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In these eBay days, buyer's remorse is increasingly common. Less common is the remorse of the unbought a sensation now widely reported among major Yahoo shareholders in the wake of Ballmer's retreat.
Google's ever active search bots, which scour the Web constantly for new pages, have begun a new, more active phase of their indexing jobs.
Gathered at the Legal Futures Conference at California's Stanford University over the weekend, online legal experts have again raised their concerns that the rise and rise of Web 2.0 has come at the expense of individual privacy.
The inventor of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has talked up the prospects of the semantic Web, which he calls the "Web of the future".
It appears that despite the massive amount of hype surrounding Google, the company is not immune from the bad marketing video plague that has troubled the best of corporate giants.
On the odd occasion where I have seen the results of surveys of knowledge workers where they are asked to rank the barriers to the adoption of knowledge management inside their organisation, one word keeps popping up at the top of the list again and again: culture.
This week Australia's Federal Government announced it had allocated $3.6 million in funding to 57 local research projects so that they could be commercialised, with many of them being web or IT-related start-ups.
Victorian Web start-up My Perfect has a strong story and rationale for why it will succeed. But it has to overcome some challenges and design flaws first.
Will aggregation replace search when it comes to finding useful content on the Web? I reckon so.
While Wall Street clamours for a piece of the search king, start-ups are trying to fill in the technology niches.
The downloadable software speeds the delivery of Web pages but has its critics. What is it, and how does it work?
As the company reaches beyond its Internet search roots, critics ask whether success may breed an identity crisis.
Google faces a difficult task if it tries to transplant its successful Web search business to the desktop.
Eager for fresh ideas, the stodgy world of enterprise software is adopting technology and marketing from the consumer Web.
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Commentary: Google is one of the best things on the Web--but there are signs that it may be tempted into rank commercialism.
The K660i shares most of its specs with budget-priced phones, with the addition of HSDPA data speeds, and minus the budget price tag.
Microsoft has changed the look and feel of its venerable browser while adding some much-needed security features.
A versatile Internet browser, Opera 9 beta 1 bundles desktop widgets and other unique features. But can it win over those fleeing from Internet Explorer?
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