Lately I have been discussing the vertical segments that old media companies are losing to new media, with a focus on Personal Finance as an important category. Previously on Read/WriteWeb Continue reading »

Microsoft has acquired Medstory, a vertical search engine for health information. This is an interesting development in a few ways - but in terms of Web tech trends, because it's Continue reading »

Following on from the New York Times Reader last year, made with Microsoft's rich presentation technology WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation), three more big media companies have released Web/desktop News Readers Continue reading »

Written by Jitendra Gupta of Karmaweb and edited by Richard MacManus Bill Gates of Microsoft just announced a deal with Jan Rain, VeriSign and Sxip to develop integration between Microsoft Continue reading »

Mary Jo Foley from ZDNet has done an excellent analysis of Microsoft's Windows Live brand. Her conclusions are quite damning of Microsoft's marketing department: "Problem No. 1: Live isn't a Continue reading »

- Microsoft Announces Three New Windows Live Products for Mobile Devices; along with the official release of Windows Mobile 6, Microsoft has announced 3 new Live products - Live Search

On Monday Google released a relatively minor, but useful, feature. It's worth examining a bit more closely, because it's yet another signal that Google is quietly pecking away at Microsoft's Continue reading »

Written by Jay Fortner and edited by Richard MacManus With the consumer release today of Microsoft Office 2007, it's a good time to look at the online office space - Continue reading »

We're piloting a new feature on Read/WriteWeb, called Point/Counterpoint. It's where two authors (John Milan and Alex Iskold in this case) argue two sides of an intriguing question. We'd also Continue reading »

The big news today is that IBM has released an enterprise social networking suite, called Lotus Connections. The NY Times explains: "Lotus Connections has five components — activities, communities, dogear Continue reading »