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I'm excited to be involved in the Jupiter Research blogging project, as described by Michael Gartenberg: "It wasn't easy but we've just sent the the first three bloggers their invites

We love our mobile phones, especially our smart phones, and we've come to think of them as "mini" computers in our pocket. However, the nature of the phones' hardware still

Late last week, Microsoft Research released an interesting paper [PDF] about a Web browser it calls Gazelle that's constructed in such a way to act like an operating system with

Like to sing in the shower or in the car? Want to subject others to your incoherent warblings as if they were a real song? Microsoft Songsmith may be for

iBreadCrumbs is a new web browser add-on designed specifically for students, researchers, professionals, or anyone who is doing research on the web. By clicking a toolbar button in your browser,

Last year, Google Knol launched to a lot of hype and skepticism. While, at first, it looked like a possible Wikipedia-challenger, in reality, it didn't attract a lot of users

Yahoo!, who has been a key contributor to open source distributed computing framework Hadoop, today announced an academic research partership with Carnegie Mellon University that will give students access to

Google just announced a major expansion of its Flu Trends program which monitors searches for Flu-related symptoms on Google's search engine to predict Flu outbreaks. Until now, Google only made

Sean Ammirati of mSpoke is at SXSW in Austin, TX (USA). He is reporting for Read/WriteWeb throughout the event. The last panel I attended on the first day of SXSW

George Bush signed a $555 billion omnibus spending bill yesterday that included a huge victory for advocates of open science on the internet. All research funded by the US National