Dan Lyons, the modern American Clark Kent known, loved and loathed as the Fake Steve Jobs, has been signed by EPIX, the online TV and film network, to create a half-hour Silicon Valley comedy series with Seinfeld writer Larry Charles called iCON, “a study of ego, power and greed.” Ch...

Social networking expert NSDesign has launched a bespoke business social networking platform for the International Business Technology and Innovation Exchange (IBTIX) - www.ibtix.com. The £25,000 contract is one of the largest NSDesign has secured to date and is another significant ad...

Demand for mobile access to Web 2.0 applications and services will see related annual revenues from these services hit $18.9 billion in 2014, a new report from Juniper Research has found. Presence-enabled communities, such as mobile voice-over-IP (VoIP), will be the primary market driv...

Google's reportedly admitting that it's met somebody that's bigger, tougher and even more dominance-minded than it is, namely the Chinese government, which isn't going to let a little thing like Google leaving the country come between it and a censored Internet. Whatever talks Googl...

This morning I read in the WSJ about the Turing award for this year given to Charles Thacker. I must admit I did not now much about Charles Thacker, he being mostly from the hardware side of the business. For those not familiar with this award, it is the highest honor given to contr...

Apple is beginning to know how Xerox PARC felt. Like Apple did to PARC, Google has lifted from Apple again this time on behalf of Google Apps and set up a Google Apps Marketplace where third parties can sell business programs that integrate with Google Apps to the two million compa...

JackBe enterprise mashup software company, on Thursday announced that its award-winning Presto Enterprise Mashup Platform is now running on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. ‘Presto Cloud (Community Edition)’ is immediately available at no cost to all members of JackBe’s Mashup Developer C...

Advisōlocity, a social media marketing resource dedicated to advisors and money managers on a creative budget, launched to criticism and acclaim this week. Charlie O'Neill, former managing director of Putnam Investments said, "Advisōlocity should be careful not to look like just anoth...

Local business listing give the local business and the small business the opportunity to tap into the local consumers that they rely on for their revenues. Local business listings are showing up on the first page of search results as well as on mobile search when the local consumer is ...

Bull will now offer its German customers Open-Xchange mail and groupware. They can use Open-Xchange as a hosted solution provided by Bull or run it in-house as on-premise installation – and switch between the types of operation any time they like.

Salesforce.com has started privately beta testing its newfangled Chatter widgetry, the socially tuned real-time enterprise widgetry that’s supposed to accelerate the end of pricey and complex legacy apps like SharePoint and Lotus Notes. Although 67,000 customers reportedly volunteere...

Microsoft Wednesday tied its Outlook e-mail client to LinkedIn – with Facebook and MySpace to follow – to “bring social networking into the inbox.” It’s supposed to be more private than Google’s disaster with Buzz and connect to existing social networks rather than create new ones. ...

GoAdv, one of Europe's fastest growing digital media companies (http://www.goadv.com), has acquired Italy's top blog network as part of its worldwide growth strategy. Blogosfere, launched in 2005, now counts more than 210 professional blogs across its network and has a user base of ...

Alan Moran on Wednesday launched F5 Networks "new media" topic on Ulitzer. Alane Moran is the Sr. Director of Corporate Communications at F5 Networks. Through her interaction with industry pundits, journalists and partners around the globe, Alane works to convey F5’s unique value pr...

Introduced last week Google's Facebook / Twitter-like Buzz social networking widgetry, untested outside the company and put in Gmail as a default, immediately raised a privacy hullabaloo over the idea that a list of the people Gmail users communicated with the most would be automatical...

Google Buzz "new media" topic launched on Monday on Ulitzer. Google Buzz is a social integration and messaging tool by Google, designed to integrate into the company's web-based email program, Gmail. Shared links and messages show up in the user's inbox. Buzz focuses on integrating ...

PC World – Google Buzz got off to a rocky start this week with complaints over exposed Gmail contacts and other privacy issues, and Google has scrambled to fix them. In a blog post, Gmail and Google Buzz Product Manager Todd Jackson outline some changes that will make it easier for ...

Reportedly unable to buy Twitter last summer, Google got Twitter-ized Tuesday. It has integrated a self-affirming, “I tweet therefore I am,” so-called babble-style capability smacking a lot of Facebook and Twitter into Gmail so users can share media and status updates with a connected ...

GyPSii , the market-leading mobile digital lifestyle application and geo-mobility social media platform, and Telmap, the mobile search, mapping and navigation pioneers, jointly announced today a partnership to develop and introduce advanced location-based social networking as part of ...

Magic Software Enterprises Inc., a subsidiary of Magic Software Enterprises Ltd., a provider of application platforms and business and process integration solutions, on Tuesday announced that its new iBOLT business integration suite component for Microsoft SharePoint will enable unlimi...

Computational science is the field of study concerned with constructing mathematical models and numerical techniques that represent scientific, social scientific or engineering problems and employing these models on computers, or clusters of computers, to analyze, explore or solve thes...

Reportedly unable to just buy Twitter last summer, Google is going Twitteresque. According the Wall Street Journal, Gmail will be adding a self-affirming, pointless babble, “I tweet therefore I am” capability in the style of Facebook and Twitter to its skills so users can share media a...

Here I am at ShmooCon 2010 right in the middle of what people here in Washington DC are calling Snowpocalypse 2010. The Metro, busses, and taxis are all closed down and essentially the city has shut down. Being from Cleveland I find it a little lau...

Over the last six months, a group of social media musicians in San Antonio have been playing music together under the name, #TwitterJamBand. It's really been a way to get friends together, jam and just have some fun. In the process, the band is being noticed by the media, world-wide. ...

Marilyn Moux launched on Friday "Bergen County New Jersey Real Estate News" topic on Ulitzer. Marilyn is a licensed real estate broker associate with Weichert Realtors, in Ramsey, New Jersey. She can be reached at mmoux (at) weichert.com or by phone ta 201 446-1402. Bergen County...

Orchestra is excited at the possibility of having DrupalCon 2010 in San Francisco, CA. If you think it would be a good idea to have DrupalCon here on the West Coast, sign up for the site updates and check out the proposal. Leave the team feedback and let them know your thoughts ...

Marking its first appearance in San Francisco, Calif., DrupalCon 2010 will take place April 19-21, 2010 at the Moscone Center. DrupalCon is the premier conference for Drupal, the award-winning open source content management framework that is galvanizing social publishing and web develo...

Funambol, the leading provider of open source mobile cloud sync and push email for billions of phones, today introduced a major new version of its software. Funambol 8.5 propels the company's open source mobile cloud platform into important new directions by syncing diverse mobile ...

The Chinese hackers that targeted Google, Adobe and 30 other companies spied on their employees and learned who their friends were through social networking sites. Then they appropriated the friends’ identities and that’s how they got the unsuspecting employees to open the e-mail that ...

Apple’s iPad announcement is big news. It’s a robust tablet form factor that is a half-inch thick and weighs 1.5 pounds, with a 9.7-inch capacitive touchscreen IPS LCD display that supports 1024x768 VGA video. The ebook implementation is everything one would expect. The application can...

Ulitzer.com, the first revolutionary "new media" platform in the world, announced today that a new Ulitzer topic site, Apple Tablet (http://tablet.ulitzer.com), was launched today to provide the most comprehensive breaking news and blog coverage of Apple Tablet. Launch time authors...

Oracle’s co-president Chuck Phillips and his ex-girlfriend YaVaughnie Wilkins overshadowed Oracle’s hard-won victory over the European Commission and its pending $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems last week after Ms. Wilkins plastered snuggly “soul mates forever” pictures of ...

Continuing its robust growth throughout the global recession, content marketing spending is again slated to grow in 2010, according to the annual Junta42 content marketing survey. The majority of marketing professionals polled in the survey plan to increase their spending on conte...

Ulitzer.com, the first revolutionary "new-media" platform in the world, announced today that the news syndication for Holocaust Research Project topic on Ulitzer has been expanded. HEART on Ulitzer was launched on April 9, 2009. The aim of H.E.A.R.T is to inform and educate people abou...

Today, I received an email from Inday Vinas, one of our Ulitzer authors, and her photo meeting and shaking hands with Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, President of the Republic of the Philippines. She writes, "as a leading Filipino blogger whose success depends on Ulitzer to reach a worldwi...

Kynetx is a client-side revolution with its unparalleled development platform and program. At the heart of the platform is a rules-based language that allows developers to build entirely new web experiences that are cross-site, cross-platform and respond to context in the user’s enviro...

Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU. or AU.L), a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise and Precise, the UK leader in media intelligence, today announced a strategic collaboration under which Precise will develop and market next-generation media intelligence servi...

Aurora Feint Inc., developer of OpenFeint(TM), the leading social gaming platform for the iPhone® with over 8.5 million players, announced that TAITO Corporation, a major Japanese game developer and one of DeNA's key partners in the gaming industry, has agreed to use OpenFeint in t...

"Being a search marketer who specializes in researching keywords, I decided to launch my own investigation to see if I could find out more information about the dynamics of this US Senate race based on internet marketing and social media metrics," said WordStream Founder and Vice Presi...