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Game personalization, or soft modding, has been a hobby among hardcore gamers for at least a decade. In recent years, however, the underground pastime has been gaining popularity, so much so that the art of creating a personalized version of a video game is even being taught at summer cyber camps. I...
Adobe Systems has released the beta version of its new runtime software, Adobe Integrated Runtime -- formerly called "Apollo." The software allows Web-native applications to run just like desktop programs. The new tool and Adobe's next version of its Flex development environment -- called "Moxie" an...
MySpace competitor Facebook has introduced a new open platform that allows developers to build applications that integrate with the social networking site and can be chosen by users to appear within their Facebook profile pages. Announced Thursday by Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg -- and c...
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...
There are two main camps of software developers that dominate the world today: those that work primarily in a Microsoft .Net framework and those that work primarily in a J2EE framework. However, even this one-two punch of heavy-hitting frameworks comes with a caveat: "One of the things that has beco...
Microsoft released last week details about its SecPAL project to encourage collaboration from the grid computing community on methods for greater security and access controls. Microsoft developed SecPAL, or Security Policy Assertion Language, as a research project to develop a language for expressin...
Software programmers, developers, analysts, engineers and architects are facing an ever-widening range of job roles and expectations. Organizations worldwide are asking more of these professionals, in ways rarely seen only a decade ago. "One of the things I've seen over the last three years is a dec...
Word that the price of the so-called $100 laptop will now be upwards of $175 per unit is not sitting well with long-time observers of the One Laptop Per Child program, who fear the numbers might mean the initiative is in trouble. Reacting to reports that OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte now figures ...
I've been spending a lot of time talking to folks who want to try the Dell Linux solution. I'm getting the sense that we have all been looking at Linux on the desktop wrong, and that products like Linspire are simply wrongheaded. Speaking of wrongheaded, last week, Research In Motion may have actual...
Adobe launched its Creative Suite 3 line of products Tuesday. The six new integrated Web design and content creation software packages are the first to leverage tools and technologies the company gained with its $3.4 billion acquisition of Macromedia in 2005. With its six all-news suites and 13 stan...
A coalition of major technology users and vendors organized by the SANS Institute announced Monday what it called a first-of-its-kind testing and certification program for software programmers. The new examinations are designed to enable reliable measurements of technical proficiency and expertise i...
Adobe released its cross-operating run-time system for Web developers on Monday. The development system, available from Adobe Labs, is currently in the first public alpha version. Code-named "Apollo," the technology enables Web developers to create and deploy rich Internet applications on the deskto...
Following a beta-test process involving half a million photographers, Adobe Systems on Monday released Photoshop Lightroom 1.0. Aimed primarily at professional photographers, Photoshop Lightroom is a software tool that allows users to import, manage and present large volumes of digital photographs.
There is a secret battle raging within your enterprise and in your home: control of electronic data. It's being waged by the world's largest IT vendors and global entertainment giants. The outcome of this battle will have an impact on you, your company and your use of digital content and information...
In the coming weeks, the $100 laptop developed by the One Laptop Per Child foundation will go into wide-scale production. From there, the laptops will be sent by the thousands to emerging economies in Africa, South Asia and South America. Meanwhile, in the United States, PC makers, private foundatio...
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