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Where should you invest, what should you avoid, why and when? These are the basic questions every investor wrestles with. There are so many companies in the wireless, telecom and healthcare industries, and they are no longer on the same track. Some are strong and growing rapidly and leading, while o...

HP reported its fiscal first quarter results for 2011 on Tuesday, revealing a strong performance in earnings and income. Its net income was $2.6 billion for its first fiscal quarter, up from $2.3 billion a year earlier. Overall revenue was $32.2 billion, up from $31.2 during last year's first quarte...

Another company has lodged antitrust allegations against Google in one of the most feared forums -- at least for U.S. tech companies -- in the world: the European Commission. This time it is French firm 1plusV, a maker of specialized search engines for such topics as law and music, and parent compan...

Technology leaders in the White House have promoted greater use of cloud technology at the federal level almost from the start of the Obama presidency. Now the administration has issued its strongest backing yet for cloud technology with the release of the Federal Strategy for Cloud Computing. Offic...

Amazon on Tuesday announced the launch of video streaming. The service gives Amazon Prime members unlimited, commercial-free instant streaming of more than 5,000 movies and TV shows. In the Past, Amazon's Prime membership program has mostly been about free shipping -- members get free two-days shipp...

The finals of its highly publicized "Jeopardy" tournament found IBM's "Watson" computer system handily winning with a total of $77,147 -- upwards of $50,000 more than the sums amassed by Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, its grand champion adversaries. Watson's $1 million grand prize will be split equal...

In the rush to Facebook, marketers are discovering that different kinds of content drive different kinds of results -- and different social networks respond in different ways. It was not that long ago that the experts warned that brands could not "sell" in social media, that the audience would rebel...

Government information technology procurement has been largely conducted on an independent basis, with each federal agency determining its own needs and acquiring the infrastructure -- both hardware and software -- to meet those needs. However, the procurement landscape may change significantly with...

Bold claim: Search-based applications are the next generation of search technology to enhance productivity and customer value for specific business processes by streamlining delivery of critical information. Skeptical response: Yeah, but don't most enterprises already have enterprise search, BI and ...

Following on the heels of the explosive growth of social media phenomena like Facebook, Wikipedia and Twitter, companies are exploring whether they can leverage the "wisdom of the crowds" to solve the problem of connecting the bits of information that can lead to innovative products and improved ser...

Motorola Mobility CEO Sanjay Jha provided more details about his company's new tablet, the Xoom, in a speech Thursday at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. Jha confirmed the Xoom's price will be $799 when it launches on Verizon Wireless, and the WiFi version will be $600. Jha also let it...

Every corporation has a face. Imagery, shine and style are interlayered into a skin that appears as a mask; uplift captured by a distinct name identity poises it to reach the upper stratosphere of stardom. Corporate masks are just like real people: Some are exciting and some boring; some you remembe...

As I prepare to attend the CTIA show next month, I am getting calls and emails from healthcare companies wanting to meet with me. That is amazing. The lines that separated healthcare and wireless are blurring. We are in the early stages of the healthcare industry working with the wireless and teleco...

Google just couldn't leave the bone alone. When Apple announced its digital content subscription service on Tuesday, Google came back with its own on Wednesday, complete with a lower margin for publishers. On Wednesday, Google CEO Eric Schmidt announced a new subscription service, Google One Pass, a...

As the U.S. begins to limp through another anemic year economically, we see more government regulation hampering innovation -- this time engineered by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office through its new fast-track process. A fee of $4,000 (increased from the base fee of $1,090) would expedite the ...