Microsoft previewed Internet Explorer 9 this morning, which has strong support for HTML5 and makes use of hardware acceleration to dramatically improve the performance of video and animation.

Microsoft executives said that web

Marketing. It’s often considered a spin doctor-ish, slimy profession intended to deceive people into buying something they don’t need.

Marketing as it should be done is actually a very noble profession that can improve people’s

iPhone sales are gaining on BlackBerry's, according to a report by Forrester Research. While RIM's BlackBerry is still the most popular device for business users, the iPhone is closing the gap. In so...»

Facebook is holding on tight to its contact information, and Twitter determined to bring out the fail whale as many times as possible during the World Cup. After adding an update that would...»

Google gets its victory over Viacom, and big brand media overall. Is anyone surprised? The search engine giant seemed pretty confident in its acquisition of YouTube knowing the trouble it was in with Viacom. Many

PapayaMobile has raised $4 million towards the launch of its new mobile social networking platform, which will be available on Android mobile devices. The move is smart for the Beijing-based company, as it already...»

Wow!! the HP Cisco war that we were the first to report is showing some movement and shaking up the pecking order of the industry. Just earlier in the week HP announced the new Virtual...»

Online language-learning site Babbel has added voice recognition, giving users a real-time feedback system. As part of the lessons, users are encouraged to speak to the web-based Babbel site, where their pronunciation can be...»

The fundamental nature of data center computing is rapidly changing. The traditional model of separately provisioned and maintained server, storage, and network resources are constraining data center agility and increasing the operational budgets and killing budgets required to change...»

Tomorrow I'll be at the GigaOm Structure 10 cloud event and I'll see Tom Roloff who will be speaking there.  Tom is a great guy but very much on top of one of the biggest trends - IT...»