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BlackBerry: And the next killer mobile app is...

News According to McDowell, a more realistic killer app for BlackBerry devices is mapping tools, including a variety of mash-ups with applications such as Google Maps. TV could be the next big thing for mobile devices - but only if battery and network...

Tags: application, rim, blackberry, device

[02 Nov 2007]

Yahoo! Hacks: Mash Up Images From Around the Web

whitepaper Image Search web service offers programmatic access to thousands of images, and some developers are using this service to create their own visual mash-ups - combining disparate images into games, interesting visualizations, or random works of art.

[10 Oct 2007]

Yahoo! Hacks: Mash Up Images From Around the Web

whitepaper Image Search web service offers programmatic access to thousands of images, and some developers are using this service to create their own visual mash-ups - combining disparate images into games, interesting visualizations, or random works of art.

Tags: web services, images, song, art

[10 Oct 2007]

Yahoo! pockets Zimbra for $350m

News What differentiates Zimbra are the "Zimlet": web service mash-ups that offer richer functionality in email. Yahoo! is buying email software provider Zimbra for about $350m, the companies announced. Zimbra offers branded email with calendar and...

Tags: mash-up, email, yahoo

[18 Sep 2007]

Serena launches business mash-up exchange

News Mashup Composer is a web 2.0 tool that enables users to visually design mash-ups that automate business activities. Mash-ups, which have previously been the sole domain of specialist web developers, combine data from multiple sources to create an...

Tags: web 2.0, mash-up

[11 Sep 2007]

BBC iPlayer row: The government speaks

News Cheat Sheets ¦ Web 2.0 ¦ Mash-ups The government has responded to an e-petition protesting against the way in which the BBC's iPlayer has been developed. The 10 Downing Street e-petition, signed by 16,071 people urges the Prime Minister to...

Tags: government, xp, open source, iplayer

[07 Sep 2007]

Dear silicon.com... DNA database, lie detector tech, sat-nav blunders...

Comment Editor's choice silicon.com editor Tony Hallett flags up his picks on the site this week.¦ Huawei's $1bn R&D pot 'matches Western rivals' - our business editor is out in China, looking for this giant's next move ¦ Video Cheat Sheet: Mash...

Tags: sat-nav, lie detector, dna

[07 Sep 2007]

Video Cheat Sheet: <strong>Mash</strong>-<strong>ups</strong>

Video Cheat Sheet: Mash-ups

Video In this Video Cheat Sheet silicon.com's editor Tony Hallett and news editor Steve Ranger run down some of the mash-ups using the likes of Flickr, GoogleMaps and Skype plus they consider how big IT vendors are looking at incorporating mash-ups into...

Tags: mash-ups, cheat sheet

[05 Sep 2007]

Photos of the month - August 2007

Photo Follow the link to find all five business traveller-friendly mash-ups, as chosen by silicon.com. This image shows a web mash-up called 'Find Me Some Wifi', which takes worldwide wi-fi hotspot data and plots area where you can get online on Google...

Tags: second life, imac, mod, mash-ups

[31 Aug 2007]

Employers crack down on Facebook "addicts"

Employers crack down on Facebook "addicts"

News Cheat Sheets ¦ Web 2.0 ¦ Mash-ups Employers are being forced to crack down on staff accessing social networking website Facebook at work because of the high levels of usage, security risks and the drain on corporate network bandwidth.

Tags: social networking, facebook, cio jury

[31 Aug 2007]

Facebook banned by half of employers

News Cheat Sheets  Web 2.0  Mash-ups Half of businesses are restricting employees' access to social networking site Facebook, due to concerns about productivity and security. According to research by security company Sophos, 43 per cent...

Tags: security, sophos, social networking, facebook

[21 Aug 2007]

16,000 back iPlayer petition

News Cheat Sheets ¦ Web 2.0 ¦ Mash-ups More than 16,000 people have now signed an e-petition protesting about the way the BBC has rolled out its on-demand TV service, iPlayer. The deadline for the e-petition on the 10 Downing Street website...

Tags: deadline, downing street, bbc, iplayer

[20 Aug 2007]

Web watchdog warns of social network perils

News Cheat Sheets  Web 2.0  Mash-ups The European watchdog for web and information security, Enisa, has warned of the dangers of social networking sites. Academics and industry experts discussed the risks of using social networking...

Tags: information, risk, social networking, enisa

[17 Aug 2007]

Leader: BBC iPlayer broadband row - who's really to blame

Leader Cheat Sheets ¦ Web 2.0 ¦ Mash-ups Claims by ISPs that the BBC should fund the extra bandwidth needed by users that want to download content from its online TV service iPlayer seems a little out of touch.

Tags: on demand, bandwidth, iplayer, isps

[16 Aug 2007]

Beware web 2.0 security risks, companies warned

News Cheat Sheets  Web 2.0  Mash-ups The use of web 2.0 technology in business is creating significant security risks which need to be addressed. The adoption of the web 2.0 technologies - such as blogs, wikis and social networks - is...

Tags: blogging, intellectual property, gartner, security

[14 Aug 2007]

Photos: IBM lifts the lid on web 2.0 tech

Photo This is QEDWiki, a browser based platform for developing mash-ups. IBM has been showing off some of the tech at its research and development labs at Hursley near Winchester.silicon.com went along to take a look at, among other things, a mash-up...

Tags: r&d, web 2.0, ibm

[07 Aug 2007]

MoD trailblazes travel-booking service

News Cheat Sheets ¦ Web 2.0 ¦ Mash-ups The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has signed up Capgemini to deliver an electronic travel-booking service. The department has already achieved 10 per cent yearly savings on travel spend from using the service...

Tags: online travel, shared services, mod

[07 Aug 2007]

MySpace vs Facebook: The race is on...

News Cheat Sheets  Web 2.0  Mash-ups MySpace attracts the largest number of social network users in the UK but Facebook is catching up fast. According to figures from digital research group ComScore, MySpace had 10.76 million unique UK...

Tags: users, growth, myspace, social networking

[01 Aug 2007]

London 2012 embraces web 2.0 and green IT

News Cheat Sheets  Web 2.0  Mash-ups The London 2012 Olympic Games organisers are exploring energy-saving green IT initiatives and embracing web 2.0 technologies such as social networking for the event.

Tags: olympic games, atos origin, london 2012

[01 Aug 2007]

Photos: Five business traveller-friendly mash-ups

Photo The idea behind web mash-ups is to create a new service by combining one or more aspects of existing sites, thereby cutting out the need to surf your way around the web. So we've trawled the web to come up with five mash-ups with something to offer...

Tags: business traveller, mash-up

[30 Jul 2007]

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