IBM has launched an application that seeks to harness the collective efforts of Internet users to help make the Web more accessible to the visually impaired.

Nielsen Online says interaction with voters, not ad spending, will be its primary gauge of online campaign efforts in the 2008 presidential election. And thus far, Barack Obama is ahead of John McCain on that front, the firm reports.

A cache poisoning flaw that was discovered earlier this year in the Domain Name System protocol was kept under wraps while a group of vendors worked in tandem to develop software patches.

The offer may be back on the table if billionaire investor Carl Icahn is successful in his bid to overhaul Yahoo's board of directors at its August 1 shareholder meeting.

The tension in Google's simultaneous desire to collect the world's data while protecting the world's privacy can be seen in YouTube's user fight.

The nascent market will explode as customers demand more location-based services and manufacturers improve GPS chipsets.

Microsoft will provide ads through its adCenter platform, initially matching placements of text-based ads with Rodale's editorial content.

Google's documentation claims that Protocol Buffers are 3 to 10 times smaller than comparable XML files and can be parsed 20 to 100 times faster.

The video-sharing site's users are calling for a boycott of the media giant following reports that it will view log data to prove its copyright case against Google.

We live in interesting times. According to Gartner Research VP Robert Anderson, if all the people on the MySpace virtual community banded together, they'd form the eighth largest country in the world. Never before in history could people create such large communities and communicate so readily as they can today, thanks to the social networking environment.