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Facebook reportedly held a company-wide meeting Thursday to discuss how to deal with the negative publicity surrounding its privacy policies. To be sure, Facebook has been fielding complaints and criticism for years. However, a series of recent events has pushed those complaints to a zenith. In shor...

Is it 2005 or 2010? That's what many music industry observers may be asking themselves after U.S. District Court Judge Kimba Wood ruled Wednesday that online file-sharing software provider LimeWire has been infringing on the copyrights of creative artists in general, and recording industry companie...

Is it sarcastic, ironic or just a bit disingenuous? A rotating splash screen on the company's main Web page displays a variety of "We Love" slogans, changing just the word after the heart. Adobe announces that it [hearts] not only Apple but also "HTML5," "authoring code only once," and, ultimately, ...

Whenever people debate the enterprise-readiness of cloud computing, the discussion usually centers on reliability, security, compliance and integration questions. However, underlying these important concerns is an even more fundamental issue that keeps most IT and business decision-makers up at nigh...

SAP has inked a deal to acquire mobile and database software maker Sybase for $5.8 billion in cash -- or $65 per share. That translates into a purchase price that is more than 55 percent over Sybase's trading price before rumors of the deal became public, which was $41.57 per share. The deal, which ...

In the technology industry, imitation has always been the sincerest form of flattery -- if not a successful business model for certain companies. It's even more so in the nascent smartphone segment, so no one seems to be particularly surprised that Verizon Wireless and Google have plans to make an A...

Microsoft launched Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 for business customers Wednesday morning in an event held in New York City. Office 2007, the last version of Microsoft's cash cow -- Office represents 25 percent of Microsoft's annual revenue -- came out four years ago. Office 2010 offers a plethora...

Most successful companies invest in marketing. Marketing budgets are utilized differently depending on factors such as industry and company goals, and results are contingent on how well an organization understands and interacts with its customers. However, what many organizations don't know is tha...

Turn on an Android OS phone, and that little yellow robot pops up all over the touchscreen like R2D2 on bionic steroids. A mini-chorus line of them shows up first, then just one robot decides to play hide and seek with you; there he is peeking out from the left side of the screen. Now he's upside do...

The "Like" button that's part of Facebook's new Open Graph platform depicts a miniature "thumbs up" hand gesture, and it provides a quick, easy way for those visiting certain websites to indicate they approve of the content and want to place it on their FB profiles. And like thousands of Roger Ebert...

Borders has launched its plan to sell the Kobo e-book reader and open its own e-book store on an increasingly crowded market Monday, apparently pinning its hopes on a slim price to mark out its territory. The Kobo eReader will be available June 17 for $150 -- markedly cheaper than other readers and ...

The Android operating system has moved past the iPhone to capture the No. 2 ranking in smartphone operating systems in the first quarter of 2010, with 28 percent of the U.S. market, according to the NPD Group. The Research In Motion OS was still No. 1, with 36 percent marketshare, based on unit sale...

FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski announced his third attempt at gaining acceptance for Internet neutrality last week, sparking yet another furor over the issue. This time, he's proposing a narrower approach toward reclassifying broadband access services as telecommunications services, in the hope tha...

Modern "American dream" stories often start with a romantic phase: A young couple struggles through graduate school, starving on measly stipends covering ramen noodles and cheap wine. Unfortunately, that story is about to disappear, following American manufacturing jobs. College professors are now ...

The smartphone market is back in hyper-growth mode, according to the latest IDC Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, which reported this piece of the mobile market posted a 56.7 percent increase in growth for Q1, shipping a total of 54.7 million units. That compares to the 21.7 percent growth r...