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A hack into Twitter's back-end productivity applications earlier this month is raising some serious questions -- not only about password system security itself, but also about some consequences of network intrusion that may have been unforeseen. About a month ago, a hacker was able to access a Twitt...

On June 10, Antenna Software completed the acquisition of Dexterra for an undisclosed amount, solidifying its position as a key player in the mobile middleware/platform space, with a sharpened focus on field force enablement. This market grab comes on the heels of Antenna's acquisition of Vettro's s...

An unhappy Kindle customer is taking his grievance to court. Seattle resident Matthew Geise bought the second-generation model of Amazon.com's popular e-reader device, the Kindle 2 -- along with the $29.99 Kindle Cover -- only to find that this protective covering was anything but. Geise made the pu...

There was a day not that long ago when companies actually controlled their brands. Their marketing teams decided which messages their consumers were going to see and hear. Companies decided which publications, television shows and Web sites they wanted their ads to appear in, and they limited their ...

Worldwide PC shipments will fall on a year-over-year basis for the first time in nearly a decade, but all signs still point to a late-year tech sector recovery, according to research firm iSuppli. Shipments will fall 4 percent from 2008 sales, to 287.3 million units, the firm predicted. This is the ...

Seeking to supplement the dramatic falloff in demand from the world's retail and wholesale giants in the wake of the global recession, more manufacturers than ever before are turning to international e-commerce to find and attract new buyers. As more and more China-based manufacturers raise their o...

Microsoft is taking a new pricing approach with its upcoming Windows Azure cloud operating system: It will allow customers to pay on a per-use basis rather than calculating license fees according to number of processors or some other traditional measure. Microsoft reportedly will charge for the serv...

Roughly six weeks after launching its Bing search engine, Microsoft proudly announced the number of unique hits to the site grew by 8 percent in June. This shows users are trying Bing and the word is spreading, said Yusuf Mehdi, senior vice president of Microsoft's online audience business group, wh...

Blockbuster and Samsung announced Tuesday that they are partnering to bring the movie-rental chain's digital streaming library to the electronics giant's televisions, home theater systems and Blu-ray disc players. The service should be available by this fall. The owners of some existing 2009 model t...

Pay per click advertising is a huge market. The model is especially attractive to new companies that have not yet established themselves in the organic search engine rankings. The downside is that making PPC pay can be quite an exhausting and overwhelming task. There's much more to it than choosin...

E-Commerce software allows the marketer to execute and record millions in annual sales. However, in the era of direct digital marketing, online retailers are seeking a solution that accomplishes more than the expected sale. If e-commerce software is able to secure sales of the "ripe fruit" -- and so...

Though consumers won't be able to buy a copy of Windows 7 until October, businesses will reportedly be able to order copies of the upcoming operating system on Sept. 1. However, the OS doesn't look like it will rake in money from the majority of businesses -- at least, not right away. In fact, more ...

Although it already has a store for selling cellphones and other wireless communications products, Amazon.com has launched a new site targeting the same market. AmazonWireless, currently in beta, only carries phones from AT&T and Verizon Wireless at the moment, but other carriers will be added l...

Sprint Nextel and Ericsson startled the telco world with the announcement that Ericsson would take over managing the day-to-day operations of Sprint's CDMA, iDEN and wireline networks. "Network Advantage," as they've termed the seven-year outsourcing deal, is valued between $4.5 billion and $5 billi...

The initial success and rapid growth of cloud computing is attracting a "cloud rush" of players twisting the original concept to suit their proprietary purposes and confusing IT and business decision-makers in the process. This proliferation process is also accelerating the inevitable shakeout of va...