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Brisbane hosts TechEd 2003

Code cutters around Australia have gathered in Brisbane for Microsoft's 10th annual TechEd Conference, to be staged from 10-13 August. Read more »

Testers lock horns with Vista beta

Microsoft has passed a major milestone with the release of its first full test version of Windows Vista, the next generation of its flagship operating system. Read more »

Google CEO: Let our crawlers search Facebook

Upset his company's Web crawlers are being locked out of social networks like Facebook, the CEO of Google is again pressing for social networks to open up — for the good of the consumer. Read more »

Corporate crimeware threat 'moving to Adobe'

The launch of Microsoft Office 2007 is likely to force malicious hackers to focus more attention on looking for vulnerabilities in other desktop applications, such as Abobe's Acrobat Reader, experts told delegates at the RSA Conference 2007 in San Francisco on Wednesday. Read more »

Open source push reflects need for FTA action: Lundy

Even modest adoption of open source software could trim 2.5 percent from the government's IT spend, Labor senator and shadow minister for IT Kate Lundy told approximately 150 gathered attendees in a broad keynote speech that kicked off the AUUG'2004 conference in Melbourne yesterday. Read more »

OpenBSD: Maintaining the quality mindset

Come October, Theo de Raadt will be joined by five fellow developers for an intense period of takeout food, hikes through the hills in his native Calgary, Canada, beers and long conversations about the future of OpenBSD, the open source operating system for which de Raadt is project head. Read more »

Antivirus insecurity at Black Hat confab

Experts are warning that the popularity of antivirus software could turn the defensive measure into a security risk. Read more »

Windows anti-spyware to come free of charge

Ending speculation about whether it was shifting to a paid model, Microsoft said on Tuesday that it will provide customers with its new anti-spyware software for free. Read more »

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Special report: Linux.conf 2005

Builder AU will be covering the latest news, interviews and blogs from Linux.conf.au 2005 live in this special report from Canberra. Read more »

How the Mac was born, and other tales

Steve Jobs will be the star attraction when the Macworld Conference and Expo opens to the public Tuesday, but many Mac fans might be just as interested in hearing from one of the original Mac's creators. Read more »

Does innovation matter?

Do we really care who invented what feature first? Read more »

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Spry Interrogation

Greg Rewis, Senior Evangelist for Web Tools at Adobe, discusses their designer centric Ajax framework Spry. Read more »

You can spell Web services without .NET

When was the last time you talked Web services with someone who didn't mention .NET? Brian Schenkenfelder says not only can you do one without the other, you most definitely should. Read more »

In defence of freedom

The principles are the same, but technology has moved on significantly in the 15 years since the release of GPL 2. Read more »

Eclipse emerges from Microsoft's shadow

Here's why Eclipse is clearly on track to take over from Visual Studio as the leading tool platform in the industry. Read more »

Secure your ASP.NET applications

Despite improvements over previous standards, ASP.NET still has its fair share of vulnerabilities. Use these tips from Builder.com to help secure your ASP.NET applications Read more »

In defence of proprietary software

Open source advocates believe that emerging governments should give preferential treatment to their products. But why shut out proprietary software? It's profitable, attracts investment and creates jobs. Read more »

Where will the Visual Basic 6.0 developers go?

You love Visual Basic 6.0, but .NET is breathing down your neck. Do you go VB.NET or C#? Here are some common post-VB6 myths disspelled. Read more »

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Hypervisor price tag: 500 million dollars!

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- In this week's roundup we look at Citrix's purchase of XenSource, whether Sharepoint is Microsoft's new platform for lock-in, as well as a plethora of Google news. Read more »

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    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 »

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    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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