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WUG Update: Fall 2009 »

As the fall semester starts up, I wanted to let you know about some of the new tools we've made available over the summer: The new myVCU portal The new Technology Services website The Central Authentication Service Social availability We will also have more details coming in the next week...

Web 2.0 meets the enterprise »

New ideas in consumer technology are rapidly creeping into the design and marketing of software aimed at corporations. For example, Web 2.0 technologies such as blogs and AJAX are starting to show their potential behind corporate firewalls, analysts said. "Blogs and wikis are starting to move into businesses as a...

Facebook.com turned down a $750 million offer »

The owners of the privately held social-networking site hope to fetch as much as $2 billion. And media giants like Viacom may make a good match Facebook, the Web site where students around the world socialize and swap information, has put itself on the block, BusinessWeek Online has learned. The...

Firefox 2.0 alpha set for release »

A developers' version of Firefox 2.0 targeted for release Tuesday evening aims to test the back-end infrastructure supporting the browser's new bookmarks, or Places, functionality. Firefox Roadmap Firefox 2.0 alpha set for release...

Microsoft releases ATLAS for building AJAX websites »

Much earlier than anticipated, Microsoft announced the release of Atlas this afternoon at MIX 06. For those who don't know, Atlas is Microsoft's AJAX API for ASP.NET 2, which they claim will greatly reduce the effort in developing AJAX style applications on their platform. (from slashdot)...

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