Monthly Archives: July 2008
Open Web Foundation to Keep Data ‘Open’
PORTLAND, Ore. -- A coalition of individuals and corporate backers are creating the Open Web Foundation, an attempt to create a home for community-driven...
Yahoo Zimbra Brings Offline Access to Web Mail, Documents
Zimbra, the Yahoo open-source messaging and collaboration unit that tends to get overlooked amid all of the Microsoft-Yahoo merger talk, is beta testing offline...
Does Merging Android, Symbian into a Single OS Make Sense?
Symbian, the open-source mobile operating system that powers the largest share of smart phones on the market, and Android, Google's much-ballyhooed open-source mobile operating...
Mark Zuckerberg Says Facebook Connect Is the Future
One thing Facebook execs have down pat is slamming the door on reporters' questions. If they don't want to answer something, they'll tell you...
Yahoo Shouldn’t Have Let Icahn Come a-Board
Business is a sophisticated game of give and take. In the protracted case of Microsoft trying to bludgeon Yahoo into submission so it could...
Blogger Puts Dems on Network Neutrality Record
Every major Senate Democratic challenger this fall has gone on the record as supporting network neutrality, largely as a result of blogger Matt Stoller,...
Hackers Expanding Web 2.0 Assaults
With Black Hat only a few weeks away and the security industry gearing up for its yearly feast of cutting-edge research and exploit demonstrations,...
Web-Style Audience Responses in Real-World Meetings
Traditional thinking tends to always favor in-person meetings and training over virtual Web-based replacements. Most people would say that while Web-based meetings and conferences...
What Can You Do with an IT Confidence Index?
Recruiting and staffing company Technisource, a subsidiary of the ginormous staffing company Spherion, says that IT worker confidence has "reached its lowest level since...
This Week In Emerging Technology – July 24th
Here are the emerging technologies stories for the week of July 21st.Put the CPU in the Fridge - An interesting project at Purdue University...