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by Tom Krazit, CNET
Google is ready to start talking about its answer to demand for real-time--yet organized--Internet communication.
by Erica Naone, MIT Technology Review
Software developed by rPath makes it easier to port applications to the cloud.
by Daniel Terdiman, CNET
If you want to consider a difficult computational problem, try thinking of the algorithms required to animate more than 10,000 helium balloons, each with its own string, but each also interdependent on the rest, which are collectively hoisting aloft a small house.
by Kate Greene, MIT Technology Review
The company hopes to carve out a niche with its touch-based interface.
by David Talbot, MIT Technology Review
IBM's Watson will showcase the latest tricks in natural-language processing.
by Rafe Needleman, CNET
At its core, Vine is based on a new Microsoft platform for routing communications between different systems. The platform is built to know the various ways there are to reach anyone using it, and it tries multiple methods until it gets its message through.
by John Markoff, New York Times
Today, artificial intelligence, once the preserve of science fiction writers and eccentric computer prodigies, is back in fashion and getting serious attention from NASA and from Silicon Valley companies like Google as well as a new round of start-ups that are designing everything from next-generation search engines to machines that listen or that are capable of walking around in the world. A.I.’s new respectability is turning the spotlight back on the question of where the technology might be heading and, more ominously, perhaps, whether computer intelligence will surpass our own, and how quickly.
by Erica Naone, MIT Technology Review
Ksplice uses new technology to build security updates for Linux that can be installed without restarting.
by Dan Nystedt, IDG News Service
by Tom Krazit, CNET
Yahoo's future vision of search revolves around structured data.
by Brad Stone, New York Times
Turning itself into a kind of electronic vanity publisher, Scribd, an Internet start-up here, will introduce on Monday a way for anyone to upload a document to the Web and charge for it.
by Jason Kincaid, TechCrunch
by Priya Ganapati, Wired
Google’s mobile operating system, Android, has been confined to cellphones so far. But consumer electronics makers are looking to make the new OS part of other gadgets too, such as netbooks, digital photo frames and e-book readers.
by Erica Naone, MIT Technology Review
by Priya Ganapati, Wired
by Priya Ganapati, Wired
Mary Lou Jepsen is a tech necromancer who battled the odds to conjure up a product that most experts said couldn’t be built: a $100 laptop (give or take a few twenties). Now she’s back, with plans for low-cost, low-power, super-readable, LCD-based screens that will go into everything from e-book readers to netbooks and computers.
by Caroline McCarthy, CNET
by Steven Levy, Wired
The product of four years of development, Alpha is an engine for answers. Its ambition is to delve into “all the knowledge in the world,” Wolfram says, to find and calculate information. Though Alpha’s interface evokes Google ― whose co-founder Sergey Brin once spent a summer interning for Wolfram ― it’s more like the anti-Google.
by Steven Musil, CNET
The Wall Street Journal is expected to begin charging nonsubscribers micropayments for access to individual articles, according to a report Sunday in The Financial Times.
by Miguel Helft, New York Times
by Eric Pfanner, New York Times
by Anne Eisenberg, New York Times
by Kate Greene, MIT Technology Review
An advanced web-based editing tool is connecting to sites across the internet.
by Mats Lewan, CNET
by Erica Naone, MIT Technology Review
Researchers find a way to identify individuals in supposedly anonymous social-network data.
by Caroline McCarthy, CNET
by e! Science News
A new approach to analyzing social networks, reported in the current issue of the International Journal of Services Sciences, could help homeland security find the covert connections between the people behind terrorist attacks
by Kate Greene, MIT Technology Review
A startup hopes to make it easier to hop between cloud-computing services.
by Donald G. McNeil Jr., New York Times
The best way to track the spread of swine flu across the United States in the coming weeks may be to imagine it riding a dollar bill.
by Andrew Johnson, The Independent
The biggest internet revolution for a generation will be unveiled this month with the launch of software that will understand questions and give specific, tailored answers in a way that the web has never managed before.
by Jan Hoffman, New York Times
by Christopher Mims, MIT Technology Review
New technology offloads processing from a mobile device to its cloud-based doppelganger.
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