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Yahoo unveils a “sneak peek” of a new product that aims to bridge the gap between your web browser and desktop—BrowserPlus, a desktop utility that enables richer browser interaction, like drag…

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Mac OS X only: Earlier today we reported that Mac OS’s latest update to 10.5.3 included Google contact syncing to Address Book—if you’ve connected an iPhone or iPod touch to your Mac, that is….

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Gmail users with Firefox and Greasemonkey: If you often use the CC or BCC field in Gmail but you’re sick of clicking on the “Add CC” and “Add BCC” link to do so, we’ve got a pair of user scripts for…

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An anonymous reader writes “SRI International, a nonprofit research and development organization has developed a new technology that enables some robots to scale walls. The wall-climbing robots could be a boon for the US military, which could use them on reconnaissance or other missions in war zones, said Philip von Guggenberg, director of business development for SRI International, adding that the independent group has received some funding from DARPA, the technology research arm of the Pentagon. Von Guggenberg said that the new electrical adhesive technology called compliant electroadhesion, provides an electrically controllable way to stick machines to a wall. So what can they do? That adhesion lets the robots, using either feet or tracks, scale a vertical wall. They can even climb walls covered in dust and debris, or made out of concrete, wood, steel, glass, drywall, and brick. Good news is that regular robots, especially those with tracks, can be retrofitted with the technology and turned into wall climbers. Maybe if the kids are good, they’ll get one for Christmas.”

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On tap are caching improvements, allowing time zones to be established in applications and extending the platform via Gems dependencies.

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Google has released a browser plug-in and API in an effort to broadly expand the reach of its Google Earth application.

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Yahoo has joined Microsoft and Adobe with a tool for adding desktop functions to Internet applications.

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On Tuesday, the eve of its first-ever developer conference, Google threw open the doors for its Google App Engine to all comers. More than 150,000 developers have been on the waiting list for the cloud computing development environment since Google first announced it six weeks ago.

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BobJacobsen writes “CBSnews.com has an article about Bill Gates and Steve Balmer answering questions at the “All Things Digital” conference. When asked about “high points” in his time at Microsoft, Gates replied “Windows 95 was a nice milestone”. The article continues “He also spoke highly of Microsoft SharePoint Server software, but didn’t mention Vista.” Was there really nothing else that Gates considered a high point?”

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swillden writes “Everyone who pays any attention at all to security, both computer security and ‘meatspace’ security, has heard the phrase Security Theater. For years I’ve paid close attention to security setups that I come in contact with, and tried to evaluate their real effectiveness vs their theatrical aspects. In the process I’ve found many examples of pure theater, but even more cases where the security was really a cover for another motive.” swillden would like to know what you’ve encountered along these lines; read on for the rest of his question below.

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