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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 »

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 »

AARNet: Aussie innovation demands bandwidth

Without more investment in high-speed fibre broadband, Australia's competitiveness will suffer, according to academic Internet service provider Australian Academic and Research Network (AARNet). 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 »

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 »

Researchers hack 'tamper-proof' PIN terminals

Researchers from Cambridge University have succeeded in capturing both PIN numbers and card details from supposedly tamper-proof PIN terminals using a paperclip, a needle and some wire. Read more »

IBM plays soccer with atoms in chip breakthrough

IBM has figured out how much force it takes to move atoms, another tiny step in moving microchip technology forward. Read more »

IBM explores biological binary for chip refinery

Can scientists use the binary of biology, DNA, to grow carbon nanotubes into more efficient circuits? IBM thinks so. Read more »

Can Bill Gates find the heart in a psychopath?

The behaviour of corporations has been compared to that of psychopaths in documentaries like The Corporation, but the now-retired Bill Gates is hoping to wake up the philanthropic traits that lay dormant in today's mega-enterprise. Read more »

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Build an AIR application for your website

Adobe AIR brings web technologies to the desktop through the integration of the Webkit rendering engine in a Flash-style desktop-based runtime. AIR applications running on HTML, CSS and Javascript can interact with the local file system, manipulate local SQL databases and even use AJAX on any domain. Read more »

How do I ... publish a custom application performance counter in C#?

Since performance counters are a standard system function they are an ideal method for tracking the performance your applications. Luckily, Microsoft has provided several classes within the .NET Framework to publish custom performance counters. Read more »

Print on all Java platforms with JPS

Java Print Service (JPS) allows you to print even on very size-limited platforms such as J2ME; it also supports standard Java 2D graphics. Learn how to organise printing with this API. Read more »

Unleash the power of dynamic proxies in Java

Find out how dynamic proxies in Java work, and then learn how to create a proxy that implements a list of interfaces. Read more »

Copy legacy Oracle tables with SQL*Plus

Tables with a LONG datatype cannot be copied via the CREATE TABLE AS SELECT syntax. They can, however, be copied with the SQL*Plus COPY command. This Oracle tip shows you how. Read more »

Download files over the Web with .NET's WebClient class

The System.Net namespace includes the WebClient class for uploading and downloading files via HTTP. You can copy or read files with only a few lines of code. Read more »

A .NET primer on reference types and value types

This article explains some .NET basics -- the difference between reference types and value types. Read more »

Process and parse XML with ease using Jakarta Digester

Get a brief introduction to processing XML with Jakarta Digester, including how it can be used to create pattern-matching rules for an XML document and to perform actions on the resulting collections. Read more »

How do I ... recursively scan directories with PHP's DirectoryIterators?

One of PHP5's most interesting new features is the addition of Iterators, a collection of ready-made interfaces designed to help in navigating and processing hierarchical data structures. Read more »

What virtualisation tools are available for testing?

This article talks about some of the free or inexpensive tools you might use to accomplish your virtualisation testing. Read more »

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Spry Game

Lana Kovacevic [blogs:webanatomy] -- At this year's Adobe WebDU conference in Sydney, Greg Rewis gave a presentation on Spry 1.6, the AJAX framework. Read more »

Windows 7 to get more touchy-feely

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- For those wondering when touch features such as those found on the Surface PC or iPhone would make it into mainstream PCs, the answer appears to be "whenever Microsoft gets around to releasing Windows 7." 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 »

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 »

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