In a whale-sized project, the world's scientists plan to compile everything they know about all of Earth's 1.8 million known species and put it all on one Web site, open to everyone.
"It's an interactive zoo," said James Edwards, who will be the encyclopedia's executive director. Edwards currently helps to run a global biodiversity information system.
Read MoreThe popular "Speed Dial' feature in Opera has been brought to Firefox by a developer that launched the Firefox Speed Dial extension. It provides you with screenshots for up to 9 websites when you load the browser.
The new version of Google Analytics was unveiled at the Emetrics Summit event in San Francisco. The software is used by businesses and website owners for finding and sharing data they need to make informed decisions.
Read MoreDell has become the first major player to the alliance between the patent-protected and open source OS developers inked last November. Dell will now buy SLES coupons from Microsoft and establish a services and marketing program to migrate existing business Linux users to SuSE.
Read MoreMatt MacLean has released an Alpha version of an ActionScript 3 library that connects and communicates directly with MySQL.
Read MoreJavaFX, is Sun's latest attempt for offer a friendlier way of writing Java applications for consumer devices, and the next generation of Web applications.
Read MoreHotmail will launch a new version of its popular e-mail system today that provides more storage and improved connectivity to Messenger.
Read MoreSince Adobe has released the new Dreamweaver CS3, everybody is wondering will the DMXzone extensions be compatible with the latest version of the software.
The answer is YES - all our existing commercial extensions will work with Dreamweaver CS3. We've worked hard together with the Adobe Dreamweaver team during the beta cycle and we've created a list of extensions that are already 100% compatible, during the coming week this list will be expanded so stay tuned! All compatibility updates will be free for the existing customers.
Miguel de Icaze, a Novell vice president and head of Mono, promises a Linux version of Silverlight by the end of year. Mono is an open-source implementation of portions of Microsoft's .Net Framework for building cross-platform applications.
Read MoreMicrosoft is working for a "compatible with IE 8.0" scheme, full standards compliance and backward compatibility. The software giant is preparing to invite community feedback via a blog on how best to square this circle.
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