Xerox is developing a reusable paper that can be used several hundred times. The paper uses a molecular compound that changes the color of the paper when exposed to UV light. The print fades over 1... More >
Yahoo has announced it will outsource to Jajah its premium voice service on Yahoo Messenger, reports TechCrunch . Yahoo's instant messaging feature has 97 million users , though it's not c... More >
We here at IT Business Edge know we certainly couldn't do it on a work day, but a Canadian group has declared Saturday, May 3 as "Shutdown Day," challenging people to go a whole day without their c... More >
A popular Saudi blogger who spent four months in prison without ever being charged has been freed, reports The Washington Post . Fouad al-Farhan, 33, said he was "fairly treated" since bein... More >
Firefox reached almost 29 percent market share in Europe in March and is still gaining popularity, according to Web metrics company Xiti. Xiti says Internet Explorer has lost 2.5 points duri... More >
Three separate developers have proposed plans to build wind farms on Lake Michigan . The projects are very much in the preliminary stages. Interest in offshore wind turbines has picked up because of... More >
Dell CEO Michael Dell unveiled a bamboo-encased PC at the Fortune Green Conference this week. According to Dell, the yet-to-be-named eco-friendly computer uses 70 percent less power than a standard... More >
Microsoft this week took the wraps off its Dynamics CRM Online , undercutting Salesforce.com's prices and offering more storage capacity, reports eWEEK . The suite of on-demand sales, market... More >
Hitachi Data Systems is honoring Earth Day by unveiling its new green data center . The Yokohama, Japan, facility is expected to dramatically cut carbon emissions while lowering its impact on the co... More >
A federal court has ruled that inspection of a person's laptop at U.S. entry points -- even without suspicion that it's being used in some nefarious way -- does not constitute unreasonable search a... More >
A Massachusetts developer's plan to build a data center in an old smokestack factory includes use of two 300-foot wind turbines expected to produce 25 percent of the needed energy, reports Comput... More >
Cisco and AT&T have teamed up to sell Cisco's high-end video conferencing system in hopes of making it attractive to multinational corporations, reports Reuters . Cisco launched the Tel... More >
VoIP provider Skype announced Monday it is offering unlimited calls from the United States to 34 other countries for $9.95 a month, though in most countries the calls must be to landline phones, re... More >
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin said Thursday the agency would investigate whether broadband Internet providers disclose their network-management practices to consumers and ... More >
Green technology, while difficult to define, is becoming more pervasive in the enterprise. TMCnet reports that green IT is receiving more attention from the executive suite. The piece notes a Data... More >
Broadband penetration in the United States has reached 49 percent, up more than 300 percent over the 2002 rate of 12 percent, reports vnunet.com . In a report, analyst company Scarborough Re... More >
Though invited to discuss its plans for a peer-to-peer "Bill of Rights" at a Federal Communications Commission hearing Thursday at Stanford University, Comcast has decided to sit this one out , re... More >
The term green technology has been given some liberal definition in the technology industry as companies clamor to be with one of the latest trends. The data center has been a central area for compan... More >
Still backpedaling after charges that it interferes with peer-to-peer traffic, Comcast is advocating a "Bill of Rights and Responsibilities" for file sharing , according to an Associated Press sto... More >
Windows is going a whole lot of nowhere , according to a recent report by Gartner analysts Neil MacDonald and Michael Silver. This seems to be in sharp contrast to a recent post by ITBusiness... More >
Google launched a preview release of its App Engine earlier this week. While most of the tech chatter has been positive, it hasn't been without its detractors. Google's HuddleChat was used t... More >
Back in February 2007, ITBusinessEdge blogger Ann All interviewed Dave Hersh, CEO of Jive Software , as the company was preparing to launch its Clearspace collaboration software. Clearspace integrat... More >
Comcast on Thursday will launch a higher-speed Internet option in the Minneapolis-St. Paul region that The New York Times calls "a bandwidth hog's dream." Showing off the technology recentl... More >
It's all over, including the shouting, which Microsoft did Tuesday. The approval of Open Office XML as an international standard is just the beginning of lengthy adoption and implementation process ... More >
The International Olympic Committee has warned Beijing that its contract to host the Olympics also requires it to provide open access to the Internet , reports Reuters . The contract require... More >

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