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Google's Street View team has captured images of polar bears in northern Canada, a successful end to its first-ever wildlife-specific quest Google Street View has long been in the business of capturing things other than streets, including, for example, the world's tallest mountains and Antarctica. These photo-mapping quests aren't always without in...

The Comcast Netflix deal represents a completely new and refreshing direction for the industry. It clears away much confusion and illuminates a clearer path for growth for all companies in the battle. This deal represents a watershed moment for Web content providers Congratulations to both Comcast and Netflix on reaching this agreement. It may inde...

You don't need much to become a serious runner. There's no big investment in gear or apparel required. "Running is definitely a low-cost sport, which is why it is so attractive," said certified strength and conditioning specialist Scott Greenberg.

A wave of change is now making its way through the front office with uneven results. CRM is moving from a data capture and retrieval solution to something that supports end-to-end processes -- and as with ERP, data analysis is helping to improve what once were purely manual processes The trick is in producing knowledge from data. Alone, data is us...

The United States Department of Justice and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence have submitted four proposals to reform the National Security Agency's phone surveillance program, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday The recommendations come well before the March 28 deadline set by President Obama....

Target reported financial results for the quarter during which it suffered a high-profile data breach, revealing how badly the company was stung by the security lapses In the three months ending Feb. 1, net earnings dropped by 46 percent compared with the year-ago fourth quarter, from US$961 million to $520 million. Profit dropped by more than 40 p...

TiVo cofounders Mike Ramsay and James Barton on Tuesday launched Qplay, a brand-new company that aims to bring a new level of personalization to Internet TV Comprised of an iPad app, a TV adapter and a dedicated cloud service, Qplay is designed to let users curate Internet video from across the Web and create "Qs," the company's name for personaliz...

Apple on Tuesday pushed a large update to its OS X Mavericks operating system that includes a patch for a significant security flaw in the software The vulnerability allows Net predators to hijack a secure communication channel from a device running the latest version of Apple's desktop OS and perform mischief such as intercepting user names and pa...

Apple is suing China's State Intellectual Property Office and domestic company Zhizhen Network Technology over patent issues related to Siri, Apple's voice recognition software The State Intellectual Property Office is responsible for patents rights protection in China, while Zhizhen developed software similar to Siri.

During the heyday of the dot-com boom, then-HP CEO Carly Fiorina espoused a notion called "good enough" computing. Despite significant performance differences between x86 servers and Unix and other enterprise-class systems, the dramatically lower cost of x86-based products would cause organizations to rethink their computing priorities and adopt, buy and deploy x86 whenever and wherever possible, she maintained.

The LaCie Fuel is available at the LaCie Store for US$199.99. It is also available at many other outlets.Cords have been the bane of digital life style since the introduction of personal computers. As wireless devices proliferated, though, the need for cords has declined, thanks to technologies like Bluetooth and WiFi....

The travel industry will see a 41 percent increase by 2016, making it a US$143 billion industry, Forrester has predicted. With that much revenue on the line, booking sites are taking significant steps to ensure that they get their piece of the traveler pie. Brands no longer can offer experiences that are irrelevant to the end-user For example, a bu...

When Saul Alinsky wrote Rules for Radicals more than forty years ago, the world was very different from it today Protests and demonstrations were among the most common tactics for bringing about social change, and they were used on such a broad scale that they helped define the Vietnam War era and counterculture movement of the 1960s and 1970s....

Dropbox reportedly has secured US$350 million in a new round of funding to further its growth The funding round generated at least $325 million but that figure could swell to as much as $450 million, according to documents filed Tuesday with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

BlackBerry has announced new handsets and services aimed at moving the company forward as it tries to recover from a lackluster 2013 At the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona, CEO John Chen debuted two new phones -- the Q20 and the low-cost Z3. ...

Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox, which has been troubled by repeated DDoS attacks, has gone offline, following publication on Scribd of a purported internal memo alleging a multiyear theft totaling nearly 745,000 Bitcoins from its servers At Tuesday morning's price of US$518.84CoinDesk, that would amount to about $386 million....

Carl Icahn has ratcheted up his efforts to get eBay to spin off its lucrative PayPal division. The billionaire investor on Monday sent an open letter to other shareholders accusing eBay board members Marc Andreessen and Scott Cook of placing their interests before those of investors Icahn called out Andreessen's involvement in the group that acquir...

A handful of Chinese Web companies are banding together to provide user support -- system upgrades, security services and the like -- to domestic users after Microsoft turns out the lights on Windows XP Microsoft announced that it's going to punt on Windows XP in early April. Alas, an estimated 25-plus percent of China's computers run on the operat...

The explosion of the Internet of Things promises great opportunities for improving quality of life -- but also for creating both seen and unforeseen dangers The Internet of Things, or IoT, generally refers to a network of physical objects that contain embedded technology to sense , communicate and interact with their internal states or their extern...

Samsung hinted it wasn't about to rock the mobile world with the choice of the warmup band for its Unpacked 2014 event Monday -- the Barcelona Opera House Chamber Orchestra At the event, held at the Mobile World Congress in Spain, it announced a new version of its flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S5, as well as an upgrade of its smartwatch, the Gear...