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Adobe has lashed back at Apple following Steve Jobs' public letter of criticism of Flash, which the Apple CEO posted on his company's site Thursday. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen responded specifically to several of Jobs' critiques. Regarding Jobs' assertio...

For years now, most of us have taken for granted the fact that we can access our contacts and calendars from our mobile devices. This convenience has become so engrained in our daily lives that many of us feel like we've lost a limb if our smartphone is not at our fingertips at any given moment. No...

Being acquired by HP clearly would be a turn for the better for Palm. The mobile device maker has been losing money for some time, and its latest products, while generally praised by tech industry analysts, have shown few signs of catching on with consumers. HP has the deep pockets that will be requ...

Activision Blizzard has struck a 10-year deal that gives it worldwide rights to publish and distribute the next big action game universe from Bungie, the developer behind "Halo" and other popular game franchises. "We're committed to this alliance with Activision on the new IP universe we're buildin...

HP said Wednesday that it has agreed to buy the ailing Palm at $5.70 a share, for a total of about $1.2 billion. The acquisition is expected to close during HP's fiscal 2010 third quarter, which ends July 31. Both companies may benefit from the move -- but did HP pay too much? And what will happen t...

The new Main Street exists anywhere thumbs can hit keys or scroll across a touchscreen. So what does your online presence say about what you have to offer those virtually strolling by? Customers regularly seek feedback on future purchases from their social circle. Conversations about your brand are ...

The high-tech industry lost jobs in 2009 for the first time in several years, but the cuts were fewer than those experienced in the private sector as a whole, thanks in part to relative strength in the category of software services. That's according to TechAmerica Foundation's 13th annual edition of...

It's one of the world's most popular manufacturers of phones. It has a globally recognized brand. It's ready to show off the latest enhancements to its smartphone operating system. And as far as anyone can tell, it hasn't lost a prototype phone in a Silicon Valley bar and seen it torn apart on a tec...

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion has released a sneak peek of its upcoming new operating system refresh and appears to be taking pains to suggest just how fresh and hip it is. To the pounding beat of "Boom Boom Pow" by the Black Eyed Peas, the brief video features three characters dancing -- two ...

The U.S. Federal Court for the Southern District of New York recently ordered the unsealing of court filings submitted by Viacom and Google in Viacom's three-year old, $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit against Google-owned YouTube. The released documents paint a tale of corporate intrigue a...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to review a California law banning the sale of violent video games to minors. California civil code 1746.1 reads "A person may not sell or rent a video game that has been labeled as a violent video game to a minor." The Supreme Court will review Schwarzenegg...

In response to a raft of recent privacy changes at Facebook, U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., on Monday asked the FTC to design privacy rules for social networking sites, including clear guidelines on how information submitted to sites like Facebook, MySpace and Twitter can be used and disseminate...

Most security companies are big fans of the doom-and-gloom scenario of information security. However, when it comes down to brass tacks, security is nothing more than a business function -- specifically, a business function of measuring and mitigating risk. The key motivator behind information secur...

Rumors about contenders for troubled smartphone maker Palm continue to circulate -- fueled in part by comments from Palm's CEO. HTC and Huawei -- two companies that were rumored to be interested in acquiring Palm -- have reportedly opted not to go forward, leaving Lenovo as the front-runner for the ...

In the rush to win over office productivity software users, Microsoft's FUSE Labs has lobbed one at Google with the launch of its Docs service. CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the beta project during his keynote at Facebook's f8 developers' conference this week, but it has received little fanfare so f...