InternetNews Staff

Microsoft needs more brainiacs to fill its developer ranks, so it’s going North to nurture them. The software giant said it plans to expand its presence in Canada by opening a new software development center in the greater Vancouver, British Columbia, area. Doors are slated to open this fall, and it will house software developers […]

Adobe  has launched Visual Communicator 3, a video software product that helps educators and students create scripted, television-quality broadcasts. This version will feature live streaming when the product ships in the fall. Teleprompters with scrolling, all-caps text are now becoming more visual media as well, with software that enables programmers to add pictures and other […]

By Jack McCarthy As Apple  approaches the June 29 launch of its much-anticipated iPhone, exclusive carrier AT&T is expected to gain market share in handsets as consumers rush to snap up the device. But the question is, for how long? AT&T  stands to gain 1.4 percent of the wireless market by the end of fiscal […]

They were potential rivals, but now the two wireless networking specs are friends, and anytime networking on personal networks could be all the better for it. The Wibree wireless specification group said today it would join up with a Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) in order to become a part of the Bluetooth spec as […]

Networking company Qwest Communications  is on a quest for new senior management. Current CEO Richard Notebaert said he would step down from his roles as CEO and chairman upon selection of a successor. The company said it planned no changes in strategy or operations as a result of today’s announcement and no timetable has been […]

Let’s see … more than 33 million people using the mobile Web and some 8 million users of mobile video in the last 30 days alone, according to the Nielsen Company: That’s a mass worth measuring. The media and metrics company, which actually already provides metrics to advertisers about mobile media usage, is adding more […]

Who knew? It’s not just the smartphone category that is the hot-ticket item driving mobile phone sales. The geegaws, doo-dads and other accessories sold separately for those phones are doing some driving, too. That’s the conclusion of a study by ABI Research. The New York-based research firm said the market for mobile phone accessories will […]

VeriSign CEO Stratton Sclavos is stepping down and will vacate his role on the board of directors, the online security and digital certificate company said today. Stratton Sclavos The company said the board of directors had elected William A. Roper, Jr., as president and CEO and named Edward A. Mueller as chairman of the company, […]

Helio, the Mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) for the young and hip, has just released its newest flagship phone, the Ocean, onto the market. The 3G (EV-DO) handset features a unique dual-slider design that combines both a numeric keypad and a separate full QWERTY thumb-keyboard to make tasks such as sending instant messages or e-mail […]

What’s an Instant Messaging experience without a chat room with friends? Better yet, what’s a social networking experience without some video to watch together? That’s the idea behind the beta launch of meebo rooms from meebo.com, the site that helps Web sites add IM to any Web page. Meebo, which counts two million registered users, […]

Markets found their footing Wednesday after the Fed decided to leave interest rates unchanged at 5.25 percent, which pushed the onward and upward crowd to the front of the class again. The Dow Industrials gained 53.80 to close at 13,362.87. The Nasdaq gained 4.59 to end the session at 2,576.34. In what was largely expected, […]

They call it Skype for Salesforce.com, but you might as well call it a way to hop on the VoIP  wagon with the salesforce.com platform. The VoIP provider is teaming up with SaaS leader Salesforce.com  in an attempt to tease customers into deploying Skype with their Salesforce Web-based applications. The companies said the latest version […]