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Former Internet behemoth AOL is dipping its toes back into the email pool and gearing up to take a big plunge. The beta version of Project Phoenix, which became available on Sunday to users who sign up and request an invite, is expected to launch for real in early 2011. While the revamped service is...
Given the dominance of the major players in the browser market, any press release announcing a new one might as well be a suicide note. That hasn't discouraged developers from introducing new browsers. Some of those browsers have even been able to spark some initial buzz -- although the kind of buzz...
RockMelt has unveiled the public beta of its new Web browser featuring built-in social network sharing. Named after the company, the browser is built on Google Chromium. Its integration with Facebook is so tight that users must log into that social networking site first in order to use the browser.
SCVNGR, a Boston-based company that offers a mobile real-world game of the same name, announced on Tuesday that it's going global. SCVNGR's a social game based on geo-location that lets players link up with friends on Facebook and Twitter. The game's simple -- players check in to different spots, su...
Web 2.0 -- everyone's favorite 2007 buzz word -- heralded the age of social networks and powered a fundamental shift in the Web: filtering out excessive noise while building connections to friends, organizations and communities. Creating a Facebook profile became a way of passage to keep up with fri...
Microsoft has taken Windows Live Essentials 2011 out of beta, and the online suite is now available for download. The suite works only on Windows 7 and Vista; it is not available on Windows XP. Dell will be the first global PC manufacturer to ship PCs with Windows Live Essentials 2011 and Windows 7 ...
Amazon on Tuesday cracked the cover of its new book-in-a-browser service designed to make it easier for readers to discover new reads. "Kindle for the Web," as the service is called, doesn't allow customers of Amazon's e-bookstore to read their purchases within a browser window -- Amazon already has...
Google Apps has announced added security and authentication to the online application suite's fee-based Premier edition as well as its Education and Government versions. The two-step enhanced verification system will be added to all versions of Google Apps in coming months. The goal is to help overc...
Microsoft on Wednesday released the open beta version of Internet Explorer 9, a browser tightly integrated with Windows 7 and designed to fend off the rising threat of Google's Chrome browser and other competitors. The version unveiled Wednesday is by far the most complete look most people will have...
Google is reaching out to help those who just don't have the time to wade through hundreds of emails each day. The company unveiled Priority Inbox, an application that aims to automatically identify important incoming messages and separate them from more general, tedious emails. "It's about time," s...
Like any other winner-take-all industry, the digital music world is not immune to trendy tech solutions that come and go. Hybrid apps, however, are one trend that's here to stay. Software developers in almost every industry have been meeting their customers' needs for years with early versions of ...
During the first half of 2010, more than 4,300 new disclosures of software security issues came to light. That's according to the mid-year report issued by IBM's special X-Force security research team. What's perhaps a bit more disturbing is how many of those vulnerabilities remain unfixed. More tha...
Over the past decade, software development has undergone several transformations that have led to the new practices and methodologies such as agile development. Combining emerging technologies -- including dynamic language platforms, cloud computing, and agile development practices -- offers a parad...
Google released an updated version of its Chrome Web browser into beta this week. Chrome 6 sports increased speeds and a user interface with multiple changes, said James Hawkins, Google software engineer, in a post to the Google Chrome Blog. "Compared to our previous beta release, our newest beta hi...
Google announced on Wednesday that it has killed off Google Wave, the sharing and communication Web app it kicked off last year. Wave "has not seen the user adoption we would have liked," wrote Urs Holzle, Google's senior vice president of operations. Google won't continue developing Wave as a stand...
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