The reason I liked the Internet television service Joost had nothing to do with the content. Rather, I saw its interactivity with other web services while watching the content as the future of ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

Yahoo on Monday announced it has acquired Pixoria, a maker of mini applications, or widgets, that be customized to provide information such as Wi-Fi signal strength, stock prices, and traffic ...

If Yahoo's battle with Google has taught us anything it's that the company isn't run by engineers. Sure, Yahoo is tech savvy. Sure it has an open platform. And sure it'll do things like plan a Widget ...

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 12, 2005--Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, today announced that the company has launched a new version of the leading ...

Samsung and Yahoo! have announced the 2009 availability of the Yahoo! Widget Engine, a set of internet-enabled feeds that can be viewed on select models from Samsung's HDTV range. The fifth-generation ...

Yahoo has acquired software "widget" engine Konfabulator in a move to spur third-party developers to devise new applications for the Internet giant's services. Konfabulator is a JavaScript runtime ...