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If you've been looking at your watch to read your emails today, there's a good chance that you're a Kickstarter backer. Kickstarter is a Web-based crowdfunding platform that's designed for raising money from the public. Entrepreneurs pick a deadline and required funding level. Donors pledge money in return for a concession, like a discount on the ...

Some things in life are fleeting -- the lifespan on the mayfly, the appearance of a rainbow, the pure white of the first snow of winter. Some things in your CRM system are fleeting too -- namely, the quality of your data. Did you know that every year, somewhere between 25 percent and 40 percent of your customer data ages out, goes out of date, or ...

Online gaming service Steam announced on Monday that thepopular shooter, puzzle-solving hybrid action game Portal now fully supports Linux The game had been available on the open source operating system in beta form since early May, but with an update released earlier this week, Portal was declared stable and ready for purchase by Linux users....

Personal file storage on a computer used to involve a PC-based hierarchical folder system that was maintained on local, PC-based hard drives Today we are embracing the cloud, which allows for redundancy, remote access, remote backup and the use of convenient input/output mobile devices like phones with limited storage but outstanding portability....

If you own an iPhone or Android mobile phone and work at a BlackBerry shop, it will be simpler from now on to keep the personal information and apps on your device segregated from those you use for work That's thanks to BlackBerry's Tuesday release of Secure Work Space, an iOS and Android solution that gives handsets running those operating system...

The UK's NSA-ish surveillance program, "Project Tempora," has drawn the ire of the German government Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, the Germany justice minister, sent a pair of letters Tuesday to the British justice secretary detailing the angst and anger that Britain's snooping has caused. Germans were already in a tizzy over U.S. surveillanc...

At this week's CE Week in New York City, electronics maker Sharp introduced a new, 70-inch class Ultra HDTV that the company says is the only model on the market to receive THX 4K certification Announced on Wednesday, the Aquos Ultra HD LED TV (LC-70UD1) is the company's first set in the new Ultra High Definition category for the U.S. market, and i...

Microsoft kicked off its Build 2013 developers conference on Wednesday with the announcement that its highly anticipated Windows 8.1, aka "Windows Blue," has arrived ...

Firefox 22, launched by the Mozilla Foundation on Tuesday, supports voice calling, video chat and peer-to-peer file sharing through the browser without plug-ins, thanks to full support for the WebRTC application programming interface ...

In a drive to reduce government computing costs, federal agencies have been required to cut and consolidate data centers. So far, agencies have reduced hundreds of operational centers -- but they still have fallen short of a five-year target set when the consolidation program was launched in February 2010 In addition to the consolidation and closu...

SolydXKis a Debian-based Linux distribution that offers a choice of two desktops: Xfce and KDE. It is a very new Linux OS, but do not push this new kid aside assuming stability and performance need a lot of maturing....

There's no shortage of apps out there for relaxation and entertainment, but sometimes, it's just time to get some work done This week, All Things Appy is looking at the top five free, must-have work-day apps in the Chrome Web environment. Some of the best are Google products, as you might expect -- Chrome is a Google product, after all, and that's ...

Google cannot be forced to delete sensitive information from its search index, a key advisor to the European Court of Justice said. The opinion, released by Niilo Jaaskinen, was prompted by a case in Spain claiming that Google should remove outdated financial details about an individual. That case was filed in 2009 by a Spanish man who complained ...

Microsoft is accelerating its push into the education market with new initiatives including a school-friendly version of its Bing search engine and discount prices for its Surface RT tablets. Bing for Schools, which will be available later this year, is an optional Bing experience for K-12 students that will eliminate ads from search results, filt...

"Keep your friends close and your enemies closer," as the old saying goes, and this week Oracle took steps to do just that. Specifically, the database giant inked partnership deals with longtime competitors Microsoft and Salesforce.com in a bid to expand its reach in cloud computing Announced on Monday, the partnership with Microsoft will allow com...

Sony on Tuesday announced the Xperia Z Ultra, which it bills as having the world's slimmest and largest full HD smartphone display, and the third generation of its SmartWatch -- the SmartWatch 2 ...

AOL has joined the throng of companies launching RSS readers in the hope of attracting the users who will be without their Google Reader feed come July 1. AOL is positioning its entry as the single online spot readers can turn to for content from all their favorite websites. ...

Samsung on Monday announced pricing and other details for its 7-, 8- and 10.1-inch Galaxy Tab 3 family All three are WiFi-enabled and will be available from major retailers in the United States on July 7. Samsung began taking preorders on Tuesday. Pricing ranges from US$200 to $400....

This past May mobile app developers dodged a bullet when a California state court sided with Delta Airlines in a dispute over its mobile app California's attorney general had sued Delta, alleging that the company violated the state's mobile privacy law, which requires a company to clearly state that users' personal information is being collected....

Does it make good business sense to migrate corporate database software from costly proprietary platforms to free open source solutions or low-cost commercial open source replacements? The answer is a no-brainer, according to EnterpriseDB CEO Ed Boyajian....