New Software Hits and Misses

Yahoo Updates Its Widgets

The mini-applications provided by Yahoo after its purchases of Pixoria/Konfabulator have received some new entries and a tweaked engine to run them.

Irish Luck To Bring More Google Jobs?

700 more positions at Google's Dublin-based European headquarters may be opening soon, and bring to 1,000 the number of people working in Dublin for the search advertising company.

Ballmer On Google, Ads, And Technology

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer had a lot of opinions for a Canadian publication on several topics, notably dismissing any inroads Google's supposedly made on the world's top technology company.

The Road AheadAnd Whos Driving

There are so many metaphors to describe the future of the Internet. It's a beehive--busy, varied, distracted, and catacombed. It's a world within a world, a microcosm, a virtual political/social/you-name-it mirror of the world outside, with good and bad neighborhoods, with utopian egalitarian potential that may never be fully reached.