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Yahoo on Tuesday said it is planning to make four new and enhanced interfaces available to independent developers. The Web service Application Program Interfaces (APIs) are intended to enable developers to use and build on technology from Yahoo Photos, Calendar, MyWeb and Shopping. The idea is to cr...
Sun Microsystems is attempting to take the concept of pervasive computing into the mainstream with a new battery-operated platform for development of wireless sensor networks, robotics and personal consumer electronics. Dubbed Project Sun Small Programmable Object Technology, or Sun SPOT, Sun hopes ...
AOL is opening up its proprietary instant messaging platform, AIM, to outside developers to build plugins and custom communications, the company announced. It has made available an AIM Software Development Kit to build new tools for real time text, voice and video communications applications. AOL is...
Few people hold the status of "visionary" in the computer processor field, but Sun Microsystems' Marc Tremblay fits the bill. Sun fellow, vice president, and chief architect for the firm's Scalable Systems Group, Tremblay foresaw the advent of "throughput computing" and the jump in performance affor...
IT employees are starting to gain back some of the clout they had during the 1990s, as hiring in the technology field has accelerated during the last six quarters. "A key component of the technology economy is IT employment, and it's going through a major transition," Joel Dibble, a spokesman for M...
Opera Software is going smaller in order to get bigger. The Norwegian browser maker on Tuesday announced the worldwide release of Opera Mini, a full Web browser that runs on a wide variety of mobile phones, including low- and mid-end handsets. "With Opera Mini most people can start surfing the Web w...
Atari and Saber Interactive on Friday announced a closed public beta test for the upcoming first-person shooter "TimeShift." Gamers are invited to submit an application to participate in the testing. The beta test will run in multiplayer game mode. Atari's aim with the test is to get player feedback...
A former assistant to U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy joins the list of those who has a beef with the popular online, open-source encyclopedia known as Wikipedia. John Seigenthaler joins Google Watch protest site creator Daniel Brandt in his claims that their bios on Wikipedia are not accurate....
In a move that underscores the growing importance of flash memory chips as consumer electronics devices continue to shrink in size, Intel and Micron Technology announced a joint venture that will create flash chips for the likes of Apple and others. The two chip makers will contribute up to US$5.2 b...
As the time comes to make your holiday purchases, it would be a good idea to look beyond the rhetoric this year and find out which companies really are acting against your best interests -- and choose accordingly. Why is this important? Your rights are under siege, and the attacks are incredibly bro...
Network security was a big issue a decade ago. Now, ten years of technology later, it continues to be a top priority and it appears that it will be so ten years from now as well. That's because as IT security firms learn more about the tactics of hackers, crackers and malicious code writers, the lat...
Microsoft this week unveiled SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio 2005 for developers and enhanced BizTalk Server 2006, claiming the new software delivered "unprecedented integration" between server infrastructure and developer tools. The company said SQL Server 2005 and its database technology would allo...
Google announced yesterday that its Desktop 2 computer search software was out of beta with new sidebar panels, more customization and bolstered support for enterprise use. Having endured criticism over the security and manageability of its desktop search for enterprise in past iterations of the sof...
Gamers who dream of developing products for Sony's soon-to-be-released PlayStation 3 and its PlayStation Portable handheld will soon get their chance. The electronics giant will launch its latest Sony Game Yaroze! -- which means "Let's Play Games" -- on Nov. 15 and accept entries from amateur and pr...
Dell yesterday began peddling its latest PC without an operating system. The computer is designed for consumers who plan to install open-source software instead of commercial tools and platforms. Dubbed the Dimension E510n PC, the computer comes with a blank hard drive and a copy of the FreeDOS oper...
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