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The IT industry loves the concept of "innovation," but many vendors' hearts largely belong to just the most conventional sorts of wisdom. That adoration takes a number of shapes: Stone Age business models; dusty Neolithic technologies and architectures; fossilized go-to-market strategies. In point o...

Sony's PlayStation Network has been rebuffed in the company's home country. The game-maker relaunched the troubled online service elsewhere around the world, but it has been blocked in Japan by government order. Japan wants Sony to implement further preventive security measures and make more progres...

In today's global economy, the United States is a major player. Enterprises of all sizes have a presence in the United States, whether through foreign direct investment, strategic alliances, or simply having clientele in the U.S. Thus, being able to transfer personnel to the U.S. quickly and seamle...

Google has set aside a cool half-billion dollars to cover any penalties related to AdWords postings for illegal drugs. The search giant reportedly is nearing a settlement with the DoJ in a criminal investigation into allegations it made hundreds of millions of dollars by accepting ads from online ph...

Today's cloud computing phenomenon is causing havoc among many legacy hardware and software vendors who worry that the increasingly competitive market is going to cannibalize and commoditize their traditional products and services. One company that may sit in an advantageous position is Dell. I've l...

In a bit of non-Earth-shattering news, Apple this week was deemed the world's most valuable consumer brand. The title was bestowed by the Millward Brown branding agency, which has been publishing a list of the top 100 brands for past six years. To compile its rankings, Millward Brown polls more than...

Looks like Facebook wanted to mount a dirty tricks campaign against Google, but so far all the mud is clinging to the social network and its PR goons. Burson-Marsteller was hired to run a negative campaign against Google's Social Circle, aka Social Search, according to reports. Facebook confirmed it...

LightSquared sounds like a great idea. The company sees a growing need and has a plan. It plans on building a network and offering extra capacity to wireless carriers for wireless data usage. Wireless carriers that need wireless data capacity can just partner with this company and get the connecti...

Microsoft's announcement Tuesday of its purchase of Skype for $8.5 billion stunned industry watchers, who had seen Facebook, Google and perhaps Cisco sniff around the VoIP giant in recent weeks. The impact of that deal, if it gets the thumbs-up from regulators, will reverberate through the online se...

No doubt you've heard the term "Net neutrality." Proponents and opponents have much to say on this topic. However, many Internet users don't even know what it means, or how it will affect them. What is Net neutrality? "Net neutrality" is short for "network neutrality" or "Internet neutrality." The c...

In "Glee" parlance, it looks like the football coach just sat down at the cool kids' lunch table. Microsoft announced on Tuesday that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Skype for $8.5 billion in cash from an investor group led by Silver Lake. The agreement has been approved by bo...

A key element in the shifting political winds in Washington is a call for less business regulation, especially from the conservative wing of the now ascendant Republican majority in the U.S. House of Representatives. But one leading Republican last week tossed that mantra aside and launched into a t...

Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism released a report on Monday detailing how people navigate the digital news environment. Based upon an in-depth study of detailed audience statistics from the Nielsen Company, the study examines the 25 most popular news sites in the U.S. and ...

You may not know it, unless a friend or relative has had treatment for breast cancer, but it is the little things that can kill you during recovery -- or at least make you very sick. Little things as in commercial brands of toothpaste or mouthwash. A patient undergoing chemotherapy must use medicina...

In general, hiring a foreign technology employee to work in Canada on a temporary basis entails a two-step process. First, the employer needs to obtain a Human Resources and Skills Development Canada job offer confirmation. If the HRSDC provides a positive or neutral Labour Market Opinion, the forei...