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Samsung announced Monday that it has made a breakthrough in developing technology for a fifth-generation mobile network. It has found a way to use higher frequency millimeter-wave Ka bands, allowing massive amounts of data to be transmitted at faster speeds. Samsung has developed the world's first adaptive array transceiver technology operating i...

ESPN is in talks with at least one wireless carrier to help subsidize data usage for customers who stream sports video content on their smartphones and tablets, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal News of the possible deal comes as more mobile device users are turning to their smartphones for data-intensive activities like playing game...

China has been having a good go at Apple lately, having slammed the company in March for substandard post-sale service and quickly following that up with charges of copyright infringement The latest accusation: tax evasion.

Aereo -- the lawsuit-embattled company that provides Internet-streamed, live, and recorded over-the-air broadcast television content -- may have started a trend. None other than Time Warner may be considering the redistribution of public broadcast content over the Internet too, Cecilia Kang suggested in a recent Washington Post article What it come...

How to Muff a Mobile Marketing Campaign, Part 1 You wouldn't think it was easy to bungle a mobile marketing campaign -- but it definitely is doable.

I've been focused on and off on turnarounds since I covered IBM's from the inside out in the 1990s, so I don't know how I missed this, but EMC2's turnaround was clearly a success, and its unique resulting organizational structure is incredibly subtle. The company is actually far more similar in breadth to HP than most folks realize, largely becaus...

Willie Sutton once said that he robbed banks because that's where the money was. If Sutton were living today, he might have made the career move to hacker That would allow him to do what he liked to do best -- steal money -- on a global scale, which is what a ring of bank robbing hackers have been doing. Eight of the alleged cybercrooks were arrest...

Two of Dell's largest stockholders, Carl Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management, have teamed up to propose an alternative to Michael Dell's plansto take his computer company private. The new deal on the table, issued in a letter to board members, involves a leveraged recapitalization that will pay investors and keep them on as shareholders in a p...

As more airlines begin to offer WiFi, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission is proposing to increase the bandwidth available for inflight wireless broadband The FCC is essentially basing its proposal on Qualcomm's submission to the government from July 2011....

Barnes & Noble investors reacted with pure unadulterated joy to the possibility that Microsoft is considering entering the e-book market and will acquire the company's Nook unit for a whopping US$1 billion. Shares rose by a dizzying 24 percent on Thursday, when the rumor surfaced, courtesy of a report in TechCrunch that cited internal documents. By the close of Friday trading, shares were up another 5.6 percent, at $23.31.

Barnes & Noble investors reacted with pure unadulterated joy to the possibility that Microsoft is considering entering the e-book market and will acquire the company's Nook unit for a whopping US$1 billion. Shares rose by a dizzying 24 percent on Thursday, when the rumor surfaced, courtesy of a report in TechCrunch that cited internal documents. By the close of Friday trading, shares were up another 5.6 percent, at $23.31.

YouTube unveiled a new subscription plan this week and will allow select channels to charge for monthly viewing plans. It's the first time the online video hub will charge for content. Channels including Jim Henson's TV will show episodes of Sesame Street for subscriptions starting at US$2.99 per month, or users could pay $4.99 per month to see UF...

Amazon is rumored to be developing two high-end smartphones, as well as an audio-streaming device, broadening its range of branded hardware products well beyond its current Kindle e-readers and Kindle Fire tablets and its expected -- though as yet unconfirmed -- TV set-top box. The big surprise in the latest rumor is that one of the smartphones mi...

In what is believed to be one of the biggest robberies ever executed, cyberthieves stole nearly US$50 million from a pair of Middle Eastern banks. Far from bullying their way into vaults, members of this crime ring reportedly hacked into credit card processing firms and withdrew money from ATMs in 27 different countries. The plan worked by increas...

Rumors that Facebook is deep into the process of purchasing Waze -- makers of a mobile satellite navigation app that leverages crowdsourced mapping and traffic tips -- are making the rounds Facebook has apparently signed the terms and is conducting due diligence after six months of negotiations, according to published reports....

Organizations of all sizes across an assortment of industries are using a growing set of cloud analytics solutions to address their Big Data, business intelligence (BI) and data integration challenges, as I heard first-hand at the recent THINKstrategies' second annual Cloud Analytics Summit, which I had the privilege of hosting Escalating competiti...

In a move to bolster its offerings for the real estate market, Trulia said this week that it would acquire Market Leader, a Software as a Service-based CRM company targeting agents and brokers. The acquisition, expected to close in the fall, will provide Trulia with tools to help real estate professionals manage and track leads As part of the deal,...

Are smartphone add-ons the new growth area for smartphones? Peruse any big consumer electronics box-store aisles, and you can't help but notice a new style of peripherals hugging the displays. ...

Time, Inc., together with Google, the U.S. Geological Survey, and Carnegie Mellon University's Create Lab, have set up a website featuring timelapse animations depicting changes in Earth's surface from 1984 to 2012 ...

The war for gamers heated up on Thursday, with BlueStacks' introduction of GamePop, a system that will allow users to play thousands of mobile gaming apps on a TV screen. ...