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Internet link raises visibility of Myanmar protests The ability of citizens in Myanmar to keep connected to the world via the Internet could make a substantial difference to the outcome of the current protests taking place in the South East Asian country, dissidents living in Japan said on Friday. Microsoft blogger accidentally leaks Office Mobile upgrade A Microsoft employee on Thursday accidentally blogged about an upgrade to Office Mobile that shouldn't be available for another couple of weeks. September 28, 3:42 a.m. PDT Tech giants chart research goals Power consumption, parallelism, and the rapidly-expanding world of mobile communications are among the leading areas of research and development currently being investigated within some of the IT world's largest companies.  September 26, 2:53 p.m. PDT Coverity adds Boolean concept to software analysis Coverity on Wednesday is announcing a software analysis engine based on the concept of "Boolean satisfiability," or SAT. September 18, 9:01 p.m. PDT Salesforce.com unveils user interface as a service Next Monday, Salesforce.com will, in the words of one industry analyst, "extend the value proposition of software as a service" when it introduces Visualforce at its Dreamforce Conference in San Francisco. September 13, 9:00 p.m. PDT Mobile business apps middleware catches on Industry experts maintain that many business applications vendors are still struggling to successfully port their tools to mobile handsets. But some software makers claim that by partnering with wireless specialists to develop their systems, they are selling more licenses to end-users today. September 7, 9:45 a.m. PDT Google's Blogger fixes bug, adds video uploading Google's Blogger team solved a technical problem with the blog publishing and hosting service this week and introduced a new feature that gives publishers the ability to upload videos to their sites. August 24, 4:52 p.m. PDT Update: Press watchdog blasts China's blogging policy Reporters Without Borders criticized the Chinese government for what the press advocacy group considers a move to end anonymous blogging in the communist country. August 24, 9:51 a.m. PDT Lotus Notes and Domino 8 show new life OK, I’ll admit that in my IBM Lotus Notes 7 review about two years ago, I got Version 8’s release date a wee bit off. Hey, the fortune teller I consulted skipped town right after the reading. But my wrap-up hit the mark, saying Notes 8 “should further support composite applications, such as bringing together e-mail, documents, and meetings into a single interface -- a key part of an SOA.” Here’s my initial impression of how well IBM Lotus engineers met this goal and the way they did it. August 23, 3:00 a.m. PDT Google's Blogger hit by outage Google's Blogger blog publishing and Blogspot blog hosting services went offline earlier Wednesday. Among the organizations affected by this apparently widespread outage was Google itself, which hosts its official company blogs on Blogspot. August 22, 8:52 a.m. PDT Sourcefire acquires ClamAV open-source anti-malware project Network security specialist Sourcefire announced Friday that it has acquired ClamAV, an open-source gateway anti-malware project whose technologies are used in the products of a number of other vendors. August 17, 8:58 a.m. PDT Hospital undergoes wireless surgery For years, wireless technologies have only shown up in many U.S. hospitals in the form of rolling computers with Wi-Fi network access, but as evidenced at Chicago's Northwestern Memorial Hospital, times are changing. August 13, 2:37 p.m. PDT Novell buys endpoint security firm Senforce Novell announced on Monday that it has acquired Senforce Technologies, a provider of endpoint and network security tools, for an undisclosed sum. August 13, 9:40 a.m. PDT NY Times reveals Forbes editor as 'Fake Steve Jobs' A reporter at the New York Times yesterday unmasked the man who had posed as Apple CEO Steve Jobs for more than a year on a popular satirical blog. August 6, 8:02 a.m. PDT Websense lures Web 2.0 attackers with HoneyJax Websense has developed a threat detection system designed to spot Web 2.0 attacks soon after they are launched. August 6, 4:19 a.m. PDT Online legislation-writing effort gets good reviews A blog launched this month has teamed with a U.S. senator in an effort to write new broadband legislation, and so far, participants have given the process high marks. July 27, 2:15 p.m. PDT McAfee sets Rootkit Detective free On July 26, McAfee will begin offering a new application called Rootkit Detective, designed to detect and remove dangerous rootkit attacks. The software will also help end-users ward off the threats, as well as funnel new intelligence into the company's ongoing research operations. July 25, 1:12 p.m. PDT Google Earth captures China's new ballistic-missile sub Google is offering a rare public glimpse of China's new ballistic-missile submarine, according to a researcher at the Federation of American Scientists. July 9, 6:31 a.m. PDT Google launches public policy blog Google has launched a blog focused on U.S. government legislation and regulation, one sign of the company's growing interest in Washington, D.C., affairs. June 18, 8:52 a.m. PDT Six Apart upgrades Movable Type Blogging pioneer Six Apart has made an aggressive move to defend and expand its presence in the workplace now that major vendors such as IBM and Microsoft have begun to build blog components into their enterprise collaboration platforms. June 5, 1:44 p.m. PDT Wetpaint improves wiki site analysis Wetpaint.com Inc., a Seattle startup, is making it easier for anyone using its free wiki service to better track use of their sites. June 2, 12:48 p.m. PDT Clearspace X fosters customer relationships through online communities Successful organizations typically share one important trait: they listen to customers. In the Web 2.0 era, perhaps the best way to embrace -- and extend -- this concept is through online communities. Jive Software has taken its Clearspace collaboration product (which glues together blogs, wiki, document management, and discussion forums) and endowed it with new features specifically for building these public-facing communities. May 31, 3:00 a.m. PDT Attensa unlocks knowledge with RSS Attensa has a straightforward mission: To get the right information to the right people at the right time. Although Attensa's goal may not be entirely original, Eric Hayes -- who co-founded the company in 2005 -- believes his company can get it right on all three counts. May 28, 3:00 a.m. PDT China drops real-name blogger plan Bloggers in China will not be compelled to register using their real names, a quasi-government organization announced Monday. May 23, 8:04 a.m. PDT Microsoft-Yahoo deal still worth doing When Sun Chairman and then-CEO Scott McNealy first heard about the HP/Compaq merger in 2001, he likened it to ‘two garbage trucks colliding with each other.’ Some analysts see the rumored Microsoft-Yahoo discussions in the same light: an act of desperation by two lumbering incumbents that are falling further behind Google each day. May 7, 9:50 a.m. PDT As Web 2.0 evolves, security becomes an issue Samy Kamkar was really just trying to impress girls. Instead he made Web hacking history. April 25, 9:36 a.m. PDT MySpace, Photobucket reach truce An impasse between the world's largest social network and the U.S.'s most popular photo site has ended. April 24, 8:58 a.m. PDT Virginia Tech students hit social sites after shooting Many students at Virginia Tech on Monday turned to message boards and social networking sites to try to find out what exactly was happening on campus during a shooting spree that ended with 33 dead. April 18, 4:39 a.m. PDT JotSpot chief: Google is a nerd paradise JotSpot agreed to be acquired by Google partly because the search engine giant is "a nerd's paradise," JotSpot co-founder Joe Kraus said Monday. April 17, 7:01 a.m. PDT BT prepares online service for SMBs BT Group is testing an online service to help small and medium-size businesses build an online presence with nifty features such as blogs, podcasts, and click-to-call capabilities. April 4, 6:21 a.m. PDT Yahoo given go-ahead to buy Taiwanese blog site A purchase of popular Taiwanese blog site Wretch.cc by Yahoo Taiwan will not adversely affect competition in the local Internet market, Taiwan's Fair Trade Commission ruled Thursday, paving the way for the completion of the deal. March 30, 5:26 a.m. PST Silicon Valley VCs predict tech winners, losers In what has become an annual Silicon Valley ritual, leading venture capitalists have made their predictions about which technologies will thrive and which will take a dive in the near future. March 29, 4:12 a.m. PST Dell opens Chinese blog, lauds Taiwan Dell opened its first Chinese language blog on Monday in a bid to make sure its communications keep pace with its growth and enable it to better serve customers, the head of the new blog said in the first entry. March 20, 5:09 a.m. PST MySpace enters the U.S. presidential race MySpace launched a U.S. presidential campaign site Monday, and it has the potential of reaching millions of people who don't otherwise go to political Web sites, one analyst said. March 19, 1:41 p.m. PST Yahoo apologizes to Indian housewife Yahoo apologized on Thursday after recipes from the blog of an Indian housewife were used without permission on Yahoo India's new Malayalam-language Web portal. March 8, 5:48 a.m. PST France bans citizen journalists from reporting violence The French Constitutional Council has approved a law that criminalizes the filming or broadcasting of acts of violence by people other than professional journalists. The law could lead to the imprisonment of eyewitnesses who film acts of police violence, or operators of Web sites publishing the images, one French civil liberties group warned on Tuesday. March 6, 9:01 a.m. PST Deploying Microsoft Office 2007 A Microsoftee will tell you that deploying Office 2007 is as simple as adding it to a WIM (Windows Imaging Format) file. Theoretically, we don’t disagree, but practically, no way, no how. You’ll need additional tools for this job, and the best places to look are Microsoft’s BDD (Business Desktop Deployment) 2007 kit and the Office 2007 Resource Kit (see also the Test Center Analysis "Microsoft tools ease Vista deployment"). March 1, 3:00 a.m. PST Social networks key to '08 race If Phillip Lamb's experience is any indication, the ability to leverage online social networking tools to organize campaigns may help make or break candidates in the 2008 U.S. presidential race. February 22, 8:16 a.m. PST Google Apps upgrade threatens Office Google pushed further into the communication and collaboration applications market with a major upgrade Thursday of Google Apps, a hosted suite for organizations of all sizes that analysts say could soon become a real competitor to Microsoft Office. February 22, 4:16 a.m. PST LOLing all the way to the bank Maxime Seguineau helped found enterprise messaging firm Antepo in February 2000, just as reality was puncturing the hype-filled bubble of the dot-com craze. Back then, IM was mostly for teens and college students, who used free, online chat networks by AOL, Microsoft, and Yahoo to keep in touch. Seguineau saw past the crazy colors of ICQ, the cartoonlike appeal of AIM, and the incomprehensible shorthand of IMers, to IM’s promise for the enterprise, which he dubbed “availability based communications,” now called “presence.” February 12, 3:00 a.m. PST Yahoo tests RSS mashup for masses Yahoo Inc. has launched a service called Pipes designed to let regular users mix different RSS and Atom feeds and create data "mashups," a process that so far has required programming knowledge. February 8, 10:27 a.m. PST Bugs in Blogger prompt user complaints Google's Blogger service has been generating a steady stream of complaints from users this year, including hours-long outages, feature malfunctions, and data loss. February 5, 2:12 p.m. PST DEMO 07 Pushes People Power in Tech The annual DEMO conferences are always a useful instrument by which to gauge the health and stature of technology innovation; this year was no different, with 16 companies presenting in the first morning session and a recurring theme that might be dubbed “Power to the People!” said Chris Shipley, executive producer of DEMO. February 5, 3:00 a.m. PST Debating the merits of user-generated content Creativity is alive and well. Twenty-something years after the PC revolution, new ideas and innovation, huge successes and tremendous flops, are all still part of the excitement. January 30, 3:00 a.m. PST Second Life and the future of the operating system Linden Lab’s Second Life isn’t the first virtual community to spring up on the Internet — text-based MUDs (multi-user domains) date back to the mid-1970s. Nor is it the largest virtual environment. That honor likely belongs to World of Warcraft, the massive online world with more than 8 million members. But months of generally positive press attention, and growing encampments of “first life” companies such as IBM and Starwood Hotels as well as news outlets Reuters and CNET, may make Second Life the most widely known virtual world, and the first to cross over from the consumer to the enterprise space. January 29, 3:41 a.m. PST Google has big plans for Groups service Online discussion forums date from the Internet's early days and are seen by many as passe in this Web 2.0 era of blogs, wikis, and social networks, but Google has no plan to put its Groups service out to pasture. January 25, 5:04 a.m. PST Oracle's 'Web 2.0' interface coming this month Oracle plans to release WebCenter Suite before the end of the month, a product for building application interfaces that incorporate content from a variety of sources as well as "Web 2.0" tools such as blogs and wikis. January 24, 8:55 a.m. PST Update: Nokia unveils phone for bloggers Nokia Corp. unveiled a slim mobile phone, a mobile phone for bloggers and an updated wireless Internet tablet with VOIP capabilities at the CES show in Las Vegas on Monday. January 8, 4:20 p.m. PST Capitalize on emerging collaboration options Messaging vendors have long been packing their wares with features in hopes of providing an all-encompassing platform that fulfills every enterprise’s collaboration needs. Rather than shell out far too much again this year for seldom or inefficiently used capabilities, why not consider emerging alternatives as a way to assemble a collaboration environment suited to your particular budget and needs? January 8, 3:00 a.m. PST Web 2.0: New technologies greet the enterprise However you define Web 2.0, most agree that it’s woven from a fabric of technologies designed to ease collaboration and break down information silos, whether they’re individual Web sites, portals, or business intelligence systems. Enterprise RSS gained significant ground in 2006 as a better way to aggregate and publish this information; social networking also made significant inroads within organizations. A third swatch, represented by enterprise search, transformed the way all this content is organized and categorized. January 1, 3:00 a.m. PST Google upgrades Blogger - for some Google Inc. is offering some users of its Blogger Web site access to a new version of the blog hosting service allowing user-definable templates, tagging of posts, multiple authors, and faster publication of new posts, the company announced on its own blog. It will also integrate use of the blogging service more closely with other services through changes to the account log-in process. December 21, 4:28 a.m. PST Yahoo to buy Taiwan blog site Wretch Yahoo Taiwan agreed to buy popular blog site Wretch.cc in a deal the companies expect to push them into the Web 2.0 era in Taiwan. December 15, 4:12 a.m. PST Shimon Peres stops by blogging event The stars of the French blogging firmament attending a social media conference on the edge of Paris were outshone on Tuesday by Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Shimon Peres, who stopped by for a surprise visit. December 12, 6:18 a.m. PST Web 2.0 Conference celebrates Web app vision Like an old-time religious revival, last week’s Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco was packed to the rafters with the Internet faithful. And, true to form, they spent their time singing the praises of the latest buzz: user-generated content, video-sharing sites, and virtual communities. November 13, 3:00 a.m. PST Yahoo 360 may do a 180 degree turn Yahoo may remake its blogging and social networking service Yahoo 360, the company said Thursday. November 10, 5:09 a.m. PST Users grow impatient with Google's Blogger Some users of Google's Blogger are steaming over persistent problems that have affected the popular blog hosting and publishing service in recent weeks. November 2, 4:54 a.m. PST Chinese dissident slams Internet companies A respected Chinese dissident has warned that the capitulation of Western Internet companies to China's authorities is a more serious threat to free speech in the country than the Chinese government's filtering of what its citizens can access on the Internet. October 31, 6:22 a.m. PST Richard Edelman discusses the Wal-Mart blog In late September, two bloggers set off on a trip in an recreational vehicle across America, stopping in the car parks of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. along the way and blogging about all the great Wal-Mart folks they met -- or so we were meant to believe. October 31, 3:57 a.m. PST A series of unfortunate events hobble Blogger Google's Blogger has experienced availability problems in recent days, continuing a series of mishaps that began several weeks ago. October 27, 4:14 a.m. PDT Six Apart preps blogging service for newbies Six Apart aspires to extend its broad presence in the blogging services and software market with a new offering for consumers that want an easy-to-use yet feature-rich blog publishing service. October 26, 4:44 a.m. PDT Web 2.0 reaches the classroom University of Arizona students are learning how to build online business communities using technologies often grouped under the controversial and problematic Web 2.0 concept. October 25, 7:03 a.m. PDT Google's blogging woes continue A Google employee mistakenly posted information to an official Google blog that she had intended to publish in her personal blog, the latest blogging faux pas for the search engine giant. October 19, 4:13 a.m. PDT Multilingual tools mine buzz in the blogosphere Companies trying to navigate the maze of blogs around the world to find out what's being said about them will get help soon in the form of some localized blog search sites from Technorati Inc. October 17, 10:41 a.m. PDT Update: Google's blog hosting platform suffers outage After getting hacked this past weekend, Google's Blogger publishing service suffered an outage on Thursday morning that kept both Blogger.com and the Blogspot hosting service offline for two hours. October 12, 3:20 p.m. PDT Used properly, RSS boosts collaboration Blogs, blogs, bloggity blog blog. In the midst of your daily IT grind, the constant blog babble may sound tedious. But while they are the latest way for employees to waste time using IT resources, blogging technology also has real potential to help you earn your next bonus. Yeah, I'm talking about RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds. Just don't look at it as a silver bullet. October 12, 3:00 a.m. PDT IBM adds enterprise blogging to Lotus Notes IBM has added enterprise blogging capability to its venerable Lotus Notes/Domino e-mail and collaboration software in an incremental update available now. October 11, 6:49 a.m. PDT Google helps programmers find code online Google has created a specialized search engine designed to find software source code publicly available on the Web. October 5, 4:21 a.m. PDT China boasts 7.7 million active bloggers How many Chinese bloggers are there? Estimates offered by industry analysts vary widely, ranging from several million to more than 30 million, or roughly one-quarter of all Chinese Internet users. Now, the government-backed China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) has weighed in with its own estimate, putting the number of active bloggers at 7.7 million. September 25, 4:43 a.m. PDT Demofall to highlight Java Wares The Demofall show has never had quite the cache of the bigger Demo conference, but it’s still a fun time, as startups from across the tech sector give their patented six-minute pitches for why their company’s product will change the world. September 25, 3:00 a.m. PDT Technology with no past To the extent that it’s possible, I’m declaring today the beginning of recorded history in information technology. On this day, the phrase “information technology,” abbreviated IT, came into being as shorthand for electronic devices that aid humans in storage and sharing of, analysis of, protection of, and access to significant amounts of digitized content. Content? That’s anything you’re capable of holding in your brain for even a nanosecond. IT is not a department or a group of people. It’s a smart phone. It’s a room full of SPARC servers. A telephone headset? A keyboard? I don’t know. They’re new terms. We’ll work that out as we go. I do know that if we didn’t have such things, information technology would be inaccessible. September 20, 3:00 a.m. PDT IUpload boosts blog management IUpload on Monday introduced an upgraded version of its enterprise blogging software designed to let companies deploy both internal and external blogs and in some cases unite the two. September 18, 9:40 a.m. PDT BEA looks to tap Web 2.0 for Enterprise Long a player in the geeky world of enterprise middleware, BEA will soon be diving into a frothy Web 2.0 space as it tries to tap into the genius of Web sites such as del.icio.us, Wikipedia, and YouTube, according to Mark Carges, executive vice president of business interaction at BEA. September 18, 3:00 a.m. PDT Xerox refreshes product line, expands services Xerox wooed Wall Street and users last week in New York with a three-day rollout of new printers, software and strategic initiatives that underscored how services will be the engine of growth for the company. September 11, 4:19 a.m. PDT Live Writer is no Word-killer Microsoft’s ugly Live Spaces rollout not only caused the company problems, it also preceded another round of Office-is-moving-to-the-Web pundit hee-hawing. And that was precipitated by the release of Windows Live Writer. August 17, 3:00 a.m. PDT Google tests Blogger upgrade Google Inc. has started testing an enhanced version of its popular Blogger blog publishing service, adding long-awaited features such as the ability to categorize entries with labels, to control access to blogs and to make layout changes by dragging and dropping. August 14, 3:27 p.m. PDT Microsoft blog tool enters beta A new desktop application from Microsoft, now in beta, lets bloggers see the look of a blog posting before uploading it online. August 14, 9:25 a.m. PDT Google's Blogger unblocked (again) in China Google's free Web log service, Blogger, is once again accessible from Beijing without the use of a proxy server, indicating that apparent government efforts to block the site have been lifted. August 11, 4:50 a.m. PDT MSN Spaces upgrade beset with problems Microsoft's highly anticipated upgrade of its MSN Spaces blogging and social networking service has run into significant and unforeseen performance problems. August 3, 8:43 a.m. PDT Microsoft launches Windows Live Spaces Microsoft launched on Wednesday an upgraded version of its MSN Spaces Web site that lets users quickly create a Web site or blog, post photos, and build a network of contacts. August 2, 4:53 a.m. PDT Indian bloggers get reprieve Indian bloggers are likely to get a reprieve as Indian Internet service providers (ISPs) reverse a blanket block of key blogging sites, according to an executive of an association of Indian ISPs. July 20, 5:27 a.m. PDT India blocks blogs, Web sites The Indian government has blocked about 20 Web sites and blogs in India, following apprehensions by the country's intelligence agencies that these were likely being used by terrorists to communicate with one another. July 18, 5:06 a.m. PDT Six Apart slides blog tool to enterprise Software developer Six Apart Ltd. introduced a blogging product in the U.S. designed for enterprise use, the company announced on Wednesday. July 12, 7:20 a.m. PDT Wikipedia founder tackles politics HThe founder of Wikipedia, the peer-edited online encyclopedia, has launched a new political wiki site, saying it's "time for politics to become more intelligent." July 6, 11:36 a.m. PDT China to reign in blogs, search engines China's government plans to step up its supervision of blogs and search engines in a bid to stamp out "illegal and unhealthy" content, the country's state-owned media reported this week. June 30, 4:03 a.m. PDT Ether helps bloggers charge for consultations A new online service from Ingenio lets experts field queries from advise-seekers, manage appointments, and charge for their services. June 26, 5:38 a.m. PDT EBay adds blogs, wiki to site EBay is beefing up community-building capabilities on its online auction site to include support for blogs, a new wiki for members to share information, and new types of alerts for users to stay on top of sales, the company announced on Wednesday. June 14, 7:46 a.m. PDT Microsoft blogger leaves for podcast startup Robert Scoble, a Microsoft technology evangelist and one of its best-known bloggers, is leaving to join a podcasting startup. June 12, 4:51 a.m. PDT Update: MSN Spaces revs up, lures developers from rival MySpace Microsoft plans to give its MSN Spaces blog publishing and hosting service new social networking features, as well as support for the company's lightweight applications called Gadgets.. June 6, 12:27 p.m. PDT Skype conference service supports 100 callers Skype Technologies is piloting a new community conference call service, which can support as many as 100 callers, and is also offering a beta version of its new Internet calling software designed for easier use, the company said Wednesday. May 3, 5:40 a.m. PDT New screencasts and podcasts from Jon Udell One of my New Year's resolutions for 2006 was to produce more regular screencasts and podcasts. On the screencast front, I’ve launched a monthly series called The Screening Room. The first three installments are interviews about, and demonstrations of, IBM’s UIMA (Unstructured Information Management Architecture), Adobe’s (formerly Macromedia’s) Flex 2.0, and Microsoft’s Atlas. These screencasts, which run from 20 to 25 minutes, are edited down from as much as two hours of demonstration and discussion. April 19, 3:00 a.m. PDT Socialtext unveils wiki platform for mobile devices Socialtext is due on Wednesday to take the wraps off Miki, a wiki platform optimized for mobile devices, the company said. April 5, 4:37 a.m. PDT Reinventing the intranet In an interview long ago, Marc Andreessen told me about the moment he knew Netscape’s business plan would succeed. That plan, as you may recall, was modeled on Gillette’s: give away razors (browsers and mail/news clients) and sell blades (enterprise servers). For Andreessen, the magical moment came when, shortly after the word “intranet” was coined, he heard it echoing all around him in a restaurant. April 5, 3:00 a.m. PDT Podcasts to be banned during Singapore election Political podcasts and streaming video feeds will be banned during Singapore's next general election, a government minister said Monday. April 4, 4:47 a.m. PDT Google zaps official blog by mistake Google has pie on its face after staffers accidentally deleted the company's main official blog Monday night and a user unaffiliated with Google temporarily took possession of the Web address. March 28, 8:59 a.m. PST > Applications > Internet applications |
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