Google, Apple Join Khronos Group

The Khronos Group, which focuses "on the creation of open standard, royalty-free APIs," has attracted some powerful new members. Google, Apple, Dell, and several other companies have joined the consortium. Khronos made the announcement at the SIGGRAPH conference and exhibition in Boston.

Ask.com Gets Ready For SES 2006

When the Search Engine Strategies 2006 conference in San Jose gets under way next week, plenty of staffers from Ask.com will be on hand to give presentations.

Google, XM Partner On Radio Ads

Google will finally give its dMarc acquisition a workout as it disclosed an agreement with XM Radio to provide targeted advertising to its listeners.

Windows Live Spaces Debuts

The successor to Microsoft's MSN Spaces blogging service launched this week with an assortment of new features for its users.