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• Orbitz improves travel sales with RIA-enabled website

  If you’ve seen one travel website, you’ve pretty much seen them all. Type in the dates you’re travelling and your destination, find a flight and hotel.

• Flash and Silverlight go head-to-head in Dunedin

  Dunedin-based multimedia company Taylormade Media is in the midst of building the next version of the-hub.tv, an online entertainment space for kids, but the project will become an early testing ground for new internet development tools.

• Creative software could change way computers are used

  Palmerston North-based Unlimited Realities recently won the Australia-New Zealand Consensus Awards for its Umajin software and is now pushing the product into export markets.

• Straker targets rich-internet developers in the US

  Auckland-based software company Straker Interactive is taking on the US rich-internet application development market and has just been awarded a $100,000 export development grant by New Zealand Trade & Enterprise.

• Microsoft to open source some of Silverlight

  Microsoft is expected to show a new friendliness to the open-source community by unveiling plans to release the source code to a part of its Silverlight technology at MIX 07 this week, according to sources familiar with the company's plans.

• Leading vendors declare end of browser wars

  The browser wars are over, and now Microsoft, Mozilla and other vendors plan to focus on positioning the browser as a development platform. That was the consensus of a panel of representatives in San Francisco at the O'Reilly Web 2.0 Expo who help develop internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera and the Google Reader.