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Adobe Systems has released the beta version of its new runtime software, Adobe Integrated Runtime -- formerly called "Apollo." The software allows Web-native applications to run just like desktop programs. The new tool and Adobe's next version of its Flex development environment -- called "Moxie" an...
Fulfilling its May promise to provide more details in its "Security Bulletin Advance Notification," Microsoft unveiled the new format in an advance alert issued last week. The upcoming "Patch Tuesday" on June 12 will include six security bulletins for Internet Explorer, Outlook Express, Windows, Vis...
Last week, I was on the road at Microsoft's TechEd conference and had a chance to chat with a number of my peers, some Microsoft customers, and a large number of Microsoft executives. Things are changing rapidly at that company: The Windows group is largely new, Bill Gates is mostly gone, and the ...
Researchers at Osaka University in Japan demonstrated on Friday a toddler robot designed to assist in studies of child development. Called the "Child-Robot with Biomimetic Body," or CB2, the robot is designed to mimic a real, human child between one and three years old. It stands just over 4 feet ta...
Google Friday unveiled Google Calendar Gallery, a platform that allows one-click importing to Google Calendars of event and listing content found on other Web sites. Google has always envisioned Google Calendar to be capable of easing the hassle normally associated with calendar management, the comp...
Power cords and chargers may rule the technological world today, but their days could be numbered, thanks to a breakthrough at MIT. It's called "WiTricity," and it's essentially the transfer of power through the air, without wires. It was demonstrated by a team of researchers from MIT's Department o...
An innovative three-dimensional search program puts a unique spin on Internet searching. All results are displayed in a 3-D space that users can navigate and manipulate. SpaceTime presents all search results, shopping windows and browsing activity in a continuous 3-D stack that merges results to sav...
The photographs available on Google's new Street View utility are not live and were taken from a device with multiple cameras attached to a car that drove down each available street. The problem for some is that the cameras took photos of people not expecting to be photographed and broadcast across ...
"Modular" and "virtualized" are now buzzwords of the enterprise server world, and Sun Microsystems is aiming to offer both with its rollout of the Blade 6000 Modular System. The line of servers includes models that run on Intel's and AMD's processors, as well as on Sun's. Memory installed in the hig...
A former substitute teacher for a Connecticut middle school has been granted a retrial following a conviction that launched a wave of sympathy and outrage. Julie Amero could have been sentenced to 40 years in prison after being found guilty of exposing her students to Internet pornography. However, ...
Forget Nintendinitis -- the new affliction for those who enjoy gaming just a little too much may be "Acute Wiiitis," which was first reported Thursday in a brief posted to the New England Journal of Medicine's Web site. "A healthy 29-year-old medical resident awoke one Sunday morning with intense pa...
At the end of 2006, more than 100 million households in the United States subscribed to Internet services, cable or satellite television and other telecommunications services. By 2012, the number of new subscribers will increase by some 50 million households. As the technology behind Internet, pay T...
It is perhaps one of the most distinctive sounds in video game history -- the "wakka, wakka, wakka" of 1980s pop culture phenom "Pac-Man." Now, 26 years after the game was first introduced, Microsoft has kept the beloved sound but flipped the script on Pac-Man, Blinky, Inky, Pinky and Clyde with the...
Back in the good old days of 2005, most American youngsters didn't start fiddling with electronic gadgets until they were about eight years old. Now, six-year-olds know how to use cell phones, DVD players and just about anything else with an "on" button. Such are the findings of the NPD Group, a res...
The Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have issued new joint guidance for their field offices for the protection of wetlands and bodies of water that are protected under the Clean Water Act. The new guidelines come in the wake of last year's Supreme Court decision o...
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