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Mobile Flash can't die soon enough

Somewhere Steve Jobs must be smiling. As you may have heard, Adobe last week admitted defeat in its long-running battle with Apple over Adobe's Flash technology. As Apple's CEO, the late Jobs barred Flash from Apple's iPhone ...

Technology / Software

created Nov 22, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Facebook in no rush to IPO, enter China

Facebook is in no hurry to go public or to get into China, where it is officially blocked, according to Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of the social networking giant.

Technology / Business

created Nov 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

What drives IT performance?

Going online was once a considerable achievement for a business. Now it's a given and what makes for success is how well a business exploits its online capabilities, according to a recent study.

Technology / Business

created Oct 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Web video faces big obstacles in vaulting to 3-D

Net Element wants to be ready for the day when 3-D videos on the Web are as common as cute kittens on YouTube.

Technology / Internet

created Jul 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Facebook helps itself by helping RockMelt browser

(AP) -- Facebook has updated its status to include a relationship with RockMelt, an upstart Web browser that revolves around Facebook's online hangout.

Technology / Internet

created Jun 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

China's online population rises to 477mn

The number of Internet users in China, already the world's largest online market, hit 477 million at the end of March, a senior government official was quoted by state media as saying Monday.

Technology / Internet

created May 16, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Malicious programmers focus on smartphones, tablets

Malicious programmers are always looking for new targets. While smartphones and tablets replace PCs as the gadgets we use for messaging, Web surfing and even doing business, some shady characters are starting to target these ...

Technology / Software

created May 04, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Affectiva technology taps into people's emotions

Computers may soon understand people better than their spouses do, courtesy of innovations from startup Affectiva that expand on groundbreaking sensing research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Apr 01, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

TV watchers look to Web for instant analysis, laughs

When Elena Wollborg sits down to watch television after a long day, she does so with all of her girlfriends.

Technology / Internet

created Mar 03, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A semantic sommelier: Wine application highlights the power of Web 3.0

In the restaurant of the future, you will always enjoy the perfect meal with that full-bodied 2006 cabernet sauvignon, you will always know your dinner companions' favorite merlot, and you will be able to check if the sommelier's ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Feb 23, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

New application allows scientists easy access to important government data

Government agencies around the world make billions of bits of raw data available to the public each day, but this data is often in difficult formats or so widely spread around the Web it is virtually unusable ...

Technology / Other

created Dec 10, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Wireless carriers muddy waters with '4G' marketing

The marketing world is full of vague adjectives like "new," "better" or "healthy" that don't necessarily mean much.

Technology / Telecom

created Dec 02, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Flash for phones not quite up to snuff

At long last, Adobe's Flash Player is making its way out to modern smart phones. But consumers who have been itching to get Flash content on their phones may find themselves disappointed.

Technology / Software

created Sep 24, 2010 | popularity 1.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Adobe 3Q net income soars, outlook disappoints

(AP) -- Adobe Systems Inc. posted a 69 percent jump in quarterly net income Tuesday but its shares tumbled after the software company said its revenue in the current quarter would be less than what Wall Street expected.

Technology / Business

created Sep 21, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Solving the crisis of choice online

In an age of information overload, a team of European researchers are developing technology to solve the “crisis of choice” people face when surfing the web, shopping for products online or watching TV.

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jul 12, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1