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A new online video show about web technology debuted this week, called WebbAlert. It is already making some waves in the blogosphere. Hosted by Morgan Webb, it's a daily 5-minute

This morning, after President-Elect Obama laid out the key parts of his economic recovery plan during his weekly address, he turned to the Internet and told the country that he

According to their blog and a recent BusinessWire release, controversial Swedish bit torrent tracker the Pirate Bay, is being acquired by Global Gaming Factory X AB for roughly $7.8 million

If you're a fan of digg, you've probably been noticing that tech stories are becoming less and less a feature of the social news site. The reason? Digg is attempting

We wrote about Microsoft possibly acquiring semantic search engine Powerset just a few days ago when it was still a rumor. Today, both Microsoft and Powerset have confirmed that they

Online retailer Amazon.com has just announced a new checkout system called "PayPhrase" which speeds up the process of making online purchases by allowing shoppers to enter a unique phrase and

Today, Research in Motion (RIM) announced that they've licensed HP's CloudPrint technology for use with BlackBerry devices. If you're unfamiliar with CloudPrint, it's a web service that allows you to

Akamai Technologies delivers 15-20% of all web traffic each day, which puts them in a unique position to monitor the status of the global web. This week, they released their

While Google Docs has been ramping up recently, it seems the Google Pack has been cutting back. Sun's $70 productivity suite StarOffice, which was added to the free Google Pack

Just a quick admin note about a few things. Firstly, Read/WriteWeb has been growing so well in recent months that I'm in the process of expanding the site. Key to