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Steve Jobs unveils the iPhone 3G

Apple CEO Steve Jobs announces the second generation iPhone at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference and details some of the improvements over the original iPhone. Read more »

Negroponte turns up the heat on Intel

Intel has denied claims made by One Laptop per Child that it broke a "non-disparagement" agreement and hit back at suggestions that it did not even contribute "a single line of code" to the project. Read more »

Oracle announces Database 11g beta

Company says beta includes 482 new features designed to add flexibility to database administration. Read more »

Chuck D lays down the law on DRM

'Just a lot of fucked-up shit' says rapper on consumer experience of DRM. Read more »

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Avoid Oracle Portal at all costs

If your boss ever brings up the subject of Oracle Portal, you should run screaming from the building. It is easily one of the buggiest pieces of software I have ever encountered. Read more »

XML: Too much of a good thing?

Explosion of special-interest XML dialects could mean the standard is a success or could be the start of a new headache. Read more »

PARC founder George Pake dies

George Pake, the scientist who founded Xerox's fabled Palo Alto Research Center, died last week, less than a month shy of his 80th birthday. Read more »

Ask Chuck: ASP.NET best security practices

What best practices should you follow for an ASP.NET application? Our resident .NET expert Charles Sterling offers this quick tip. Read more »

Ask Chuck: Problem with VS.NET installer

Have you had the quirky "VC Package not available or not registered" message when installing Visual Studio .NET? Maybe this tip from Chuck can help. Read more »

Ask the Builder AU experts

Need your development-related questions solved? Meet the Builder AU team of experts and start submitting your questions now. Read more »

Ask Chuck: Creating Windows apps without a remote database

This week Chuck answers a Builder AU reader's question on creating Windows applications that users can edit without having to connect to a remote database. Read more »

Tech.Ed Australia 2003

Microsoft's Tech.ED 2003 technical conference runs in Brisbane this year from August 10-13. Builder AU will cover the event live in this special report. Read more »

Tim Huckaby on TechEd 2003

Tim Huckaby, CEO of InterKnowlogy, MSDN regional director of the year and guest speaker at Microsoft's TechEd conference in Brisbane talks to Builder AU on this years event and life as a CEO on the road. Read more »

Ask Chuck:.NET user controls

This week Chuck takes another look at a Builder AU reader's question on user controls, this time focusing on Windows form controls in the browser. Read more »

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Salesforce.com apps for the Apple iPhone

At Apple's official launch of the iPhone software development kit, Chuck Dietrich, Salesforce.com vice president of mobile, demos new business software on the device. The tools let sales representatives manage applications such as analytics and business intelligence tools on the go. The Apple event took place at company headquarters in California. Read more »

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  • Staff A first look at Windows 7 beta

    In this week's Roundup we show you a preview of Windows 7 beta, cover news from the annual Macworld and more. Read more »

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  • Staff Opera's new SDK: Better browsing on the Wii?

    Opera has thrown a little more love at device developers by announcing an updated version of its software development kit on Wednesday at CES. Read more »

    -- posted by Staff

  • Staff 2008: Time to call stumps

    It's another year down but some things never change. That was shown this week as Internet Explorer remained under fire from yet another zero-day exploit. In other news, we set a hard drive on fire and Apple cans its involvement with MacWorld. Read more »

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