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Google: The name conjures up images of a brilliant company, one able to anticipate customer desires and consistently deliver leading-edge technology more effectively than competitors. Having captured and kept a commanding lead in desktop search, Google has now set its sights on cell phones and mobil...

The race to see who will dominate the world of ultra-fast, 4G wireless broadband networks is on. Verizon Wireless, the nation's No. 2 wireless carrier, announced Tuesday that it will deploy an LTE, or Long Term Evolution, network earlier than expected. The New York City-based telecom was originally ...

Cable giant Comcast announced Thursday it will roll out new ultra-fast broadband services in Chicago, Atlanta, Baltimore and Fort Wayne, Ind., by the end of December. The service, called "Docsis 3.0," boasts Internet connection speeds of up to 50 megabits per second. Docsis also allows Comcast to do...

Kevin Martin has had it pretty rough these last few weeks. The guy can't catch a break -- from being painted as a bully and a bad manager by a House committee report to being dressed down by the Commerce Secretary and called out as crooked by The Wall Street Journal. If I were him, I'd bury myself i...

Even sophisticated ad buyers can make mistakes: ignoring target demographics' tastes and sensibilities; using archaic assumptions when measuring the success of an online campaign; and failing to plan for follow-up activities such as fulfillment. Those are fairly basic errors. There are also some sub...

One of Yahoo's largest shareholders is urging the beleaguered Internet company's board to sell its search assets to Microsoft. Ivory Investment Management, a Los Angeles-based hedge fund, on Wednesday submitted a letter to Yahoo's board proposing a deal whereby Yahoo would sell its search assets to ...

The familiar social media paradigm of "Listen ... Learn ... Engage ... Earn" has a correlative imperative: "Publish or Perish," and enterprises probably need to find someone else to do the job for them. But be really careful about whom you select. I've covered the specifics of B2B digital media rela...

Sun Microsystems' biggest institutional investor -- Southeastern Asset Management -- plans to add two new members to the struggling server maker's board of directors. Southeastern owns 22 percent of Sun's common stock. Founded in 1975, Southeastern has $34 billion in total assets under management. ...

Japanese consumer electronics giant Sony announced Tuesday that it will lay off 8,000 full-time employees by March 2009 and slash spending in an attempt to reposition itself for a prolonged global recession. The Tokyo-based company also plans to shutter 10 percent of its 57 plants and delay an expec...

Maybe you've seen more of them during your Christmas shopping jaunts at the neighborhood mall this holiday season than you did last year; people using smartphones while in stores to do Web searches on products, price comparisons, or even to place orders. It's a sight that Google hopes will soon be a...

Until recently, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act -- covering a myriad of activities related to hacking and intellectual property theft -- was just one of many questionable federal laws on the books. Then came the case of Lori Drew. Drew was widely vilified for provoking a young girl into committing ...

Part of President-elect Barack Obama's plan to stimulate the economy through a massive public works program will touch upon the technology sector, which has seen its share of woes in recent months. Through the proposed economic stimulus package, Obama hopes to expand access to broadband Internet, ma...

How did Seattle become the home for technology companies that want to help you buy or sell ... a home? Sure, it's where Microsoft and Amazon are based, and it's a well-educated, tech-savvy community, and the University of Washington churns out more than its share of software engineers. But why real ...

Microsoft has tapped Qi Lu, a former Yahoo Search executive, to run its Internet unit. Lu, 47, left Yahoo in August after 10 years; he most recently served as vice president of engineering for the search and advertising technology group. At Microsoft, he will become the president of the online serv...

With the U.S. in the throes of what could be the worst recession in decades, consumers have made dramatic cutbacks in discretionary spending. That includes donations to charitable causes and nonprofit organizations, many of which supply critical aid to vulnerable populations both in the U.S. and abr...