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Netspace's green box: Contest winner

It's been a highly entertaining week for ZDNet.com.au and Builder AU staff as we sifted through quite a few hilarious reader captions. 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 »

Netspace's green box: Caption contest

Netspace regulatory and carrier affairs manager Matthew Phillips has a lovely big green box. But what's inside? Tell us to win a double DVD box set of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre films. Read more »

Conroy's red button: Contest winner

It's been a highly entertaining week for ZDNet.com.au and Builder AU staff as we sifted through 90 talkbacks across both sites. Read more »

Conroy's big red button: Caption contest

Communications Minister Stephen Conroy, a lab coat and a big red button. What could be going on here? Tell us and win a Plantronics microphone and headphone set. Read more »

MSDN subscription and REMIX winners

For a certain ZDNet.com.au staff member, it's been an entertaining yet equally horrifying week looking at the reader responses to the question: "What is the worst-designed web page or application you've ever seen and why?" Read more »

Win MSDN subscription and REMIX tickets

We've got a full MSDN subscription and four tickets to Microsoft's REMIX conference in Sydney next week to giveaway. Enter here! Read more »

Open source and cloud: Credit crunch busters

The economic downturn could be one of the biggest threats to face traditional tech vendors as businesses look to alternative technologies to help get them through the recession. Read more »

Google Chrome to get extensions

Google has published its plan to build into Chrome what is arguably its most requested feature: the ability to accept extensions that can customise how the open source Web browser operates. Read more »

Oracle's Beehive buzzes at OracleWorld

Oracle unveiled a new open enterprise software application on Monday in the US, designed to improve the way users collaborate and communicate on projects. Read more »

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Message Interaction Patterns

In this serialisation of Chapter 14 from the book Oracle SOA Suite Developer's Guide, we look at the more advanced messaging constructs supported by the Oracle BPEL PM. Read more »

Will the real 'new' features in Windows 7 please stand up

Did Microsoft really create all those nifty new features in Windows 7? Not really. Read this abbreviated list of features found in Linux for some time now. Read more »

System 76: Making pre-installed Linux hardware a reality

Read about System 76 and you might be tempted to make a purchase. Read more »

How to recession-proof IT

In the current economic environment, IT is well positioned to make a compelling case for strategic spending that can help weather the storm. Read more »

Flash, HTML, AJAX: Which will win the Web app war?

The days when Web pages were static collections of text and graphics are long past. But as the Web matures, there's a fierce competition over which technology will propel it into a medium for rich, interactive applications. Read more »

Google vs. Microsoft

At the 2008 Gartner Application Development, Integration and Web Services Summit, David Mitchell Smith, vice president and Gartner fellow gave a presentation titled "Google vs. Microsoft", discussing the seeming battle between the two companies. Read more »

Using Google as an application platform

Find out why Google Apps is a powerful alternative to more established products such as Microsoft SharePoint and IBM Lotus Notes. And, if Google Apps doesn't offer the applications you need, see why the Google App Engine might fit the bill. Read more »

Handling conflicts of interest

Because conflict of interest decisions sometimes have to be made in the spur of the moment, I advise conservatism when making them. It may lead to a missed opportunity, but I would rather miss out on a -good deal" than deal with the repercussions of a bad choice. Read more »

3 paths to career self-sabotage

Employee turnover hurts not only those receiving their "walking papers," but employers as well. It's a costly, though avoidable, problem. At my coaching practice, I often see the same detrimental effects that some actions repeatedly have on different individuals. Read more »

One virtual machine to rule them all

The Java platform can be used to interpret more than just the Java language -- it has expanded its coverage to include Ruby, Python with PHP to follow shortly. Read more »

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TurnTubeList -- Party-mixing Youtube

Mr Speaker was the winner of Webjam8 with TurnTubeList: a web application that allows DJ-like mixing of YouTube tracks. Read more »

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Aussie students win global software competition

A group of Australian students have just been crowned winners of the Imagine Cup, a global competition in software design. Read more »

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A gaggle of Google I/O predictions

CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi and Stephen Shankland discuss the upcoming Google I/O conference in San Francisco. Could a second mobile SDK be released? Or maybe the winner of the Android developer contest? Read more »

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IE9's H.264 vote killed Ogg

Chris Duckett [blogs:betaliving] -- 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 »

Microsoft and Yahoo join forces

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Microsoft and Yahoo have united this week to jointly battle Google, and Mozilla revealed plans to make Firefox look more like Chrome. Read more »

Yahoo to expose its wiring to developers

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Phase one came last week, when Yahoo launched its new profiles site. Phase two begins next week, when web developers can start sinking their teeth into Yahoo's attempt to replace its present static design with one that's customisable, application-rich, socially connected, and woven into other parts of the Internet. Read more »

Aussie Web design awards open

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Looking for recognition of your team's hot design skills? The McFarlane Prize is one of Australia's most premier industry awards for Web designers and is open for nominations until August 31. Read more »

Google to allow third party code in Gmail?

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- According to executives from the company, Google are preparing to open Gmail to developers outside the Googleplex labs. Read more »

Competition: Gates vs Woz Deathmatch

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Tell us who you think would win in a deathmatch between Bill Gates and Steve Wozniak, and go in the running to pick up some free gear. Read more »

The typical Linux conference geezer

Chris Duckett [blogs:betaliving] -- Asking delegates to pick their distribution, shell and editor of choice gives us a chance to gain some insight into the average Linux conference attendee. Read more »

2008 iAward nominations open

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Seeking recognition in the field of excellence for one of your recent projects? It might not be the Oscars, or even the Logies, but nominations for the annual AIIA iAwards are open this week. Read more »

Competition: Club Builder Christmas Hamper

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- To celebrate the 2007th episode of Christmas, and to look back at the year that was 2007, the Builder AU team are offering a Christmas hamper chock full of developer event goodies from 2007. Read more »

October DVD competition

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- If you could read peoples thoughts what would you do with your power and why? If you can answer that question you could win a dvd pack Read more »

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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 »

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  • 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

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    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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