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  • Read the blog post - Renai LeMay

    Spellr.us needs a new dictionary

    One 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 the blog post - David Braue

    Digital TV for the blind (the ones leading the blind)

    Might I suggest that the government, which so far has handled the issue with kid gloves, take a chance for once and reach over and just pull the digital TV plug?

  • Read the blog post - Liam Tung

    Aussie PCs valuable for all the wrong reasons

    When foreign markets are willing to pay twice as much for your exports, it's usually a good sign. Unfortunately for Australia, the goods being traded are compromised PCs but why are Australians worth twice as much as Americans?

  • Read the blog post - Sheryle Moon

    Going green for IT

    According to research firm Gartner, by 2010 75 percent of organisations will use "full life cycle energy" and CO2 footprint as mandatory PC hardware buying criteria.

  • Read the blog post - Angus Kidman

    Taxing task for warehouse builders

    Plans by the Australian Tax Office to track the purchase and sale of investment properties might make a few money-minded Australians nervous, but they represent a potential bonanza for storage vendors and business intelligence firms.

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  • Gosling looks down Sun's open road

    James Gosling discusses Sun's decision to release Java under the General Public License, whether open source is more secure than proprietary software, how IT departments can cut development costs, and why Microsoft still owns the desktop.

  • AJAX gives software a fresh look

    An emerging Web development technique promises to shake up the status quo in PC software and blur the line between desktop and Web applications.

  • Open-source Mambo project faces rift

    Backers of Mambo are deeply divided over how to govern the open-source project.

  • Oracle upgrades Java tools

    Oracle has revamped its development tools with support for the latest Java and Web services standards.

  • Oracle plan exposes Java rift

    Competing players are trying to integrate Java development tools, in the face of well-organised competition from Microsoft.

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  • OpenOffice gets programming kit

    The OpenOffice.org group announces a kit that lets programmers build new modules for open-source alternatives to the Microsoft Office suite.

  • Macromedia Dreamweaver 8.0

    Macromedia Dreamweaver 8.0 is a powerful tool and a vital upgrade for Web designers, especially those who create dynamic sites.

  • First Take: Adobe Atmosphere

    Atmosphere is a decent prosumer app for small businesses and educators who want to promote an interactive Web experience.

  • JavaScript Editor eliminates hassles

    JavaScript has always suffered from a lack of development tools. But fortunately, help is on the way with the Antechinus JavaScript Editor.

  • VMware ThinApp 4

    ThinApp, previously known as Thinstall, offers a more streamlined and portable approach to new software roll-outs and development. Software developers and administrators of large numbers of workstations and or mobile workers are bound to benefit greatly from this software.

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  • Renai LeMay Australian Govt funds IT start-ups
    This week Australia's Federal Government announced it had allocated $3.6 million in funding to 57 local research projects so that they could be commercialised, with many of them being web or IT-related start-ups.
  • Array Google should come clean on datacentres
    It's nice that Google says it has put an effort into making its datacentres more energy efficient, but the search giant's pledges won't mean much until it discloses just how many of the beasties it's actually running.
  • Array US shows what OPEL could have been
    Sprint's WiMAX roll-out in Baltimore will prove the Australian government's decision to worm its way out of the Opel WiMAX contract was a short-sighted, and ultimately damaging, political stunt that has benefited nobody.
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