Yahoo's 'Mingle' project has been formally announced, and re-named 'Yahoo 360' - a social network or 'social software' platform integrating Yahoo's existing products such as instant messenger, photos, local search, music, and groups with new offerings such as bl...

New partnership between GMS ad GRSI will enhance FastTrak offering.

Google yesterday launched Code.google.com, a site for external developers interested in Google-related development. 'It's where we'll publish free source code and lists of our API services,' Google said as it unveiled the site, adding: 'We really care about free a...

Sun is creating three new licenses for Java. Henceforth there will be a Java Research Licence, a Java Distribution License, and a Java Internal Use License.

Bottomline Technologies was included in KMWorld Magazine's listing of the 100 most important companies in knowledge management.

ViewSonic has released the world's fastest LCD monitor.

Results from a recent poll conducted by Web-based job site Dice indicates workers are most stressed about losing their jobs, despite the fact that the IT job market has improved.

'Web services is what enabled eBay to become what it is today,' said Matt Ackley, as he opened Web Services Edge 2005 - International Conference & Expo with a tremendously well attended keynote devoted to the role of Web services in e-commerce called 'Enabling the...

Geneva is the first city to sign up for a tax that will contribute money so poor nations can gain basic computer products, skills and infrastructure.

Yahoo is joining rivals Microsoft and Google with its own blogging products.

Enables more efficient management of Microsoft PowerPoint files.

HP announced advances in its server networking and storage technologies to help customers simplify their IT infrastructures, improve manageability and performance and lower the costs of enterprise computing environments.

Author and columnist John C. Dvorak this afternoon is making his debut on SYS-CON.TV (http://sys-con.tv) and will be following up on some of the issues most commonly associated with him including the state of the Nasdaq, blogging, and i-technology in general. View...

IBM's $1.75 deal with Lenovo - the top seller of PCs in China - won the approval yesterday of the Committee on Foreign Investment (CFIUS).

IBM has begun to offer access to its Blue Gene supercomputing system, the world's most powerful supercomputer, as a commercial offering. 'Deep Computing' on demand is born.

691 people from 47 countries with a combined fortune of $2.2 trillion feature in the annual Forbes magazine list of the richest people in the world. Bill Gates heads the list, as he has done for over a decade. Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen is still in the top ten...

We're proud to take Google Desktop Search out of beta, and we will continue to extend the utility of desktop search for users worldwide,' said Jonathan Rosenberg, vice president of Product Management at Google, as Google yesterday announced the formal launch of Go...

Startup Ageia plans on introducing a graphics chip dedicated to so-called gaming 'physics.' Physics-supported chips may become another category, like audio and graphics that most native CPUs cannot support without third-party drivers or dedicated, application-specific CPUs.

Yahoo and digital-music wholesaler MusicNet have been working together on a new online music service that intends to compete with Apple's iTunes.

Google has expanded its desktop search tool, enabling users to find e-mail and files stored on computer hard drives.

Founded by two brothers out of a Stanford University research project and now already into its third successful round of venture finance, Infravio, Inc. is fast making a name for itself in the Web Services Management space, and spoke with SYS-CON.TV at Web Service...

Queen Elizabeth II yesterday conferred an honorary knighthood on Bill Gates in a private ceremony held at Buckingham Palace. Gates was accompanied by his wife, Melinda Gates, co-founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

As Nexaweb Technologies, provider of the leading software platform for building and deploying rich internet applications, announced at Web Services Edge 2005, in Boston, its new Port Partner Program aimed at easing the migration of client/server applications to ...

Saying that its support of the open source scripting language PHP does not reflect any dissatisfaction with Java, IBM is partnering with Zend Technologies to create Zend Core, a bundling of IBM's Cloudscape database based on Apache Software Foundation Derby and ...

Downloaded more than 27 million times and available in 28 languages, The Mozilla Foundation's award-winning Firefox 1.0 browser this week released a security update at mozilla.org aimed at covering 'moderately-critical' and other security vulnerabilities. The ...

In a don't-miss moment, Maureen O'Gara of Linux Business Week was available on Friday to a worldwide audience to answer all and any questions about technology and the technology industry. The hour-long broadcast made history, being streamed live across the Interne...

Google has unveiled a service that provides movie showtimes that are accessible using mobile devices.

Microsoft Research is using advanced software typically used to analyze large computer databases and complex digital images, or to separate spam from legitimate e-mail, to uncover hidden mutations in the HIV virus.

Microsoft is teaming up with Alcatel - the company that developed Amigo TV, a community TV application, and the world's leading DSL equipment provider - to try and carve itself a slice of the fast-emerging TV and video-over-broadband market.

New industry solution from IBM and Dassault Systems optimizes aerospace suppliers' productivity and flexibility using a specialized PLM (product lifecycle management) solution.

ESRI, the world leader in geographic information system (GIS) technology, today announced the launch of the ESRI Developer Network (EDN).

Cato Institute argues that peer-to-peer (P2P) network technology would by and large come to an end, if the US government becomes entrenched in the controversy.

Enhancements to offline Web browser, WebTransporter, have made the application a dynamic program that can introduce a whole new Web experience to users.

This year it looks certain that a new participation record will be set, as more than 4,000 votes have already been recorded in just the first seven days of voting, as more than 50,000 SYS-CON Media readers are estimated to cast their votes in this year's Readers' ...

Web's Biggest claims to search more Web sites than any other browser and allows users to change the descriptions of Web sites.

Leading speech recognition software supplier Sensory is using new Adaptive Artificial Intelligence in its processors. The new technology empowers developers to create products that learn over time and display lifelike personalities.

Carly Fiorina has stepped down as Chairman and CEO of Hewlett Packard. CEO since 1999, Fiorina is being replaced by Robert Wayman, HP's current CFO, while Patricia Dunn, was named non-executive chairman of the board, effective immediately.

Google has released a beta version of Google Maps, offering access to maps, driving directions and the ability to search for local businesses.

'Microsoft has been working with the industry to advance a new generation of software that is interoperable by design, reducing the need for custom development and cumbersome testing and certification,' wrote Bill Gates yesterday in an 'executive e-mail' sent to a...

Cape Clear will provide a series of initiatives designed to show the benefits of emerging ESB technology.