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Net Effect on Journalism: More Outlets, Fewer Insights

Traditional advertising business models may not sustain the news business as companies -- and independent bloggers -- seek out niche markets, found a study conducted by the Project for Excellence in Journalism ...

Live From SXSW: More Zuckerberg, Less Lacy

After a tumultuous weekend filled with mobile social network culture clashing with panel discussions and keynotes, the discourse at the South by Southwest Interactive Conference and Festival (SXSW) returned to civility as attendees' attention returned to the variety of platforms available for content creation, distribution and monetization ...

Live From SXSW: Pop Culture and Social Media Collide

The South by Southwest Interactive Conference and Festival (SWSXi) kicked off last weekend as roughly 9,000 Web designers, Web developers, academics, bloggers and social media participants gathered for the five-day event ...

Live From SXSW: Zuckerberg Keynote Crumbles Into Chaos

Don't mess with mobile social networks ...

Microsoft Loosens Fist With New, Open IE8

Last December, Microsoft's Windows Internet Explorer group announced that Internet Explorer 8, the next iteration of its Web browser, would be standards compliant, interoperable and backward compatible when it's released in the second half of 2008 ...

Volunteer Computing and the Search for Big Answers

The Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California at Berkeley is nestled into the Berkeley Hills just off the fire trail where runners from around the area come to take on the brutal 3.5 mile climb. The lab, though, doesn't feel like it's part of Berkeley. It's located a few miles from the iconic Sproul Hall and People's Park, Berkeley institutions that were home to numerous student rebellions during the '60s. It's easy to miss, removed as it is from the school's infrastructure, which dominates much of downtown Berkeley...

Microsoft Cuts Inroads Into SaaS Market With Hosted Apps for SMBs

Taking aim at Google, Microsoft is making its Internet-hosted software application services available to businesses of all sizes ...

XM Grows Revenues, Pushes for Sirius Merger

XM Satellite Radio Holdings announced double-digit growth in revenues and its subscriber base despite Congressional foot-dragging in regard to its potential merger with rival Sirius Satellite Radio ...

New MS Tracking Tool Measures Online Ad Effectiveness

Microsoft announced a soft beta test for software that will potentially give companies a more comprehensive view of how users interact with advertisements ...

Adobe AIR Shifts Apps From Web To Desktop

Adobe Systems on Monday released Adobe Integrated Runtime, a software tool that allows users to seamlessly interact with interactive content even when they aren't connected to the Internet ...

Security Wonks Warn of DRAM Decryption Danger

A new study suggests that dynamic memory on computers stores encrypted, secure data longer than originally thought ...

Microsoft Opens Xbox Live to Homegrown Games

Microsoft will soon launch its Xbox Live Community Arcade service, which will allow anyone to create -- and distribute -- console games for the Xbox system ...

New Tech May Lead to Mind-Control Game Play

Emotiv Systems unveiled a new gaming headset that uses thoughts and movement to control on-screen character movements ...

IBM’s New 3-D Game Challenges Students to Save a Dying Planet

IBM on Thursday unveiled a multiplayer 3-D virtual world and companion classroom materials designed to promote science and engineering education in high schools ...

Busy Patch Tuesday Piles Work on Sysadmins

Microsoft released 11 security updates to patch 17 vulnerabilities on Tuesday, by far its largest release in a year ...

New HP Blade Server Gives Unix Shops More Options

HP released its first mid-level Unix-based blade server, which will allow companies to more cost-efficiently consolidate their legacy systems ...

Time Warner Ponders AOL Breakup

Amid solid earnings that hit analysts' marks, Time Warner announced on Wednesday that it would radically restructure -- and possibly sell part of -- its AOL Internet service provider division, ending a tumultuous experiment between the old and new media stalwarts ...

New Chip Uses 10 Times Less Power

A partnership between Texas Instruments and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has produced a proof-of-concept microchip architecture that is 10 times more efficient than current technologies ...

Bubble-Era Mag Industry Standard Rises Again

The Industry Standard, one of the dot-com era's most prominent magazines, relaunched on Monday as a Web-only, community-driven Web site ...

$4.7B Wireless Spectrum Bid Triggers Open Network Mandate

The Federal Communications Commission received a US$4.7 billion bid for Block C, a swatch of spectrum being auctioned that is mandated to operate as a national wireless network that works with any mobile device ...

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