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News about video games, you can leave a comment.Australia is lapping much of the world with its rapid moves toward open government. Interviews with Federal Senator Kate Lundy and Australia Gov 2.0 task force head Nicholas Gruen reveal the country’s current progress and its future plans. By O”Reilly news

News about video games, you can leave a comment.Fred Trotter, a longtime developer in the open source healthcare world and a speaker at next month’s OSCON conference, discusses the history of open source and health IT in this podcast interview. By O”Reilly news

News about video games, you can leave a comment.I’ve been surprising people more people than I expected lately with the revelation that it’s possible to write iPhone and Android applications as a pile of HTML and CSS documents with some accompanying JavaScript. I’m far from the first to… By O”Reilly news

News about video games, you can leave a comment.The App Store has exposed incumbents in the mobile industry to the same sort of asymmetric competition that has reshaped the media industry over the past decade. Developers are responding in droves to the economic incentives that lower barriers to entry create, as well as the fact [...]

News about video games, you can leave a comment.What is the IP status of ZIP? This is a question of interest to standardizers and developers implementing standards, because so many new standards use ZIP. ODF and OOXML for example. Here is what the current PKWARE site says (with… By O”Reilly news

News about video games, you can leave a comment.Adobe has officially announced the production build of Adobe Flash Player 10.1 for mobile. “Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the release of Adobe Flash Player 10.1 to mobile platform partners. Redesigned from the ground up with new performance and… By O”Reilly news

News about video games, you can leave a comment.Adobe has, at least temporarily, ended support for Flash Player on 64-bit Linux. No updated version is available. Adobe’s message for 64-bit Linux users, at least for now, is “No Flash for you!” By O”Reilly news

News about video games, you can leave a comment.The Swiz micro-architecture for Flex development is nearing version 1.0. This is an important milestone for the Swiz team, some of whom have been working on the product for over two years new. If you haven’t tried Swiz yet now is a great time to start. If [...]

News about video games, you can leave a comment.Graph visualization is the study of how to turn abstract representations of graphs (think network diagrams of nodes and edges, rather than XY-coordinates) into diagrams. I love graphviz (the program that produced this image), and have used it in several different projects, like this visualization of Senate [...]