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Leading scientific institutions from around the world have collaborated on one the largest Web projects to date: a global effort to document all 1.8 million named species of plants and animals on Earth in a free online resource called "Encyclopedia of Life." Similar to Wikipedia, the Encyclopedia of...
For most newspapers, there's a clear line of demarcation between their print and Web operations. Although that line gets fuzzier and fuzzier every day, nowhere has it gotten fuzzier than at BostonNow, a free newspaper handed out around Boston to some 85,000 commuters five days a week. It publishes b...
Nearly half of American adults have a "distant or nonexistent relationship" with information and communication technology such as the Internet, mobile phones and other gadgets, according to a new report by the Pew Internet Project. The study examined the sort of technology used by adults, how they u...
After more than two years of testing, Microsoft is launching Windows Live Hotmail, the successor to MSN Hotmail, making it available in 36 languages across the world. The software giant has closed the public testing period and has started the process of migrating users to this major upgrade of its W...
Cable providers keep piling on the goodies in their quest to sell TV. Comcast's newest enticement is a Web-based dashboard that will allow its triple play customers to easily manage their communication tasks. The new service will be called the "SmartZone" communications center, said Comcast, the nat...
More than half of "Second Life" users are from Europe, according to a study announced Friday that analyzed active users of the virtual online world. A full 61 percent of the 1.3 million users who ran the official "Second Life" software and logged in in March were based in Europe, compared with 19 pe...
Yahoo Photos' days were numbered once Yahoo purchased Web-based digital photo storage site Flickr in 2005. Now, Yahoo Photos' number has come up. Yahoo has decided to close the increasingly unpopular Yahoo Photos this summer, and it is urging users to transfer their pictures to Flickr. Yahoo said it...
On the surface, the recent brouhaha with Digg and the HD DVD encryption key posted on the site seems to be about cracking the code to let people copy movies. While most people may think digital rights management is a pain in the butt and a waste of time in the effort to fight illegal copying for com...
A virtual equivalent of fisticuffs has broken out online, and this time it's between a frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination and a once-ardent supporter. Joe Anthony, a Los Angeles paralegal who set up an unofficial MySpace page for Senator Barack Obama in 2004, has been pushed out ...
Yahoo has introduced a new version of its popular Yahoo Messenger instant messaging service that eliminates the need to download and install software. Still in the beta phase, the new "Yahoo Messenger for the Web" is browser-based. That means Yahoo Messenger users can log in to chat on any computer ...
Ask any journalist today how the Internet has changed journalism, and the most likely reply will be, "how hasn't it?" "The question is so basic now, it's like asking how the telephone changed the world," Sreenath Sreenivasan, associate professor of professional practice at the Columbia University Sc...
The rules of the road were fairly clear to Kevin Rose, founder of Digg, until this week. Users generally were given free rein, except when they violated the site's terms of use -- for example, by linking to porn or racial hate sites, or to illegal downloads. Recent events have thrown Rose off his st...
First there was the search engine -- think Lycos in 1996. Then came the Web portal -- think Yahoo in 2000. Most recently, the Internet has been dominated by social networking -- think MySpace in 2006. In an effort to bring all three types of popular consumer-facing sites together, Google has launche...
The use of power lines as a medium for communication services has been widely discussed for many years. Similar to the characteristics that led to the development of DSL, the use of surplus frequency space on power lines for communication is a simple concept that has been difficult to implement. How...
Mattel, maker of the iconic Barbie doll, announced Thursday that Barbie will go online with BarbieGirls, a new virtual world. The site offers the opportunities to create a virtual character, play games and chat with other girls. The toy company also plans to release the "Barbie Girls" device, a doll...
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