The modestly popular Konfabulator widget application for Windows and Mac (review) was snatched up by Yahoo in late July, and the company promptly turned around and started giving it away for free. We ...

We give Apple's Dashboard widgets a lot of time in the spotlight (hah!) here at TUAW, but that doesn't mean we aren't paying attention to Yahoo!'s Widgets community. Today, the company released a ...

Yahoo! on Monday announced the release of its Widget Engine 3.0 — the product formerly known as Konfabulator. A free download, Yahoo! Widget Engine works on both Mac OS X and Windows. Yahoo! Widgets ...

This morning, Yahoo announced the release of Yahoo Widgets 4, the company's platform for web-enabled mini apps on the desktop. It's a cross-platform release, with (required) desktop engines available ...

Widgets: neat little applets that live on your desktop or sidebar.This freebie is an engine from Yahoo that lets you choose fromhundreds of great mini-applications that do just about anything youcan ...

Yahoo has acquired software "widget" engine Konfabulator in a move to spur third-party developers to devise new applications for the Internet giant's services. Konfabulator is a JavaScript runtime ...

Internet has become such an indispensable resource that it’s truly hard to imagine how we ever got along without it. These days nearly any type of information is as close as a Web site or ...

Wolfram Alpha is not Google. You don't hear anybody using Wolfram Alpha as a verb. "I don't know, let me Wolfram Alpha it" lacks a certain ring. However, Wolfram Alpha is doing a nice job positioning ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Widgets—those fun, graphic little applications that bring ...

Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers Apple. Before that, Josh wrote about everything from new Web start-ups, to remote-controlled robots that watch your house. Prior to joining CNET, Josh ...