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Google is planning to spend US$500 million or more promoting the Moto X smartphone, which is scheduled to launch this summer, The Wall Street Journal reported, sparking speculation that a new round of mobile marketing wars is about to begin One reason for the intensified focus on advertising could be the narrowing differentiation among high-end sm...

Like everyone else with a pulse, Paul Rand, president and CEO of Zocalo Group, has noted the phenomenal growth of mobile advertising. Statistic after statistic confirms such observations, including the latest from the Interactive Advertising Bureau, which last week reported that mobile advertising revenue leaped an eye-popping 82.8 percent to $8.9 billion in 2012...

What you are going to see in a few days, when Dell stockholders get to vote on Michael Dell's plan to buy back his company, is a war of perceptions -- and perhaps a revelation on the state of the U.S. investor. Both ISS and the Chancery Court have clearly come down on Michael Dell's side, arguing that what Dell is offering is a sure thing, while what Carl Icahn is promising is a long shot. ...

A persistent myth in the tech world is that major enterprises in highly regulated industries are risk-averse and reluctant to adopt new technology innovations. In the case of the financial services sector, this has not been the case for years, and it is being disproved again as a growing number of financial institutions aggressively pursue a widening array of cloud computing alternatives...

AeroVelo, a team of engineers and students dedicated to developing lightweight, efficient aeronautical designs, kept a human-powered helicopter aloft for more than 1 minute, a feat that snagged a US$250,000 cash prize that had eluded competitors for more than three decades. The team, led by Todd Reichert and Cameron Robertson, won the challenge is...

Intrepid hikers and garden-variety Internet addicts now have 4G access on top of Japan's famous Mt. Fuji Japanese telecom NTT DoCoMo has equipped the 12,388-foot summit with high-speed LTE connectivity. The access will run now through August, the height of the tourist season on the mountain....

Verizon may owe Apple between US$12 billion and $14 billion for not selling as many iPhones as it promised to this year, according to two analyst reports revealed Thursday Verizon committed to buy $23.5 billion worth of iPhones this year -- a number that is more than twice what it sold in 2012 -- leading to a potential shortfall of $12 billion to ...

Although it initially denied involvement in the National Security Agency's PRISM surveillance program, Microsoft has in fact worked closely with U.S. intelligence agencies to monitor users' communications, even helping the NSA circumvent its own encryption to do so, new documents from whistleblower Edward Snowden suggest Microsoft gave the NSA pre-...

Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed four techniques to create freestanding structures from liquid metal using 3D printers ...

Yelp announced this week that it has partnered with local businesses and startups to add food delivery to its platform Now Yelp users in New York City and San Francisco will be able not only to scan the site for reviews of local restaurants, but also to order food and have it delivered. The company plans to expand to other U.S. cities as well, but ...

Last year, I polled a group of respected CRM resellers to create a list spotlighting "forgotten features" -- tools and settings in CRM that many users overlook, even when they could bring great value to their businesses Some of them were defensive in nature -- for example, many implementations never set the security settings in CRM, making it possi...

If you've been reading TechNewsWorld for a while, you'll know that we show a lot of interest in new ways to power our gadgets -- like with solar power, for example. Well, here's a charging method that could make a lot of sense. It's one that isn't reliant on the sun to convert solar radiation into power; it also isn't reliant on heavy batteries. I...

There is a simple answer to the BlackBerry problem: Rather than trying to become a new company and address a new market and compete with new competitors, it should focus on its bread and butter, the business and government communities that still use its products. If it does this, I believe its recovery will begin quickly. Alicia Keys may be a gre...

Microsoft announced a sweeping reorganization on Thursday, possibly lurching from controlled chaos to total chaos The company will now focus on a single strategy, emphasize engineering, and increase collaboration among departments, with some sort of political commisar -- the evangelism and business development team -- driving ecosystem partners....

It is often said that a picture is worth a thousand words, but users of Nokia's upcoming Lumia 1020 mobile smartphone may well be able to do better than that. That's because the new marquee Windows phone -- formally unveiled Thursday at a Nokia event in New York -- will offer 41 megapixels, not to mention six-lens Carl Zeiss optics, high-resolution 3X zoom, autofocus and a dual flash system...

"City authorities: More areas have reported that the bodies of the dead are rising from their graves and attacking the living," warned a voice over the emergency alert system on Montana station KRTV during an airing of a regularly broadcast program in February That incident, which has become known as the "Zombie Apocalypse," was the first sign tha...

In Japan, a flubbed privacy setting made public a Google Groups chat among Japanese bureaucrats, allowing any-and-everyone to see internal memos, including negotiating positions for an international treaty The default settings for Google Groups, which are established by the party that started the chat, allow public access to discussion threads. A d...

Social commerce website Fancy has racked up US$53 million in funding from investors including American Express and actor Will Smith, according to press reports citing a July 3 SEC filing. The company currently is valued at $600 million. Fancy reportedly brings in about $3 million per month, and its backers include Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey.

If ever there was a case for conducting online customer surveys, Adam Lasky, global social media coordinator at Spreadshirt, has lived it "A week after a customer makes a purchase on the Spreadshirt platform, we follow up with a customer review survey," Lasky told CRM Buyer.

Around this time of year, some buddies and I usually pack up a bunch of our brick-like ham radios, a few unwieldy 30-foot masts, a helium balloon antenna, and some pop-up shade shelters and lug it all over to a local mountaintop near our suburban Los Angeles homes We traipse up the baked hillside with this gear each year to perform a nonstop radio ...