Dealspl.us, which combines BensBargains.net and Digg.com, is an online social shopping community driven by its users and community. It offers a distinctive place where user can share great bargains gathered from throughout the internet. dealspl.us was founded on t...

ActiveGrid announced the release of ActiveGrid Studio 2.0, a development environment specifically engineered for enterprise Web 2.0 application development. The company also announced the release of ActiveGrid Server 2.0, an application server that allows companie...

Sun Microsystems has announced that its ground-breaking family of workstations and servers earned an Industrial Design Excellence Award (IDEA). Sun's Ultra Series Workstations, and the Sun Fire X4100 servers and the Sun Fire T2000 server with CoolThreads technolog...

Sun Microsystems has announced new customer adoption of its breakthrough Sun Fire server family with CoolThreads technology. DigiTar, Joyent and Fotolog represent a new crop of Web 2.0 customers that have recently moved to the UltraSPARC T1 processor-based Sun Fir...

IBM has introduced a new IBM BladeCenter blade and System x servers and workstations geared to help reduce power and cooling costs while delivering substantial performance gains over earlier technology. The new systems enable up to 90% percent better application p...

Microsoft and Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization that offers flexible copyright licenses for creative works, have teamed up to release a copyright licensing tool that enables the easy addition of Creative Commons licensing information for works in popular ...

ActiveGrid, the Enterprise Web 2.0 company, announced the release of ActiveGrid Studio 2.0, the development environment specifically engineered for enterprise Web 2.0 application development. The company also announced the release of ActiveGrid Server 2.0, an ap...

IBM Chairman & CEO Samuel J. Palmisano has opened IBM's first development lab in Russia as the company continues to increase its investment in high-growth countries. IBM will invest $40 million over the next three years in the Russian Systems & Technology Laborato...

Microsoft releases Windows Live Messenger, which goes beyond the traditional instant messaging (IM) service, enabling people to connect and share, with free PC-to-PC calls and inexpensive calls from a PC to phones around the world, video calling, easy sharing with...

Cingular Wireless will offer its business customers access to corporate e-mail via Direct Push Technology, a feature of Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 with the Messaging and Security Feature Pack (MSFP) upgrade, beginning on June 19, 2006.

Arkivio providing Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) solutions for the enterprise has announced that it has joined the Hitachi Data Systems independent software vendor (ISV) partner program. As part of its participation in the program, Arkivio will be ensuri...

Microsoft has announced two key advances in Windows Live Book Search, a service that will enable Web searchers to find answers from authoritative, trusted book content. The addition of two new participants, the University of California and the University of Toro...

Microsoft has announced the release of Microsoft Antigen e-mail security products - including Antigen for Exchange, Antigen for SMTP Gateways, Antigen Spam Manager and Antigen Enterprise Manager available to customers July 1, 2006.

Ubiquity Software and Microsoft announced they have signed an agreement to jointly develop market and sell converged communications solutions to telecommunications service providers worldwide. Through the alliance, the companies will deliver solutions that bring t...

As a part of the Microsoft Security Response Alliance (MSRA)'s charter to help protect computer users from online threats, Microsoft led a group of global Internet service providers (ISPs) in announcing Protect Yourself This Summer, a weeklong effort beginning J...

In a keynote speech to leading technology executives, Rod Smith, IBM's Vice President of emerging Internet technologies, declared that the technologies underpinning blogs, wikis and innovative sites like Google Maps and Wikipedia on the Web will transform the way ...

IBM and AvarSYS have announced a collaboration using IBM's Deep Computing Visualization (DCV) technology that can provide AvarSYS customers with visualization systems, particularly those customers migrating from Silicon Graphics Incorporated (SGI) technology.

Microsoft announced manufacturing of Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003, the company's first software offering designed to run parallel, high-performance computing (HPC) applications for customers solving complex computations. Windows Compute Cluster Server 200...

Rogers Business Solutions has launched Canada's first subscription-based encryption email service, hosted by IBM, which provides for the confidentiality of email communication for business users. Rogers Secure Mail encrypts information between sender and recipien...

IBM has announced that analyst firm Gartner Inc. has ranked IBM as the worldwide market share leader in the IT operations management software marketplace based on total software revenue for 2005. This marks the fifth consecutive year that IBM maintained its leader...

Redback Networks announced that it has extended its existing relationship with IBM for the use of IBM's Applications On Demand Services. Redback believes that utilizing IBM's services will allow Redback to further focus on developing innovative IP-based products a...

Microsoft has announced that it has formed the Interoperability Customer Executive Council to identify areas for interoperability improvements across its products and the overall software industry. Customers are working in increasingly heterogeneous IT environme...

Microsoft's Smart Personal Objects Technology (SPOT) initiative has launched the next generation of Smart Watches for MSN Direct: the ABACUS Smart Watch 2006. These newest watches feature double the storage capacity of previous watches, improved download speed, ...

PodZinger has been selected as a winner in the category of Best Web 2.0 Application for the 2006 MITX Technology Awards. The MITX Technology Awards, produced by the Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange, recognize innovative technologies developed in th...

FinSock has announced that it will release a web-based small business software solution in June. The so-called 'Web 2.0' application will allow business owners and their employees the ability to break the confinement of the conventional office. It has had the bene...

Just as Yahoo and eBay announce a major agreement to work together against Google (and to some extent, Microsoft), comes word that Dell will be bundling Google's desktop and toolbar, adding another dimension to the emerging battle among Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft.

Analyst Marc Farley has some strong opinions as to new Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz's appointment of long-time Sun executive David Yen as head of the company's storage division. Farley acknowledges Yen's technical brilliance and success in heading the company's scala...

Jobster announced it has acquired Jobby, an innovative start-up that helps jobseekers get noticed through new tagging techniques. With the addition of Jobby's AJAX programming expertise as well as their innovative user interface and tagging methodology, Jobster wi...

If Dell is looking for some of its lost market share and some of its missing sales and earnings, they're over at HP, which claimed not to have noticed any of what Dell last week, when it warned of a shortfall, called its 'accelerate pricing adjustments' in the last quarter.

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 ...