http://www.computerworld.com.au Software Development by Computerworld en-us Copyright 2008, IDG Communications, for personal use only, not for redistribution without permission. Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:45:03 +1000 60 http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1842946006&rid=-301 Over at the Open Sources blog, Savio Rodrigues calls attention to two critical security vulnerabilities in the Spring Framework for Java. They were discovered by security consultancy Ounce Labs, which disclosed the exploits in a detailed report. If you use Spring for critical business applications, you'll definitely want to be aware of the threats and take appropriate measures. Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:51:30 +1000 http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=372955294&rid=-301 Have you ever experienced a software bug and thought to yourself, "I could fix that"? If you could, would you? How could that even be possible? Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:29:35 +1000 http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=607619468&rid=-301 Opera Software Thursday launched the public beta test Opera Mobile 9.5, its full-blown, native Web browser for smartphones. Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:05:15 +1000 http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=288259918&rid=-301 At the beginning of its massive legal fight against Linux in 2003, The SCO Group imagined a day when companies like IBM, Novell and others would pay it large amounts of cash for alleged infringements on SCO-owned Unix code. Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:24:43 +1000 http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=852123648&rid=-301 Yahoo's Flickr unit reported yesterday that the latest update to the photo sharing Web site went live with 9 changes made by three of its developers. The "deployment" was the 36th new release in a week where 627 changes were made by 21 developers. Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:31:38 +1000 http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1715634197&rid=-301 A Google employee working on the Android mobile phone operating system made a gaffe that has some developers saying they've had enough and plan to focus their efforts on the iPhone, instead of Android. Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:20:44 +1000 http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1991781001&rid=-301 Web-based office suites are coming into their own at last. For quite a while, Web-based suites -- which offered word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, and other tools associated with desktop office suites -- were extolled not because they did these things well, but because they could do them at all. But the three major competitors, Google Docs, ThinkFree, and Zoho, have all made major improvements in recent months. They're becoming both broader, with more applications, and deeper, with more features and functionality in existing apps. Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:09:55 +1000 http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=421562921&rid=-301 Seeking to bolster Flash and AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) application development, Adobe is working on "Gumbo," the next version of the Flex platform. Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:08:37 +1000 http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=123714024&rid=-301 The eye of tech-artist Benjamin Males' custom-made surveillance camera is engineered for a black and white world. Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:00:38 +1000 http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1167159646&rid=-301 The Software Quality Observatory for Open Source Software (SQO-OSS) project has released an alpha version of Alitheia Core, an open-source software quality-checking tool. Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:33:54 +1000