Online retail giant Amazon.com launched a newly redesigned version of its homepage today recently. The redesign mostly focuses on the top and sidebar navigation -- actual product content pages are Continue reading »

BitTorrent today announced their content delivery network acceleration service, BitTorrent DNA. DNA will add their peer-to-peer file sharing technology to any CDN to speed up download and streaming services for Continue reading »

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/Champagne_at_the_Googleplex_GOOG_Above_600_share'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Google gained 15.57 today to close at $609.62/share today, breaking the 600 point barrier for the first time. That puts Continue reading »

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/hardware/Google_and_IBM_Bet_the_Server_Farm_on_Cloud_Computing'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Google and IBM are betting the (server) farm on cloud computing. The New York Time is reporting that the two Continue reading »

Today Newsvine CEO Mike Davidson contacted Read/WriteWeb to announce that his citizen journalism startup Newsvine has been acquired by MSNBC, the Microsoft/NBC joint venture, for an undisclosed sum. Davidson told Continue reading »

Microsoft today unveiled their new consumer health and search site Health Vault. Built around their fairly impressive health search engine, Microsoft hopes that the site will become a central repository Continue reading »

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/design/Adobe_Demos_Thermo_RIA_Design_Tool'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; At this morning's keynote at the Adobe MAX event in Chicago, Mark Anders and Steven Heintz of Adobe gave a Continue reading »

The news search engine features that we wrote about at Yahoo! in early August are now live on their site. The enhancements include Yahoo!'s Search Assist, which is an improved Continue reading »

Barnes & Noble.com has launched a re-design, with several new web 2.0 features - including "One on One" podcasts, a large tag cloud on the frontpage, a "See Inside" program Continue reading »

Webmail.us, a business web email service, has just been acquired by leading web hosting company Rackspace for an undisclosed sum. We last covered Webmail.us in August last year as part Continue reading »