Microsoft will launch a campaign to let users and IT managers evaluate whether their current systems are 'ready' for the long-awaited Windows Vista 'Longhorn' rev. The new OS will reportedly require gigabit processor speeds and at least a gig of memory to function effectively.

Fox Interactive Media (FIM) has announced it has completed two acquisitions of innovative early stage companies, Newroo Inc. and kSolo.com. 'Fox Interactive Media's acquisitions of Newroo and kSolo demonstrate our commitment to empowering users with interesting ...

inclue! released an application which it believes to be HyperViral for bloggers. inclue! believes its application may spread blogs faster than any technology before.inclue! delivers blogs, web sites and video clips using RSS and e-mail with a simple one button program for users.

Pluck Corporation, a social media technology pioneer, has announced that several major newspapers, including The San Francisco Chronicle, The Houston Chronicle, The San Antonio Express-News and the Austin American-Statesman, began syndicating and displaying high...

Plaxo, creator of the smart address book, has agreed to acquire innovative start-up HipCal, developer of an award-winning online calendar service. The acquisition will strengthen Plaxo's calendar platform, and extend the company's business model with new revenue-generating offerings.

DesignApps, a provider of hosted Website Management technology and services, announces that web developers and eMarketers can sign up for their own free promotional account of WebProActive 3.0. WebProActive is DesignApps? response to the growing demand for a flexi...

CommunityTraveler.com is a free independent travel community powered by the community for the community. Passionate independent travelers share their real world travel experiences, advice, tips and stories through their own travel blogs and guides on CommunityTrav...

Sybase has announced that its Mirror Activator is now available for Oracle database environments. Mirror Activator enables organizations to reduce failover time, and restore data availability in seconds (versus hours with other solutions) with no data loss in the ...

Zimbra has been named one of Gartner's 'Cool Vendors for Web 2.0, 2006' in a March 14, 2006 research report by Rita E. Knox, Whit Andrews, Tom Austin, Nikos Drakos, David Mitchell Smith, Ray Valdes and Matthew W. Cain of Gartner.

As part of a new Intel initiative, company President and CEO Paul Otellini visited Mexico to introduce what he called 'a new fully-featured, high-quality, low-cost desktop PC platform available to first time computer users.' The new PC design has an easy-to-use ...

'We are moving toward a day when most of our enterprise applications may be delivered as services, and thus provide a more economical way to approach information technology management with businesses going forward,' says David Linthicum, who will lead a session ...

2.0Websites.com features the ability to rate and comment about websites, lets users register, create their own personal favorites list, to come back to, lets users suggest categories, allows searching for specifics in listings

Canoo has announced that a new major release of WebTest is available for download. WebTest is a free open source tool for automated testing of web applications.

Riya leverages potent facial and text recognition technology with an intelligent interface to help people make sense of the thousands of untitled and untagged photos that are building up on their hard drives (and on the web.

Bokee, a blog hosting company in China, will localize and distribute Movable Type, Six Apart's web publishing platform, to Chinese businesses and educational institutions.It will make it easy for Chinese businesses to communicate with their customers and for emplo...

Derek Organ, CEO of Jeebers has launched the official news and support blog for 1time,a web-based time and expense tracking application that allows companies to easily keep track of real time project costs.

Foldera said it will launch on April 15, Web-application suite with web 2.0 technology for e-mail, calendaring, instant messaging, document storage, versioning and tasks.

Deep Focus, a digital agency to film studios, reached an agreement with YouTube to promote its studio clients' trailers on the breakaway video portal. The first trailer promoted under the deal, for Dimension Films' 'Scary Movie 4,' was added to YouTube's 'feature...

Netvibes, a web 2.0 company, announced it has received seed funding from a group of high-profile investors including leading European venture fund Index Ventures; Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape; Pierre Chappaz,founder of Kelkoo and Wikio; and Martin Var...

Accipiter Solutions, an online advertising technology innovator announced the company has signed Photobucket,an image hosting provider that will use its AdManager solution to serve ads across non-traditional mediums such as photocasts, mobile ad platforms, and advergaming technology.

EchoSign launched the first Web 2.0 service that completely automates the process of signing, tracking and archiving agreements. EchoSign dramatically reduces the cost and complexity of managing signed documents and contracts for small, medium and large businesses...

BBC will work closely with tech giants such as Microsoft and Apple as well as distibution players such as ntl and HomeChoice as it looks to revamp its website and deliver programmes online.

At the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, Laszlo Systems today announced the planned extension of its advanced Ajax application development platform, OpenLaszlo, to support the delivery of applications in browsers with or without a Flash plug-in. By the end...

Ektron, an innovator in Web content management software, announced the company introduced a new Ektron Partner Program for Web design and development firms, interactive agencies and systems integrators delivering interactive Web sites.

Oak Pacific Interactive (Oak Pacific), a Chinese Internet company formerly known as ChinaInterActiveCorp, announced that it has closed a new round of financing of $48 million from a group of leading global private equity and venture capital firms led by General Atlantic LLC (GA).

We have a long way to go before the next generation of the Web truly arrives. Years and years. As commentator Shel Israel has said: 'Web 2.0 isn't dead. It's just barely being born.' In line with its commitment to keep developers, IT managers, and vendors alike ah...

SYS-CON Publishing Director Jeremy Geelan moderated a Power Panel devoted to AJAX and Web 2.0 in a recent taping for SYS-CON.TV at the Reuters Studio overlooking New York's Times Square. Geelan's guests included Web 2.0 gurus Dion Hinchcliffe and Thad Scheer, vent...

Sybase Chairman, CEO, and President John S. Chen recently granted a pair of exclusive interviews to SYS-CON.TV, during which he held forth about the past, present, and future of Sybase, the software industry, and the complex challenge of understanding China. SYS-C...