Would Microsoft be able to use its acquisition of Yahoo! to 'shake its obsession with catching Google and instead look to the next generation of the Internet,' asks John Markoff in The New York Times this morning. Writing in his popular 'Silicon Vall

'HTML has long been at war with itself,' writes Yahoo! Architect Douglas Crockford, one of the most popular speakers at AJAXWorld ever since it began life early in 2006. 'Is it a document format or is it an application delivery format? You can see th

When Microsoft parted with $240M for a 1.6% stake in a company with $140M in revenues and $30M in profits, was it over-paying? Conspiracy theorists were quick to say that the move was deliberate, to inflate the overall value of Facebook to $15BN and

The BBC carried a report yesterday that raises the alarming possibility of extending cellphone use on board airplanes from just either end of a journey to throughout the duration of the flight.

Java developers are coming from far and wide tomorrow to attend the first ever 'Real-World Java' Seminar, a one-day event being presented by SYS-CON Events in New York City tomorrow.

Alex Haley once said it very succinctly. "Anytime you see a turtle atop a fence post," he once wrote, "you know it had some help." I was immediately reminded of Haley's remark when at AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2007 East in New York City I was yeste

In order to describe itself as an 'open source' company, need a company merely be 'a company that will help you make the switch to open source in your company' - or does it have to be one that lets users feely download, compile and use the software?

The significance of blogging is not the word 'blog' whether used as a verb or a noun, but its role as a harbinger of the game-changing Web-as-platform revolution. In particular, the migration of blogging from the individual toward the enterprise...

Today marks the passing of two years since Jesse James Garrett posted online his seminal essay, 'Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications' and then went offline, on a trip. What he came back to is now a part of Web 2.0 and Rich Internet Applications

"Social Computing," I wrote back in August 2006, "is about to turn the Web world upside down." Now Helge Städtler of the University of Bremen has been kind enough to quote - and amplify - my assertion.

Here is the final list of the Top 150 All-Time i-Technology Heroes. Between them, these individuals conceived, created, built out, and maintained the Internet and indeed, before that, created modern computing as we know it today -- without which the

The death last week of Jean Ichbiah, inventor of Ada, reminded me that the last time I wrote about Ichbiah, and indeed about Ada Lovelace for whom his language was named, was in the context of seeking the Top Twenty Software People in the World.

Is Java a sucked orange - or does it have plenty of 'legs' yet, and Steve Jobs' remark about it being "not worth building in...this big heavyweight ball and chain" is just a temporary techno-backlash such as all languages encounter from time to time?

Alex Haley once said it very succinctly. "Anytime you see a turtle atop a fence post," he once wrote, "you know it had some help." I was immediately reminded of Haley's remark when out of the blue this week I received word that I was about to be a

Combining 'the best things about television with the social power of the Internet' is precisely what The Venice Project, which yesterday came out of stealth and announced itself as Joost, is all about.

Early in 2006 there was a strong sense among industry insiders that AJAX-like approaches were a shoo-in as the new paradigm for fulfilling the software development community’s dream of freedom from OS or runtime environment dependent technologies.

2006 - the year in which YouTube became culturally ubiquitous, Flash video became the de facto Internet video standard of the Web, Microsoft launched Vista, and the Wii entered our lives - was also memorable for one or two other, real-world events.

On Monday it emerged that Microsoft had applied for two patents covering subscribing and discovering what it refers to as "Web feeds" - sparking a furore in the blogosphere and elsewhere that Redmond had imperial designs on RSS users.

In the age of AJAX, in which JavaScript has emerged as the most broadly available scripting language for Web development, Bruce Tate has been wondering whether its reputation as 'the black sheep of programming languages' isn't perhaps overdue for rev

One of Gartner's top 10 predictions for 2007 is that the number of bloggers will level off in the first half of next year at roughly 100 million worldwide. Gartner estimates that there are more than 200M former bloggers who have ceased posting.

The British economist E. F. Schumacher used to say, "I cannot predict the future, but I can have my sail ready." I recently tried in my own small way to help the international community of i-Technology professionals get their sails ready for 2007.

Sim Simeonov finally did it. Earlier in the week he noticed that Wikipedia didn't have a page for social commerce, so now he has created one.

As I write this, the stock price of Google, Inc. just exceeded $500 for the first time in the company's still-brief (two-year) history as a public company. That gives Google a market cap of $150 billion, compared to $19.5 billion for Sun.

AJAXWorld Conference 2007 East speaker John Eckman has been summarizing on his blog a recent digital fracas between Nick Carr and Larry Lessig on what it means to be a Web 2.0 company.

Yesterday marked the 16th birthday of the World Wide Web, according to the definitive timeline published by the W3C itself, which identifies the first web page (no longer extant) as having been located at the following URL: http://nxoc01.cern.ch/hype