Google now supports the open OAuth standard for sharing data through its Google Data interface, a move that could make it easier to tap into information stored at Google property.

Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif.

Also Thursday, Google announced that Google Finance is now supported in the Google Data API. That means data could be retrieved [...]

When the virtualization smoke clears, large enterprises will deploy a number of virtualization technologies best suited for different types of users. Like everything else in the IT world, desktop virtualization isn’t black and white but many shades of gray. Alas, as promising as desktop virtualization is, it is not a panacea and never will be. [...]

The two companies have not disclosed a valuation for Dallas-based Telligent. Part of the $20 million stake has already been acquired, the companies said Tuesday, with the rest to follow within 12 months.
“This significant investment from Intel Capital will allow us to grow our team, our capabilities, and our reach during a time of market [...]

ID is at the center of the open mesh.

The open mesh is not Microsoft’s Live Mesh. The open mesh is “made up of vendors, standards, and glue code that connects a wide range of services, applications, and platforms together,” Canter said. And, it has identity at the center:
Canter recognizes that a completely unified and open [...]

Although my profession is creating content and publishing it, my problem is hardly unique. I post a few times a day on Webware and Twitter, and I contribute to some other blogs and podcasts, and once in awhile I update Delicious and Flickr. But compared with some people in non-publishing jobs my output is [...]

A Department of Energy representative issued a statement saying only that the agency needs to reassess the project because of rising prices and technological advances.

Carbon capture and storage is considered an important technology to reducing overall greenhouse gas emissions, but the technology is unproven at a large scale. A study from the Massachusetts Institute [...]

The spectrum auction attracted a broad range of companies, including nontraditional players such as Internet search giant Google and wireless technology provider Qualcomm. Traditional phone companies Verizon Wireless and AT&T were also interested in getting their hands on the spectrum.

“When it finally came time to go into the auction, I think they (Google) were pretty [...]

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So, what was the final verdict?
On the plus side, all three reviewers thought Apple dramatically improved the audio quality of the iPhone 3G, both in terms of the built-in
iPod and the phone. All were enthused about the new applications that would be coming to the phone; Pogue wrote, “Above all, the iPhone is [...]

“A total surveillance is not only inevitable and irreversible, but also irresistible,” Jeff Jonas, distinguished engineer and chief scientist at IBM Entity Analytics, said during a panel on surveillance at a Legal Futures Conference here on Saturday.
During the question-and-answer session, an audience member made some interesting points. First, there don’t seem to be [...]

Dashboard redesign: I never really thought the old dashboard was bad, but the new one is visually much cleaner and rearranges the settings options away from the links to write and manage posts. It also takes some of the information that was on the old dashboard and widgetizes it, which makes it easier to get [...]