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Nokia announced at the end of January that, pending regulatory approval, it was to acquire Trolltech. The Norwegian company makes a cross-platform application-development framework called Qt, which is used in the KDE desktop Linux environment and in applications like Google Earth and Skype. Qtopia is a mobile version of Qt, and has already been used [...]

With half the world’s population soon owning a mobile phone, the opportunity to reach more people on the web via a mobile device is huge. Research firm Gartner predicts that worldwide mobile advertising revenue will grow from less than $1bn last year to $11bn in 2011. Google has already been adapting its web search, mapping [...]

On Monday, ICANN, the organisation that maintains the internet’s addressing systems, said it had for the first time added IPv6 addresses to the appropriate files and databases on six of the world’s 13 root server networks. Before it did this, those who were using IPv6 had no choice but to run it alongside IPv4, because [...]

Microsoft announcedon Fridaythat it was making a further attemptto acquireYahoo after approaching the company’s board in February 2007. If the deal goes through ?and many think it will ?it could go some way to closing the gapMicrosoft and Yahoo have endured between themselvesand web-adleader Google.
“Microsoft needs to beef up its content capabilities,” said analyst Andy [...]

Gnome is, along with KDE, one of the two major desktop environments used with Linux-based operating systems. Aside from managing the graphical windowing portion of the OS, it includes a number of applications, such as a web browser, email client, configuration manager and other components.
Gnome is the favoured desktop environment for Ubuntu, the most popular [...]

Previously, Google’s mobile search offered a search box and several radio buttons for different types of results ?images, news, the web and so on. Under the new system, Google has mingled all types of results together, and organised it based on what mobile users are most likely to be looking for.
Another tweak is the way [...]

Accenture’s head of research and development, Martin Illsley, on Monday advised businesses that mashups, web applications combined with more traditional business software, were becoming increasingly useful but have to be managed so as not to overwhelm IT departments.
“Systems can be integrated in a lightweight manner,” said Illsley. “But mashups and the like have to be [...]

Released on Tuesday,thefirst workingdraft for HTML 5is a result of work carried out bythe World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)HTML Working Group, which brings developers, browser vendors and content providers together.
In its final form by 2010, HTML 5 is intended to bring the markup language forward into today’s richer internet environments, with new APIs to control [...]

Sparql, pronounced “sparkle”, expresses data queries in high-level terms so it is easier to extend them to new data sources or port them to new applications. “Trying to use the Semantic Web without Sparql is like trying to use a relational database without SQL,” said Tim Berners-Lee, W3C director and creator of the world wide [...]

“Gov 2.0 will replace e-gov as governments seek to gain additional value from citizen interaction and business transactions,” Teresa Bozzelli, chief operating officer and managing director of Government Insights, which produced the report, said in a statement.
Governments are expected to increasingly use social networking and other Web 2.0 innovations as a means of fostering greater [...]