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To mark its second birthday Monday, Meebo unveiled a surprise for its users -- applications for the Meebo platform. With the announcement, the instant messaging site joins social networks such as Facebook and MySpace that have opened up their platform to third-party developers. The first round of ap...
In the next two weeks, Google will reportedly announce its wireless plans. Google will unveil advanced software and services that enable cell phone makers to release "Google-powered" devices sometime in the first half of next year, according to a report that cited people familiar with the situation....
Vinton Cerf, known by many as one of the founding fathers of the Internet, will be stepping down at the end of this week as chairman of the board of ICANN. Cerf, who is also Google's vice president and chief Internet evangelist, has served for three consecutive terms as chairman of ICANN, which is t...
Consumers and small-office and home-office workers often buy their computers from online stores or discount warehouses. They often reject add-on support packages at checkout to keep the purchase price low. If the computer breaks within 60 or 90 days, the manufacturer will handle the repairs, they re...
Virtual Private Networks, a staple in enterprise settings, are starting to gather momentum as a way to connect remote users and branch offices securely to the networks of small and medium-sized businesses. Smaller companies are finding VPNs cheaper to operate than more costly dedicated T1 phone line...
There's been a bioterrorism attack in Chicago. You must find a way to administer medicine to roughly 3 million people in less than 48 hours. You need to set up points of dispensing, create makeshift care facilities, obtain refrigerated trucks and create morgue space -- not to mention handle crowd co...
IBM has announced improved storage virtualization offerings for disk and tape, including a new product and enhancements to its Virtualization Engine TS7520 tape solution. The goal in making the changes is to increase the efficiency of its storage virtualization products and bring cost savings to its...
Virtual private networks are common in enterprise settings as a way to connect remote users and branch offices securely to the corporate network. VPNs extend a corporation's reach to support worldwide locations. The same usefulness is gaining the attention of small and medium-sized businesses. Small...
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...
It is hard to get around the fact that smartphones are incredibly hot right now, and while the iPhone appears to be suffering from vendor-induced trauma, Research In Motion's financials were impressively good. However, the whole enterprise phone market is about to go through the most massive change ...
Microsoft on Wednesday announced that it will open up its .Net source code for developers to view, but not change. The source code will be available later this year when Visual Studio 2008 and the .Net Framework 3.5 are released to manufacturing, Scott Guthrie, a general manager in Microsoft's devel...
Time Magazine's Person of the Year for 2007 is You. To summarize their lengthy coverage of this topic, it's all "Web 2.0" technology that enables user-empowering Web tools and Web sites like Wikipedia, YouTube, MySpace, Flickr, Google Maps, Twitter, Pandora, Last.FM, Digg, and Del.icio.us. These We...
Two separate exploits involving the Apple QuickTime and the Microsoft Windows Media players could continue to plague computer users regardless of which Web browser is installed as the default on a computer system. So far, the only browser developer to announce a patch for this vulnerability is Mozil...
Computer security company FireEye announced on Monday a new strategy for fighting the worsening threat to consumers and businesses posed by botnets. The company announced its new Botwall appliance, linked to a worldwide intelligence network coupled to local botnet analysis designed to thwart attacks...
What if we told you that there was a country -- an economic powerhouse with a population the size of Austria's -- where millions of dollars change hands daily, but with no police, no extradition laws and where exchanges can happen anonymously? What if we tried to convince you that money from that na...
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