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As Americans stretched to pay the tax man this week, California Assemblyman Charles Calderon was working on the sly to institute a new digital tax. Such a move is not only short-sighted, but also could seriously harm the state's competitiveness. It's no secret that the digital economy is a key drive...
Google has released a new version of its Google Earth application, updating it to version 4.3 by adding a more realistic, immersive set of features intended to make the virtual planet feel more like home. In addition to features like the ability to control the sun, Google Earth 4.3 also comes with a...
When UC Berkeley journalism graduate student James Karl Buck was grabbed by police in the Egyptian industrial city of Mahalla El-Kobra while photographing a noisy demonstration, he sent a one-word text message to Twitter: "Arrested." That eventually got him out of jail. His Twitter followers -- frie...
A new software application allows users to publish information from their Facebook social networking account directly to their personal blogs. Six Apart, steward of the TypePad blog publishing system, released Blog It, a software application that enables users to cross-post information on Facebook t...
A handful of Google engineers has redesigned a set of video and image analysis tools to help find missing children and combat child pornography and abuse. Their effort is now being tested by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, and it stems from anti-piracy software Google develop...
This cuts close to the heart because I truly believe this Web anonymity thing actually helps criminals more than it protects honest citizens. Microsoft has released a white paper that lays out the problem and asks for feedback on a solution -- asking our opinion first at the very least should be app...
Yahoo rolled out a limited video-sharing service for its online photo-sharing service, Flickr, which will allow its members to upload short videos and integrate them with photo sets and slide shows. The new service isn't a competitor to the likes of YouTube or other video sites that specialize in th...
Google and the UN High Commission for Refugees -- the United Nations agency responsible for tracking and caring for refugees from the world's conflicts -- unveiled a Web-based mapping tool Tuesday meant to help raise awareness of displaced populations. The tool, Google Earth Outreach, will help to h...
Google unveiled a preview version of its new hosted Web application platform, Google App Engine, late Monday. The new service is more than a simple database-style platform; rather, it provides developers of Web apps with a hosted solution upon which they can write their applications. Google App Engi...
Until recently, the closest Facebook users could get to playing Scrabble online was Scrabulous, the wildly popular application launched by two Indian brothers back in 2006. That game -- essentially a Scrabble impostor -- now attracts some 600,000 users per day, but in the last few weeks a new, offic...
A little over a year following the initial release of its Clearspace collaboration platform in February 2007, Jive Software announced the availability of the Clearspace 2.0 Monday. The newest iteration of Clearspace enables users to share information and connect with coworkers and business partners ...
At last week's Aging in America conference in Washington, attendees were greeted with multiple displays of technology aiming to help older people live better. A technological divide exists between the "oldest old" and the "recently old" baby boomers, but technologies developed for both groups may a...
Comcast is now delivering super high-speed Internet services to households in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn. -- up to 50 Mbps, significantly faster than typical low-end broadband, which comes in at 1.5 Mbps or less. The new speeds come courtesy of the company's next-generation Data Over Cable Servi...
MySpace announced Thursday a joint venture with three of the world's four largest record companies -- Sony BMG, Universal and Warner Music -- to launch a new online music service. The service will add new features to the social network's existing music portal, MySpace Music. MySpace Music will begin...
Google announced Monday it plans to take its Google Docs word processing application into unchartered territory -- offline. "We've taken another small step toward making Web applications accessible anywhere and everywhere. We're rolling out a way for you to edit documents in Google Docs even without...
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