Browsers Internet Explorer 8 Has Arrived After more than a year of beta testing, Microsoft released version 8 of Internet Explorer today. IE8 is definitely a better browser than IE7, and features quite a few important new functions, including accelerators, and web slices. IE8 is also significantly faster than IE7 and features a large number of new functions that make browsing the web… Frederic Lardinois View comments
International Two Current TV Journalists Detained in N. Korea Two US journalists from the groundbreaking mixed media company Current TV have been detained by authorities in North Korea, the NYTimes reported this morning. Current was co-founded by Al Gore and has innovated extensively in both its technology and business model. Laura Ling, a Chinese-American, and Euna Lee, a Korean-American, are in North… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Features Nielsen: Twitter Was Fastest Growing Community Last Month Last night, Nielsen Online reported that Twitter has now surpassed Facebook and others to become the fastest-growing site in the "Member Communities" category for the month of February. Although Facebook, the world's most popular social network, has more members than Twitter, that's not what this measurement is about - it's about growth. And… Social Sarah Perez View comments
enterprise Power Hacker Kent Brewster Leaves Yahoo for Netflix Business troubles at Yahoo! haven't changed the fact that the company has some of the most innovative Open Web advocates in the industry in its ranks, but today one of those innovative people has left. API wizard Kent Brewster told us last night that he's joining Netflix as the company's newest API developer and evangelist. He'll start there at… Enterprise Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Health Diabetes Device Connects Wirelessly to iPhone One of the most pleasing Web trends we're seeing in 2009 is the increasing penetration of web apps into the real world. Web applications for healthcare is one example. We wrote about a new Web-based Radiology Theatre built by IBM yesterday and today we discuss an iPhone app that helps people with diabetes. At yesterday's iPhone OS 3.0 announcement… Richard MacManus View comments