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Microsoft and HP are teaming up to develop the high-tech home of the future. The two companies revealed their Innoventions Dream Home at Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif., this week. The home features some of the newest developments in communications technology and is now open for public tours Located in Disneyland's Tomorrowland, the Dream Home shows ...

After 15 years of development and beta testing, the first stable version of Wine is now available, its developers announced Tuesday Wine is an open source implementation of the Windows application programming interface (API) on top of X, OpenGL and Unix that allows Windows applications to run on other operating systems, including Linux and Mac OS, ...

Microsoft has a new weapon in its advertising arsenal. The software giant has acquired Navic Networks, an interactive television ad developer that targets specific audiences with its service. Terms of the deal were not disclosed Navic uses audience measuring data to determine which broadcast commercials might be of interest to households. It then ...

In a reminder that investors remain hungry for chances to back social networking firms, LinkedIn announced it has closed a fourth round of funding worth US$53 million The investment places a valuation of "slightly over $1 billion" on the firm, which bills itself as a professional and business-focused alternative to less formal networks such as MySp...

Tens of thousands of fledgling job seekers have spent a great deal of time, effort and money devising video resumes, a variation on the decades-old task of letting a potential employer know a little something about you. However, while the new approach has garnered some sizzle, it lacks substance. "Video resumes are dead because they just do not he...

I was at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston last week. Good show, nice people, well run, and it was held at a swanky new Westin on the waterfront. It got me thinking, though, about the "two-dot-oh" phenomenon and how badly it needs a rethink See, the problem -- whether we're dealing with Enterprise 2.0 or (maybe) CRM 2.0 or Anything 2.0 -- is ...

A partnership with the Collaborative Software Initiative (CSI) and the Utah Department of Health is cementing an emerging community sourcing software model that could thrust open source development deeper into vertical markets CSI and the state of Utah on May 19 announced the availability of a software system that resulted from a first-of-its-kind ...

Want to try an experiment? Part 1: Get yourself a crowd of willing co-experimenters (about 20 to 30) and tell them that you're going to ask them a trivia question. Tell them you're going to read the question to them and when you count to three, everyone should shout out their answer at the same time. They should all shout out a guess -- even if t...

A federal judge has ruled that an administrative office within the Executive Office of the President is not subject to the 41-year-old Freedom of Information Act. The decision is the latest hurdle blocking a many-fronted effort to determine how an alleged 10 million White House e-mails apparently disappeared. Public policy advocates who are pressi...

Tuesday was D-Day for Mozilla with the scheduled launch of the third version of Firefox, its open source Web browser. The company had billed the day as "Download Day" and aimed its sights on setting a Guinness World Record for the most downloads of an application in a 24-hour period Over the weekend, I dutifully I pledged to download the new browse...

Months after arresting a man for having child pornography images on a state-issued laptop, prosecutors dropped the charges when a defense-sponsored forensic investigation showed that a poorly configured laptop that had become riddled with malware was to blame The victim (besides the children in the images) was Michael Fiola, a former investigator w...

Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) announced Monday the rollout of the latest firmware update for its PlayStation Portable (PSP) handheld gaming console. The system software update version 4.00 brings Google search to the XrossMediaBar (XMB) interface, the result of a new partnership between the hardware heavyweight and the king of online search...

HP has a new way to bring all your home media together in one central place. The company introduced the HP MediaSmart Connect system Tuesday. MediaSmart Connect is essentially a wireless server that aggregates content from various sources around your home and makes it all accessible via your high-definition television The device enters a market tha...

The online security space has been no different than any number of other software categories in its adoption of Software as a Service. However, until recently most of the offerings in this space have been targeted to e-mail protection. That is beginning to change as more and more vendors begin to roll out Web security applications in the SaaS model...

The Open Source Census, a collaborative project initiated by OpenLogic to collect and share quantitative data on the use of open source software, has revealed more than 220,000 open source packages and project installations on business hard drives. The census now aims to take a deeper look into open source products used by enterprise adopters. The...

Contextual targeting is widely used in both the offline and online advertising worlds. However, the wild-card nature of behavioral targeting could revolutionize how marketers interact with their target audience in an online world. Behavioral targeting is based on a proven assumption that the Web pages people visit and where they go from those page...

E-mail marketing has long been neglected in the larger marketing world. That's understandable -- e-mail marketing campaigns are easy to design and cheap to implement. Still, any tool worth using is worth using to its best advantage. Part of the problem is that e-mail marketers receive little to no feedback about their campaigns. Their messages are...

Open source business intelligence (BI) firm JasperSoft has announced the availability of its new JasperSoft Business Intelligence Suite v3 Professional Edition The suite provides enterprise-class functionality delivered through interactive Web 2.0 interfaces, the company said. The new functionalities extend JasperSoft's price/performance ratio and ...

When startup ZeeVee launched its ZvBox last month, it entered a fray in which high-profile contenders have already found success elusive The ZvBox aims to let consumers watch any Internet TV, online video or computer content on their home high-definition TVs, and it marks one of the latest attempts in the industry to solve the persistent problem of...

The world's largest online auction house, eBay, has announced plans to let third-party developers integrate applications directly onto eBay by giving their applications more direct access to the site's 700,000 professional sellers. The company revealed the details at its seventh annual eBay Developers Conference Monday in Chicago to approximately 700 attendees.