My friend Marc Canter has written a series of blog posts outlining the issues, constructs, technologies, and standards required to build out an "open mesh," as he put it. It's a kind of unified field ...

Microsoft's Live Mesh hasn't officially expanded to include Macs just yet, but the software maker has said that folks in more countries can now take part without having to wait for an invitation. In a ...

Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie says the company has been dramatically changed by open source and the concept of using the Web as a hub Microsoft has “dramatically” changed because of ...

In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell altered communications history when he invented the telephone. Just four years later, there were approximately 47,900 telephones in the United States. But telephone ...