After a two-month pilot, Yahoo's Mixd mobile service has closed down. Mixd first came to light in November last year. It was a group mobile messaging tool for the youth Continue reading »

In New Zealand this week, two new Web portals were announced: Yahoo!Xtra and the launch of msn.co.nz on 1 March 2007. The background, briefly, is that both of these new Continue reading »

Written by Jay Fortner and edited by Richard MacManus. Jay was Read/WriteWeb's representative at the Adobe Engage event, held yesterday in San Francisco. After attending Adobe’s Engage event, where Adobe Continue reading »

Today Adobe is holding an event called Engage, where it is explaining its Apollo web development platform for tech bloggers, developers and others in the Web industry. John Dowdell from 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 Emre Sokullu and edited by Richard MacManus Windows Vista is finally out and along with that Microsoft seems to have kick-started its Vista-Live joint initiative. This initiative aims Continue reading »

The big news tonight is that Google has released a premier edition of its Google Apps package (previously known as Google Apps For Your Domain). I've been following the Web Continue reading »

Written by Jitendra Gupta of Karmaweb and edited by Richard MacManus Late last week AOL announced its support of the open identity system OpenID, for all 63 million of their Continue reading »

This morning Dell unveiled a couple of community-focused sites, essentially jumping into the web 2.0 waters with a splash. They've released a digg-like community site called IdeaStorm and a video Continue reading »