Posts Tagged ‘Rafe Needleman

Starting at 10 a.m. PST, Google plans to reveal technical details and launch plans for its upcoming operating system. CNET’s Rafe Needleman will have a running commentary. Go to Source

The American Association of Retired Persons, or AARP, an organization with the stated mission of helping “people 50 and over improve the quality of their lives as they age,” has launched a Web site for whippersnappers, people not old enough to be members, called LifeTuner. The consumer pitch is noble: It helps people set good [...]

Tim Berners-Lee at the Web 2.0 Summit. (Credit: Rafe Needleman/CNET) SAN FRANCISCO–When Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, entered the room for the final interview at the Web 2.0 Summit, the audience stood up for him. Appropriately so, since most of those present here Thursday owe their livelihoods to his invention. In an [...]

There have been dozens, maybe hundreds, of companies that have tried to create useful Web browser start pages and content aggregation sites. Popular themes include RSS readers, widget collection pages, and user-filtered news hubs. I’ve seen and tried a lot of them but rarely use them after a quick look. A new project, iCurrent, has [...]

Bing's Twitter search starts with a zeitgeist view. (Credit: Screenshot by Rafe Needleman/CNET) Microsoft is getting into the real-time search business, as we reported earlier Tuesday from the Web 2.0 Summit. It’s good to see a mainstream product dive into this stream, as one of the big issues with searching Twitter is that timeliness can [...]


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