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An upcoming update will bring a web browser, email and update store app to Barnes Noble’s super affordable Nook Simple Touch line of e-readers, which will begin rolling out June 1 according to a source close to the matter who wishes to remain anonymous. The 1.5.0 update was created in response to the positive critical [...]

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA–(Marketwired – May 20, 2013) – Webtech Wireless Inc. (TSX:WEW) (“Webtech Wireless” or the “Company”), a leading provider of vehicle fleet location-based services and telematics technology, announces the results from its 2013 annual general meeting of shareholders (the “Meeting”) held On May 10, 2013. All of the five nominees listed in the Company’s [...]

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, May 10, 2013 (Marketwired via COMTEX) –
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While it was missing the skydiving antics of last year’s event, Google’s I/O keynote last week wasn’t short on product launches. In between the splashy updates to Google Maps, Search, Android and everything else Google announced, the company also briefly talked about Web Components for a few minutes. While Google’s Sundar Pichai noted that it’s [...]

Family tech — Web services and applications for parents and kids — is a new market driven largely by mothers creating technology to solve problems that have plagued parents for decades, such as how to find a baby sitter, choose the right summer camp, and capture the memories of their child’s first year.

Family tech [...]

Family tech — Web services and applications for parents and kids — is a new market driven largely by mothers creating technology to solve problems that have plagued parents for decades, such as how to find a baby sitter, choose the right summer camp, and capture the memories of their child’s first year.

Family tech [...]

Family tech — Web services and applications for parents and kids — is a new market driven largely by mothers creating technology to solve problems that have plagued parents for decades, such as how to find a baby sitter, choose the right summer camp, and capture the memories of their child’s first year.

Family tech [...]

It’s the second day at Google I/O 2013 in San Francisco. While the other members of the HuffPost tech team on site have been pursuing sessions on Android and Google Glass, I’ve been focused on something much more mundane: the World Wide Web.

The web is 20 years old and we take it for granted [...]

It’s the second day at Google I/O 2013 in San Francisco. While the other members of the HuffPost tech team on site have been pursuing sessions on Android and Google Glass, I’ve been focused on something much more mundane: the World Wide Web.

The web is 20 years old and we take it for granted [...]

It’s the second day at Google I/O 2013 in San Francisco. While the other members of the HuffPost tech team on site have been pursuing sessions on Android and Google Glass, I’ve been focused on something much more mundane: the World Wide Web.

The web is 20 years old and we take it for granted [...]

Google Chrome programmer Rick Byers speaking at Google I/O.

(Credit:
Stephen Shankland/CNET)

SAN FRANCISCO — Google would like to endow Chrome with Microsoft’s technology for letting Web applications deal with input from mice, pens, and touch screens.

Developers of the Google browser said at the [...]

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High-Tech Bridge SA, a leading Swiss information security (https://www.htbridge.com/pages/services/) company recognized as one of the market leaders and best service providers in the ethical [...]

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GENEVA, May 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ –

High-Tech Bridge SA, a leading Swiss information security (https://www.htbridge.com/pages/services/) company recognized as one of the market leaders and best service providers in the ethical [...]

Georgia Tech has announced a partnership with Web-learning startup Udacity that sees the two organizations team up to offer its first online master of science degree, which will run as an entirely Internet-based program.

The degree is for computer science, and ATT is also onboard to help cover costs and to provide guidance on the courses and degree [...]

Georgia Tech has announced a partnership with Web-learning startup Udacity that sees the two organizations team up to offer its first online master of science degree, which will run as an entirely Internet-based program.

The degree is for computer science, and ATT is also onboard to help cover costs and to provide guidance on the courses and degree [...]

By JESSICA E. LESSIN

Bloomberg News

Google, which develops Chrome, has developed technologies that can be used for voice-recognition browsing.

Mobile phones, wearable devices and self-driving cars are generating buzz as the future of technology. But the old Web browser is being reinvented too, in a trend with implications for how [...]

By JESSICA E. LESSIN

Bloomberg News

Google, which develops Chrome, has developed technologies that can be used for voice-recognition browsing.

Mobile phones, wearable devices and self-driving cars are generating buzz as the future of technology. But the old Web browser is being reinvented too, in a trend with implications for how [...]

Today Walmart’s @WalmartLabs announced that it has acquired two companies, adding their capabilities to its technology team.

@WalmartLabs acquired OneOps, in hopes of boosting its Platform as a Service capabilities, and its private cloud efforts. Also acquired is Tasty Labs, a software development firm from Mountain View. The reasoning behind the two small [...]

Today Walmart’s @WalmartLabs announced that it has acquired two companies, adding their capabilities to its technology team.

@WalmartLabs acquired OneOps, in hopes of boosting its Platform as a Service capabilities, and its private cloud efforts. Also acquired is Tasty Labs, a software development firm from Mountain View. The reasoning behind the two small [...]

Vehicle fleet location-based services and telematics technology providerWebtech Wireless said first quarter 2013 revenue declined year-over-year to CAD 7.4 million from CAD 7.7 million. Adjusted EBITDA was CAD 0.5 million. Hardware revenue increased 6 percent. Recurring revenue was relatively flat at CAD 4.7 million against CAD 4.8 million but rose to 64 percent of total [...]

Muscat Grand Mall (MGM), in collaboration with ING Webtech has launched Buzz – an application said to make navigation easier for shoppers.

The service is free and gets connected to smartphones through WiFi in the mall.

Its page BUZZ@mgm virtualises the entire mall and makes it available on a visitor’s mobile handset.

Buzz distributes information [...]

Think Japan’s not quite as innovative as it used to be? Kei Shimada, director of business development at advertising and PR firm Dentsu disagrees. At The Next Web Conference Europe 2013, he took to the stage to talk us through some of the innovations being worked on by his team and others in the [...]

May is National Stroke Awareness month. I like to follow the technology advancements for stroke prevention and treatment — and the companies making them — because I have been a stroke survivor for nine years. We don’t realize it on a daily basis, but things advance as quickly in the medical and health industries [...]

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA–(Marketwired – May 10, 2013) – Webtech Wireless Inc. (TSX:WEW) (“Webtech Wireless” or the “Company”), a leading provider of vehicle fleet location-based services and telematics technology, today announced its financial results for the three month period ended March 31, 2013.

On January 24, 2013, the Company closed the sale of its NextBus [...]

New media companies — from Gawker to Buzzfeed — have sprung up to feed every niche (and then some). Which are actually profitable?

FORTUNE — The web has given rise to a number of notable digital publishers serving almost everyone’s tastes, from straightforward news to guilty pleasures. For every Pulitzer-winning 10-part series on [...]

Marketing is getting increasingly high-tech. And increasingly complex.

How complex? Digital media firm Luma Partners has put together an infographic that captures the ridiculously dizzying array of software and Web technologies available to marketers.

You’ll want to go fullscreen on this one.

Luma Partners, which has offices in New York City and Silicon Valley, cites [...]

Service-oriented
architecture (SOA) and cloud
platforms have been hotly debated over the years. Add mobile applications and Web APIs
into the mix and you’ll get architects really talking. In our latest podcast, Rob Daigneau,
practice lead for custom application development at Slalom Consulting, offers his expert insights

Visual organizer and web content clipper service Clipboard announced Thursday that it’s been acquired by Salesforce and will be shutting down the current operation. AllThingsD is reporting that the company was acquired for somewhere between $10 and $20 million.

The company explained its decision in a blog post on the site:

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The New York City Council has shared that it will vote to approve the Cornell NYC Tech campus on Roosevelt Island, a move which Speaker Christine C. Quinn says enables “the final steps necessary for construction to commence.”

In addition, Cornell NYC Tech has shared that it will “partner with New York City middle schools to create [...]

TEMPE, Ariz. — Gov. Jan Brewer and the CEO of GoDaddy said the
Scottsdale-based web-hosting company is building a new technology center at
Arizona State University’s research park in Tempe.

The company plans to house 1,300 engineers, developers and customer-care
representatives in a new two-story, 150,000-square-foot facility. Three hundred
[...]

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Web Hosting News – Toronto, Ontario – Cirrus Tech Ltd., specializing in Linux and Windows VPS Canada wide and offering hosting services to customers around the world from its location in Toronto, Ontario, announces its new partnership with software developer Smarter Tools Inc. based in Phoenix, Arizona. Cirrus is now offering the SmarterTools [...]

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CERN)

A quick history lesson for readers.

In 1989, British physicist Tim Berners-Lee invented what would be called the “World Wide Web.” The first trials were held in December 1990 at the laboratories of CERN, the major research laboratory in Geneva that’s better known today [...]

TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Gov. Jan Brewer and the CEO of GoDaddy say the Scottsdale-based web-hosting company is building a new technology center at Arizona State University’s research park in Tempe.

The company plans to house 1,300 engineers, developers and customer-care representatives in a new two-story, 150,000-square-foot facility. Three hundred of the workers will [...]