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Symbian 3 unveiled
The revamped open-source mobile platform brings a host of much-needed improvements and enhancements in three key areas: user interface, multimedia and performance. Read more »
80% of Aussies support filter
A survey commissioned by the ABC's Hungry Beast, has found that 80 per cent of respondents supported Labor's proposed filter. Read more »
Google debuts Buzz social networking
Google announced on Tuesday that it was immediately rolling out Google Buzz, a location-aware social networking tool highly integrated with its Gmail client, Google Maps and a new Android app. 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 »
Mozilla takes on YouTube video choice
A disagreement between Google and Mozilla is making a once-obscure debate into a real issue for those who watch web video or host it on their own sites. Read more »
YouTube begins HTML5 roll-out
As if the news about the upcoming video rental program weren't enough, YouTube on Wednesday announced that it's finally going live with support for HTML5 video. Read more »
Microsoft releases Silverlight 4 beta
Microsoft's fourth-generation answer to Adobe Flash, Silverlight 4, was released overnight at the software giant's 2009 Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles. Read more »
Office 2010 beta gets LinkedIn
Microsoft has released a beta of Office 2010 at its Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles. The beta integrates social network LinkedIn with Outlook, offers a stripped back Excel for browser editing, and video editing tools for PowerPoint. Read more »
Google Dashboard lifts curtain on stored data
Google is proving to be well aware of the uneasiness among the public over the increasing amount of data it stores from users of its services. Read more »
Google Wave greets conferencing with help from Ribbit
It's becoming clear that Google Wave, which is slowly emerging from closed beta, has the potential to be much more than a text-messaging platform. As the telecommunications platform company Ribbit shows -- as does a video-conference app from 6 Rounds -- Wave's architecture makes it a compelling platform for real-time streaming communication. 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 »
Flash cookies: What's new with online privacy
If you thought refusing HTTP cookies prevented tracking, think again. Website developers have found a way. 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 »
Hyper-V R2 scalability and cross-processor migration features introduced
Microsoft has been racing to catch up in the enterprise virtualisation space, and the company's efforts appear to be bearing fruit. Feature sets and scalability are quickly making gains against market leader VMware. This article introduces two new Hyper-V R2 features that are coming and contrasts them against similar VMware offerings. Read more »
Why Chrome will win and why it will lose
Google dipped its mighty toe into the increasingly crowded world of internet browsers today with the announcement of Chrome. We spoke to industry experts and Google's new rivals to find out why Chrome matters and whether the browser reality can deliver on the hype. Read more »
Rashmi Sinha on Slideshare
Rashmi Sinha is the founder and CEO of SlideShare, the online presentation sharing application that has been likened to YouTube for slideshows. We ask her how to make a social networking site work, and how to deal with the problems of increasing popularity. Read more »
Case Study: Can Scouta be the Pandora of video?
Helping consumers find the content that they want is the goal of Scouta, an Australian-developed application currently in the final stages of development. Read more »
Mobile Case Study: Podmo
Che Metcalfe got so fed up with the limitations of mobile phones and network operators for distributing content that he built a network platform of his own Read more »
'Electric Slide' on slippery DMCA slope
The inventor of the "Electric Slide," an iconic dance created in 1976, is fighting back against what he believes are copyright violations and, more importantly, examples of bad dancing. Read more »
Build a carousel with JavaScript
Next time you are thinking about using Flash, perhaps you should consider Javascript to build a carousel. 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 »
Offline YouTube and Gmail Makes Sense: Alan Noble
While there is no plan currently, taking all Google properties offline would make sense eventually to Google's Australia and New Zealand engineering director Alan Noble. Read more »
Blog (24)
Apple raises curtain on iPad
-- Generating buzz this week is Apple's new tablet device -- iPad. Will Australia be getting the 3G version? Read more »
Firefox 3.6 released
-- Firefox 3.6 is finally here! More of this week's news in the Roundup. Read more »
Windows 7 RC gets released
-- The long-awaited Windows 7 release candidate makes an entrance, Google reveals more details about the upcoming Android 1.5, Google Latitude gets new capabilities and more in this week's Roundup. 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 »
Introducing the new "nerd whistle"
-- Certainly the iPhone 3G has changed a lot about how we think of our mobile devices, but I guess I never thought we would discover the ultimate geek magnet -- the nerd whistle of all App Store apps -- the Phonesaber. Read more »
Confessions of an accessibility sadist
-- If your mouse dies because of a software update, most people would rollback the update -- a small minority will continue to move forward regardless. All in the name of science and testing the world of accessibility. Read more »
Google Developer Day yet to fill
-- Past experience would suggest that if Google restricts access then people will clamour for it -- remember GMail invites back in the day? It is therefore surprising that places for Google's Sydney Developer Day have not been snapped up. Read more »
How soon is Semantic?
-- At some point in the future you will be able arrive at work George Jetson-style. Your electric flying car will be streaming content to you from the new Semantic Web while your son in the backseat will be enjoying Duke Nukem Forever. Read more »
YouTube becomes a service
-- YouTube has expanded its APIs to allow for new players and uploading of content. Read more »
Blogger declares shenanigans on advertisers -- piracy or plagiarism?
-- MIT academic calls notices some suspicious similiarities between a lecture he wrote and an Australian made printer ad. Could this be piracy, or merely plagiarism. I call in the lawyers to find out. 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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