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Google Android's new battleground: Developers

Google executives have a lot of work ahead of them as they court application developers skeptical of the search king's new open software platform for mobile devices. Read more »

Is Microsoft a threat to VMware?

The talk of this year's VMworld conference in Las Vegas was how much of a competitive threat Microsoft, which weeks earlier announced the free release of its hypervisor product, will prove to virtualisation leader VMware. Read more »

Microsoft Patch Tuesday brings six critical updates

Microsoft has released six critical patches for August's 'Patch Tuesday', including a fix for six vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer. Read more »

Oracle 11g release set for Thursday

After nearly a nine-month beta, Oracle Database 11g is set to launch on Thursday. Read more »

Google open sources XML-alternative Protocol Buffers

XML, it seems, has run out of steam for Google. Google said Monday that it has created an open source project for a data interchange format called Protocol Buffers. Read more »

Rapid app development hits Delphi for PHP 2.0

CodeGear has launched the Delphi for PHP 2.0 integrated development environment to improve its developer tools suite for building interactive Web applications. Read more »

Nokia to include Windows Live services

Though a Microsoft rival, Nokia will offer mobile Web services from the software maker, including Windows Live Messenger, Hotmail. Read more »

Wozniak 'disappointed' by Apple iPhone

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has today hit out at smartphones, accusing device manufacturers of putting technology before people -- and revealed that he's disappointed by Apple's decision to launch the iPhone without 3G. Read more »

Software turns .Net to Flash

The race to build more-powerful Web-based applications could accelerate with the addition of software that lets Windows developers create Flash applications without knowing Flash. Read more »

Microsoft hopes Windows Live finds common ground

Microsoft hopes product bundles and links to rival services will help it make headway with its online strategy. Read more »

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Design your Java applications to be more accessible with JAAPI

Did you know that you can use a rich palette of accessibility tools to make your Java application more accessible to users with disabilities? Learn how to incorporate the Java Accessibility API (JAAPI) in your application development work. Read more »

Tools for building Pocket PC Flash applications

Can you build real world Flash applications for the Pocket PC? You better believe it, and we'll show you the basics. Read more »

Put the Java Reflection API to work in your apps

The Java Reflection API enables you to take advantage of a variety of programming techniques. We'll show you how to inspect objects and work with arrays in the context of this API. Read more »

Take advantage of Microsoft's Application Blocks for .NET

Application Blocks for .NET include source code and sample applications. Take advantage of these tools and get a head start on your next project. Read more »

Using AppleScript to build Mac OS X applications

You can easily build applications that use the Aqua UI and interact with other applications on your Mac. We'll show you how. Read more »

Create powerful Flash applications with shared objects

Learn how to leverage shared objects to create more robust Flash applications. Read more »

Get your ASP.NET data binding education here

Data binding was once the technique no one wanted to use, but .NET has changed that. See how you can put this flexible technique to work in your ASP.NET applications. Read more »

Get your apps moving with Java streams

Managing the files in your application doesn't have to be confusing. This article will show you how to work with Java streams and File objects. Read more »

Windows DNA to .NET migration considerations

One of the most difficult decisions facing any organization that's considering a move to .NET is how to handle existing applications. Such legacy applications generally fall into three categories: non-Microsoft, desktop, and Windows DNA. Read more »

Centralise utility functions with Jakarta Commons Lang project

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Rational community gets rolling

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- IBM's Rational Software Developer Conference kicked off it's festivities in Orlando, Florida with lights, camera and plenty of action this morning. Read more »

Solving the network storage dilemma

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- I've had some friends and readers ask me the same question about what to do about the problem of storage in the home and how do you make it accessible to every computer or set-top box in the house on the internal network. Read more »

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  • Staff Crying, mooning and leaving

    In this week's roundup we see that continuous whining can get results, Linux users get 64-bit Flash and Moonlight previews, the latest in the Yahoo/Microsoft relationship and Senator Conroy ducks and weave in Senate Question Time. Read more »

    -- posted by Staff

  • Brendon Chase Sun eye Web developers with Netbeans 6.5

    Despite the recent employment axe hitting Sun the company has pushed out a new release of its Netbeans open source IDE with an eye to appeal more to Web developers. Read more »

    -- posted by Brendon Chase

  • Renai LeMay BarCamp buzz: Let the hacking continue

    Attending last weekend's BarCamp in Sydney, it was hard to escape the conclusion that a certain "dot-com bust" flavour had seeped into the kool aid previously being drunk by Australia's web 2.0 and early stage start-up sector. Read more »

    -- posted by Renai LeMay

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