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Industry welcomes filter policy

Many in the internet industry have welcomed Communications Minister Stephen Conroy's filter report and his draft legislation to make internet service provider (ISP) level filtering mandatory, with only a few voices criticising the plan. Read more »

Aussie organisations shun Office 2010

No large Australian organisations are known to be planning an Office 2010 migration, and many have not even completed their move to Office 2007. Read more »

NSW Police to get hacking powers

The New South Wales Government has unveiled plans to give state police the power to hack into computers remotely, with owners potentially remaining in the dark about the searches for up to three years. Read more »

Salesforce.com outage hits thousands of businesses

Thousands of businesses were left without access to their applications Tuesday after Salesforce.com's servers suffered a service disruption. Read more »

Flaw in BGP net protocol

Security researchers have warned of an underlying security issue concerning the Border Gateway Protocol, the core internet routing protocol. Read more »

Microsoft finally goes to market with Hyper-V

Microsoft has announced that its Hyper-V hypervisor is finally available, but analysts have questioned whether large enterprises will adopt the product as their sole virtualisation technology. Read more »

Steve Jobs unveils the iPhone 3G

Apple CEO Steve Jobs announces the second generation iPhone at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference and details some of the improvements over the original iPhone. Read more »

Intel, Microsoft plough US$20m into multicore research

Intel and Microsoft announced on Tuesday they are jointly backing university research to help address the challenges posed by a shift to processors with many brains. Read more »

Eclipse jumps from development to runtime

The Eclipse Foundation has announced the creation of a project called Equinox, an expansion for the open source group beyond development tools and into runtime software. Read more »

IPv6 migration begins as ICANN updates servers

The great migration from IPv4 to IPv6 has officially begun, after the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), added the first addresses to its root servers that conform to the new version of the Internet protocol. Read more »

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Once and for all: Assertiveness is not bad

Many employees confuse assertiveness with aggressiveness. Here's a lame attempt to explain the difference. Read more »

Maintaining state in ASP.NET: Know your options

Maintaining state is a problem that all Web developers face regardless of the platform. ASP.NET adds four options on top of the standard approaches on the Web. This article drills down on these options. Read more »

Microsoft unveils the F# programming language

This article kicks the tyres on the September 2008 Community Technology Preview of F#. Read this brief overview of the programming language's features and environment. Read more »

Seamlessly integrate applications with eBay using its Windows SDK

The eBay Windows SDK allows you to easily access eBay data within your application. Tony Patton gives you an overview of the functionality provided by the eBay Web services API. Read more »

A .NET primer on reference types and value types

This article explains some .NET basics -- the difference between reference types and value types. Read more »

Disclose data collection practices via privacy policies

Since Web site visitors are (understandably) wary of providing personal data, a common practice for Internet sites is to provide a privacy policy. Read more »

Add meaning to Web pages with microformats

A technology that has gathered steam the past couple years is microformats. Microformats allow you to add context to existing information contained within a Web page. Read more »

Should managers pitch in or just manage the action?

What's the best role for managers in the workforce: Guiding hand or foreman? Toni Bower's shares her experiences from the industry. Read more »

Why a poor performer makes the rest of the team want to cry

Toni Bowers talks from the trenches when she tells us that sometimes the truth hurts, but it hurts more if you don't say it. Read more »

Design before you build with wire frames

Tony Patton explains why using wire frames to properly design a Web application before development work begins will please clients, project managers, and Web developers. Read more »

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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 »

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