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Are you addicted to using your mobile phone? Many people are these days. A recent AOL-Pew Research Center Mobile Lifestyle Survey revealed that 52 percent of American adults surveyed keep their cell phone turned on all the time while 40 percent of those between the ages of 18 and 29 are saying that they are increasingly likely to drop their landline once and for all...

Dashboards and similar tech tools within the performance management sector are growing in popularity, according to a new survey by AMR Research Overall performance management spending will increase to nearly US$23 billion in 2006, forecasts the firm's report, "Trends in Performance Management Spending, 2006."

IT security and information risk management has been high on the agenda of financial institutions for the past decade. It's little wonder due to the regulatory and organizational repercussions of a wholesale breach. Historically executives have concentrated on threats from "beyond the firewall," protecting the company and its data from attacks by unknown parties from outside the company...

Yahoo is providing full travel planning functionality by uniting its air and hotel search, price comparison, and maps online in a new service called FareChase. Made available this week, it allows users to plan and purchase trips, as well as to share their travel experiences with an online community through its Trip Planner tool The online giant is ...

Peer-to-peer communications firmSkype said it would buy a pair of VoIP startups in a two-for-one deal completed with the stock of parent company eBay, a transaction that gives it direct access to technology it currently licenses from a third party Skype, which eBay acquired last September in a deal worth US$2.6 billion, said it would acquire San Fr...

Paramount Pictures and Microsoft on Wednesday entered into a partnership to push the movie studio's trailers into the software giant's Xbox Live service Dubbed the Xbox Movie Showcase, the service will feature free, high-definition, downloadable content from two of the most highly anticipated films of the summer: the action-thriller "Mission: Impos...

Microsoft's Patch Tuesday issued a slew of fixes in its April release, most of which focused on browser flaws. The software giant's monthly security update issued five patches in all, including three "critical," one "moderate" and one "important" patch Ten vulnerabilities in all were addressed in the cumulative fix. Of special note, this month's pa...

MySpace.com has taken several steps to secure its popular service against online predators trolling the Internet for new victims -- a danger that critics say the company has done little, up until now, to forestall The company has appointed Microsoft veteran and former Justice Department trial attorney Hemanshu Nigam to oversee safety, education and...

CyberLink may not be a household name among PC users, but the feisty company makes some robust entertainment software for producing and watching DVDs as well as editing video Certainly, the Taiwanese enterprise has a tough row to hoe, pitted as it is against the likes of Sonic/Roxio, Pinnacle and Ulead, but I've always found its offering up to the ...

Salesforce.com is extending its AppExchange network to mobile devices with the introduction of AppExchange Mobile The new feature was developed using proprietary software from Sendia, a wireless business platform company, which Salesforce.com announced it would acquire for US$15 million in cash....

MySpace.com has taken several steps to secure its popular service against online predators trolling the Internet for new victims -- a danger that critics say the company has done little, up until now, to forestall The company has appointed Microsoft veteran and former Justice Department trial attorney Hemanshu Nigam to oversee safety, education and...

People who have had "near-death experiences" (NDEs) often report seeing a light at the end of a dark tunnel. TV shows, movies and books drill this crossing-over concept into viewers' minds. However, a study published in Neurology, a scientific journal of the American Academy of Neurology, finds that these events have a biological explanation A near...

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is considering a blind bidding process for wireless spectrum auctions, a move that is both supported and opposed by major wireless carriers, depending on their own spectrum situations The FCC votes Wednesday on whether to change the wireless auction process to prevent participants from knowing who else is...

Sprint Nextel, the third largest wireless carrier in the U.S., plans to begin testing in its joint venture experiment to offer an integrated bundle of cable and mobile phone services in a single package The company will offer the services in a small number of pilot markets as early as late summer, with partners Cox Communications and Comcast launch...

Amid controversy over digital download music prices, an Anglo-Italian band is making its own headlines -- and a bit of history -- by releasing Britain's first "mobile only" single Planet Funk will release the single "Stop Me" on May 8 over mobile media company 3's network. Planet Funk is hopping on a bandwagon of musical artists using new media lik...

Continuing its epic battle against the European Union's antitrust arm,Microsoft plans to argue in court that regulators overstepped their boundaries and violated international law. They did so, the U.S.-based company charges, by imposing sanctions that require it to share its technology with rivals Microsoft also contends that its ability to innova...

Few events are likely to have more devastating effects on a company -- or even the industry it represents -- than being exposed for deliberately misleading customers about the safety of its products The sunscreen industry may be forced to crawl out of a ditch due to this sort of deception. Last month, a San Diego law firm filed suit against the big...

Is that a newspaper article you are reading online? Or an excerpt from a blog with commentary to follow? It's getting difficult to tell these days -- and it may get more difficult starting this week Pluck is set to release a syndication service on Tuesday that delivers commentary from 600 bloggers. The company is targeting newspaper publishers look...

Marketers will need to tweak their selling strategies if they want to collar new broadband customers, according to industry experts Although broadband growth has been strong for the last three years -- nearly doubling from 23.7 million subscribers in 2003 to 40.9 million in 2005 -- the "big pitch" by marketers during that time has been the superior...

Silicon Valley startup Webaroo is angling for position in the search industry with an approach that is based on storage capacity The company has introduced a software service that allows laptop and handheld users to search a portion of the Web without an Internet connection....