Stories about: Lycos

The World Wide Web started out as a collection of static pages linked to one another. Of course, this was not enough for long. Today (especially with the arrival of Web 2.0) is the era of the Web application. While static pages still abound, the most popular -- and the most exciting -- sites are dynamic.

Two major Web search companies, Lycos.com and Yahoo.com, have assembled aggregated, fully searchable Web pages that allow people to simultaneously search numerous disaster sites for information on family members, friends and victims who may have been injured or displaced by Hurricane Katrina.

Google is set to launch on Monday an updated version of its desktop search tool whose enhancements include the ability to search the full text of Adobe Systems PDF files and the metadata of multimedia files, a Google executive said.

The new version of Linux is finally here, in beta form at least. A test version of the much-anticipated version 2.6 of the Linux kernel was released by Linux's creator, Linus Torvalds on Monday.

Opera Software ASA has released a preview Version 6.0 of its Web browser for the Linux operating system, on the heels of a similar beta version for Windows.

IBM Corp. on Wednesday delivered the first self-managing, self-healing products that are part of its Project eLiza initiative, along with a new management service that monitors corporate IT systems around the clock providing real-time alerts of potential risks.

Despite the attraction of live Olympic coverage, the Internet is still grabbing viewers' attention in a big way, with the IBM Corp.-hosted official site, olympics.com, quadrupling its monthly traffic over the previous four months from 36,000 to 180,000 unique visitors.