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I just had a disappointing palm-to-forehead realization: Apple'siCloud investments will reduce the pressure for Apple to increase thestorage space on the iPhone 6. I no longer have hope that the next entry-level iPhone 6 willstart at US$199 for 32 GB of storage I'm afraid we'll be stuck yet another year with an entry-model iPhone 6 that will start ...

Wearable computing hove into view in a big way this week when Salesforce.com announced Salesforce Wear, which enables developers to build new apps for teeny-tiny screens and devices that you, well, wear. Wearables is a market poised for takeoff. Last year, for instance, Apple cornered the world markets capturing all the copyrights to "iWatch," which I think was not a coincidence. Also, let's not forget the things that are not worn but that simply exist through sensors on the Internet of Things.

Mozilla showcased the latest developments in its plan to offer inexpensive smartphones running the open source Firefox OS at the Mobile Asia Expo this week in Shanghai They include reference designs for production in India; plans to launch the smartphones in India within the next few months; the addition of Chunghwa Telecom, Taiwan's largest operat...

Cab drivers throughout Europe clogged city streets as they protested the rise of Uber in their locales Thousands of drivers blocked roads and participated in rallies to decry the service, which links users to drivers through a smartphone application....

Google's acquisition of Skybox may be a small step for the search giant, but it could be a giant leap for the Internet Google on Tuesday announced its intention to buy the satellite imaging startup for US$500 million. The move not only would enhance Google's satellite imaging resources, but also provide it with some top talent for its blue-sky plan...

Businesses increasingly are relying on virtual machines to handle more critical data and tasks than ever before. The reality is that virtualization is growing as a platform for managing customer data, financial transactions and the applications that businesses use. Simply put, virtualization is a core component of today's mission-critical IT infrastructure...

Salesforce.com is moving aggressively to carve out its own place in a hot emerging technology niche: wearable computing. With its new initiative, Salesforce Wear, it appears to be following its usual MO: co-opting consumer technology and repositioning it for the enterprise However, unlike social networking, which Salesforce.com adapted for its own ...

Honeywell on Tuesday launched its Lyric smart thermostat, a device widely seen as a challenge to Google's Nest product ...

Sony laid down its markers for PlayStation's months and years ahead with a slew of announcements at the E3 gaming trade show Monday night PlayStation 4 has been handily outselling Xbox One since the consoles launched at the end of 2013. E3 is a key battleground for both Sony and Microsoft as they reveal upcoming software and hardware they both hope...

As if the discovery of the Heartbleed flaw weren't enough woe for OpenSSL, more than half a dozen additional defects have been discovered in the code used to protect communication on the Web Among them is one dubbed "Cupid" by its discoverers. The flaw can be used to compromise enterprise networks....

The conventional wisdom of the Internet is that everything posted, whether on social media, a website or anywhere else, will be on the Internet forever. That conventional wisdom was just challenged successfully in a recent ruling handed down by the EU's highest court. A new conventional wisdom may arise from that ruling -- that we have a "right to be forgotten."

Software developers routinely use open-source components to boost productivity and improve the quality of their code. The problem for enterprises is that companies using open source must properly manage it and comply with its licensing, as with any third-party code That becomes difficult to do when corporate leaders do not know their computer syste...

TreeHouse Interactive has rolled out an enhanced version of its Marketing View application, infusing it with advanced reporting and analytics features and a spruced-upped user interface. The point of the upgrades, said Erich Flynn, CEO of TreeHouse Interactive, was to provide and display all the necessary campaign-related statistics a marketer wou...

Sequoia Capital recently led a US$100 million round of funding for South Korean retailer Coupang, suggesting that the rapidly growing Korean e-commerce market is the hot new scene for investors looking to capitalize on a country full of mobile shoppers. Founded and run by the Korean-born, Harvard-educated Bon Kim, the site has grown to become Kore...

Instagram, Facebook's popular free mobile app for editing and sharing photos, has never had a reputation for subtlety. It's image-editing tools and filters have had more in common with a palette knife than a fine sable paint brush. That's changed, though, with the latest version of the app.Version 6.0 of Instagram, which has an estimated 200 milli...

During Apple's WWDC keynote event last week, it became exceedinglyclear that we won't be seeing a converged iPad/MacBook device anytimesoon. Unlike Microsoft, with its Surface Pro 3 effort, Apple doesn't seem atall interested in forcing iOS and OS X into asingle unified operating system. In fact, Apple doesn't seem to beinterested in making OS X t...

When Dell and Apple first confronted each other in the 1990s, Dell was a startup and Apple was a mature company attempting to fight Dell's kind of fight. It didn't go well, and Apple almost failed. When the two companies faced off for the second time, Apple had been dramatically transformed by Steve Jobs into a much leaner, more-focused firm. Dell was having its own mid-life crisis, and Apple clearly won. ...

Apple has tossed out some hints that its App Store may soon accept apps that handle digital currencies such as bitcoin. The change would represent an about-face for the company, which famously has banned virtual currencies from its domain, to the dismay of bitcoin fans. The reasons for Apple's reversal are myriad: The appeal of bitcoins is such th...

While there were two hours jam-packed with announcements at the keynotepresentation kicking off Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference thisweek, you can count the really important announcements that willcreate lasting change on one hand. The new programming language, Swift,isn't one of them. Wait, what? Not Swift? Why? Swift is a tool that will he...

The U.S. Department of Justice this week said it would review long-held agreements with two major performing-rights organizations with an eye to updating them to reflect the climate of the music industry more accurately The DoJ's agreements with the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) and Broadcast Music Inc (BMI) have bee...