OAuth — a proposed Open Authentication standard — fills a significant gap in cross-application authentication. It’s common in a world of myriad web-based services for one service you use to want to…

The Public Library of Science has responded to various new networks cropping up in the wake of the Scienceblogs Pepsigate scandal by recruiting keen writers and putting their brand behind them.…

It’s been almost a year since I wrote about how I like Skype, and I noted some legal problems between the Skype founders and eBay, which bought Skype in 2005. Shortly after I wrote that, eBay…

If you just looked at today's cool link, discussing why editors at Old Media don't seem to get the value of links (but their salespeople litter online magazines with paid ones) I give you this great…

LONDON, August 31, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Mendeley, a media technology startup that provides software for PDF sorting of research papers, along with Nature Network and the British Library are excited…

Always wanted to fight actual hordes of locusts and see what that whole Sodom place was all about?You're in luck.  The Bible Online, a massively multiplayer online (MMO) game, is coming…

A few weeks ago, an event occurred that added another layer of drama to one of the biggest controversies in video gaming history - namely, who is the King of Kong.  Donkey Kong, that is. If you'…

My esteemed colleague Nathaniel Borenstein recently had an article published in TechNewsWorld, “Is the IT Pendulum Winding Down?” Are we finally nearing a time when IT’s constant swing between…

LONDON, August 19, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Mendeley (http://www.mendeley.com ), a  media technology startup billing itself as the world's largest research collaboration platform,  announced…

If you watched Comedy Central last night, you may have seen a celebrity roast of David Hasselhoff and some research today is another reminder of "Knight Rider". In the "Knight Rider" television show…