In a move that has exposed a growing schism in the Java community, an Oracle proposal to bridge Java development tools moved ahead this week with approval from competing Java companies.
In a bid to keep up with Facebook, social network behemoth MySpace launched its beta application platform to Australian developers last night.
This week, I asked Linux Australia (LA) vice-president Pia Waugh to elaborate on her recent remarks to a conference about code and culture in the open source community.
A small band of software developers tired of code and feature bloat are building yet another browser based on Mozilla.
CHICAGO -- Despite a last-minute room change that still left dozens unable to squeeze into the standing-room-only space, Linux creator Linus Torvalds' show managed to go on.
Could quarantining e-mails be a better way of dealing with viruses than the traditional approach used by most antivirus companies?
Google's popular map and e-mail sites reignite interest in older Web tech, raising potential threat to Microsoft, Flash and Java.
They're used in everything from Google searches to Web tax filings. But standards struggle is rattling W3C and confounding developers.
Competing players are trying to integrate Java development tools, in the face of well-organised competition from Microsoft.
In the past year, Microsoft appears to have done just what it asked a court not to make it do: fragment Windows.
Those with the hardware and the bank account to back up this costly card will be rewarded with a truly impressive example of graphics hardware.
As digital media publishers scramble to devise a foolproof method of copy protection, Microsoft is ready to push digital rights management into a whole new arena--your desktop.
New versions of software based on a popular file-compression technology could create headaches for users through their use of incompatible formats.
Microsoft's Windows XP has received a fair amount of hype in the lead up to its release-Matt Lake and Josh Mehlman assess its usefulness for businesses.
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