Heather Havenstein

A new Google Reader RSS tool allows Internet users to follow stories read by presidential candidates and share their RSS subscriptions.

Microsoft's SharePoint development platform grows on enterprise users, according to a Forrester analyst

Grassroots supporters of MyBarackObama.com are using the social network to protest Obama's support of FISA, a controversial surveillance act.

Shortly after the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) launched a new blog site to gather feedback from air travelers and respond to their suggestions, it halted a practice at some airports that required travelers to remove all electronic equipment from carry-on luggage during security screens.

According to a recent report by Forrester Research Inc., IT managers and CIOs in large companies who have actively resisted embracing Web 2.0 technologies like wikis, RSS, blogs and social networks will likely begin adding them to their priority lists in 2008.

Bernard Liautaud, who founded Business Objects in 1990 and served as its CEO until 2005, will serve as an adviser to SAP CEO Henning Kagermann

The company launches its OmniFind Personal E-mail Search as a free download in order to bring Google-like functionality to enterprise IT users' inboxes

Mainsoft Corp. launches a product that should allow enterprise customers to integrate Windows SharePoint Services, Office document libraries, SQL Server Report into Big Blue middleware