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Mozilla's Geode brings geographic web to Firefox
Mozilla Labs plans to announce a plug-in called Geode on Tuesday that gives the Firefox web browser a better ability to understand and use geographic information on the web. Read more »
Adobe confirms Flash for iPhone
Adobe has reportedly confirmed that its Flash technology is coming to Apple's iPhone. Read more »
Microsoft taps JQuery for Visual Studio
Microsoft said Sunday that it plans to ship the JQuery JavaScript library with its Visual Studio developer tool suite. Read more »
Adobe defends Aussie CS4 price hike
Global software giant Adobe has defended recommending local prices for its new Creative Suite 4 software packages that could see Australians paying hundreds of dollars more in real terms than US residents for the same products. Read more »
Paranoid Android: Did they forget Oz?
Dozens of phone calls and emails today made one thing clear: none of Australia's telcos or handset manufacturers has briefed their staff on when mobile phones running Google's Android system will be made available locally, if they are at all. Read more »
Windows Mobile 7 delayed
Microsoft has informed some of its partners that it has had to delay Windows Mobile 7, a much anticipated update to its handset operating system. Read more »
First Android phone: The details
US carrier T-Mobile and Google overnight detailed the first-ever mobile handset running Google's new Android operating system. Read more »
Aussie telcos can't talk Android
Australia's top four mobile carriers were unable today to say whether they had plans to locally sell phone handsets based on Google's Android operating system. Read more »
Adobe releases CS4 details
Adobe released details today about Creative Suite 4, its first update to more than a dozen design and editing tools since Adobe CS3 some 17 months ago. Read more »
Android phones expected shortly
US mobile carrier T-Mobile is expected to announce the first phone based on Google's Android mobile operating system on 23 September, with the so-called 'Dream' phone from HTC to go on sale sometime in October. Read more »
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JavaScript -- a Flash competitor?
Open source software has its problems when it's trying to keep up with proprietary software, but when it does what it's good at -- creating ideas and developing them very quickly in public -- it can be revolutionary. Read more »
An outage: Lessons learned
This article talks about two outages that occurred at a college and lessons learned from them. Read more »
Vista is sunk
It's not really a mid-life crisis, not really. But eighteen months after Vista appeared - and eighteen months before Windows 7 - Vista has bought a metaphoric red sports car and a new pair of tight jeans, and is getting ready to go on the pull. Read more »
Using Google as an application platform
Find out why Google Apps is a powerful alternative to more established products such as Microsoft SharePoint and IBM Lotus Notes. And, if Google Apps doesn't offer the applications you need, see why the Google App Engine might fit the bill. Read more »
Nokia enters the mobile open source battle
Tuesday's big announcement, that several major mobile platforms — Symbian, UIQ, Series 60 and MOAP — are to be pooled into one open-sourced über-platform, came out of the blue. Read more »
Improving the mobile Web user experience
Traditionally our experience with the mobile Web was pretty terrible, but the good news is that this is starting to change, at least according to Oliver Weidlich, usability specialist at Ideal Interfaces. Read more »
Ecosystem breaking from Microsoft's grip?
Microsoft got where it is today through its influence over manufacturers. It no longer has the control it once enjoyed. Read more »
Building Microsoft code inside the tornado
Q&A -- Vice president S 'Soma' Somasegar shares his views on how interoperability and open source will help Microsoft. Read more »
Location-based publishing and services
Geocoded content is transforming our Web. By adding geographical coordinates (latitude and longitude) to our media, we can help others find it through location-based search engines and web maps. Read more »
Be aware of AJAX's drawbacks
Some developers view AJAX as the silver bullet for every scenario. However, AJAX introduces its own set of hazards in various areas, which include: development time, browsing history and experience, search engine interaction, accessibility, server load, and security. Read more »
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Another operating system setback at Microsoft
The timing couldn't have been worse. What with Android phones now hitting the market and updates to Apple's iPhone and RIM's BlackBerry, Microsoft is telling partners to expect delays receiving Mobile Windows 7. On the CNET News Daily Debrief, Charles Cooper speaks with Ina Fried, who broke the news of the delay. Read more »
Is Google's Android ground-breaking?
ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das talks to senior editor Sam Diaz about Google's new mobile phone operating system, Android. Diaz discusses the new features available in the open-source operating system, whether it's an iPhone killer, and how the technology may eventually reach beyond phones and land inside other products such as set-top boxes, televisions, and automobiles. Read more »
Wii remote creates $50 digital whiteboard: IDF
Intel chairman Craig Barrett introduces innovative projects such as a $50 digital whiteboard created from a Wii remote, and a mobile phone that can read bar codes on a health ID card. Read more »
IBM: Linux in 2018?
At the LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco, IBM executive Bob Suter talks about what a desktop will mean in the future, saying it will focus more on mobile devices like iPhones and collaborations across platforms. He then calls for better graphics designers in the open-source world to make them easier... Read more »
Mobile takes center stage at LinuxWorld
ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das talks with Senior Editor Sam Diaz about one of the big themes at this year's LinuxWorld Expo--mobility. Diaz discusses how large companies like Motorola are encouraging Linux developers to write software for mobile devices. Read more »
Animal Euphemisms and Robot Musicians -- Club Builder
In this episode we look at an Aussie clarinet robot, Linus Torvalds insults monkeys and walruses, what's it take to make a good mobile app, and the UK gets totalitarian Read more »
Mobile Flash becomes free
Mike Downey, principal evangelist at Adobe, discusses how Adobe plan to get Mobile Flash on more mobile devices. Read more »
Cynicism, Barcodes, and Guns -- Club Builder
Club Builder asks whether Google's indexing of Flash content will be good for the Internet? Is Gentoo merely a testbed for rsync? And we show how Telstra wants to increase mobile phone data usage. Read more »
Apple MobileMe = Exchange?
Philip Schiller, senior vice president of worldwide marketing at Apple, unveils MobileMe, the company's new cloud computing service, at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco. The new service will connect all of your devices and push information up and down to keep everything up to date. Read more »
A gaggle of Google I/O predictions
CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi and Stephen Shankland discuss the upcoming Google I/O conference in San Francisco. Could a second mobile SDK be released? Or maybe the winner of the Android developer contest? Read more »
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NICTA: Aussies should focus on embedded programming not VB
-- The CEO of the national ICT research centre says the future of Aussie developers should focus on building better embedded and wireless applications and focus less on technologies such as Visual Basic. Read more »
Is Apple alienating App Store developers?
-- Apple's App Store is quite a success - but for that to continue, says Seb Janacek, the company needs to watch out it doesn't anger developers. Read more »
Ubuntu gets jaunty
-- This week's Roundup looks at Ubuntu's new Jaunty Jackalope, new rules of virtualisation, the world of browsers and more. Read more »
MyPerfect.com.au has potential
-- Victorian Web start-up My Perfect has a strong story and rationale for why it will succeed. But it has to overcome some challenges and design flaws first. Read more »
VMware shows how not to do it
-- As a developer there will be a time when you ship a bug -- be it a stub that you left in, or a flaming, crashtastic segfault. The next time this happens and your bosses come baying for blood, point them in the direction of VMware, who this week gave the developer world a great example of how to ship a showstopper bug. Read more »
Lack of turn out shows Linux's crossover
-- This week's Roundup looks at the lack of excitement surronding this year's LinuxWorld conference, Dan Kaminsky has finally revealed the details of his DNS flaw and we take a look at the new features to come in Firefox. Read more »
Facebook's portal for the masses
-- This week, Facebook took a number of strategic steps toward its goal of giving people the "power to share and make the world more open and connected." That's how founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg described the mission statement for Facebook. Read more »
Introducing the new "nerd whistle"
-- Certainly the iPhone 3G has changed a lot about how we think of our mobile devices, but I guess I never thought we would discover the ultimate geek magnet -- the nerd whistle of all App Store apps -- the Phonesaber. Read more »
Screw-ups, Mobile Linux shakeup and kthxbai Bill
-- The Roundup looks at where Sun went wrong with open source, what is happening in the Mobile Linux world and look at the departure of Bill Gates from full time work duties. Read more »
China poised for 3G
-- A major overhaul of the telecommunications industry in China will clear the way for 3G services to possibly over half a billion mobile phones. Read more »
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LCA Open Day
Yesterday was show and tell day for linux.conf.au with a pavilion full of gadgets, toys and cool stuff Read more »
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