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Intel has finally leaped into the mobile sector. CEO Paul Otellini announced the company's entry during a keynote address at CES. Otellini revealed major agreements with both Motorola and Lenovo to put Intel inside smartphones. Intel will show up in Lenovo phones in China during the first half of 20...

On Jan. 1, I found that these Twitter names had hordes of followers: @ladygaga had 17,554,645, @Starbucks had 1,927,255, and @noahkravitz had 24,273. If you have a Twitter account, you can easily see all of who the followers are. Having Twitter followers doesn't mean you get to keep them, though. F...

Oracle has released its Big Data Appliance, which it announced last year at Oracle OpenWorld. With no release date promised, the industry was surprised by its relative speed to market. Less surprising was Oracle's enlistment of Cloudera -- the leading provider of Hadoop system management tools -- to...

It's been difficult in recent years for many people and small businesses to get the loans they need from banks and other traditional lenders, but there are a variety of alternative models. One is person-to-person lending, offered by companies like Prosper, which essentially lets individual people ...

Microsoft's Steve Ballmer delivered his final Consumer Electronics Show keynote in Las Vegas on Tuesday. Ballmer talked up Windows 8 and discussed additions to the Xbox platform and new Windows-based Nokia devices. The presentation, which featured "American Idol" host Ryan Seacrest, kicked off the a...

AT&T on Monday announced a new API platform and app store, called "AppCenter." The online store will be opened later this year and will feature HTML5 software. The store will sell wares for Android phones and iPhones. Unlike the Android Market or Apple's App Store, the platform will be similar t...

AT&T on Monday announced a new API platform and app store, called "AppCenter." The online store will be opened later this year and will feature HTML5 software. The store will sell wares for Android phones and iPhones. Unlike the Android Market or Apple's App Store, the platform will be similar t...

As essential as open systems and mobile applications are for doing business, they also put significant strain on an organization's security systems and, in particular, the key line of defense: identity and access management systems. Allowing a broad spectrum of users -- from employees to partners, t...

When CES officially opens on Tuesday, it will mark the last year of Microsoft's participation. Apple has been missing from CES for years. Facebook will not be on hand. Google and Amazon will have little presence. The absence of key tech companies will leave giant holes next year. However, CES boast...

Sony appears to be preparing for a reshuffling of its top management, with the end result being the loss of power for current president Howard Stringer. The common denominator among the various reports that have surfaced is that Executive Deputy President Kaz Hirai will be elevated to president and ...

A colleague of mine recently remarked in frustration that IT often finds itself in the worst possible position: taking the blame for a host of problems -- including increasing costs, growing capacity needs and poor responsiveness -- while being limited by a lack of real influence and control over t...

Samsung has sailed to record quarterly profits -- despite difficulties with its memory sales -- as the company's top-of-the-line smartphones smacked Apple and crushed HTC. Meanwhile, HTC's earnings slipped in the face of strong competition. Samsung on Friday reported strong profit for its fourth qua...

Google is not giving up on its dreams to become a TV star. The company announced Thursday it added LG to its growing list of television partners that will debut hardware running an upgraded version of Google TV at the Consumer Electronics Show next week in Las Vegas. The search giant's first run at ...

Gartner has released its global IT spending projections for 2012: It is forecasting a 3.7 percent increase from 2011 to $3.8 trillion. This forecast is a downward revision from its earlier 2012 outlook of 4.6 percent growth. Last year, IT spending clocked in at $3.7 trillion, which was up 6.9 percen...

The Kindle Fire may have singed Barnes & Noble's Nook this holiday season. On Thursday, B&N lowered its fiscal 2012 forecast for Nook sales from $1.8 billion to $1.5 billion. The company is also mulling a spinoff of its Nook e-reader business. B&N's share price dropped more than 20 p...