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It's perhaps the one way that database interaction can work reliably using any format, any server and any client on the Web today.

Just a month after announcing its plans to devour hit app Instagram to the tune of $1 billion, Facebook has released its very own photo sharing app.

There’s a lot of money in poor people.

The ownCloud project is adding features fast and furiously.

Axis, Yahoo's "new kind of browser" that launched yesterday, is an attempt to do something noble and important.

Today's theme is real artists ship. Everyone wants their tech to be fun.

Today the X Prize Foundation announced a $2.

It is time for another look at enterprise IT from our friends Chief and Chuck.

If your boss asked you to identify all of the various SaaS-based providers that are being used across your corporate network, how long would it take you to put together a report? This isn't academic: As more of your end-users sign up for these cloud-based services, it becomes increasingly harder to maintain the appropriate enterprise security policies as the number and kinds of files stored there increases.

Social scientists are increasingly looking at online friendships and trying to figure out if they carry the same emotional baggage that real-world friendships do.

 PayPal co-founder and Facebook pre-IPO stockholder Peter Thiel

Facebook's tainted public offering, which has attracted the attention of federal securities investigators, has grown a bit darker with the filing of a class-action lawsuit.

The generally accepted definition of "cloud services" - even the one prescribed by the U.

UpNext Maps for iPhone is beautiful. It's the smoothest, fastest map I've ever used. It renders 3D buildings for virtual exploration of certain cities.

Web-only, original programming. If there's one trend in TV this year that has the potential to shake things up moving forward, this is it.

Steve Wozniak, two years later

It’s been fun to watch the normally exuberant tech press go through the rationalization process of what went wrong with Facebook’s IPO, starting with claims that Friday’s flat opening meant the IPO was perfectly priced to outright ignoring the story.

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Yahoo just joined the browser game. The veteran Web company, which has been struggling to define its focus for years, is suddenly betting on the mobile space with a new browser called Axis.

There's a belief (which, for some, has metastasized into a desperate hope) that how you say something online, not so much what you say, directly translates to whether you'll read it.

Google updated its search app for iPhone today with a complete redesign that makes it more like the iPad version.

Google founder Larry Page’s shot across Facebook's bow in an interview with Charlie Rose on Monday night generated plenty of headlines Tuesday, but Page got off without really answering Rose’s original question: Is Google “worried or not worried about Facebook’s competition in search?”

We spent Tuesday tracking down experts who could speculate on if and when Facebook may try to compete against Google in search, and envision what Facebook’s version of search may look like.