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Microsoft: First 'Windows Phones' arriving next month

Microsoft is hoping that a new crop of phones this season will help the company in its quest to stay relevant in the mobile phone market. Read more »

Opera 10 browser is here

The Opera 10 browser is now ready to download for Windows, Mac and Linux, three months after the beta first emerged. Read more »

Snow Leopard benefits to be longer term

Apple began shipping Snow Leopard on Friday, but the true importance of the Mac OS X update likely will emerge well afterward. Read more »

Google adds translation to Docs

Google continues to move language translation into more and more of its products. On Thursday, it became a feature of Google Docs, letting anyone do an on-the-spot translation into one of 42 languages. Read more »

Google speeds up Chrome

Google has released a new beta version of its Chrome browser, adding speed improvements, HTML 5 functionality and other tweaks. Read more »

Office 2010: You're not getting in without an invite

The next version of Office moved a step closer to reality on Monday as Microsoft released an invitation-only technical preview of Office 2010. Read more »

Google shows Native Client built into HTML 5

Google wants its Native Client technology to be a little more native. Read more »

Google's plans for Android's YouTube

As part of a series of blog posts, Google has released more information this week about some of the goodies we can expect out of version 1.5 of the Android operating system, which has been going by the code name Cupcake. Read more »

Google plugs PC power into cloud computing

Even at the cutting edge of cloud computing, web-based applications can be frustrating to write and to use. Read more »

Beta release moves a step closer to Firefox 3.5

Mozilla on Thursday released the third beta version of Firefox 3.1, aka Shiretoko, one of the frontrunners in the current race to improve web browsers. Read more »

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Explore the Semantic Web's standards and real-world applications

Here's an overview of the Semantic Web standards RDF and SPARQL and a look at two real-world applications that have emerged from the Semantic Web concept. Read more »

Code concepts: Parallel extensions

The Parallel Extensions library from .NET (PFx) supports a range of parallel programming paradigms. Here's an overview of the three main concepts in PFx. Read more »

A GUI supporting .NET's BackgroundWorker for task progress and cancellation

In this hands-on programming tip, the author provides a sample project that you can modify when you're working with .NET's BackgroundWorker class. Read more »

10 ways to make sure your conference calls aren't a waste of time

The downturn in travel budgets has sparked an increase in the number of conference calls among those collaborating across distributed environments. Unfortunately, a lot of those calls are poorly handled, by both leaders and participants. These pointers will help keep your calls on track. Read more »

Firefox 3.5rc2: Why I am not so impressed

I decided it was time to see what the developers of Firefox had been doing with my favourite open-source browser. The verdict so far? "Meh". Read more »

My solution for Linux adoption

Here is the solution to serious Linux adoption. Read on to find out what it is. Read more »

Implementing multithreading in .NET: Two major factors to consider

Justin James shares an interesting reader question about multithreading in .NET. Check out Justin's detailed response, which includes downloadable sample code. Read more »

Improve MySQL performance with MySQLTuner

This article covers the basics of the MySQL Tuner tool, which analyses your configuration and suggests changes that will boost the performance of your MySQL installation. 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 »

Maximise your jdb debugging sessions

Jdb, the Java Debugger provided by Sun, can do most of the things you're used to doing in your normal debugger. Find out how you can get the most out of your jdb debugging sessions. Read more »

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This five minute video explores how to use lambda functions in concert with Threaded Building Blocks to make parallel code more readable. Read more »

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Yahoo's Outlook alternative: Zimbra Desktop

[blogs:syslog] -- If you could collect your Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo mail, and corporate messages into a single in-box, would you switch? Read more »

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Windows 7 less annoying, but also less secure?

[blogs:syslog] -- Microsoft's efforts to make Windows 7 less annoying than Vista may also be making it less secure than its predecessor. Read more »

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Firefox 3.1 Alpha 2 developer features

[blogs:webanatomy] -- The latest Firefox alpha release -- 3.1 alpha 2 is more significant for developers than end-users. Read more »

Confirmation: Vista is about nothing

[blogs:syslog] -- The man who has made a career from making humourous observations on the mundane things in life, is bringing his skills to promoting a slighted OS. It looked good on paper: get Jerry Seinfeld, one of the world's most successful clean comedians, to promote Vista. But was it really thought through? Read more »

Sending the Inbox into receivership

[blogs:betaliving] -- If you've got an e-mail inbox with thousands of e-mails just sitting there, chances are you are living inside your inbox and that you are a slave to mail notifications. To overcome this problem and get on top of your e-mail rather than vice versa, here are a couple of techniques. 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 »

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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 »

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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 »

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