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Seinfeld and Gates hit the road for Vista
Those left scratching their heads after Microsoft's first new ad may find themselves just as itchy after the follow-up spot. Read more »
EC invests AU$660m in robotics R&D
The European Commission has announced it is to double the amount of funding given over to robotics research and development. Read more »
Microsoft shows off multitouch sensor prototype
Microsoft researchers on Thursday demonstrated a new, low-cost method for manipulating a digital desktop or wall display with two hands. Read more »
US wants its own botnet for preemptive strikes
The US Air Force is talking openly about forming botnets to launch preemptive attacks in cyberspace. Read more »
Gates: Every surface to be a computer
It's one step removed from the Midas approach, but Bill Gates wants to turn nearly everything we touch into a computer. Read more »
Google trains indexing bots to fill HTML forms
Google's ever active search bots, which scour the Web constantly for new pages, have begun a new, more active phase of their indexing jobs. Read more »
Europeans warn search engines: Delete user data sooner
A European Commission advisory body has suggested that search companies delete data collected about their users after six months — a far cry from what most companies currently do. Read more »
Google votes on whether to protect free speech
For the second year in a row, Google shareholders will be asked to hold the Web search giant accountable for protecting free speech, regardless of international borders. Read more »
Google lunar challenge gets under way
A privately funded race to land a rover on the moon could cost each team well more than the US$20 million grand prize they're vying for, but all of the contestants view Google's Lunar X Prize as a new engine for business in space. Read more »
NASA prepares trial for Moon mobiles
After conquering the farthest corners of the globe, mobile phones are now destined for the final frontier - space. Read more »
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50 significant moments from internet history
We take you through 50 defining moments of the internet. Read more »
RIFE with possibilities
Developing a web-based application is never a small undertaking. At the very best it's a lot of work just to develop the code that does whatever it is your application is supposed to do but before you even get to the point of writing your application's code, you have to decide what you going to write it in. Read more »
Showing off at JavaOne
While the hype has been elsewhere in the software world over the past number of years, Java has continued to find it way into an increasing number of places. Read more »
Transfer and store data from an XML document in a relational database
XML really makes it easy to move data from here to there and from there to here. However, eventually the data needs to be stored somewhere, most likely in a relational database. We'll show you how. Read more »
5 tips to avoid e-mail miscommunication
Here are 5 quick tips to communicate better in work e-mails and spend less time during the day in your e-mail inbox. Read more »
James Gosling Q & A
James Gosling was in Australia this week to give two question-and-answer session to local developers. A rare opportunity for local developers, Builder AU was on hand to transcribe the event for those who couldn't make it. Read more »
Towards a Semantic Web
The ability to interpret machine semantics on the Web is becoming crucial to many industries. Can Tim Berners-Lee's vision of the Semantic Web help create a new Web order? Read more »
Designing a search-friendly Web site
By controlling the search engine indexing of your Web site, you can ensure that users trying to find your information get there easily. Read more »
Meta tags and the Dublin Core
Here's a closer look at using meta tags today, as well as how the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative might influence the way they're used in the future. Read more »
Prevent the flash of unstyled content
Have you ever seen a brief glimpse of unstyled text appear as a CSS-styled Web page loads in the browser window? Our usability expert Michael Meadhra shows you how to avoid this little quirk. Read more »
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Dexterous robot arm demo: IDF
At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, the company's Justin Rattner and Joshua Smith talk about advancements in robotics. The research involves dexterous robots with new sensory abilities. In the demo, Rattner grabs an apple from the grasp of a robot hand that can sense objects purely by changes... 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 »
NICTA's clarinet playing robot
NICTA and UNSW have collaborated to create a clarinet playing robot designed to demonstrate the versatility of embedded systems. The robot won the ARTEMIS orchestra competition in Athens. Video courtesy of NICTA. Read more »
What's a FishSquirrel look like? -- Club Builder
This week on Club Builder, we look at Robots, javascript interpreters and iPhones. What more does a geek need? Read more »
Intel Research Day
At Intel's Research Day, more than 70 booths filled up the exhibition hall at Mountain View's Computer History Museum. CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi profiles some of her favorites, including the Mood Phone and robotic fingers. Read more »
A snake-inspired robot
On a recent visit to Pittsburgh, Penn., CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi dropped by professor Howie Choset's Robotics Lab at Carnegie Mellon University to see his latest creation, the Snakebot. Read more »
Vision for the robotic future
Robot development takes center stage. Read more »
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Gestation, robots and NASA hacking
-- Firefox 3 made it out the door last week, and set a world record while doing so; after 15 years Wine 1.0 also hit the street. We also look at robots, google developer day and outsourcing in this week's Weekly Roundup. Read more »
Google to allow third party code in Gmail?
-- According to executives from the company, Google are preparing to open Gmail to developers outside the Googleplex labs. Read more »
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Microsoft prescribes more RESTDetails have begun to emerge about the next versions of Visual Studio and Windows Server this week -- and the message from Redmond is to REST up Read more »
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Spellr.us needs a new dictionaryOne of the only Australian start-ups to present at the recent round of conferences in the US was Sydney-based spellr.us, which has launched a Web-based tool to check and monitor websites for spelling mistakes. Read more »
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Net Neutrality, Ballmer and bad dress -- Club Builder
Visting Club Builder this week: Steve Ballmer to speak in Australia, local ISPs say Net Neutrality is an American problem and we look at the best dressed from Tech.Ed.
