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Australia may boast great cultural icons like the Sydney Harbour Bridge but now the local ICT research community has developed an icon of its own, a robot that plays the violin.

Macintosh computers using Intel chips will be on the market by this time next year with all Apple Computer Macs moved over to Intel chips by the end of 2007, Apple said Monday at its Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco.

For Java developers the evolution to Web services simply seems the next logical step. Not surprisingly, then, commercial J2EE platform vendors have also jumped on the bandwagon, weaving special Web services capabilities into their development tools and application servers. How important are these features in smoothing the creation and deployment of Web services? How real are their advantages over open source? Which J2EE application server is the best platform for Web services? To find out, we rounded up the two leading commercial J2EE servers, BEA Systems’ WebLogic and IBM’s WebSphere, plus a solid also-ran, Sybase’s EAServer, and the most popular open source J2EE server, JBoss, and we put them to the test.

Borland Software on Monday bolstered its C++ toolbox with the introduction of a new IDE and an application lifecycle management suite.

Chip maker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is showing off a reference design for a PDA (personal digital assistant) based on its Alchemy Au1100 processor running Linux at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in San Francisco, according to the company.

Web services remain behind firewall . . . . . and probably will stay there for the next year or longer. Or so say vendors and developers who work in the field. Everything from immature standards to security concerns seems to be holding Web services in check, they say. "It's an immature field, and the standards are still evolving," observes James Franklin, director at Extreme Logic. He says only 10 percent to 20 percent of the clients of his 200-person IT consultancy are dipping their toes into Web services, and they're doing so only for internal integration work.

Motorola will help wireless infrastructure vendors build products at lower cost and with more flexibility through software and hardware, the company announced this week at its Smart Networks Developer Forum, company officials said Monday.

Nokia and Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications will make it possible for software developers to use a single tool to create applications that will run on phones from both vendors, the companies said Monday.

4D rolled out at the Macworld Conference & Expo this week a version of its 4th Dimension RAD/RDBMS environment that features enhancements for Web services.

Metrowerks Inc., a Motorola Inc. company, Tuesday announced its intent to acquire the assets of Embedix, a company that makes embedded Linux development tools.

Palm Inc. extended its foray into the corporate software market Monday with the introduction of a new product aimed at IT developers and system integrators who want to create wireless applications that can access company databases in real time.