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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 »

Apple takes Safari to Windows and iPhone

Apple plans to ship a version of its Safari Web browser for Windows, and third-party developers will be able to get a piece of the iPhone, the company announced on Monday. Read more »

Code to exploit Windows graphics flaw now public

A sample program hit the Internet on Wednesday, showing by example how malicious coders could compromise Windows computers by using a flaw in the handling of a widespread graphics format by Microsoft's software. Read more »

Major graphics flaw threatens Windows PCs

Microsoft published on Tuesday a patch for a major security flaw in its software's handling of the JPEG graphics format and urged customers to use a new tool to locate the many applications that are vulnerable. Read more »

Oracle to support Ajax, Flash for rich Internet applications

At the JavaOne conference on Wednesday, Oracle executives said they plan to introduce tools for rich Internet application development. The company also released a development kit for the Java-based Spring Framework. Read more »

More than meets the eye in Microsoft plan

A little-known Microsoft project promises to bring advanced graphics to a broad range of devices and set up a potential showdown with Adobe Systems. Read more »

GNOME 2.14 released

GNOME developers released on Thursday version 2.14 of the desktop environment for Linux and Unix, including a new application suite aimed at making it easier to use the open-source desktop in enterprises. Read more »

AOL throws in Netscape towel

AOL is formally pulling the plug on its historic Web browser and is advising its users to adopt AOL spinoff Mozilla Foundation's Firefox instead. Read more »

Firefox 3 gives browser security, Web app makeover

Mozilla has released a new beta version of Firefox 3, with the popular open source Web browser featuring significant new features that according to its makers will improve security, ease of use and the rendering of Web pages. Read more »

Adobe sees its future on the Web

Chief Executive Bruce Chizen places his bets on new software called Apollo and says a hosted version of Photoshop is in the cards. Read more »

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Create graphics applications with Java 3D

The Java 3D API allows you to develop 3D graphics applications that have a high degree of visual realism. Read more »

Maximise DataSnap efficiency in Delphi

Delphi's DataSnap technology, formerly known as MIDAS, enables you to construct multitier applications. See how to get the DataSnap Server and the DataSetProvider components to work together. Read more »

Innovative multimodal interfaces with SALT technology

Handheld devices with wireless network connections are increasingly prominent. Software developers are creating applications for these devices that take advantage of new technologies like Speech Application Language Tags. Are you developing one? Read more »

Make the most of HTTP headers

By understanding how to take advantage of the information in HTTP headers, you can build more effective Web applications. Here's what you need to know. Read more »

Q&A: Windows Server 2003 kernel guru

Windows core technology guru Rob Short explains how hackers were involved in Windows Server 2003 development, and why not all NT4 applications will run on it. Read more »

An introduction to Flash Remoting MX

Flash Remoting MX is Macromedia's technology that provides a connection between Macromedia Flash and leading application servers. Read more in this introduction from Builder.com Read more »

50 significant moments from internet history

We take you through 50 defining moments of the internet. Read more »

The Age of Automation

The '60s and '70s were the decades of the mainframe. The '80s made up the decade of client-server computing. The '90s were the Internet years. Now we're entering the decade of the electronic butler. Read more »

Cyber-bludging special: Acceptable usage

There's no shortage of tools to monitor and filter employees' use of the Internet and IT resources. Read more »

Raphael JavaScript library simplifies creating graphics

This article explains how to use the Raphael JavaScript library and describes the various options that are available in it. Read more »

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Salesforce.com flexes its on-demand platform.

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Salesforce.com has included Adobe Flex functionality to it's Apex platform. The move means that developers using salesforce.com's Apex platform can now deploy rich Internet applications using the Flex toolkit. Read more »

Is the $100 laptop the end for Moore's Law?

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Here we are, extolling the virtues of laptops such as the pricey Sony Vaio TZ, when for most users the US$100 XO would be just as effective. 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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