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As the summer comes to an end, most people are thinking about the back-to-school season, but retailers around the world are already focusing on the winter holiday season ahead. They're assessing inventory and developing marketing strategies, aiming to steer more traffic to their e-commerce sites. Th...

The revolving door is spinning fast at Nokia, as the company tries to reposition itself to compete with a wave of new smartphone competition. The latest news from the boardroom is that Chairman Jorma Ollila, the executive credited with turning Nokia into the world's largest cellphone maker, will ste...

Microsoft may find itself at odds with the Russian government after creating a new license permitting free use of its software by certain nonprofit organizations and small newspapers in more than 30 countries around the world. Microsoft's move was in response to a Sunday New York Times article detai...

It's no secret that newspaper companies are seeking new sources of revenue as readers -- and the advertising dollars that typically follow them -- migrate to electronic media. The New York Times Co. was among the first newspaper publishers to deliver its content to mobile devices. Now, it's hoping t...

It's no secret that newspaper companies are seeking new sources of revenue as readers -- and the advertising dollars that typically follow them -- migrate to electronic media. The New York Times Co. was among the first newspaper publishers to deliver its content to mobile devices. Now, it's hoping t...

It's no secret that newspaper companies are seeking new sources of revenue as readers -- and the advertising dollars that typically follow them -- migrate to electronic media. The New York Times Co. was among the first newspaper publishers to deliver its content to mobile devices. Now, it's hoping t...

HP has announced it is acquiring security-software maker ArcSight for $1.5 billion. It is the second major acquisition the company has made since the departure of its CEO Mark Hurd last month. It appears HP might have agreed to pay too much for the company, which makes corporate network security mon...

On September 9, President Obama named Ron Bloom, a veteran of Wall Street and the labor movement, to be the new special adviser on manufacturing. As manufacturing represents an 11 percent share of the GDP, down from 30 percent in the 1950s, presumably the hope is that a Manufacturing Czar will be ab...

Nokia has announced that President and CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo will leave his position on September 20, handing the keys to Microsoft executive Stephen Elop. Kallasvuo's departure is likely due to Nokia's failure to crack the smartphone market -- the U.S. market in particular -- under his guidanc...

The collective intelligence of employees and the extended corporate community can transform overwhelming quantities of raw data into organizational knowledge. Of the 300 organizations that participated in Aberdeen's June survey on collaboration, those that respond to business threats and complete ke...

A popular parlor game in the technology industry is predicting new market opportunities and forecasting how quickly they're going to flourish. Despite all the investments that have been made in trying to turn this pastime into a science, it is amazing how often the market research firms still get it...

Google has introduced a change to its search offerings -- a new feature called "Google Instant" -- that has online advertisers wringing their hands over its implications. Google Instant lets users see results as they're typing a query. Each letter and word triggers its own predictive search. The u...

I love smartphones, but I have not found the perfect one yet. I have tried countless devices for years. I come close, but I've never settled on the perfect phone -- and trust me, I have tried many. The good news is there are many great features to choose from. The bad news is they are all on differe...

A federal appeals court has ruled that prosecutors may need to get warrants to access cellphone location data. The decision by the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals struck down the Justice Department's argument that the Stored Communications Act requires judges to issue orders for access to such dat...

In 2006, the U.S. enacted the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, which outlawed Internet gambling and restricted how financial institutions could pay monies to Internet gambling sites. The UIGEA resulted from four major policy concerns of the federal government. First, the Internet was too ...