Researchers at George Mason University are developing a plug-in for the Firefox browser that will help academics organize sources and properly cite them. The tool is designed to harvest bibliographic information from online sources and organize it for someone doing research on the Web. Assuming the bibliographic elements are formatted in a way the software […]

RealNetworks has introduced a Web-based version of its Rhapsody online music service, untethering existing users from their usual computers and opening the service to users with non-Windows-based computers.
Until now, Rhapsody users had to download an application to their computers to access the service. With the new offering, users can access the service from any computer […]

Intel has announced plans to invest $1 billion in India, where it already operates the company’s largest nonmanufacturing site outside the United States. That site, in Bangalore, hosts development efforts for software. The new investment, expected over the next five years, will be split between the existing research and development efforts and local firms. Craig […]

The government of Singapore has announced plans to invest nearly $600 million over the next decade to foster growth in the digital sector of the country’s economy. Singapore’s Economic Development Board will manage the investments, which will support four areas: attracting businesses from outside the country; fostering a climate that encourages residents of the country […]

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has chosen Johns Hopkins University to lead an effort to investigate nationwide preparedness for and response to large-scale disasters. The Center for the Study of High Consequence Event Preparedness and Response will look at ways the country can prevent and manage disasters, particularly through the interactions of networks and […]

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Microsoft has made a change to its Internet Explorer browser to avoid infringing on a patent held by Eolas Technologies, though Microsoft continues to dispute the validity of that patent. Eolas was granted a patent in 1998 for a technology that allows certain programs, such as applets or ActiveX controls, to be launched automatically from […]

A company that makes and distributes adware has filed a lawsuit against a computer security company that identifies the adware company’s products as “high risk.” The adware purveyor, 180solutions, contends that Zone Labs erred in saying that some of 180solutions’s applications try to monitor mouse movements and keystrokes. Although some of its applications employ a […]