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IE entrenched in the enterprise
Alternative browsers such as Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome may be aimed at toppling Microsoft's reign, but analysts say Internet Explorer's "overwhelming dominance" in the workplace will be difficult to defeat. Read more »
Why I switched from Firefox to Chrome
Sorry if it sounds like I'm drinking the Google Kool-Aid here, but I have switched from Mozilla Firefox to Google Chrome as my default browser for the very reason Google's executives said we should: speed. Read more »
Microsoft: IE 8 won't be done until 2009
Microsoft plans to offer one more public test version of Internet Explorer 8 before releasing the final version of the updated browser, the company said late Wednesday. Read more »
Adobe bringing full-fledged Flash to phones
Inspired by a new generation of smartphones, Adobe Systems has begun a new, higher-power effort to spread its Flash technology to mobile devices. Read more »
Google details 'reboot' bug, Android security fixes
Google has begun releasing some details about the vulnerabilities it patched in two updates to Google's Android operating system software in the T-Mobile G1 smartphone. Read more »
BrowserPlus escapes Yahoo walled garden
Yahoo has improved its BrowserPlus technology for more sophisticated Web applications and now lets other Web sites besides its own use it, the company said. Read more »
Core Security finds critical Adobe Reader hole
A critical security hole in Adobe Reader could allow an attacker to take control of a computer, according to Core Security Technologies. Read more »
Linux.conf.au hits domain disaster
The website of Australia's annual Linux conference has become temporarily inaccessible scant months before the event because of policy confusion over whether or not it is allowed to use its long-standing domain name. Read more »
Google's Gears gives laptops location smarts
Google has updated its open source Gears project so Web sites can take advantage of location services in Gears-enabled Web browsers. Read more »
Firefox and Chrome speed up
With new beta versions out for Firefox and Google Chrome, it's time to see how things have changed when it comes to testing the speed of JavaScript, the programming language that powers many cutting-edge Web applications such as Gmail and Google Docs. The answer: both browsers made big strides, but Firefox still beats Chrome on one widely-used performance test. Read more »
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Mozilla chairman unfazed by Google Chrome
Things just got a lot more complicated for Mitchell Baker, the Mozilla Foundation's chairman and "chief lizard wrangler." Read more »
Patent ruling good or bad for tech?
Now that the U.S. Court of Appeals has ruled that abstract processes, or business methods, cannot be patented, it's important to look at how this could affect the tech industry. Read more »
Taking on Twitter with open source software
One service that seemed to come out of nowhere and get instant buy-in from influential digerati around the Web was Identica, an open source microblogging alternative from Montreal resident Evan Prodromou, who in 2003 had co-founded Wikitravel. Read more »
50 significant moments from internet history
We take you through 50 defining moments of the internet. Read more »
Secure ASP.NET 2.0 sites with Membership API
Beginning with ASP.NET 2.0, the Membership API was added to simplify adding security to a Web application. This article explains how to use the Membership API with a SQL Server back-end. Read more »
Amazon S3: For now at least, sometimes you have to reboot the cloud
Amazon.com's Simple Storage Service, S3, spent a few hours Sunday in a big pothole on the road to the glorious cloud computing future, with an outage taking the storage system offline for several hours Sunday. Should we be surprised? Read more »
Uncloaking 'invisible' Flash Web content
Adobe announced yesterday that it was providing optimised Adobe Flash Player technology to Google and Yahoo to help them better index dynamic Web content and RIAs that include SWFs. It sounds exciting, but what exactly does it mean for Web searchers, Web masters, and Flash creators? CNET News.com asked Adobe, Google, and Yahoo and got some answers. Read more »
HTTP and HTML: The paradox of dominance
The saying, "When all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail," makes me think of the mess that we're in when it comes to the dominance of HTML and HTTP. Read more »
Tips for overcoming a fear of public speaking
For those of us not in the sales, marketing, or entertainment fields, a fear of speaking can make us physically ill. Unfortunately, there's no magic courage pill you can take. But there are some tips for being successful at speaking. Read more »
Develop slick Web interfaces with Ext JS
Ext JS provides the foundation for building Web applications with powerful user interfaces. Read more »
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Adobe Creative Suite 4
Adobe is updating Photoshop along with more than a dozen tools for editing images, Web sites, animation, movies, desktop applications, and print layouts. Read more »
Developers break the designer egg: Microsoft
Developers and designers are in a constant battle when working together on an application or Web site project; a presentation at Microsoft's ReMIX conference in Melbourne last month described the issues perfectly -- with an egg. Read more »
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Google wards off zombies
-- Google, whose servers constantly crawl the Web, doesn't have anything against spiders. But zombies, well, that's another matter. Read more »
Fennec: Firefox for Mobile reaches alpha
-- Mozilla has released Firefox for Mobile alpha code, codenamed Fennec, to users of the Nokia N810 and N800 Internet tablet. We take a look at the features of Fennec. Read more »
What's new in Dreamweaver CS4?
-- Let's look at some of the new features we can expect to see in Dreamweaver CS4. Read more »
Design websites with Dreamweaver CS3 layouts
-- Dreamweaver CS3 allows you to accelerate your Web design process by providing 32 sample CSS layouts. Read more »
Targeted for hacking by reporters at my table
-- 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 »
Facebook's portal for the masses
-- This week, Facebook took a number of strategic steps toward its goal of giving people the "power to share and make the world more open and connected." That's how founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg described the mission statement for Facebook. Read more »
Repent Open Sourcerers
-- The Anglican Diocese in Sydney is moving away from Microsoft technologies, Access and ActiveX provide another way for remote code execution and a local Aussie team wins the Imagine Cup. All that and more in this week's Roundup. Read more »
Google data-sharing gets authentication option
-- Google now supports the open OAuth standard for sharing data through its Google Data interface, a move that could make it easier to tap into information stored at Google property. Read more »
XO to run XP
-- When Bill Gates says that everything in the world should be a computer, what he means is that everything in the world should be running Windows. Read more »
RIP: iPhone carrier monopoly
-- Each time an iPhone launch story appears, one can almost feel thousands of credit cards shudder in collective fear. This week the landscape for the iPhone began to crystallise with confirmation of multiple carriers and a very good indication that the iPhone in Australia would be 3G. Read more »
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Social news start-up Streem shuts downSydney 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 »
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Space pr0n, patent karma and Yang out -- Club Builder
On Club Builder this week: how NASA plans to get the Internet into space, Jerry Yang is out the door at Yahoo and Brendan Eich discusses javascript engine competition.