Jimmy Wales, the co-founder of Wikipedia, announced today that his for-profit community hosting site Wikia has deepened its investment in developing an open-source Web search engine. Wikia purchased Grub, a company that makes distributed a Web crawling program. Instead of having a single set of computers index the Web — as Google and other search…
After years of technical development and months of regulatory hurdles, the BBC iPlayer was launched to the public at midnight. The iPlayer offers an online, on-demand catch-up service for the bulk of the BBC’s TV output. Initially, it will only be available to users of computers that run Windows XP, but versions for other platforms…
On Thursday, software giant Microsoft threw light on some more details on Windows Vista’s financial performance, adding that it is apparently meeting and surpassing market expectations. Whilst making a presentation at Microsoft’s annual financial analysts meeting at its Redmond headquarters, Kevin Turner, chief operating officer for Microsoft stated that since its worldwide public launch on…
On the back of Acer president, Gianfranco Lanci’s open attack on Microsoft Windows Vista comes a serious round of speculation regarding what might constitute Microsoft’s upcoming sequel to Vista, currently called Windows 7.0. More so because Microsoft remains tight-lipped about it’s next major release — except for a few details like Windows 7.0 will release…
One Laptop Per Child\’s XO (commonly referred to as the “$100 laptop”) is designed to change the world by bringing computing resources to children in the developing world. But the many innovations in the XO may also end up changing the world of technology. When you first see the XO, the thought that immediately jumps…