Google Takes Partial Ownership Of Maxthon Browser
Multiple sources are confirming that the Chinese/Israeli startup behind the Maxthon Browser has sold a minority stake to Google. The total investment size is rumored to be around $1 million. We are ...
iProspect Social Networking User Behavior Study
Background and Definitions — In January 2007, iProspect partnered with independent research firm JupiterResearch to develop a series of survey questions focused on how the U.S. online population uti...
Salesforce.com Brings Web 2.0 To The Enterprise With ContentExchange
Today Salesforce.com announced a new product called Salesforce ContentExchange, a content management product for unstructured data such as email and html. They also publicly announced the acquisition...
Weblogs 'need content warnings'
Readers should be warned when they are reading blogs that may contain "crude language", a draft blogging code of conduct has suggested. — The code was drawn up by web pioneer Tim O'Reilly following ...
Search fatigue
"What we're saying is that in six months' time we'll be more relevant in the U.S. market place than Google.
Breadcrumb Navigation Increasingly Useful
PG&E sees plug-in hybrids as potential profit centers
SUNNYVALE, Calif.—Plug-in hybrids could one day turn motorists into energy traders, according to Pacific Gas & Electric. — The utility demonstrated on Monday a twist on the concept of the plug-in hy...
European papers optimistic on future — with web's help
with web's help — Are newspapers set to become yesterday's news? Don't count on it, say editors at some of Europe's iconic publications. — The pressures on the industry — in Europe as in the Unite...
Disney Mobile shares subscriber stats
Disney Mobile will soon celebrate its first anniversary, and the mobile virtual network operator is providing some statistics to show how consumers are using the service. — In a press release issued...
Employers take widgets to work
Webified mini-apps have taken the blog world by storm. Now new versions are getting ready to launch on corporate desktops, Business 2.0 Magazine reports. — (Business 2. Magazine) — Most technologie...
A Photo Trove, a Mounting Challenge
In some sense, the iconic photograph of Rosa Parks recreating her quiet act of rebellion on a bus in Montgomery, Ala., belongs to every American. But as a practical matter, it belongs to Bill Gates. ...
Vista: Whatever happened to fast boot?
Anyone else remember when Microsoft used to talk about making Windows Vista (or Longhorn, as it was then known) a fast-booting operating system. Fast, as in cold boots that were 50 percent faster tha...
Just don't call it a Web OS
When Richard MacManus published an overview of the so-called Web OS market almost a year ago, he said, "a lot of people don't consider a WebOS to be a real operating system, but I think that's semanti...
OpenYou: The Limits of Privacy on the Social Web
What do you think the above image (which I drew) represents? It's YOU — as a slave of the popular internet culture and as a participant in the massive user-generated social web. Allow me to describe...