Web Services

In an attempt to attract a younger, more internet-savvy audience, CBS News has partnered with a website called Ustream to simulcast its news online. The web site will show CBS News with Katie Couric live over the Internet. Their hope is that streaming their news with third-party websites will attract …

Everyone knows Apple for the iPod and iPhone, but few would believe that the company is investing £628.4 million ($1 billion USD) to build a server farm in the eastern United States. No details about the server datacenter itself have emerged, but news of the plan has trickled out through …

The makers of three major web browsers, Opera, Apple, and Mozilla have been working to ensure that the next version of HTML will include many advances in audio and video integration, something that has become the mainstay of Adobe Flash. The trio forms part of an organization called Web-Hypertext Application …

Small to medium sized businesses (SMBs) are better served by free web services rather than in-house solutions, according to ZDNet. Uptime and additional features are the main draws to these services without the heavy startup costs of developing similar applications on their own hardware. “Scott Rutherford, CTO of UserVoice, a …

Lance Ulanoff at PC Magazine predicts that the “good old days” of free content and services is soon to come to an end. He cites many reasons for this theory. Among them are: 1. A glut of free content from largely undifferentiated sources 2. Premier providers struggling to maintain a …