IT software maker Spiceworks has developed a set of customized plugins and widgets in a variety of categories for the Spiceworks desktop. Spiceworks’ ad-supported, free IT management software allows ...

I've been using the pay version of DesktopX for over a year, and some of it's features are OK. I do find a bunch of widgets to be unstable, and it annoys me that many can't be easily re-positioned ...

Vampires, werewolves, and…widgets? Don’t laugh. That combination of old-world monsters and cutting-edge Web technology created a booming business for Carnet Williams and his fledgling company, ChipIn.

Until recently, widgets were thought of as small programs that could add a neat effect to a Website, a desktop or a mobile phone. They were more about branding and buzz than about e-commerce. A cool ...

These three types of widgets fascinate me. Apparently there are people out there who use their software data as a way to express themselves. Most boys and girls let their blog and profile visitors ...

New widget platform lets you create your own widgets out of all the content it can access on your favorite social networks. CNET contributor Don Reisinger is a technology columnist who has covered ...

For makers of widgets--modest little pieces of software that let people do things like play games, annotate photos, or send "pokes" to each other on Facebook or MySpace--it seems the buzz has turned ...

When selected by the user, the first software widget displays a first information screen that may include a phone number and/or a mailing address for an insurance agent of the user. The second ...