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IBM released an on-demand, cloud-based suite of products targeting small and medium-sized businesses looking to offload security, e-mail continuity and archiving services. The Express Advantage product line -- which is meant to offload some of the more data-intensive processes an IT department has t...
Skype released a beta version of its mobile Voice over Internet Protocol application that can be downloaded to a variety of phones. The application, which the company says is still unstable, will allow people to set up group chats, see when contacts are online, make SkypeIn and SkypeOut calls and ta...
A new software application allows users to publish information from their Facebook social networking account directly to their personal blogs. Six Apart, steward of the TypePad blog publishing system, released Blog It, a software application that enables users to cross-post information on Facebook t...
Microsoft on Thursday unveiled a predictive traffic system that combines historical traffic data with real-time updates from GPS-enabled devices in order to build real-time maps for drivers. The services, which runs on the Live platform, grew out of research by Eric Horvitz, who has been working on ...
Yahoo rolled out a limited video-sharing service for its online photo-sharing service, Flickr, which will allow its members to upload short videos and integrate them with photo sets and slide shows. The new service isn't a competitor to the likes of YouTube or other video sites that specialize in th...
A newly launched global position system service allows its users to access real-time traffic data -- generated by the customers -- in cities around the country. The GPS service, run by Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Dash Navigation, helps drivers find directions; however, the Internet-based service constan...
Microsoft has opened up its Contacts application programming interface for the Windows Live platform, which will allow third-party developers to build applications that transfer and share contact information across various social networks. The move -- part of a larger strategy to adopt an open API s...
Traditional advertising business models may not sustain the news business as companies -- and independent bloggers -- seek out niche markets, found a study conducted by the Project for Excellence in Journalism. The State of the News Media study focused on seven areas: restructuring content, emerging...
After a tumultuous weekend filled with mobile social network culture clashing with panel discussions and keynotes, the discourse at the South by Southwest Interactive Conference and Festival returned to civility as attendees' attention returned to the variety of platforms available for content creat...
The South by Southwest Interactive Conference and Festival kicked off last weekend as roughly 9,000 Web designers, Web developers, academics, bloggers and social media participants gathered for the five-day event. The 15-year-old conference features scores of panelists throughout the day, the Screen...
Mark Zuckerberg, 23-year-old Facebook founder, and technology journalist Sarah Lacy squared off with angry attendees who were upset with the direction -- and style -- of the much publicized keynote conversation. Back-channel conversations driven by the mobile messaging application Twitter -- which a...
Last December, Microsoft's Windows Internet Explorer group announced that Internet Explorer 8, the next iteration of its Web browser, would be standards compliant, interoperable and backward compatible when it's released in the second half of 2008. The group announced that IE8 has rendered correctly...
Adobe Systems on Monday released Adobe Integrated Runtime, a software tool that allows users to seamlessly interact with interactive content even when they aren't connected to the Internet. Adobe Air's runtime environment allows developers with access to API kits from companies to create customized ...
A new study suggests that dynamic memory on computers stores encrypted, secure data longer than originally thought. The research project -- conducted by eight researchers from Princeton University, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Wind River Systems -- focused on retrieving encrypted data from...
Microsoft will soon launch its Xbox Live Community Arcade service, which will allow anyone to create -- and distribute -- console games for the Xbox system. The move, announced at the Game Developers Conference, opens the doors for aspiring game creators to compete with big-name studios. To particip...
Emotiv Systems unveiled a new gaming headset that uses thoughts and movement to control on-screen character movements. The San Francisco-based peripheral company demonstrated the Emotiv EPOC at the Wednesday kickoff of the Game Developers Conference, the annual confab where developers, designers and...
IBM on Thursday unveiled a multiplayer 3-D virtual world and companion classroom materials designed to promote science and engineering education in high schools. "PowerUp" -- which asks players to try to save a planet in near ecological ruin -- gets its public release Feb. 16 at the start of Enginee...
Microsoft released 11 security updates to patch 17 vulnerabilities on Tuesday, by far its largest release in a year. There were five critical and six important updates, the two highest levels issued by the software company. The patches cover a wide range of Microsoft products from Word, Publisher an...
HP released its first mid-level Unix-based blade server, which will allow companies to more cost-efficiently consolidate their legacy systems. The HP Integrity BL870c, which is the latest HP BladeSystem server, uses a specifically engineered Intel Itanium processor to power the its four-socket serve...
A partnership between Texas Instruments and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has produced a proof-of-concept microchip architecture that is 10 times more efficient than current technologies. The design -- which was presented on Tuesday at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference --...
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