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DigitalGlobe successfully launched a sophisticated new satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California Tuesday. The satellite, WorldView-1, has the potential to provide a raft of new imagery for geographical databases such as Google Earth The company launched WorldView-1 -- which it says is the most agile commercial satellite ever flown -- a...

In what could prove to be a classic pairing of a video game with a gaming console, LucasArts has announced that it will release "Star Wars: The Force Unleashed" in spring of 2008 on Nintendo's Wii platform, with gameplay exclusively designed to capitalize upon the Wii-mote and Nunchuk controllers "The Wii is a great platform for 'The Force Unleashe...

Despite persistent rumors to the contrary, Time Warner has no plans to sell AOL, Chairman and CEO Richard Parsons said Tuesday "We are focused right now on building the best third-party ad platform we can within AOL and at the same time increasing our own inventory," Parsons told analysts at a Goldman Sachs conference....

Intel touted its processor roadmap during its Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco on Tuesday, and the company even showed off a working model of its 45 nanometer next-generation processor, dubbed "Nehalem," as well as functioning 32 nanometer chips In addition, the processor giant is gearing up to deliver its 45 nanometer family of Penryn ...

Bidding to turn the widget phenomenon it helped nurture into a revenue producer and convince users and publishers to share ads with each other, Google announced Wednesday it would expand a test of highly interactive ads that run within the Web site plug-ins Google Gadget Ads is being tested with a small group of AdWords advertisers. The interactive...

A proprietary behemoth like IBM giving away enterprise-rich office applications for free? That was the news from IBM this week, but Big Blue's motives aren't entirely altruistic IBM is presenting a set of enterprise applications -- word processing, spreadsheet, presentation applications -- called "Lotus Symphony," as freely downloadable application...

Although I'm a hopelessly U.S.-centric person, I still find it engaging from time to time to gauge the opinions of those outside Uncle Sam's borders about what they consider stellar products. One indicator of those opinions is awards like those bestowed in August by the European Imaging and Sound Association (EISA) Among the association's top produ...

The whipping that lenders have taken in the subprime mortgage market could prove beneficial to the nation's technology sector, according to a venture capitalist-turned-professor Howard Anderson, a founder of the Yankee Group, as well as two venture capital companies, and now a professor at the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institu...

When entrepreneur and Second Life real estate mogul Ailin Graef sat down to an interview with Cnet reporter Daniel Terdiman in December, she, no doubt, did not expect to be caught in a downpour of digital phallic symbols Yet, considering the interview took place in the virtual world Second Life, perhaps she should have....

What if we told you that there was a country -- an economic powerhouse with a population the size of Austria's -- where millions of dollars change hands daily, but with no police, no extradition laws and where exchanges can happen anonymously? What if we tried to convince you that money from that nation could be readily exchanged into dollars, euro...

Sprint has rolled out a new service that leverages broadband networks to let Sprint cellular customers use their existing phones to make calls in places where they have weak or nonexistent cellular signals. For home users, that might be the basement, bathroom or backyard The new service, called "Airave," uses a femtocell compact base station built ...

Google has added the third leg to its online suite of office applications. The new addition, dubbed "Presentations," is analogous to Microsoft PowerPoint. Now that Google has a full-fledged productivity suite, it has shortened its name from "Google Docs and Spreadsheet" to simply "Google Docs." After logging in to access the suite, users will find ...

Just two months after venture capital firm Bay Partners launched a fund for Facebook developers, Facebook itself and two of its backers have done much the same thing with a new US$10 million program Dubbed the "fbFund," the program aims to create continuing incentives for the development of Facebook applications by doling out grants of between $25,...

Google has launched a mobile version of its AdSense program in several major markets, the latest in a series of high-profile movesthat underscore the mounting interest in delivering marketing messages to mobile phones and other devices Google has been offering a version of its AdWords search marketing program for mobile placement since last year. T...

Hoping to offer something for all budgets and desktop computing power requirements, Advanced Micro Devices is planning to sell triple-core versions of its multi-core processors The Phenom Triple-Core units will be less expensive than its forthcoming top-of-the-line quad-core, AMD said....

In a move that could reignite the e-mail wars among major Web players, Yahoo said Monday it will buy open source e-mail firm Zimbra for US$350 million -- the third splashy purchase made since cofounder Jerry Yang took over as CEO in June and promised to return Yahoo to its roots Zimbra's e-mail and collaboration tools and its extensive relationship...

Salesforce.com added two functional areas to its CRM and introduced its Force.com platform with the rollout of its Winter '08 release The new product lines are Salesforce.com Content and Salesforce.com Ideas, which provide content management and a Web 2.0 environment for collaboration in the enterprise, respectively. Force.com allows users to devel...

While bill payers and many businesses have been slow to adopt cyber billing, consumers are much moreaccepting of paying their monthly bills electronically. Still, consumers often face a struggle withmerchants who don't make e-payments a priority or the process of paying online easy to set up Acceptance of e-billing is not as favorable yet as it sho...

Sun Microsystems is stepping up its rebranding mission as the Java company, throwing off its workstation cloak in exchange for an identity as the vendor of powerful systems and tools for developers Sun on Monday announced the immediate availability of its GlassFish V2 application server, an open source version of Java System Application Server 9.1....

It sounds tremendously obvious to say it this way, but applications are everywhere. Think about it -- your office suite, your e-mail reader, even the software you're using right now to read this -- these are just a fraction of the thousands (if not hundreds of thousands) of applications you use daily both personally and professionally For those of...