Susan Kuchinskas

Can 26 million text messages help end poverty? A massive text- messaging campaign for the poverty-fighting Live 8 concerts over the weekend flattened the

AOL launched a new video search service as part of its evolution from subscription service to public portal. The video search went live on Tuesday within

Microsoft's MSN and Vodafone plan to enable seamless instant messaging between PCs and mobile phones, the companies said this week. Users of MSN Messenger

It's the end of attention. The few crumbs of spare attention anyone has left over from the barrage of daily media will soon be eaten up by "video snacks,"

SAN FRANCISCO -- With the launch of Google Earth on Tuesday, mapping got sexy. In fact, said Keyhole general manager John Hanke, Google had to halt

Yahoo released a limited beta of My Web 2.0, a search personalization play that uses elements of social media to improve search results. The latest beta

Sun Microsystems expanded its RFID offerings with the Sun Java System RFID Software for Java-enabled RFID devices. The software is designed to help RFID

Blinkx added podcasts and video blogs to the media available to its blinkx.tv search service. Blinkx, a provider of search technology that uses voice

Google sneaked another search enhancement out of the Google Lab, this time to give users more of what they want by paying attention to what they wanted

Google launched a new mapping product that lets users do virtual flyovers, then find local businesses. Google Earth is a free downloadable tool for

SAN FRANCISCO -- Sun Microsystems and IBM put aside their differences over open source and extended their technology agreement for another 10 years. The

SAN FRANCISCO -- Sun Microsystems flung open the doors to its code with an extension of its open sourcing initiatives. Monday's announcements here at