Google’s move on Wednesday to open up an online shop for third-party Google Apps add-ons, called Google Solutions Marketplace, may make more people take Web widgets more seriously–even enterprise developers.
Widgets, or gadgets, allow people to embed small applets within a Web page for things like displaying the weather …
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Capital World Investors virtually doubled down on its Yahoo holdings, giving the investment firm a 10.1 percent stake, according to its filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday.
Capital World Investors, Yahoo’s largest institutional investor, owns 135,542,600 shares of the Internet search …
Yahoo announced Thursday that it has teamed up with MLB.com, the digital arm of professional baseball’s operations, in a partnership that encompasses both video distribution and ad sales.
Considering the turmoil over at Yahoo, the three-year agreement could be either a home run or a strikeout.
On the …
(Credit: CNET)Sony has announced the details on the next PS3 firmware update–version 2.30, coming mid-April–and the big news for home theater fans is that the PS3 is getting onboard DTS-HD High Resolution and DTS-HD Master Audio decoding for Blu-ray movies. Home theater fans have long lamented that the …
While Google’s mobile phone platform, Android, and its Open Handset Alliance have been on the brink of significantly changing the mobile landscape since mid-November 2007, little has come out of the young software developer kit with its still-developing community and code.
On Thursday, Opera Labs announced a technical preview release …
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved a plan on Thursday to team up with wireless carriers for emergency text message alerts.
Cellular service providers can opt into the new system, called the Commercial Mobile Alert System (CMAS); then, their customers will receive three varieties of text message from a not-yet-specified …
It’s a little slow at this year’s RSA Conference, but there is still plenty of hoopla to go around. It’s a retro RSA in that this year’s hot topics are all oldies but goodies. The list includes:
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Updated 8:10 AM PDT with Wall Street reaction.
In rapid-fire succession Wednesday, the Microhoo buyout brawl had Yahoo throwing a one-two punch at Microsoft, with a swift comeback punch from the folks in Redmond.
And the crowd, or should I say the investors, liked what they saw. Yahoo’s …
Not content to offer just applications and search appliances to businesses, Google has launched its Solutions Marketplace, a listing site for third-party add-on products to Google Apps.
Google Solutions Marketplace, a catalog of third-party business applications.
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The marketplace allows software developers to post their applications in a catalog …
French singer Yelle is helping to usher out era of disc promos
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Sweet faced and playful, French electro-pop star Yelle seems an unlikely figure to stick a dagger into the heart of a much-loved but quickly disappearing staple of the music industry.
She is unwittingly helping The …