At the Google I/O conference in San Francisco, Charles Wiles and Andrei Popescu, who work on the Google Gears for mobile project in London, discussed the current state of Gears for mobile, a project they launched into shortly after the release of the desktop version.
Google project manager Charles Wiles talks about the mobile version [...]

Lingro has also thrown in an element of crowd sourcing for its definitions. If you come across a word without a decent definition, you can add your own that will go on the list and be linked up to your account. This same account tracks all the words you’ve ever looked up, giving you a [...]

(1) low pricing strategy by Amazon, Wal-Mart and other e-commerce sites; (2) continued expansion of selection by niche e-commerce sites and (3) the continued entrance of brick-and-mortar retailers into the e-commerce space.

We believe the superior buying experience on Amazon and search experience on Google reduces the value of the eBay platform for buyers and sellers. [...]

(Credit:
CNET Networks)

Microsoft on Thursday declined to extend a lifeline for Windows XP, saying that only a limited number of specialized machines will be sold with the operating system after June.

CNET News.com’s Mike Ricciuti contributed to this report.

The company said it will continue to allow Windows XP Home edition to be sold for a class [...]

Lunascape, (currently Windows-only) is a triple-engine browser that has a new take on the “browser wars.” Launched in November 2008, Lunascape continues to push the envelope with its latest beta. In addition to improving the core triple-engine technology, new features include toolbar shrinking, appropriate for Netbook users who require low CPU usage. With this update, [...]

In addition, creating a rich virtual environment that reflects the real world and is available to billions of people requires a lot of programmers. “If we want a million people to know how to do this, we have to mask complexity,” Mundie said. His goal is to program computers to have the equivalent of human [...]

Ray Ozzie’s memo detailing Microsoft’s vision for a future, with the Web rather than the PC at the center, didn’t shed any new light on Office for the cloud. Microsoft is focusing on its software+services model, creating services–such as Excel Data Services, SQL Server Data Services and BizTalk Services–that fuse the Web and client [...]

The Vatican goes Web 2.0. On Friday, YouTube announced that the Vatican joined up as a content partner. There’s now a dedicated content channel with a dozen videos–mostly of the Pope. In an introductory video, Father Federico Lombardi, the director of the Vatican press office, said the move was the Vatican’s way of being a [...]

He gave a few examples of a NMAP scripting engine, fixed-rate packet sending, enhanced version detection, and improvements to performance and accuracy.

Shawn Moyer, CISO of Agura Digital Security, and Nathan Hamiel, senior consultant for Idea Information Security and founder of the Hexagon Security Group, previewed their talk “Satan is on My Friends List: Attacking [...]

Cues that Google is working offline: one, the connection icon in the upper-right is grey, not green; and two, it tells you.

I finally got access to Google Docs offline, the launch of which I covered yesterday. I understand why Google is pitching it as a safety net for a flaky online connection, as opposed to [...]