According to Brandon Badger, Product Manager at search engine, Google, the main goal of its AJAX APIs team is to provide developers with the tools needed to create the next generation of great web applications. The API helps developers translate content in their applications. Users on

'Unlocking content to be remixed into new business value' is the driver of Web 2.0 in the enterprise, says Rod Smith, IBM VP of Emerging Internet Technologies, in this Exclusive Q&A with Jeremy Geelan on the occasion of IBM's release of a new technology created by IBM researchers, code

Outbid by Verizon Wireless in the great American airwaves auction last week, Google plunked a six-page letter on the Federal Communication Commission's desk asking the government to make the 'white spaces' - the airspace between TV channels - available for unlicensed wireless data use

'We will have worldwide coverage but are concentrating on being number one in European blog search, both by controlling spam and working with all different languages,' said Martin Källström, CEO at Twingly, the European Internet start-up, as Twingly announced today that it is launching

Douglas Merrill, Google VP of Engineering, is leaving Google to become EMI Music's new President of Digital. Merrill joined Google late in 2003 as Senior Director of Information Systems. In this capacity he led multiple strategic efforts including Google?s 2004 IPO and its related regu

Service providers that use Parallels Automation software can now easily deliver real-time spam and virus filtering, attack blocking, and e-mail traffic monitoring using a Google Apps security and compliance package. Parallels Automation is integrated with the Google Message Filtering e

Here is a question that I have been pondering on and off for quite a while: Why do 'cool kids' choose Ruby or PHP to build websites instead of Java? I have to admit that I do not have an answer. Why do I even care? Because I am a Java developer. Like many Java developers, I get along w

Ya know, maybe it's not the economic slowdown. Google CEO Eric Schmidt said January 31 that the company was feeling no pain from any macroeconomic softening. Maybe the novelty of Google search is wearing thin because it doesn't return what people are looking for. Maybe Google should go

Yahoo has tied up with Tata subsidiary Computational Research Laboratories (CRL) to do cloud computing research. Financial terms were not disclosed. What CRL brings to the party is the fourth-fastest supercomputer in the world, a beast that Yahoo figures has 'substantially more process

This session will provide attendees with an overview of the iPhone SDK, including discussion of the App Store, Apple's planned distribution channel for SDK applications. Keep in mind that the contents of the SDK and experiences while using it are covered under NDA, so be prepared for m

Yahoo's not the only company scrambling to avoid getting sucked up by Microsoft. Yahoo owns 39% of Alibaba Group, which in turn owns China's biggest B2B portal, and that interest would pass to Microsoft if Microsoft buys Yahoo. So now Alibaba, reportedly spooked by the specter of Micro

A reported tête-à-tête between Microsoft and Yahoo on March 10 at which Microsoft is supposed to have painted its picture of what a combined company would look like apparently hasn't advanced Microsoft's suit any - at least not at the price it's offering to pay. Yahoo Tuesday offered i

Webtide announced that it has developed a web and application server designed to operate on Google's Android mobile platform. Android is a freely downloadable open source software stack for mobile devices that includes an operating system, middleware and key applications based on Linux

Google said Tuesday that it's going mobile with its Google Gears technology, the stuff that's supposed to let web-based apps run unconnected to the web, beginning with Windows Mobile 5 and 6 devices ahead of its own nascent Android platform. Same day, Microsoft came out and made a vict

IBM says it's found a way to make mashups secure enough for business. Because of inherent browser insecurity, mashups aren't really viable for widespread business adoption. But what's a little thing like viability compared to the pressure of keeping up with the Joneses - in this case t

For the past ten years application developers have been stuck with only two desktop client choices. Traditionally, they can choose either a very thin Web-client technology implemented in HTML and CSS, or a very heavyweight thick client experience implemented using traditional client/se

Acquia has yet to price its maintenance and support subscriptions - there should be a variety of SLAs - but they're supposed to include an electronic update notification system code named Spokes for updates that have been reviewed for security and compatibility and are supported by Acq

'While at Google, we learned to develop products that were simple to use, free for users, and clean of annoying advertising,' says Dan Daugherty, President and CEO of rentBits, a new nationwide search engine for rentals. 'rentBits has all of these qualities and this beta release is jus

Google closed on its $3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick this morning a couple of hours after the European Commission, as expected, waved the hackles-raising merger through. US authorities blessed the merger in December. The EC said the merger was 'unlikely' to harm consumers eithe

The final hurdle in the completion of its deal to buy Doubleclick has now been overcome by Google: European regulators have today cleared its $3.1BN bid. Eric Schmidt, writing in the Official Google Blog, admitted 'As with most mergers, there may be reductions in headcount' - and Googl

In its desperate backstroke away from Microsoft's clutches - and in case Microsoft starts its threatened proxy fight for control of the company - Yahoo! has extended its deadline for board nominations to 10 days after it announces a date for its annual shareholders meeting. Whenever th

Google has blown a new cloud over Redmond's way to rain on Microsoft's SharePoint collaboration server - even if it has a ways to go before being recognized as a thunderhead. The cloud is called Google Sites. It's a googlized version of the JotSpot start-up's wiki widgetry that Google

Yahoo! continues to enable the global mobile ecosystem with the unveiling of Yahoo! onePlace - a mobile content management solution. Following the company's achievements in reinventing mobile search and mobile communications, Yahoo! onePlace is designed to be an essential tool to enab

'Google and Opera have established a valuable relationship over the years and we look forward to continued collaboration on mobile products,' said Jon von Tetzchner, CEO of Opera, as Opera today made Google the default search engine in its mobile Web browsers. 'We're excited to extend

Google's stock dropped 7% this morning - down to the $450s - after comScore sprung the lever on the trapdoor under its feet and reported that US paid-click growth in January was flat year-over-year and down 7.5% sequentially. Google derives most of its revenue from paid-clicks. ComScor

By producing a popular gadget you can distribute your code to millions of users practically overnight. Most gadgets are designed to gather data from the Web and then present that data to the user. In order to enable this functionality, Google Gadgets support a rich programming model ba

I am always being told off by i-technologists for quoting Picasso as having said that computers are useless. But I still love his reasoning: 'Because they can only give you answers.' Picasso, like AJAXWorld Magazine, liked questions. So we thought we would share with you what some of t

'When you start to have companies that control the operating system, control the browsers, they really tie up the top Web sites, and can be used to manipulate stuff in various ways. I think that's unnerving.' That, according to Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin, is what might face the Inte

Microsoft today attempted to exorcize the interoperability bogeymen that have haunted it since it was first discovered to be using secret APIs 20 years ago, bogeymen that now quote European antitrust law at it and carry writs from the Court of First Instance in Luxembourg. To avoid fur

Microsoft and Yahoo are not negotiating a deal behind the scenes, according to what Bill Gates told the AP yesterday morning, 18 days after Microsoft made its rejected $31-a-share offer for the company. And it appears that Microsoft, whose stock has been down 12.8% since publicizing th

'We sent them a letter and said we think that's a fair offer,' Bill Gates has been telling an Associated Press reporter, referring of course to the February 1 proposal Microsoft made to the Yahoo! board of directors to acquire the company for $44.6BN. Gates made the comments during a c

Being held for the first time on March 18, 2008 at the historic Roosevelt Hotel in New York City, AJAXWorld Security Bootcamp is a compelling, intensive, one-day, hands-on training program that will teach Web developers, Web designers, and other Web professionals how to build secure AJ

HP CEO Mark Hurd has joined the board of directors at Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. media conglomerate, which should give him a nice view of any possible Microsoft-avoiding tie-up between News Corp. and Yahoo considering HP's printer chief Vyomesh Joshi sits on Yahoo's board. Reuters not

Is Yahoo! too large a company to force into Microsoft's ways? That's the question asked this morning by The New York Times, whose correspondents John Markoff and Matt Richtel report a Silicon Valley executive as declaring that, when it comes to overall technology mindsets, Microsoft an

Whistling past the graveyard, Yahoo! went ahead Tuesday with its thin, pre-Microsoft plans of canning a thousand non-core people worldwide in an attempt to get the firm growing in the right direction. The number actually turned out to be more like 1,100 but far from what it would take

The media is all atwitter at the news that Yahoo! is now seeking a rabbit hole in Rupert Murdoch's patch rather than get bought by Microsoft - at least not for the ungodly sum of $44.6 billion currently on the table. What started on the Silicon Alley Insider and TechCrunch blogs has no

On Monday Rupert Murdoch was reported as assuring the financial press that News Corporation would not be making a counter-bid for Yahoo! but yesterday came new reports that discussions are taking place about integrating Yahoo! with News Corp's Internet assets. The idea, according to Te

T-Mobile has announced that it is likely to make Yahoo! oneSearch the exclusive search engine in all eleven of its European markets. The company is the twenty-sixth mobile carrier to sign a major deal with Yahoo! and displaces arch-rival Google as T-Mobile's preferred search engine.

Google, which looks like it will be teaching rivals like Symantec to mutter words like 'predatory pricing,' has slashed prices on the widgetry it got from its $625 million Postini acquisition last July and is using the new price points like a billy club to force users on to the 'cloud.

Some of the most scared people inside Yahoo right now have got to be the open source Zimbra crowd that Yahoo acquired last September for $350 million for its Microsoft-opposing enterprise-directed e-mail and calendaring, folks who just released their webby AJAX-based Collaboration Suit