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Salesforce on Wednesday kicked off its Salesforce1 world tour in New York, touting the allure of the social, mobile and cloud customer platform to clients Launched in November at Dreamforce 2013, Salesforce1 drove a 96 percent increase in mobile app active users and a 46 percent increase in active users of custom mobile apps, Salesforce claimed....

When you need to deal with numbers, nothing beats the old PC, along with its full-sized screen, keyboard and browser Firefox is a robust PC browser with numerous add-ons that's well-suited to mathematics. This week, we look at the top five best and must-have add-on apps for crunching operations in that browser....

Snapchat on Thursday finally apologized for last month's data breach. A website dubbed "SnapchatDB.info," which went live on New Year's Eve, published the user names and phone numbers of 4.6 million Snapchat accounts. The breach was discovered by Gibson Security, which explained in an online post how the Snapchat service could be hacked. ...

Flir Systems this week unveiled an iPhone case with a difference. ...

Rumors that Samsung will include iris-recognition technology in its forthcoming Galaxy S5 smartphone, widely expected to be launched in April, were given a boost on Thursday through a Bloomberg interview of Lee Young Hee, executive vice president of Samsung Mobile People are "fanatical" about iris recognition technology and Samsung is "studying the...

Kickstarter on Wednesday released a breakdown of its successful 2013. Three million backers pledged US$480 million to help finance 19,911 projects. The company saw plenty of repeat backers: 807,733 people pledged to more than one project; 81,090 backed more than 10; and 975 people donated to more than 100 campaigns....

Privacy regulators in France have slapped Google with the maximum fine allowed by law, confirming both the nation's dissatisfaction with Google and Europe's need to overhaul its data-privacy penalties France followed through on threats made in June and again in September to fine Google over its privacy policies, laying down a 150,000 euros penalty ...

John Legere, T-Mobile's feisty CEO, on Wednesday gave a speech at CES best described as highly entertaining. His remarks came one day after being kicked out of AT&T's party at the international technology event ...

In my mind, 2014 is shaping up to be Apple's wildest year in the post-Jobs era Last year, we saw a lot of incremental innovations from Apple but no thunderous new products. Sure, the new Mac Pro is insanely small, quiet and super sexy -- not to mention manufactured in America, which is no small feat these days -- but it's also a niche product for p...

A short while ago, few people had heard of omni-channel commerce, also known as omni-channel retailing. Today, however, if you were to ask most retail executives, you'd no doubt find that they are well-informed about the subject. In fact, our most ubiquitous brick-and-mortar retailer, Walmart, is currently quite immersed in this relatively new phenomenon...

International CES 2014 in under way in Las Vegas this week, surprising and delighting us with all the innovation on display CES is a great place to see how wireless fundamentally changes and works its way deeper into the consumer electronics industry. That's been true year after year, and this one is no exception.

Retailers performed well this holiday season in terms of customer satisfaction across multiple channels, according to the ForeSee Experience Index: 2013 U.S. Retail Edition, which was released this week The report focuses on customer satisfaction at the company level and queried consumers about every applicable sales channel, ranging from the brick...

CrashPlan is an automated backup system that does the job, but it's not without its pitfalls.The software offers a cross-platform backup solution that's reliably easy to use once you configure the software. Installing it to your Linux system, however, is anything but user-friendly. More than a few Linux users will emerge looking for a less-finicky...

One of the disadvantages of retaining a phone after the expiration of a two-year contract -- as many of us do -- is that those older phones have accumulated a few years' worth of digital gunk They're clogged up like an aging sewer on the wrong side of town....

At least eight security experts who had signed up for the RSA 2014 security conference to be held Feb. 24-28 in San Francisco have publicly pulled out They include F-Secure Chief Security Researcher Mikko Hypponen; Taia Global founder and CEO Jeffrey Carr, who is also founder of the Suits and Spooks conference; Christopher Soghoian of the ACLU; Mar...

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has charted the course for her company's future, and the focus is more on media than technology She revealed a number of new products and digital magazines during her keynote speech at the Consumer Electronics show in Las Vegas with a number of guests turning up to help make announcements....

"A more robust entertainment delivery system will be a hallmark of Sony as we move into the future," Sony CEO Kaz Hirai said Tuesday in a keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas."We will be offering customers a single source of entertainment that is less complicated, more cost-effective and more accessible than ever before." ...

The Guardian has become the latest Western media outlet to get blocked in China For more than a year, China's Web-censoring authorities, unaffectionately known as the "Great Firewall of China," have blocked sites for The New York Times and Bloomberg, each of which published unsavory articles about wealth amassed by family members of Communist Party...

Pebble on Monday unveiled new hardware and software designs, along with a wearable tech appstore. The Pebble smartwatch got its start last year with a successful Kickstarter campaign that resulted in sales of more than 300,000 devices worldwide. ...

Nvidia this week announced the Tegra K1, a 192-core super chip that brings its Kepler architecture to the mobile space Kepler is used in what Nvidia claims is the fastest GPU on the planet, its GeForce GTX 780 Ti....