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The hacker group LulzSec has been carrying out a security-busting blitzkrieg across the Web over the last few weeks, and its targets are getting bigger and bigger. You can tell where it's been by the path of sites left shivering in a fetal position -- sites belonging to organizations like PBS, Sony,...
Facebook is working on an HTML 5-based platform code-named "Project Spartan" that will seek to distribute apps to iDevices, TechCrunch has reported. The project purportedly has about 80 outside developers, including people from Zynga and Huffington Post, creating a variety of apps for the upcoming p...
Google has introduced a new tool to the social networking world using one of its strong suits: Gmail. In the next couple weeks, Google will debut a feature for Gmail called the "People Widget." The widget will appear to the right of messages and display information about contacts, including recent m...
The Mozilla Foundation launched a beta version of its fifth edition of the Firefox Web browser Monday -- just eight weeks after it rolled out Firefox 4. This includes a mobile version for Android as well as versions for Windows, Mac and Linux desktops. Desktop and mobile versions have a Do Not Track...
Adobe has released Flash Player 10.3 for the Windows, Linux;, Mac OS X and Android platforms. This latest update offers better security and user privacy protection, makes it easier for end users to manage their Flash Player settings and provides new desktop video and audio capabilities for enterpris...
The online music storage and streaming field is heating up, with Amazon having launched its own service recently and Apple reportedly readying its own. Recently Google put out its own cloud music service, Google Music, though it didn't arrive without its share of rough spots. Currently, users can up...
Google is rolling out access in the U.S. to a tool that has already made a mark in other parts of the world: Map Maker. As the name suggests, Map Maker allows people to create and edit Google Maps. It debuted outside the U.S. because Google didn't believe there would be much demand for it in the sta...
On Monday, Microsoft opened Office 365 -- a cloud-based version of its productivity apps -- to the public for beta testing. The beta version contains Microsoft Office, SharePoint Online, Exchange Online and Lync Online. The trial is available in 38 countries and 17 languages. The Office 365 suite is...
Last week was a busy week that seemed to be filled with crazy people -- some in a good way, most not so much. The most annoying story was that Cisco is shutting down its half-billion-dollar Flip acquisition after screwing it up. On a positive note, Microsoft surprised us at its MIX conference with W...
In the past month or so, we've been inundated with announcements by browser makers of the latest versions of their products. Google, Microsoft, the Mozilla Foundation and Opera have all unveiled their latest and greatest browsers. Most of these companies unveiled full versions of their products afte...
Adobe on Monday announced Creative Suite 5.5, a mid-point update between major releases of the suite. In a tip of its hat to the realities of browser display, Adobe has included HTML5 support in CS 5.5. With CS 5.5, Adobe is also targeting the mobile platform. Further, it has unveiled a subscriptio...
We've had cloud-based services for consumers for years. That includes online storage services, photo sites like Picasa and Flickr, social networks like Facebook and Twitter, Web apps like Google Apps and even online email systems. Amazon took things to the next level when it announced its entry Tues...
Succeeding with social media marketing was one of the keynote topics at the Web 2.0 conference Thursday. Others involved tips on going mobile, while some touched on the subject of design, which seems to be gaining new importance, judging from the number of keynotes focusing on that topic at the conf...
It was a generally interesting day of keynote speeches at the Web 2.0 conference Wednesday, although a couple of the presentations were real mind-benders. One keynote laid out how developers can use core concepts of gaming apps to create better products. Others dealt with creating infectious action,...
At first glance, the Web 2.0 conference, being held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, appears tailor-made for today's audience. Keynotes are kept short -- about 20 minutes each -- and follow each other in rapid-fire succession. They're posted on the Web. The audience is mainly young and armed ...
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