pro's know they're a great opportunity. In this article, executive and leadership coach John M McKee shares his top 10 tactics for climbing the ladder over cocktails. Read more »

Microsoft's Hyper-V R2 vs. VMware's vSphere: A feature comparison

VMware and Microsoft are ramping up their virtualisation games with relatively new releases. Scott Lowe compares and contrasts some of the major features in vSphere and Hyper-V R2. Read more »

Code concepts: Database normalisation and de-normalisation

This article provides an overview of the basics of normalisation and de-normalisation, with an emphasis on the Third Normal Form. Read more »

Workflow Patterns

In this serialisation of Chapter 15 from the book Oracle SOA Suite Developer's Guide, we look at some of the more complex, yet common use cases and how these can be addressed in a relatively straightforward fashion by the Workflow Service. Read more »

Exchange 2007 SP2 paves the way to Exchange 2010

Exchange 2007 SP2 is out and about. This article outlines some of the more exciting changes that have been made to this popular groupware product. Read more »

Making the case for dynamic languages

This article presents reasons why developers should consider using dynamic languages. We also discuss how these languages trip up some developers. Read more »

OutSystems' Agile Platform: The IDE of my dreams

Get in-depth details about OutSystems' Agile Platform, including information about deployment, security, data binding, project management, and more. Read more »

It's time to consider alternatives to RDBMS

For at least the last 20 years, developers have been trying to figure out how to make the relational database work better for our needs. When do we start trying something entirely different? Read more »

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Explaining Google's BigTable

Google uses a proprietary, high performance and scalable database called BigTable. Brett Slatkin, senior software engineer at Google, explains BigTable and how it get the best out of it with AppEngine. Read more »

Gates: Everything will be a computer

In the coming years, the conference table will be a computer, the whiteboard will be a computer, says Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates. Read more »

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Microsoft Surface comes to Australia

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Microsoft Surface finally to hit Australia, Google adds Buzz to the social networking array and more in this week's Roundup. Read more »

The real-time search race

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Google and Yahoo deploy real-time search this week, WebGL reaches the draft stage and more. Read more »

Microsoft misses the Outlook point

Chris Duckett [blogs:betaliving] -- Ask designers which mail program is the bane of their existence, and you'll find that Outlook tops the list. The reason why the most popular email reader is also the most painful is simple: it uses Word to render HTML emails. Read more »

Windows Mobile makes an entrance

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- In this week's Roundup we look at the new Windows Mobile 6.5, Debian GNU/Linux 5.0, Mozilla's Bespin and more. Read more »

Sun eye Web developers with Netbeans 6.5

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Despite the recent employment axe hitting Sun the company has pushed out a new release of its Netbeans open source IDE with an eye to appeal more to Web developers. Read more »

Google launches Mail Goggles to save you from yourself

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Just a quick post to mention a silly experiment that Google has released to the public: Mail Goggles. This feature is designed to prevent you from sending stupid e-mails in the small hours, when you're most likely to be inebriated and at risk of making a complete idiot of yourself. Read more »

What's new in Dreamweaver CS4?

Lana Kovacevic [blogs:webanatomy] -- Let's look at some of the new features we can expect to see in Dreamweaver CS4. Read more »

Microsoft services VS2008 & .NET 3.5

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Microsoft has just announced the release to manufacturing of the .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and Visual Studio 2008 SP1. Read more »

Targeted for hacking by reporters at my table

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- I should have known it was only a matter of time. I've been covering security conferences on and off for about 14 years and considered myself lucky not to have been hacked, that I knew of. Until Thursday. Read more »

Spry Game

Lana Kovacevic [blogs:webanatomy] -- At this year's Adobe WebDU conference in Sydney, Greg Rewis gave a presentation on Spry 1.6, the AJAX framework. Read more »

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  • Staff Microsoft shows off IE9 preview

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

    -- posted by Staff

  • Chris Duckett 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

  • Staff 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

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