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In a move echoing one made by rival Facebook earlier this year, MySpace plans to open its platform to third-party application developers. The wildly popular social networking company owned by News Corp. plans to formalize its relationships with developers and will release a MySpace application progr...
Radio frequency identification technology vendors are now seeing demand from a wider range of end users for a broader range of applications -- from ID and access control to asset tracking, traceability and supply chain management. Vendors and developers are looking forward to the day when process im...
MySpace users will soon be able to chat by phone thanks to a new partnership between Skype and the popular social networking site, the companies announced Wednesday. MySpaceIM with Skype is a new product that integrates MySpace's instant messaging client with Skype's free voice-calling capability us...
Consumers shopping for touch screen-enabled mobile handsets this holiday season will soon have to wade through a whole slew of the newfangled devices as every week seems to bring another announcement from carriers. In keeping with the trend, Sprint unveiled its new Touch phone developed by HTC. Weig...
When it comes to slim and sleek in digital cameras, Casio is king. One of its latest offerings, the Exilim S880, illustrates why. Not only does the new 8.1 megapixel bytecam sport the Twiggy proportions that Casio is known for -- it measures 3.72 by 2.38 by .68 inches and weighs a feathery 4.51 ounc...
Don't look now, but social search is pervasive. It's taking hold in large part because the Web itself is changing. What is social search? Broadly speaking, social search enables the masses to have greater influence on the results of a search, and in so doing, enables better, more interesting and mor...
Google has launched a beta version of video identification technology designed to flag unauthorized content on YouTube. The move follows its implementation of audio fingerprinting software from Audible Magic earlier this year. By filtering out pirated videos, Google aims to further cement YouTube's ...
Within just three days of issuing its global, online appeal for public help in identifying a suspected pedophile last week, Interpol had already determined the suspect's name, nationality, date of birth, passport number, and current and previous places of work, the agency announced Monday. Images of...
Memo to small business owners: If you are spending a fortune on software to run your business, you'll be interested to know you may be able to get almost everything you need for free. With more than 25.8 million small businesses currently in the U.S. and 671,000 new companies getting started every y...
Broadcom announced on Monday a new, single-chip high-speed packet access processor that integrates multiple 3G cellular and mobile technologies on a single, low-power, 65 nanometer complementary metal oxide semiconductor die. The "3G phone on a chip," which Broadcom says is the world's first such si...
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies has developed the world's smallest read-head technology for hard disk drives, which the company expects will let it deliver small form-factor hard drives with up to four terabytes of space for desktop PCs and up to one terabyte for notebooks. The leap, which Hitac...
There are some weeks when I wonder if we have too many executives and politicians who truly don't have the sense to come in out of the rain. Last week was one of those weeks. The Recording Industry Association of America may have lost a war by winning in court and creating a martyr. On the positive ...
Microsoft has added a new feature to its Windows Live platform that lets users take advantage of the Web to send invitations to parties, business meetings or other happenings. Similar to Evite, Windows Live Events provides an array of graphical templates and other tools, such as maps and calendars, ...
Armchair tourists traveling the globe via Google Earth can now watch YouTube videos related to each destination they visit, Google announced Thursday. A new YouTube layer in Google Earth's Featured Content folder allows users to zoom in on any location and view YouTube videos related to that place. ...
Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are the joint winners of this year's Nobel Peace Prize, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced Friday. The 10 million kronor award was jointly made for the recipients' efforts to increase and disseminate knowledge about man-made climate chan...