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Adobe Intros Apollo Development Apps
Adobe’s Apollo, currently in alpha, is designed to make the development and use of rich Internet applications — Web applications that have the interactivity of desktop apps — quicker and easier. Much ...
Can Nintendo’s Mii Concept Kill MySpace?
March 9, 2007 12:34PM Digg It! Bookmark to del.icio.us Nintendo legend Shigeru Miyamoto says the company plans to move the Mii concept forward with a new Wii channel that will enable Nintendophiles ...
MySpace Age Verification Bill Proposed
March 8, 2007 12:46PM Under the MySpace age-verification bill spearheaded by Connecticut State Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, social-networking sites that fail to verify ages and fail to obtain parental permission to post ...
BitTorrent Launches Media Marketplace
BitTorrent was founded in 2004 with a “file-swarming” technology that allows users to download large files quickly without burdening the originating server. Maintaining that digital-distribution model, the BitTorrent Entertainment Network is launching ...
Google Opens Gmail Service to Everyone
February 15, 2007 9:31AM Digg It! Bookmark to del.cio.us Gmail was invitation-only when it launched in April 2004, when Google had hoped to spread the word about Gmail through a viral-marketing strategy ...
Intel Shows Off New 80-Core Processor
Intel’s new 80-core chip is a working prototype that the company says can process some 1.8 trillion operations per second. Intel first unveiled its terascale chip project in September 2006 at the ...
New York Mulls iPod Ban on City Streets
New York Senator Carl Kruger’s proposal to ban gadget use on the streets of major New York cities is based on the notion that he calls “iPod oblivion,” which Kruger says leads ...
Bill Gates Attacks Mac Security, Apple Ads
In an interview, Bill Gates has rejected the view of the PC, or PC users as he puts it, portrayed in Apple’s “Get a Mac” campaign. When asked whether he was “bugged” ...
Apple: Don’t Upgrade to Vista Just Yet
February 5, 2007 9:32AM Digg It! Bookmark to del.cio.us Apple is offering some advice it hopes will improve the experience for customers who do decide to upgrade from Windwos XP to Windows ...
The I.T. Burden of Software as Service
Suppose your company has a payroll of 5,000 or more employees divided into 10 departments and each department uses between four and 10 SaaS applications. I.T. is dealing with, at the low ...