Jan 31
Digg
Stumbleupon
Technorati
Delicious

Social Networking Site Footnote Celebrates First Anniversary

Footnote.com is celebrating its one year anniversary of their social networking site, which has become very popular for genealogists and people searching for historical documents. About a year ago they, along with the National Archives, made historical documents available online for the first time.
When most people talk about social networking sites they are usually talking […]

Author: Jonathon Walden
Jan 31
Digg
Stumbleupon
Technorati
Delicious

Applied Materials Acquires Baccini, Plans to Reduce Cost of Solar Power

Applied Materials, whose goal is to make electronics smaller and cheaper, announced that they have acquired Baccini, who is a world leader in microelectronics. According to the announcement Applied Materials purchased Baccini for US$334 million in cash. One of their goals with this acquisition is to extend the popularity of solar products, and […]

Author: Jonathon Walden
Jan 25
Digg
Stumbleupon
Technorati
Delicious

YouTube Adds New Features to Mobile Phones

According to Google owned YouTube, mobile users can now benefit from their largest offering of available videos, and will also be able to personalize their experience with new features.  Right now the YouTube for Mobile, http://m.youtube.com, service offers users over ten million videos, but does require that the user’s phone has 3G access and must […]

Author: Jonathon Walden
Jan 25
Digg
Stumbleupon
Technorati
Delicious

Plenty of New Technologies Expected to Launch at DEMO ‘08 Conference

DEMO is currently getting geared up for their DEMO ‘08 conference, which is to be held on January 28-30 in Palm Desert, California. These conferences are known for launching great innovative products, and with the 77 new products they announced will be launched at DEMO ‘08, it doesn’t look like this year will be […]

Author: Jonathon Walden
Jan 18
Digg
Stumbleupon
Technorati
Delicious

Google Responds to Yahoo Supporting OpenID by Doing the Same with Blogger

Yahoo in a press release yesterday said that they will now be supporting OpenID, which is a tool that helps users eliminate the need to use multiple user names for different websites. There OpenID service will become available on January 30th as a public beta, and will allow anyone with a Yahoo ID the […]

Author: Jonathon Walden
Jan 15
Digg
Stumbleupon
Technorati
Delicious

Microsoft Officially Announces Office 2008 Availability for Mac Users

Today Microsoft’s Macintosh Business Unit announced at the 2008 Macworld Conference and Expo that Office 2008 is now available for Mac computers. The report says that “the suite provides the Office tools Mac users rely on, with a Mac-like approach and style.”
GM of the Macintosh Business Unit (Mac BU) Craig Eisler said, “We developed […]

Author: Jonathon Walden