Web Apps

There have been a number of attempts to size the cloud computing market. The most eye-popping figure, arguably, is from Merrill Lynch. It has famously said that by 2011, the cloud computing market will reach $160 billion. Whether or not this is a realistic projection -- and there are many who conten...

Yahoo has rolled out a platform for third-party developers to build applications and widgets for its portal. Called "Y!OS," it is part of Yahoo's larger Open Strategy -- a go-to-market approach the company unveiled earlier this year with the goal of becoming a more inclusive -- and more trafficked -...

Pity the Patent and Trademark Office examining attorney who gave Dell the green light propelling its trademark application for the term "cloud computing" toward the home stretch this summer. That particular individual was obviously unaware that the phrase had become, over the course of a year, one...

LinkedIn has added a bundle of new productivity tools to its network. The goal of the nine apps -- all built on the LinkedIn Intelligent Applications, or InApps, platform -- is to facilitate file-sharing, scheduling and other business-oriented activities. Applications from Amazon, Box.net, Google, H...

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Getting Your Site to Play Well With All Browsers

A customer is visiting your e-commerce Web site. She's decided to do more online shopping this holiday season to save on gasoline and find the lowest prices. She's using a Mac running Safari, but your site is optimized for Internet Explorer 7 and your development budget is mainly focused on preparin...

In an era when people routinely deliver life-changing news via text and e-mail -- "I want a divorce," "I'm pregnant," "You're fired" -- it is perhaps inevitable that a service offering to automate and anonymize a personal, painful message is gaining traction. inSpot, a peer-to-peer, Web-based syste...

Opera launched the second beta of its Mobile 9.5 Web browser Monday. The release includes Opera's new Widget feature, which provides one-click Web content access, according to the company. It's only the second 9.5 beta for Windows Mobile phones and the first to add support for UIQ-based handsets. In...

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Building a Better Password

Two weeks ago, Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin discovered that a hacker had gained access to her personal e-mail account and posted some of its contents -- both letters and photos -- on a Web site viewable by the public. The incident underscores the importance for anyone with secure...

Amazon pioneered the magic in e-commerce by allowing people to shop for books and music online. Its latest business moves, however, have involved building an infrastructure that allows companies to weave their own Internet spells for customers via online storage, Web services and cloud computing. Th...

IBM is applying a common research model, collaboration between academia and the private sector, to the social media tech space. The IBM Center for Social Software is the first instance of a tech company establishing a center around these very popular emerging -- but still consumer-focused -- technol...

Google's newly released Chrome browser is facing a backlash over its data collection and privacy practices. The company has already revised its end user license agreement following widespread concerns. Now, new worries are being raised about the browser's all-purpose Omnibox and how closely Google m...

Google is getting into the browser game with its first beta release of Chrome. The long-rumored open source project is scheduled to become available to users in 100 countries Tuesday, starting a new battle for loyalty within the Internet Explorer and Firefox user bases. Chrome boasts a slew of featu...

What should photo imaging software giant Adobe be focusing on in a Web 2.0 world? Judging from some new products, it's not just taking on the likes of Apple's iPhoto and Aperture; it's learning to work and play well with social networks like Facebook and digital media storage Web sites such as Flick...

Microsoft on Wednesday launched a new technology and service called "Photosynth." The system, currently available to users through a Web site, uses multiple snapshots of a scene to create a seemingly 3-D representation. Careful using it, though -- any image "synthed" by users on the site become view...

Information technology plays a vital role in today's business environment. Well-designed and developed applications are a key element for success -- particularly for organizations that rely on the Web and intranet for conducting business with customers and communicating with partners and employees.

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