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  • Cisco cleans up with SOAP alternative?

    Cisco has announced an alternative to the Web-services protocol SOAP and made it open source. Cisco says its Etch messaging protocol will be more efficient than the SOAP standard and the company will release the source code.

  • Opera CTO: IE 8 will fail Acid test

    Two years ago, the Acid2 test was announced in this column. Acid2 is a complex Web browser test page that shows a smiley face when rendered correctly

  • W3C adds a touch of Sparql to Web 2.0

    Supporters of the Sparql query language say using the Web without it would be like 'trying to use a relational database without SQL'

  • Microsoft browser lock in sparks Opera rage

    Browser software company, Opera, has complained to the European Commission over Microsoft's bundling of Internet Explorer with the Windows operating system -- but Microsoft says it's been doing it for a decade and the practice is good for consumers.

  • Ex-OpenDocument advocates opt for W3C alternative

    The conflict over document formats has taken a twist as some advocates for OpenDocument, or ODF, abandon the format in favor of the World Wide Web (W3) Consortium's Compound Document Formats standard.

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  • Read the blog post - Paul Montgomery, ZDNet Australia

    Atom atomises RSS, rest easy

    Amazon engineer DeWitt Clinton's ringing endorsement of Atom over RSS as the XML flavour of choice for syndicated feed content for discerning geeks made headlines yesterday, although the points he makes have been made before.

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  • Photo Gallery: Inside Firefox 2

    Mozilla Firefox 2 is a winner, beating Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 on security, features, and overall cool factor.

  • Will AJAX help Google clean up?

    Google's popular map and e-mail sites reignite interest in older Web tech, raising potential threat to Microsoft, Flash and Java.

  • Opera challenges Microsoft

    Opera Software has challenged Microsoft to develop a browser which adheres to standards but will Microsoft take it up?

  • Next big step for the Web?

    Is the "Semantic Web" the new Internet, or a complex technology in search of a problem to solve? Tim Berners-Lee and company make a pitch for new ways to get the most out of the Internet.

  • Browser wars: Episode II

    Will the increasing popularity of the Firefox open-source browser propel it into mainstream businesses or will Microsoft up its game to compensate?

Reviews (15)

  • Microsoft Expression Web

    Microsoft Expression Web is a solid Web site layout program that replaces FrontPage and offers tools for dynamic designs, although we'd like more help for newbies.

  • Mozilla Firefox 2

    Mozilla Firefox 2 is a winner, beating Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 on security, features, and overall cool factor and deserving our Editors' Choice award.

  • Opera 8

    If you don't mind paying for Web browser features found nowhere else, Opera 8's the browser for you.

  • Tech Guide: Wireless glossary

    3G, GPRS, TransFlash, RS-MMC. Don't know what they mean? Check out our glossary of wireless terms.

  • Tech Guide: Intel Prescott: the benchmarks

    Intel's new'Prescott' Pentium 4 has double the L1 and L2 cache of its 'Northwood' predecessor. An extended 31-stage pipeline accounts for the fact that the new chip is mostly slower than the CPU it replaces.

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