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MSNBC buys participatory news site Newsvine MSNBC Interactive News has acquired Newsvine, operator of a Web site that encourages users to link to their favorite news of the day, submit comments, and write their own stories. Merchants: eBay ad programs drive buyers away EBay Inc. has significantly boosted its advertising revenue since last year, but some sellers worry that the company's efforts in this area are driving potential buyers away from the online marketplace. October 8, 4:33 a.m. PDT Despite lawsuits, P-to-P use still growing If 20,000-plus lawsuits by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) aren't enough to show U.S. residents that the unauthorized sharing of music files will cause legal problems, now there's a $222,000 jury verdict against a Minnesota woman. October 5, 2:36 p.m. PDT Microsoft launches online e-health service Microsoft has launched an online health-care service designed to help patients take control of their health records and monitor their medical conditions. October 4, 12:34 p.m. PDT Microsoft Silverlight rivals Flash, AJAX Microsoft's much-touted and much-anticipated RIA (rich Internet application) entry, Silverlight, lets Web developers and designers create "rich, engaging user experiences with 2-D graphics, animation, images, media, and video," to use Microsoft's own description. Silverlight competes in this arena with Adobe Flash and Flex, with OpenLaszlo and Curl, and with a variety of AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) frameworks.  October 1, 3:00 a.m. PDT Laszlo Webtop links Web 2.0 and VoIP Laszlo Systems this week unveiled an enhanced version of Laszlo Webtop, which the company refers to as "The Web 2.0 Desktop." The company also is partnering to add VoIP capabilities to the platform. September 25, 1:00 p.m. PDT Stonebridge Bank averts a capacity crisis It's a dilemma faced by IT administrators everywhere. "We ran out of rack space, air conditioning capacity, and UPSes at the end of 2004, but we needed more servers," recalls George Rapp, senior vice president of IT for Stonebridge Bank, a regional institution in Pennsylvania. Getting more power in and more heat out was just not an option for the bank's datacenter, so Rapp consolidated multiple Unix servers into one box to reduce the physical footprint and delay the crisis. "But it got us only part of the way," he notes. September 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT Intel sees meal ticket in virtual worlds When Intel looks to the next few years of computing, the dollar signs look a lot better in three dimensions, full motion, and high definition. September 20, 4:02 p.m. PDT IBM's free Symphony targets Microsoft Office IBM has spun out productivity software included in the latest version of Lotus Notes as a free stand-alone suite to compete with Microsoft's Office productivity suite. September 18, 11:47 a.m. PDT Salesforce expands product categories for on-demand Although the major news at the Salesforce.com Dreamforce developer conference in San Francisco this week was Visualforce, CEO Marc Benioff had a few other surprise announcements up his sleeve to keep an overflow audience interested in listening to almost all of his two-hour keynote address. September 17, 3:40 p.m. PDT Google Docs and Spreadsheets clause gives pause Google is in damage control mode over a clause in the user agreements for its Google Docs and Spreadsheets applications that implies an inordinate degree of power over the content that runs over its services. September 14, 3:00 a.m. PDT Amazon's Mechanical Turk used in Fossett search Amazon.com's Mechanical Turk is enlisting human eyes to help in an online search for missing adventurer Steve Fossett. September 10, 12:46 p.m. PDT Best of open source applications A hunger for lighter-weight and lower-cost sales and CRM applications has brought great success to SaaS vendors such as Salesforce.com, and also lifted the fortunes of open source offerings in the space. Open source ERP has had a harder time breaking out, but here too there are several impressive offerings to choose from. And if you're looking to open source for an enterprise portal, CMS, or Microsoft Exchange substitute, you will not be disappointed. September 10, 3:00 a.m. PDT Introducing the 2007 InfoWorld Bossies Not too long ago, open source meant starving developers; scant documentation; an ugly, outdated Web site; and software that lived in perpetual beta. Now open source software is becoming big business. “Now hiring” is a common sight on project home pages, and .org and SourceForge sites that used to point straight to source code archives are redirected to .com URLs that celebrate the commercial success of what started out as collaborations among unpaid coders of like mind. September 10, 3:00 a.m. PDT Google, Microsoft describe next-gen 'Office 2.0' As Web 2.0 technologies continue seeping into business systems, a new generation of corporate users is starting to gain access to the collaboration capabilities they are demanding from IT, according to attendees at the Office 2.0 conference in San Francisco this week. But before use of the tools spreads too far, they noted, companies must strike a balance between the Web 2.0 wants of users and the needs of corporate IT. September 6, 1:59 p.m. PDT Are you the IT guy for family and friends? Support is a top IT cost center these days, one we're all focused on measuring and reducing. Yet one aspect of IT support doesn't appear on any budget or balanced scorecard: the amount of time we spend supporting our friends and family with their IT issues. Let's call it "personal IT." September 6, 3:00 a.m. PDT SaaSy eXpresso gives a jolt to Excel workgroups You'd be hard-pressed to find any organization that doesn't depend on Microsoft Excel. Unfortunately, this doesn't mean spreadsheets are treated as an enterprise resource, and here's where the SaaS (software as a service) movement fills the gap. A new hosted application, called eXpresso, not only brings document management to spreadsheet-based workgroups, but jumps past basic file versioning solutions by adding considerable community features including chat and simultaneous editing – all without an IT admin lifting a finger. September 6, 3:00 a.m. PDT Last call: Oliver's parting shot Back in the saddle again… September 5, 3:00 a.m. PDT Facebook cracks down on developer spam Three months after it opened its platform to outside developers, Facebook is taking steps to prevent some third-party applications from engaging in what the social networking company considers inappropriate actions. August 28, 11:56 a.m. PDT Microsoft uses Silverlight for experimental search site Microsoft has launched an experimental Web site that plays with two technologies the company plans to make a big part of its Web strategy going forward: Internet-based search and Silverlight. August 22, 12:07 p.m. PDT Google adds YouTube clips to News site Google has started to provide video clips in Google News, a feature it had been widely expected to add to its article search and aggregation site and which Yahoo and AOL already offer in their news sites. August 21, 4:32 p.m. PDT MTV to invest $230M in TV ads for Rhapsody venture MTV Networks will invest $230 million in advertising on its cable television networks as part of its investment in the Rhapsody America venture it launched Tuesday with RealNetworks. August 21, 3:54 p.m. PDT SMB technology: Replacing in-house software with applications in the cloud In the near future, there's only one way to go for SMBs when it comes to purchasing business software -- and that's out of house. Whether it's full-on SaaS (software as a service), where users access all facets of the application through a browser, or a hosted product (including hosted Exchange, where only the server component is off-site and users employ a standard desktop client such as Outlook), either model is simply too cost-effective for SMBs to ignore. August 20, 3:00 a.m. PDT Processors: Dividing chips into many virtual cores The current approach taken by x86 CPUs -- to stuff as many processor cores and as much cache memory as will fit on one chip -- will prove impossible to scale beyond a certain point. And adding more, big, hot processor cores may not be the best fit for server roles that call for managing large workloads over long periods of time. August 20, 3:00 a.m. PDT Pundits on parade: What’s next in tech You’ve heard of Christmas in July, that classic advertising gimmick designed to lure shoppers into stores despite the oppressive heat and humidity. We’ll, we’ve got New Year’s in August, which invites you to stay indoors and read “The next big things in IT” -- 15 predictions about the future of technology. August 20, 3:00 a.m. PDT Google opens click-fraud Web site Google has unveiled a Web site "resource center" focused on the thorny issue of click fraud, which many consider a potential threat to the company's main source of revenue: Pay-per-click advertising. August 17, 5:20 p.m. PDT Microsoft plugs single sign-on again with Windows Live ID Web Authentication 1.0 Microsoft has released a software development kit for a service that enables users who log in through one Web site to be authenticated on many others. August 17, 10:39 a.m. PDT Jimmy Wales talks on the future of Wikimedia The role Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia, plays at the organization that supports the user-generated and user-edited encyclopedia is changing as he shifts more of his time to activities in the wiki and open source communities and shares time with his for-profit venture, Wikia Inc. August 12, 10:09 p.m. PDT Microsoft reveals Commerce Server road map Interest in software that enables companies to build marketplaces on the Web is not as keen as it used to be back in the early days of e-commerce. However, Microsoft made a commitment Wednesday to keep developing its offering in this space for at least the next three years. August 8, 3:56 p.m. PDT Google Analytics in data blackout since Saturday Google's Analytics service stopped delivering data to users on Saturday, another in a series of recent performance and availability problems affecting this popular Web site traffic-monitoring service. July 30, 2:15 p.m. PDT Hotmail maintenance glitch locks users out oMicrosoft's Windows Live Hotmail Webmail service remained inaccessible to a portion of its users for several hours on Friday, but the problem has been resolved. July 27, 4:13 p.m. PDT Google cookie expiration plans called “worthless” Google Inc.'s plans to shorten the life-span of cookies installed on a user's computer, ostensibly to improve user privacy, is being dismissed by some as complete hype. July 20, 3:00 a.m. PDT Windows Mobile needs fixing, fast Last week's big Redmond stories were the release of Dynamics Live CRM and the announcement that Windows Server 2008 would come out in February of next year along with the next revs of SQL Server and Visual Studio. The week prior it was how Apple iPhone seemed a little worm-ridden when compared even to Windows Mobile. And naturally, at the time, I agreed. No one's open-mouthed with surprise, but even so, I feel it's important to point out that I don't think the iPhone is total bullocks. And nothing has served to bring that out more than Microsoft's release of Dynamics Live. July 18, 3:00 a.m. PDT Google loses Gmail trademark case in Germany Google can't use the Gmail name in Germany because doing so would infringe on someone else's trademark, a German court has ruled. July 5, 3:54 p.m. PDT Goodbye 'bloatware,' hello Web apps Call it the second Internet bubble, a Web 2.0 revolution, or just a resurgence in really useful tools for busy end-users -- Web applications are catching on quickly. June 29, 3:00 a.m. PDT NetSuite launches 2007 version of SaaS enterprise software NetSuite, the other hosted CRM company, laid out version 2007.0 this week of its CRM, ERP, and PRM (partner relationship management) SaaS (software as a service) solution. June 22, 3:20 p.m. PDT Apple TV and iPhone both gain YouTube access Apple announced Wednesday that its promised software update to the Apple TV has been released; the update enables Apple TV users to watch video from the popular YouTube Web site. What's more, Apple revealed that when the iPhone ships on June 29, it will include a special YouTube viewing application too. June 21, 12:28 p.m. PDT Report slams UK e-voting trials The U.K.'s trial of e-voting and e-counting technologies during last month's local elections resulted in crashed computers and technicians scratching their heads while posing new concerns about the systems' security and reliability, a new report has concluded. June 21, 7:45 a.m. PDT IBM, MS feel Google apps heat Microsoft and IBM executives Wednesday admitted feeling heat from Google now that the Web search giant is trying to make inroads into the enterprise market with its hosted suite of communication and collaboration tools. June 21, 5:56 a.m. PDT Businesses experimenting with virtual worlds Although virtual environments are still at an early stage in development and adoption, many companies are already dabbling in one or more virtual worlds or closely observing them prior to getting their feet wet. June 18, 10:45 a.m. PDT Flat-rate mobile phone music service to compete with iPhone A U.K. startup hopes to compete with Apple's new iPhone by offering a flat-rate music service that can run on most of today's mobile phones. June 14, 9:03 a.m. PDT Standards to help users keep virtual clothes on As the number of virtual environments increases, standards and vendor collaboration will help make teleporting between different worlds a smooth experience, ensuring, for instance, that your avatar arrives in a new world still wearing the clothes it donned in your home world. June 12, 8:57 a.m. PDT Safari for Windows: Released and hacked in a day Apple is becoming a favorite target of security researchers these days. In April, there was the $10,000 CanSecWest hack a Mac contest, and on Monday, there was the Safari Web browser. Or the public beta of Safari for Windows, anyway. June 11, 4:17 p.m. PDT A .Mac-Google Apps integration makes sense As this year's WWDC (Worldwide Developer Conference) approaches, Apple fans are furiously speculating on what kind of news will be dropped on us in San Francisco. We already know about the Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard preview, and no doubt Apple CEO Steve Jobs will have something to say about the iPhone. But from what I know about the players and the IT landscape, I think Jobs has another "just one more thing" up his sleeve. June 8, 11:25 a.m. PDT IBM to buy Web app security vendor Watchfire IBM liked Watchfire's Web application security software so much it plans to buy the company for an undisclosed sum, it said Wednesday. June 6, 6:04 a.m. PDT Microsoft to update Web conferencing service Microsoft plans to offer a few more details Tuesday on the upcoming version of its hosted Web conferencing offering, Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2007. June 5, 4:20 a.m. PDT YouTube in deal to offer local television programming Hearst-Argyle Television and YouTube announced a joint effort Monday to add news, weather, and entertainment videos and original Hearst television programming in five local markets to YouTube. June 4, 2:38 p.m. PDT New RealPlayer will let you download Internet video On Thursday afternoon at the D: All Things Digital show, RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser demoed a new version of RealPlayer, to be released as a beta in June, that adds the ability to download video that's normally available only as a stream from Web sites and save it to your hard drive for later playback in RealPlayer. June 1, 12:28 p.m. PDT Google to weave advertisements onto its Maps In a sneak preview Thursday, Google revealed how it plans to integrate its AdSense advertising platform with Google Maps, meaning some push-pin graphics used at the maps site could be turned into mini-advertisements. May 31, 11:06 a.m. PDT Zenoss: Bringing open source to enterprise management If you curse your "tier-one" IT management solution as too cumbersome, too complex, and too expensive, you're not alone. In arecent Gartner study that declares the "Big Four" -- BMC, CA, HP, and IBM -- increasingly vulnerable to SaaS (software as a service) and open source alternatives, surveyed users gave their vendors mostly C's and D's, and a good number of incompletes. May 31, 3:00 a.m. PDT Google offers app dev kit for taking Web apps offline With the official unveiling of Google Gears set for Thursday at the first ever Google Developer Day, the giant World Wide Web phenom will continue to expand its reach well beyond search. May 30, 4:00 p.m. PDT Google digs in against malware Google's acquisition of security company GreenBorder Technologies is a sign the search giant wants to bolster confidence in its browser-delivered applications amid growing threats from malicious software on the Internet. May 30, 10:16 a.m. PDT Google improves Maps with street views, miniapps Google has improved Google Maps with immersive views of streets from a handful of U.S. cities as well as with miniapplications that can be embedded on a map. May 29, 12:25 p.m. PDT Microsoft offers 3D maps for New York, other cities Microsoft has enhanced its Windows Live Search Maps with a 3D map of New York, one in an ongoing series of cities in U.S., U.K., and Canada that are being featured in 3D through the service. May 29, 11:01 a.m. PDT Venyo improves the reputation of Web 2.0 One of the biggest problems in the world of Web 2.0 and user-generated content is that people are already abusing blogs, wikis, and file-sharing sites to assail fellow users with spam, marketing pitches, and even malware. Venyo wants to help solve all that. May 27, 3:00 a.m. PDT Users upset over Google Analytics outage The Google Analytics Web site monitoring service suffered an outage that affected some users for more than 24 hours this week, prompting many to vent on blogs and forums their frustration with the situation and with what they perceived as unresponsiveness on Google's part. May 25, 2:56 p.m. PDT Enterprise looks to consumer sites for Web design The consumerization of the enterprise is continuing at a rapid pace, forcing traditional companies to modernize their Web sites in order to capture the hearts and minds of future employees. May 22, 3:18 p.m. PDT Vidoop looks to change image of sign-on It's a lesson that's apparent to anyone who has ever raised a child, and likely anyone who remembers what it was like to be one -- pictures are easier to remember than words. May 20, 3:00 a.m. PDT Octopz grabs on to Web collaboration Nobody's sure exactly how it is that social networks like MySpace and Facebook are really going to make money for their corporate masters. But one thing people have figured out is that online social networks are great mediums for people to share ideas and collaborate. Now one startup, Octopz, is hoping to apply that logic to the topsy-turvy community of creative professionals. In the process, the company is making a splash in the ocean of Internet collaboration hopefuls. May 19, 3:05 a.m. PDT DOD asked to reevaluate social networking sites ban U.S. Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) has asked the Department of Defense to reconsider its decision to block military access to social networking sites like MySpace and YouTube. May 18, 2:32 p.m. PDT Google launches ISP version of Apps suite Google has released a version of Google Apps tailored for ISPs and Web portals, growing this family of hosted collaboration and communication suites for organizations. May 18, 12:30 p.m. PDT Microsoft, Clinton develop emissions software Microsoft will work with the Clinton Foundation to develop free Web-based software and services that cities around the world can use to monitor their carbon emissions and share ideas about environmental protection. May 17, 11:21 a.m. PDT American Express plans business, consumer buy site Code-named Purchasing Portal, American Express is expected to launch a consumer service in the fourth quarter that will give American Express cardholders access to American Express's own negotiated rates for thousands of products that it buys annually. May 15, 1:30 p.m. PDT Google Analytics gets a makeover Google has revamped Google Analytics, improving and expanding the data reporting capabilities of the Web site usage monitoring service. May 8, 11:11 a.m. PDT Web 2.0 still primarily attracting hardcore techies Almost one in four Americas use advanced mobile technology and visit the Web 2.0 world, but close to half have little use for either, according to a report released Monday. May 7, 4:24 p.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 oDesk: job search meets the online exchange Back in the day, dot-com marketplaces -- virtual bazaars where buyers and sellers could shop, haggle, and conduct business -- were all the rage. (Remember eCattle.com, the online exchange for livestock?) Most of those environments went down with the bursting of the Internet bubble, but that doesn't mean the idea of online exchanges wasn't a good one --just that it needed time to mature. May 4, 3:00 a.m. PDT IBM executive calls for 'virtual planet' As companies look to engage in more virtual business interactions, IBM's head of innovation called for more integration between the various online virtual worlds where avatars meet. May 2, 11:27 a.m. PDT Microsoft fails to impress during Bach's keynote The last thing a company wants to do at a keynote speech is clear a room. But that's just what Microsoft succeeded in doing during Tuesday's keynote at MIX 07 in Las Vegas. May 2, 4:32 a.m. PDT NewsGator revamps enterprise RSS tool As corporations increase adoption of content syndication tools, NewsGator Technologies has improved its enterprise RSS system with an AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) Web interface, tagging capabilities, and support for BlackBerry devices and collaboration platforms from Microsoft and IBM. May 1, 12:46 p.m. PDT Google renames home page, adds gadgets Google has renamed its personalized home page and added several new "gadgets," or mini applications, to the newly minted iGoogle. May 1, 12:19 p.m. PDT Unpatched flaws found in Photoshop CS2, CS3 A pair of security vulnerabilities found in certain versions of Adobe Systems Inc.'s popular Photoshop products could put users' computers at risk, according to security researchers. Neither flaw has been patched yet. May 1, 8:29 a.m. PDT Innovation, startups hot again in the enterprise Five years ago enterprise startups hit the skids, stung by a perfect storm of commoditization, vendor consolidation, and the IT spending downturn. In the intervening years, however, the skies have cleared and, to paraphrase Ronald Regan, "It's morning again for enterprise startups." May 1, 7:00 a.m. PDT Digital currency firms face money laundering charges A grand jury in Washington, D.C., has indicted two digital currency companies and their owners on charges of money laundering, accusing the companies of helping to fund illegal activities like child pornography and identity theft, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday. April 27, 12:40 p.m. PDT Salesforce.com launches SaaS platform With the announcement on Monday of Salesforce Platform Edition, Salesforce.com finally unveiled its long-term strategy to become the sun around which revolves an infinite number of SaaS (software as a service) planets. April 23, 2:47 p.m. PDT Enterprises seek social-network effect Social bookmarking and IRC (Internet relay chat) top the list of must-have tools for organizations that want to leverage Web 2.0 technologies within the enterprise, according to a Web 2.0 Expo panel moderated by Rob Rueckert of Intel Capital. April 19, 3:00 a.m. PDT Panelists say IT can't stop Web 2.0 At the Web 2.0 Expo at Moscone Center in San Francisco on Wednesday, three thought leaders in the Web 2.0 space, Ross Mayfield, CEO of Socialtext, Satish Dharmaraj, CEO of Zimbra and Matthew Glotzbach, business product manager at Google, participated in a panel discussion titled, Web 2.0 for the Enterprise. April 18, 2:10 p.m. PDT AOL programs back new business model AOL unveiled five new online programs on Tuesday in support of its revamped strategy to focus on deriving advertising revenue from original content served up on its AOL.com portal. April 17, 10:06 a.m. PDT Rivals complain about Google-DoubleClick deal The planned merger of two online advertising giants, Google Inc. and DoubleClick Inc., has some rivals calling for regulatory intervention -- but for customers, trust may be of greater concern than antitrust. April 16, 9:38 a.m. PDT Web 2.0 Expo draws startups, superstars If anyone knows about the potential of what has been dubbed "Web 2.0" it's the folks over at O'Reilly Media. Heck, company founder Tim O'Reilly himself coined the phrase back in 2003 to describe the emergence of a new generation of Web-based business models in the wake of the dot-com collapse. And if this week's first-ever Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco is any measure, the Web 2.0 phenomenon is on track to exceed expectations. April 16, 4:00 a.m. PDT IBM and Yahoo upgrade enterprise search app IBM Corp. and Yahoo Inc. have enhanced their joint enterprise search product, a free competitor to Google Inc.'s Mini device. April 15, 9:34 p.m. PDT Study: Asian sites lead in user engagement ComScore Networks Inc.'s latest monthly worldwide ranking of popular Web sites shows that the sites with the most unique visitors aren't always the ones with the most engaged users. April 10, 10:26 a.m. PDT What the enterprise can learn from consumer technologies Today’s corporate end-users are far more tech-savvy than their productivity with IT tools indicates. After all, screen-deep in IMs, widgets, and elaborate consumer Web apps, they’re proving themselves well-versed in the production and distribution of content as facilitated by the consumer Web 2.0 craze. April 9, 3:00 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 Equity firm buys First Data for $29B Electronic payments and commerce company First Data Corp. has attracted a huge US$29 billion price tag after its board of directors unanimously agreed that it be acquired by an affiliate of private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR). April 2, 7:43 a.m. PDT MySpace bug hunt off to a slow start A group of hackers has kicked off its month of MySpace vulnerabilities, which it hopes will make more of a splash than January's month of bugs for Apple Inc.'s software. April 2, 6:19 a.m. PDT Yawns, cheers for 'unlimited' webmail inbox storage As webmail providers continue their years-long race to increase their inbox storage, some analysts and users are cheering them on, while others question whether the emphasis on this issue is warranted and even if it can become counterproductive. March 30, 3:37 p.m. PST Downtime makes Google Apps customers wary Google is having problems keeping its uptime pledge to some paying customers of its Google Apps suite of hosted services, throwing into question the company's ability to offer guaranteed levels of application reliability. March 28, 2:19 p.m. PST IBM, Oracle, others create services consortium IBM Corp. and Oracle Corp., more often rivals than partners, have joined in creating an industry consortium focused on establishing what it calls "service science" as both a key area for investment by companies and governments and as a full-blown academic discipline. March 28, 7:35 a.m. PST Hackers build private IM to keep the law out Hackers have built their own encrypted IM (instant-message) program to shield themselves from law enforcement trying to spy on their communication channels. March 28, 6:36 a.m. PST Microsoft picks up UK online advertising client Microsoft Corp. has reached a deal with Piczo Inc. , a photo-sharing and networking Web site for teenagers, to supply online advertising for their U.K. site, the companies said Monday. March 26, 4:48 a.m. PST Belgian company loses lawsuit against Google A Belgian court dismissed a lawsuit filed by a company that said a feature for Google Inc.'s search engine offers up password-cracking tools and serial numbers to unlock their software. March 23, 5:42 a.m. PST Startup applies P-to-P to calendar scheduling Tungle Corp. will deliver on Friday a beta version of a plug-in application designed to let users create a peer-to-peer network of people for the sole purpose of simplifying the process of scheduling meetings. March 22, 4:35 a.m. PST Tech tops the pop charts Remember the adrenaline rush when you first saw MTV in 1981? When they played “She Blinded Me With Science” in ’83? Well, if you want a fresh, geeky, thought-provoking video experience that gets your heart pumping, check out “Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us,” one of the top-viewed videos on YouTube. It’ll appeal to the coder in you, as well as the futurist. March 15, 3:00 a.m. PST Timely coverage Usually daylight-saving time is no big deal. We “spring ahead,” grumble briefly about an hour of lost sleep, and get on with life. This year could be different. The Energy Policy Act of 2005 advanced DST by three weeks, forcing IT managers into a feverish patch-fest, as they scramble to make sure their systems can handle the March 11 transition. March 12, 3:00 a.m. PST Wikipedia founder speaks on the Essjay controversy Jimmy Wales, founder of the Wikipedia user-generated and edited encyclopedia, said he expects contributors to the site who claim certain credentials will soon have to prove they really have them. March 9, 5:05 a.m. PST Office Live needs a makeover First, I've got to do a quick correction on the Daylight Saving Time (DST) snafu I wrote about in my previous column -- even though by the time you read this, there's a good chance the whole mess is already over. It turns out that Redmond is trying to help its customers to negotiate this truly goofy problem. Microsoft has put numerous product engineers and support people on a DST-only team. Folks with the right kind of application support can reach these guys to avoid a daylight nightmare. March 7, 3:00 a.m. PST More IT war stories Off the Record, the real-world slice of life that graces the last page of InfoWorld, is one of our most popular columns. I know this from reader surveys and from all the e-mail I receive about it. As reader Roland Sickenberger put it recently, “It’s my favorite part of the magazine, kind of like a ‘Dilbert come to life’ thing.” March 5, 3:00 a.m. PST Adobe to launch Apollo beta later this month Adobe Systems plans to launch the beta of a new runtime later this month that will allow rich Web-based applications to run offline, technology that could threaten the popularity of programming platforms such as Java and Microsoft's .NET. March 1, 1:49 p.m. PST Salesforce puts Bloomberg in its sights with Wealth Management Edition Claiming Bloomberg and the Bloomberg Terminal lock customers in with a proprietary workstation and software accessed on an archaic keyboard, and that Bloomberg offers a deep but very narrow selection of financial feeds, Salesforce.com will announce on Tuesday a competitive Wealth Management Edition of its SaaS (Software as a Service) application for use by wealth management professionals. February 27, 6:00 a.m. PST > Applications > Web services |
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