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After announcing last month that all of its Creative Suite apps would soon move to the cloud, Adobe on Tuesday made good on its promise and delivered the resulting subscription-based software Now included under the umbrella name Creative Cloud, the latest versions of apps including Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver and Premiere Pro are now availa...

Buzz is building over Facebook's rumored plan to launch a mobile video app for Instagram. The mobile video app might be unveiled at a Facebook event on Thursday, according to TechCrunch. Video functionality in Instagram, the company Facebook purchased for US$1 billion in April of last year, would be a direct challenge to Twitter's Vine app. Vine l...

Google has settled the class-action shareholder lawsuit that had been blocking a stock split it originally announced last year, the company said Monday, paving the way for it to move forward with the split as planned The suit's settlement was an eleventh-hour development in this 14-month storyline, which included the imminent prospect of a trial in...

Honoring a previous agreement, legendary British rock group Pink Floyd has given the green light to music streaming outfit Spotify to host the band's catalog. Pink Floyd announced earlier this month that it would resist releasing its music on Spotify until the 1975 classic "Wish You Were Here" hit 1 million streams Well, the song hit 1 million, and...

The General Accountability Office earlier this month found two key deficiencies in a cloud contract that the Central Intelligence Agency intended to award to Amazon Web Services. The GAO decision was prompted by a protest against the contract filed by IBM. GAO is the designated federal agency for handling challenges to federal contracts The propos...

Another day, another mobile app release; except in this case, the app is aimed at the contact center supervisor -- not exactly a role that has been inundated with mobile functionality to this point The application in question is Five9's latest cloud contact software application, which includes mobile functionality. Released earlier this month, enha...

A thin line between traditional IT monitoring and management services and monitoring real-time operations divides what Zenoss offers its customers and what other vendors provide The IT monitoring space is becoming more crowded with proprietary and open-source software solutions. According to Chief Technology Officer Alan Conley, Zenoss offers a uni...

Video streaming service Netflix on Monday announced a new, multiyear partnership with DreamWorks Animation whereby it will bring many of the studio's beloved characters to the TV market via a branded collection of shows Marking the largest deal for original first-run content in Netflix's history, the partnership will include more than 300 hours of ...

Like Carrie, whose hand emerged from the grave to grab Sue by the ankle in Sue's nightmare, SCO has reemerged from its grave to revive its lawsuit against IBM, 10 years after the case was first filed A court has granted SCO's motion for reconsideration and reopening the case, Groklaw reported....

In the wake of recent revelations that the government has been tapping their networks tomonitor users,Facebook, Apple and Microsoft over the past few days have all published more information about those monitoring requests. Facebook, for example, on Friday reported that for the six months ending December 31, 2012, the total number of user-data req...

To read some reports in the tech press lately, one might think there's an electronics-hungry menace from South America on a march of conquest through the Southeastern United States and Texas, leaving a trail of destroyed smartphones and other precious devices in its wake It's known as the "crazy ant," and recent reports of its arrival derive from a...

Google announced over the weekend it is spearheading an initiative to build a picture-sharing database aimed at ridding the Web of child pornography The company's new database will rely on "hashing" technology; once an image has been flagged as offensive, it uses an algorithm to identify that photo elsewhere on the Web. While Google has been using ...

Adobe Reader and Oracle Java aren't alone in having a bull's eye painted on their code by hackers. WordPress also is becoming a popular target for Internet outlaws It's quite a large target, too. About 18 percent of the sites on the Web -- about 60 million of them -- use WordPress....

Regardless of how this turns out, at least they nailed the name Google is launching about 30 superpressure balloons that will beam Internet access back to the ground....

Movie studios and TV networks increasingly are turning to social media for help with generating buzz about their upcoming releases and programming. Communities are building around favorite movie franchises like the Twilight and Avengers series and TV shows like Downton Abbey and The Walking Dead. Have movie and show producers really been listening -- and if they have, has anything changed because of what they've heard?...

Almost a year after launching its ONE Correspond for Salesforce, Thunderhead.com rolled out version 2.0 of its social enterprise app A part of the company's flagship ONE Engagement Platform, ONE Correspond for Salesforce focuses on allowing users to create communications for customers. Via Salesforce's Chatter, it also has strong collaborative feat...

I'm into fixing problems -- in fact, for much of my life I've been employed as someone who is brought in to fix a difficult problem. I don't see much point in just complaining -- either try to fix it, ignore it, or move someplace where it doesn't affect you. (I'm also planning to move to Belize.) The current problem is that the U.S. appears to be conducting a cyberwar against its citizens. ...

With nearly every market forecast and growing anecdotal evidence pointing to escalating demand for cloud-based alternatives to traditional on-premises systems and software, the challenges of integrating the new on-demand solutions with existing applications and data sources are becoming even more critical. Data integration continues to be a pivota...

Another Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) video game show has come to a close, and this year, more than ever, the battle lines were drawn asMicrosoft and Sony both unveiled new systems. Sony may have gotten the upper handby announcing that its PlayStation 4 will be US$100 cheaper than the Xbox One and free of restrictions on the buying and sellin...

Microsoft is the latest product manufacturer to follow the retail trend of setting up shop within a big box store. Best Buy and Microsoft announced Thursday that the two would partner to open the Windows Store only at Best Buy in 500 retail locations in the U.S. and more than 100 in Canada The stores will range in size from 1,500 square feet to 2,...