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Although Cisco Systems delivered a good first quarter earnings report on Wednesday afternoon, the guidance delivered by CEO John Chambers for the coming quarters sent the stock markets spinning downward on Thursday. In a conference call Wednesday, Chambers said Cisco expected revenue growth of 3 per...

According to the Small Business Administration, fewer than 30 percent of startups are still in business after 10 years. This is a pretty startling failure rate -- over 70 percent. Let's take a look at some of the causes of startup failure and what can be done to improve your chances of making your n...

We have watched Clearwire build its 4G wireless Internet service from scratch over the last few years. It has successfully won a few million customers and has looked like one of the hot new companies and technologies. But now it is suddenly struggling with the enormous investment costs and is thrott...

Google's Android operating system grabbed a strong 25.5 percent of the worldwide smartphone market, making it the No. 2 OS globally in the third quarter of 2010, according to Gartner. That's up from a mere 3.5 percent share of the market in the third quarter of 2009. The third quarter produced recor...

The Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday in AT&T v. Concepcion -- a case that could decide whether the arbitration clauses companies routinely insert in sales contracts can ban class actions. The case stems from a suit brought by Vincent and Liza Concepcion, who signed up for cellphone service ...

IBM has let it be known that in the most recent quarter alone, it has managed to convert nearly 400 of its competitors' customers over to IBM systems through its Migration Factory, a service designed to help customers convert from other systems to IBM servers, storage and software. Of those, almost ...

Internet privacy seems to be constantly in the headlines globally, and social media communications are clearly driving most of these privacy concerns. Since law is the glue that hold societies together, all people on Earth rely on various laws, whether they drive their cars in traffic, pay taxes, es...

Amazon.com will more than double the revenue share for periodical publishers as it faces rising competition, at least in public perception, with Apple and other rivals for magazine and newspaper publications. The move comes shortly after Amazon announced that it would make magazines and newspapers a...

The Colorado Department of Revenue has relaxed a first-in-the-nation information reporting requirement for sales by Internet vendors to customers in Colorado. The new legislation, adopted earlier this year, requires etailers that have more than $100,000 in sales to Colorado customers to notify all c...

Motorola's Droid Pro, an Android-based smartphone designed for the enterprise market, will be available in Verizon Wireless stores on November 18 for $179.99 after a $100 mail-in rebate. Purchase will require a two-year customer agreement. Verizon will start taking orders for the phone on Tuesday. T...

Previously in this space, I've discussed the collapse of the venture industry since the bloodbath began with the collapse of two Bear Stearns funds. While publicly traded stocks have been hammered, the private market is undergoing its own painful restructuring. As of the first quarter of this year,...

Dell plans to relieve its employees of their company-provided Research In Motion BlackBerry smartphones in favor of Dell's own devices. Many of its 25,000 employees reportedly could begin receiving Dell's Venue Pro, which runs Microsoft's new Windows Phone 7, as early as next week, and they eventual...

Information Technology managers often find themselves between a rock and hard place when it comes to IT budgets. Spend too much and they come under scrutiny; spend too little and they find themselves at the center of frustration and dissatisfaction. Unfortunately, Information Technology is a beast...

In her third trial, Minnesota resident Jammie Thomas-Rasset -- whose fame has extended well beyond the proverbial 15 minutes -- was once again slapped with a fine for sharing 24 songs. On Wednesday, the jury awarded $1.5 million in damages to Capitol Records. That's $62,500 for each of the 24 songs ...

When you think of wireless networks, which companies do you think of? Companies like AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Sprint and T-Mobile, right? Next question: Which do you think are the marketing innovators in that same space? Would you believe it's not the big four? Instead, it is companies like U.S. ...