OnLive, which was started by WebTV founder Steve Perlman and former Eidos CEO Mike McGarvey, is aiming to launch a system-seven years in the works-that will digitally distribute first-run, AAA games from publishers like Electronic Arts, Take-Two, Ubisoft, Atari, and others, all at the same time as those titles are released into retail channels.
Tethering, Publish Video, Find my iPhone and Updated Podcast UI are some of the 80 missing features that were not demonstrated by Apple's Scott Forstall.
After years of losing market share to Firefox and other rivals, Microsoft is hoping to convince people, many of whom use old versions of Internet Explorer, to give the company a new look. Part of that marketing push is a light-hearted video on the history of the Internet that also shows off some of the new features of Internet Explorer 8, including its private browsing mode and so-called "accelerators" that let users take action without leaving the Web page they are on.
Push, cut and paste, integrated maps, and enhanced calendar synch could all help to make iPhone users more productive at work. But administrators and enterprise application developers were hoping for a couple more capabilities that did not appear, namely background processing and device management tools.
Google seems to be totally into our neighboring planet, as evidenced by the fact that only yesterday it introduced a new add-on to Google Earth 5.0, in which new images of the Red Planet were added, as well as a “Live From Mars” layer, that contains the latest images beamed back by the NASA-operated Mars Odyssey orbiter.
At next week's MIX09 conference in Las Vegas, Microsoft officials plan show off the latest and greatest technologies and products for designers and website developers. Near the top of the list will be the first public demonstration of Silverlight 3.0, Microsoft's streaming media technology.
Adobe has established itself as one of the leading forces in shaping Internet content, applications and development with technologies like Flash and PDF. While Adobe is not a full-fledged open source company today, the company argues that it is making "open" efforts for its Web technology -- and it sees active participation in the broader open source ecosystem a key way to spread its offerings.
Back in 1989, Berners-Lee was a software consultant working at the European Organization for Nuclear Research outside of Geneva, Switzerland. On March 13 of that year, he submitted a plan to management on how to better monitor the flow of research at the labs.
People were coming and going at such a clip that an increasingly frustrated Berners-Lee complained that CERN was losing track of valuable project information because of the rapid turnover of personnel. It did not help matters that the place was chockablock with incompatible computers people brought with them to the office.
The wide-ranging interview touches upon everything from Google’s origins and how it fell upon its advertising business model by accident to how search and other technologies will change society over the next twenty years.
Read MoreMozilla Corp. announced that it will dump Version 3.1 as the name of the next edition of Firefox and instead call it Version 3.5. The name change has been under discussion for several weeks, prompted in part by calls from developers who thought that the "3.1" moniker didn't properly reflect the amount of new features and changes from last June's Firefox 3.0.