Software Development

Google buys FeedBurner to boost RSS services

Google has acquired FeedBurner, a provider of publishing and advertising services for blogs and content syndication feeds.

Google lifts lid on Gdata to spur development

If Google is on a quest to become the king of Web-based applications on the back of its search success, wooing more developers to its Google Data, or Gdata, protocol is a strategic part of that plan.

Item Won: eBay buys StumbleUpon for US$75 million

eBay has acquired StumbleUpon, a Web browsing recommendation site that mixes social networking and novel search functionality based on peer reviews, for US$75 million.

MIX - Microsoft drops few clues about IE 8

Microsoft dodged questions this week at the Mix07 Web developer conference about when it plans to update its Internet Explorer (IE) browser to Version 8.

Firefox users urge Dell to preinstall the browser

Firefox users are drawing on Dell's user-driven IdeaStorm site to push the computer maker to preinstall the open-source browser.

Sony sparks outrage with decapitated goat

Sony Computer Entertainment has launched an internal inquiry following an event in Athens last month that featured a decapitated goat and topless models to promote its new game "God of War II."

Good news or bad? Reuters software makes the call

Thousands of news articles each day are piped by <a href="http://www.reuters.com/" target="_blank">Reuters</a> into financial-services firms and other businesses to help them make decisions. Now Reuters has also come up with a way to machine-read thi...

Supreme Court favors Microsoft in AT&T case

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday that Microsoft is not liable for using patented AT&T technology in copies of Windows running on computers outside the U.S.

DVDs to play in federal interrogation unit

Australia's elite criminal suspects will soon be treated to DVD-quality interrogations at Australia's most powerful law enforcement body. The Australian Crime Commission (ACC) is pushing ahead with digital recording upgrades to its five interviewing ...