Bye bye browser?
Blog What’s the future of the web? On one side there’s Flash and Silverlight and the rich internet applications world, which is working on ways of taking the web outside the browser and onto the... [06 Nov 2009]
Google delivers search tool for online stores
News Commerce Search, hosted in Google's cloud, is designed for online retail sites and provides features such as customisable results and display [06 Nov 2009]
Google releases Dashboard stored data service
News Service that lets users maintain their personal data stored across all Google products is launched [05 Nov 2009]
RT @jacobian The power of “no”
Blog Can you retweet a blog post emanating from a tweet? On the day that Radio 4 hails the mighty Twitter onto the world political stage, I think anything is admissible ;) Jacob Kaplan-Moss made a... [04 Nov 2009]
Open University prepares to embrace the cloud
News The university is in talks with Microsoft and Google about cloud-computing services for students and staff [04 Nov 2009]
Yahoo open-sources app for speeding up websites
News The company has released the source code underlying its Traffic Server software, which helps boost the speed of website operations [03 Nov 2009]
Chrome 4.0 gets beta release
News Google puts out a Windows test version of its next browser, with bookmark sync and other new features, and promises to make a Mac beta a priority [03 Nov 2009]
Google opens up Wave federation
News Wave servers created by outside developers can now communicate with each other through Google's servers, opening up new interoperability possibilities for Wave [03 Nov 2009]
First beta of Firefox 3.6 released
News The beta brings Personas skins for customising browser appearance, plus JavaScript performance tweaks aimed at taking on Google's Chrome [02 Nov 2009]
Bing's mobile site optimised for touchscreen devices
News Microsoft has updated the mobile version of Bing with some features for touchscreen devices [02 Nov 2009]
Google Voice stats revealed through PDF error
News The service has 1.419 million users, a number that was meant to be redacted in documents filed with regulators, according to BusinessWeek [02 Nov 2009]
Google PowerMeter hits the UK
News The smart-grid software that allows people to monitor their home-energy use via the internet has been launched in the UK [30 Oct 2009]
HP's Hurd: The challenges of cloud computing 
Video HP chief executive Mark Hurd talks about how the company plans to layer cloud services on its infrastructure in the future [29 Oct 2009]
Facebook unveils development roadmap
News In one of its radical moves, the social networking site will allow developers to acquire user email addresses [29 Oct 2009]
Firefox 3.5.4 plugs security holes
News The newest version of Mozilla's browser for Windows, Mac, and Linux fixes six critical holes and some other problems [29 Oct 2009]
'Similar Images' now part of Google image search
News Google says its Similar Images feature is now a full-time part of Google's image search tool, having graduated from the company's labs [28 Oct 2009]
Web domain name language overhaul coming soon
News Icann is finalising plans to introduce web domain addresses using non-Latin characters, marking the biggest change to the system in its history [27 Oct 2009]
Google adds batch-export feature to Docs
News People can now use Google Docs to convert multiple files into a choice of document formats in a single batch [26 Oct 2009]
Salesforce, Adobe bring Flash to Force.com
News Businesses that have already taken the plunge into the Salesforce cloud will now find something new: Adobe Flash [26 Oct 2009]
France adopts three-strikes law for piracy
News Those in France accused of illegal file-sharing multiple times could lose internet access for up to a year if they do not heed warnings [26 Oct 2009]
Cabinet Office seeks developer feedback on data site
News The department has opened a pilot website making government data more widely available, and wants developers to test the potential for re-using information [26 Oct 2009]
Shoppers blocked from buying across EU borders
News The European Commission calls for more progress on simplifying cross-border online shopping, after its study shows that 60 percent transactions cannot be completed [23 Oct 2009]
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Is cloud computing a solution for software licensing woes?
Blog Had an interesting wide-ranging discussion with a bunch of people at a BT cloud computing seminar the other day, including long-standing contact and analyst Phil Wainewright. But it was... [15 Oct 2009]
Berners-Lee regrets the HTTP slashes
Blog Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the HyperText Transfer Protocol, regrets specifying the characters "//" in the protocol. Berners-Lee told The New York Times last week that the characters,... [14 Oct 2009]
Elevator pitching VaporWare
Blog Ok. This is my elevator pitch for two software ideas. 1. AJAX wireframe application A web application that enables information architects to create wireframes and sitemaps with simple... [13 Oct 2009]
Twitter, Trafigura, trends and treason
Blog Information wants to be free, said Stuart Brand, adding in a less well reported codicil that it also wants to be expensive. One of the most expensive bits of free information today has been the... [13 Oct 2009]
Building a web site is like cooking a meal
Blog (This is the wrong sort of blog post to be writing with an empty stomach.) Building a web site is like cooking a meal - it's all in the preparation. I have been using the ever-delightful... [09 Oct 2009]
If Royal Mail won't free postcodes, take them off it
Blog Where does the line between code and data lie? What if there's an algorithm that turns a simple string into a location, where everyone in the country knows the string that applies to them? What... [09 Oct 2009]
HTML 5 cometh
Blog I was perusing Eric Meyer's Free S5 presentation tool the other day, and came across HTML5 And You. This is a blog entry about the HTML5 specifications. The delightful news which leads from... [02 Oct 2009]
Pipes, clouds and scarcity
Blog Why does Microsoft call its cloud computing platform Azure? After all, a blue sky doesn't actually have any clouds in. Is the name a hint that Microsoft thinks the cloud is a fad that will soon get... [01 Oct 2009]
