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I've long fantasized about being able to walk down city streets and get information on my phone about area demographics, histories of buildings I see and block-by-block news. A new

One of the more ambitious and innovative Web apps I've heard of recently is InnovAlarm, a Web-based platform for security, safety and health monitoring services. Although their website has little

Your mother's calling - and there are shoes on sale. A new study released this week in the UK found that 80% of respondents said they were "happy to have

Google is everywhere. From your web mail to your web searches and now even tracking your location on a map, the ubiquity of Google is something that many of us

AOL's social news site relaunched today under the new name Propeller. No longer "the new Netscape", Propeller seems on face like a clone of a clone. There may, though, be

The share of adult internet users who are involved in social networking online has more than quadrupled in the past four years in the U.S. In 2005, only 8% of

Burlington, MA-based Mzinga, which provides social networking, community, and e-learning solutions for the enterprise, is today announcing that it has acquired Prospero. Prospero is itself a provider of enterprise community

For those busy souls who don't have time to read blogs on a regular basis, here are the highlights from Read/WriteWeb this week. It turned out to be a Social

A new study by Anderson Analytics looks into the demographics and psychographics of social networking users on Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and LinkedIn with a goal of providing marketers with information

This post may ring a bell for all the non-Silicon Valley readers. Firstly an admission: I hardly ever write about my home country, New Zealand. The reason for that is