Sun will launch JavaFX 1.0 on Thursday, trying to reclaim Java's strength as a foundation for rich Internet applications. But it's no longer the incumbent.

As Facebook has blossomed into a hot internet hangout, its users have passed countless hours playing Scrabble with friends - or at least, an unauthorized version of the word game that Scrabble's owners have tried to shut down.

YOU have your very own blog, an online journal where you express your thoughts and emotions. There is this sense of freedom, an impunity you feel in cyberspace, and you are quite liberal with the comments you post.

— Aug. 05, 2008 — The day after announcing that its MotoZine ZN5 was compliant with LiMo, Motorola announced a musically-oriented Rokr EM30 that also speaks LiMo. In other news, Motorola named Qualcomm COO Sanjay Jha to head up the "mobile" half of

Reminding people of how its backing was the making of Linux, IBM, to no one's surprise, has thrown its support behind cloud computing, that delicious nexus of every chi-chi buzzword technology currently in vogue: Web 2.0, rich Internet applications, soft