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The joy of getting someone exactly what they want is just one of the reasons behind the launch of Webgiftr, a new social Web site and Facebook application dedicated to changing the way consumers think about giving and receiving gifts. Available for the first time today as a public beta, ...

8e6 Technologies, an Internet security company that proactively protects organizations against Internet-based threats, today announced the results of a recent survey of employees in the United States and United Kingdom documenting the prevalence of personal Internet use in the workplace. Results indicate the most popular sites viewed at work in ...

Everyone in the Web 2.0 world hears news coming from companies like Youtube and Hulu on a seemingly daily basis. However what most tech blogs fail to cover is the (for lack of a better term) unsexy part of the online media business. These companies are uploading, managing ...

Comcast announced this week that they are working with Intel to bring Internet Protocol (IP) based applications to the television experience set using a new technology co-developed by Intel and called the Widget Channel framework.

Useful Networks announced today the acquisition of Canada-based KnowledgeWhere, a provider of location-aware mobile games, location-based advertising (LBA) and developer-enablement programs.

Developers using zembly to create and publish social applications will now automatically receive Sometrics social analytics data to help them understand their audiences and boost traffic and revenue, both parties announced today.

The recent emergence of location-based mobile social networking services offered by providers such as GyPSii, Pelago and Loopt is revolutionizing social networking by allowing users to share real-life experiences via geo-tagged user-generated multimedia content, exchange recommendations about places, identify nearby friends and set up ad hoc face to face meetings.

Perfectly timed with the release of the 3G iPhone, Greystripe launched their in-game mobile advertising network which will now be available for the hundreds of iPhone game and application developers who opened up shop in the App Store this past week. As a major player in ad-supported mobile applications, Greystripe ...

Facebook applications have been spread virally, and the most popular apps seem to hold the least importance when it comes to productivity. You can throw beer at your friends or play the amazingly ridiculous Werewolf game, however none of the top applications enable professional services. Sheryl Sandberg, the ex Googler ...