Apple Computer is preparing a major announcement next week

Dropping hints of something as critical to the company's future as the release of the original iPod in 2001.

Search Engines Future: Personalized Collaborative Shareable Search

Prompted by the business prospect of a coming search market valued at $ 18 billion in the next five years (source: Safa Rashtcy - Piper Jaffray) and following the recent technology announcements in personalized collaborative search made by Yahoo (My Web 2.0) and Google (My Search History) a whole new type of search engine makes its debut today. Like its more famous siblings this new technology focuses on the development...

Article courtesy of Robin Good.

Here Comes Google Voice



Lots of talk about Google introducing an instant messaging client, using the Jabber technology. I think this will be a voice enabled IM product, which will be released in order to match the “talk” features of Yahoo and MSN. Google Rumors reports that the talk.google.com domain has become active, and sends you to google.com/talk which shows a 404 message. There is already news that Google is running a Jabber server. Jabber already has a deal with AOL, and from the looks of it, is fast becoming a platform of choice for voice-over-IM.

Article courtesy of Om Malik's Broadband Blog

UPDATE: Download Google TALK Beta here.

Window worms knocing our computers [CNET]

Network worms that shut down computers running Microsoft's Windows 2000 operating system on Tuesday, Aug. 15th, may be linked to competition between rival hackers, security experts said.

Yahoo Buys Into Chinese Online Company

Yahoo Inc. is paying $1 billion in cash for a 40 percent stake in China's biggest online commerce firm, Alibaba.com, strengthening the ties that international companies are forging in the world's second-largest Internet market. Read story here.

RFID's Second Wave: BusinessWeek Article

As prices fall and systems improve rapidly, manufacturers are finally starting to embrace the electronic tagging technology

Preview of Windows Vista

Known for years by the code name "Longhorn," the successor to Microsoft's Windows XP has been dubbed "Longwait" for its numerous delays. As features have been announced, it's also been accused of copying Apple Computer Inc.'s Mac OS X.

Apple Introduces Mighty Mouse

Apple Computer Inc.'s neglect of the humble mouse is over. It now offers a model that's nimble.

More here at Apple about the Might Mouse.

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  Yahoo website to provide news videos from CNN, ABC AFP - 42 minutes ago

  SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - US Internet giant Yahoo is to offer Internauts free daily news clips from the American CNN and ABC television networks starting in September, the company announced.