2008: Time to call stumps

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...

Images: Yahoo turns on Open Strategy

Yahoo is adding applications and a social dimension to some of its most important Web properties. Here's a guided tour.

Introducing Flash Catalyst

At MAX 2008, Adobe demonstrated and distributed to attendees a preview release of Flash Catalyst, the Rich Internet Application (RIA) interaction design tool formerly known as Thermo.

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Hands-on with the SnapGear SG565 all-in-one access appliance

MAX 08: Adobe lays out future directions

At Adobe's MAX conference this year -- Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch identified three trends that Adobe will address: client and cloud computing, devices and desktop computing, and social computing.

Unlocking Android

In this week's roundup we take a look at Google's new technology -- Native Client, its Android phone, news from the world of web browsers and more.

Getting started with Firefox Extensions

No browser is perfect -- eventually enough annoyances will build up to the point that you wish you could do something about it. Thanks to Firefox's extendable architecture and a healthy dose of...

W3C releases mobileOK

W3C has released mobileOK checker, an open source tool for checking the suitability of websites for mobile devices.

Is the Web cam the next input device?

We've all seen the future of interfaces in movies like Ironman and the Minority report but what can you do today? How about gestures via a Webcam?

Photos: Electric vehicles, present and future

While consumers wait for a mass-market electric auto, carmakers show off vehicles under development and those already being used.

Hubble Telescope in action

This gallery includes beautiful images caught by the Hubble Telescope as well as pictures of the telescope itself. Launched in 1990, the Hubble Telescope has remained one of NASA's most successful...

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John's Gallery

A little shoebox to store images for the site

Q&A with Sun's Reginald Hutcherson

Builder AU recently had a quick chat with Reginald Hutcherson, Director Technology Outreach for Sun Microsystems about what's new in the world of Java.

Configuring and administering IIS 7.0

Windows Server 2008 has introduced a number of significant changes from Windows Server 2003, and IIS 7.0 is a prime example. Not only has IIS's architecture changed considerably in IIS 7.0, but...

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The festive season not so festive

This is still meant to be the festive season, isn't it? When they say you should show goodwill towards your fellow (hu)man, I don't think they meant redundancy payments.

Python 3.0 out, breaks compatibility

Python has left its compatibility chains in the past with the release of version 3.0 of the popular dynamic language.

A Tour of Nortel's WebAlive Virtual World for Business

Nortel's new WebAlive world combines a virtual world with fantastic audio to make a business collaboration platform. Here's a preview of that world.

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Google: Open source lets us control our destiny

Chris DiBona, Google's open source program manager, gave the opening keynote at the Open Source Developer's Conference. Builder AU caught up with him to discuss why Google uses open source, how...

First in flight from the Wright Brothers' camera

These digitized images from photographs attributed to Orville and Wilbur Wright provide a documentary history of their contribution to flight technology. COLLECTION: Glass negatives from the...

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Tools for the Semantic Web

This blog post covers some of the technologies available for creating applications for the Semantic Web.