Rafe Needleman reviews mobile apps and products for fun, and picks startups apart when he gets bored. He has evaluated thousands of new companies, most of which have since gone out of business. On ...

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 ...

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 ...

This week, Samsung is releasing the first TVs with the hyped embedded Yahoo Widget Engine, and those who have taken a first look are saying the feature works quite well. The Samsung LED Series 7 TVs ...

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 ...

No surprise here, but Sony's making darn sure it's not left behind in the connected HDTV arena by introducing seven new sets that all look to the Yahoo! Widget Engine to pull down Amazon Video on ...

The lightweight applications used to access content have been given extended HTML support for developers as well as Flash capability Yahoo is releasing an upgrade to its Yahoo Widgets platform that ...

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a market leader and award-winning innovator in consumer electronics, and Yahoo! Inc., a leading global Internet company, today announced a new Internet-based service to ...

Hot on the heels of Yahoo's upgrade to their Yahoo Widget Engine (formerly Konfabulator), Google launches a new widget system of its own—with a twist. Rather than offer a widget engine that spatters ...

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 ...