Google, IBM, Microsoft, Yahoo and Verisign have all become the OpenID Foundation's first corporate board members, giving a push to the seven-month-old group's ideas about portable web identities or OpenIDs and how personal information is shared online, something t...

Live by the Web, die by the Web - we look at what the blogosphere is saying about Microsoft's $44.6BN offer. Among blogs mentioned are those by David Kirkpatrick, Patty Seybold, Mark Anderson, Jon Fortt, and Marc Andreesen.

OpSource announced that Nets to Ladders (N2L) has selected OpSource On-Demand to deliver its groundbreaking Benefits Enrollment Network (BENtm). By delivering this innovative Web application with OpSource, N2L has gained the critical reliability and security it ne...

Vitria Technology has announced a Web 2.0 BPM suite that enables business users to model, manage, monitor, and optimize their business processes - Vitria's M3O. Business analysts can model and execute business processes in a Web-based environment in direct collabo...

'We are committed to lowering the barrier to entry for developers around the world to build a more collaborative and dynamic Internet,' said Chris DeWolfe, CEO and co-founder of MySpace, 'while empowering our members to take control of their online presence in new...

After a process of careful evaluation, eZ Publish from eZ Systems was selected to help the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Controller's Office meet its primary objectives - to provide easy-to-find, relevant information for the MIT user community, and to offe...

OpSource announced that LitSoft has chosen OpSource On-Demand to deliver LitScope, the electronic discovery industry's first Web 2.0 electronically stored information (ESI) review platform. LitScope will enable LitSoft's law firm and corporate clients to use any m...

Amazon's DRM-free MP3 digital music store is going inernational. That, according to Bill Carr, Amazon.com Vice President of Digital Music, is the plan for 2008. 'We have received thousands of e-mails from Amazon customers around the world asking us when we will m...

The New York Post has done it again. Its report on Thursday that Microsoft is once more contemplating a potential acquisition of Yahoo! has set the industry on fire with rumors, views, and counterviews. Here we bring you a round-up of what's being said and written.

Fueled by the explosive growth in digital media and user generated content, the demand for storage has increased exponentially, placing significant stress on current 'in house' storage architectures and costly overcapacity build-outs. Factoring in time-to-market p...

EMC announced its newest distributed document capture solution that offers dramatic advances in Web-based distributed capture?EMC Captiva eInput 2.0. Key to streamlining paper-based transactional processes, eInput 2.0 makes the scanning and indexing of paper docum...

The recent popularity of social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Bebo are costing UK corporations close to £6.5 billion annually in lost productivity, according to a poll conducted by Information security consultancy - Global Secure Systems (GSS) and...

Incansoft announced the release of its latest web application, WEB 2.0 Video Gadgets. Based on the YouTube Developer API and built in PHP and AJAX, Video Gadgets is designed to allow web site owners to seamlessly integrate targeted video from youtube.com for enhan...

The Web needs fixing. The standards and recommendations that define the Web were last revised in 1999. Since then, the Web has grown from a document retrieval system into an application delivery system. We have made significant progress since then, due to the cl...

Wedding retail specialist Truly Wedding has changed the way retailers engage customers by launching two new websites that harness the latest web 2.0 technology and marketing techniques. The websites are exceptionally user friendly, plug-in to the popularity of soc...

Nexaweb Technologies, Inc. announced it has been selected for the annual Editors' Choice Award from CMP's Intelligent Enterprise. The 2008 award was bestowed upon a list of 48 companies that provide exceptional vision, technology innovation and customer leadership...

Google's new-year special logo, which went live briefly as 2008 began, celebrated the 25th anniversary of TCP/IP - adopted by Arpanet on January 1st, 1983. While 'invisible' to most users, many of the layers built on top of TCP/IP are well-known even to laymen: HT...

IBM today announced it has acquired XIV, a privately held storage technology company based in Tel Aviv, Israel. XIV, its technologies and employees, will become part of the IBM System Storage business unit of the IBM Systems and Technology Group. Financial terms o...

Nimsoft, Inc. unveiled the NimBUS Enterprise Console '2.0,' a powerful online portal. It incorporates the next generation of intuitive dashboards built using Rich Internet Application technology that delivers dynamic views to help users track the health of their technology environment.

Phurnace Software, Inc. announced the general availability of its newest version, Phurnace Deliver 3.1. The latest software version provides IT operations staff with the resources they need to decrease deployment times and associated costs for faster, more cohesiv...

Tvtrip.com, the new, travel site where travelers get to check-out their hotel on video before they book it, announced today two major steps in its expansion. The site now offers 4 key destinations in the US (New York, San Franscisco, Chicago and Miami) and plans o...

Day Software has expanded its presence in the social media and open source markets with the acquisition of the founders and key innovators of Mindquarry, an open source collaborative software platform provider. Alexander Klimetschek, Alexander Saar and Lars Trie...

Sybase, Inc. announced Sybase WorkSpace 2.0, an integrated design and development environment combining enterprise modeling, database development, data federation, Web application development and services development and orchestration in an Eclipse, open-source ...

'This is a fantastic release that's absolutely stuffed with great new features, loads of fixes, and an incredible amount of polish,' gushed David Heinemeier Hansson on Friday as he announced the release, after a year's hard work by the Rails development team, of R...

In a partnership with Yahoo! and Research In Motion, the Canadian company behind the BlackBerry, JetBlue is equipping one of its Airbus A320s with a special version of WiFi that's compliant with the FCC ban on in-flight cellular communications. The result is that ...

ShoppingVale today announced the launch of its Web 2.0 Shopping Comparison Engine shoppingvale.com. Launched as a private beta in October 2007, ShoppingVale provides shoppers unbiased, unfiltered and immediate access to a variety of leading and emerging online retailers.

Extentech Inc. launched ExtenXLS 6.0 - the next version of the popular Java Spreadsheet SDK with the ability to automate functions in a spreadsheet application with an advanced Web2.0 API. In addition to spreadsheet handling available in Java, developers can now t...

JanRain announced support for OpenID 2.0. The latest version of OpenID assures its position as the dominant standard for next-generation digital identity. With new features that improve security and usability of OpenID, the user-centric single sign-on and online u...

MX Logic, Inc. released cyber threat and managed services predictions that will impact small, medium and large businesses in 2008. 'In 2007, cyber criminals have firmly established their intentions to focus on Web 2.0 applications. This trend, coupled with the inc...

ArgentVive plc announced that its Retail8 Consumer Division has entered into a development agreement with Redberry Digital Ltd. The venture will advance the Company's newly launched search tool BookRabbit, into a new book buying and social network hybrid that will...

Alfresco Software, Inc. announced an open source Social Computing Platform for the enterprise. The release integrates Alfresco's popular ECM software with leading Web 2.0 tools and services such as Facebook, iGoogle, Adobe Flex, MediaWiki, TypePad and WordPress.

Alfresco Software, Inc. announced the launch of Alfresco Enterprise Google Gadgets for ECM, which lets business users manage, create and edit enterprise content with traditional enterprise control from within their iGoogle homepage, and combine internal and extern...

A Bangalore start-up named InstaColl, co-founded, chaired and underwritten by Sabeer Bhatia, who did HotMail, which Microsoft bought in 1997 for a reported $400 million, has launched into the Office business sorta like Google, Zoho, Adobe et al with some hybrid on...

'We are pleased that Estonia and Estonian entrepreneurs - through Enterprise Estonia - have chosen San Jose as their West Coast landing pad to establish strong relationships with other top global technology companies here in the Silicon Valley,' said San Jose Mayo...

We believe this is a great opportunity,' said Andrew Paulson, CEO of international media company SUP, as it was announced today that Six Apart - which acquired LiveJournal in January 2005 from its founder, Brad Fitzpatrick - has sold LJ to Moscow-based SUP. SUP ha...

Internet Evolution (http: //www.internetevolution.c om/) announced that it has added a completely original Web interface designed to help users browse the plethora of opinion stored in its ThinkerNet blogosphere. Called 'The Wisdom of Clouds,' the graphical user int...

Jack Martin today announced Collaborative Democracy, which is a political framework where electors and the elected actively collaborate to attain the best possible solution to any situation using collaborative enabling technologies to facilitate wide scale citizen...

WaveMaker announced its new WaveMaker Visual Assembly StudioTM and Rapid Deployment Framework for Enterprise Web 2.0 applications. WaveMaker enables the visual assembly of scalable Web applications using AJAX widgets, Web services and databases. Using WaveMaker, F...

'The GigaSpaces XAP software allows programmers to build an application in a way that as demand grows, it can easily be met with zero architecture or code changes. You just throw in another box into your infrastructure and it scales linearly,' said Geva Perry, chi...

A new FSBO website has been designed to streamline browsing experience to help potential home buyers and sellers with their process. Fizber.com Web 2.0 services include Drive Score, Bike Score, Street View, Climate Watch, Fizber Video, integrated Google Maps, City Profiles and Blogs.