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Barnes & Noble reported this week that it will be rethinking strategy for its Nook division, since slow sales of its e-reader led to a tough recent quarter for the nation's largest book retailer The company reported an overall total revenue slump for its third quarter, down 8.8 percent to US$2.2 billion. Before interest, taxes, depreciation and amo...

What, China was just going to say nothing? On the heels of a report that China's military has for years been engaging in cyberespionage against the U.S., China's Ministry of Defense claimed that a pair of military websites were attacked more than 100,000 times per month in 2012 -- and that more than 60 percent of the attacks originated in the U.S....

A day after posting disappointing quarterly earnings, Groupon ousted its founder and CEO Andrew Mason. The company's stock jumped 4 percent in after-hours trading as the news became public "I've decided that I'd like to spend more time with my family. Just kidding -- I was fired today. If you're wondering why... you haven't been paying attention," ...

The devil is in the details, the saying goes. When it comes to B2B selling, the dollars are also in the details That's something I learned many years ago while writing about the reseller channel. Back in 2000, the Internet caused significant disruptions of traditional reseller relationships, because many large technology vendors expected online sal...

OruxMaps Donate,a mobile app from Jose Vazquez, is available for US$2.62 at Google Play.Have you ever considered becoming a cartographer? It's not as hard as you might think....

When Richard Rygg, the cofounder of HipGeo, sailed with his family last year through the islands of French Polynesia, he used his company's app to document the experience. The result is a multimedia blog complete with a GPS track of his adventure, and a collection of dozens of geo-tagged photos of sunsets, beaches and bays. ...

Facebook users will soon see ads in their feeds that are more specifically targeted to what they like and where they've shopped -- both online and offline -- thanks to a series of agreements with data companies announced Wednesday. The agreements expand the social network's Custom Audiences program released last September, which was designed to al...

Having established its credentials as a key player in the consumer smartphone world -- perhaps the key player -- Samsung is bolstering security to take a stab at business users, a demographic traditionally dominated by BlackBerry. For the past year, Samsung has been beefing upthe Android software that powers its smartphones to protect it against m...

Hackers used a highly customized piece of malware that takes advantage of a recently revealed Adobe flaw to spy on governments and institutions worldwide, security firm Kaspersky Lab announced Wednesday The 59 victims in 23 countries include government entities in Ireland, Belgium, Portugal, Ukraine and the Czech republic, and a research foundation...

Several years ago, General Motors introduced a groundbreaking service called "OnStar," a wireless technology designed to keep drivers safer on the road. Since the 1990s, GM has used the Verizon Wireless network to link cars with OnStar. However, it announced this week at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona that it's switching to AT&T Mobility....

Salesforce came to New York this week for its annual winter meeting with customers. The company had two goals: test new ideas, and gather customer input. The event was held at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel for a relatively small group -- less than 1,000 -- rather than at the Jacob Javits Convention Center, which can accommodate the maintenance facilit...

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Samsung opened up its new Wallet app at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona Wednesday, joining Apple and Google in the market for electronic storage and scanning of tickets, memberships and discounts via smartphones The company's announcement comes two days after it said it had entered a worldwide agreement with Visa to offer the latter's PayWav...

The Department of Defense announced Tuesday it would be opening up its communications platform to allow Apple and Android tablets and smartphones, a move that acknowledges the impact of mobile technology in the civilian world while also increasing the potential for added security risks The DoD announcement is part of a new mobile device strategy be...

Police in the UK have ordered Google, Twitter and Facebook to remove photographs claiming to show the recently released murderer of James Bulger, who was killed in Liverpool 20 years ago In addition to the injunctionthat bans the photos, the Guardian reported that authorities threatenedMonday to take legal action -- in the form of fines or even jai...

The U.S. government has some unique -- and exacting -- security requirements related to the adoption of cloud technology. These internal government security hurdles have resulted in significant outreach to expertise from commercial information technology companies. The latest example is an invitation from the General Services Administration to the...

The Center for Copyright Information is ready to start implementing the Copyright Alert System, it said Monday Under the system, content partners, such as music and movie producers, will alert participating ISPs of alleged P2P copyright infringement by their customers. The ISPs will then forward those copyright alerts to the supposed offenders....

Consumers continued to put their trust in e-commerce websites in 2012, according to the latest American Customer Satisfaction Index released Tuesday The ACSI, produced in partnership with the customer analytics experience firm ForeSee, showed e-commerce sites making incremental gains in customer satisfaction ratings. The overall score for all e-com...

If you subscribe to the view, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it," perhaps Fuduntu is the Linux distro most ideal to your computing needs....

The introduction of the smartphone can be credited with inspiring many so-called lifestyleimprovements -- not the least of which stems from its ability to multitask. Junk that alarmclock and makeup mirror, and gear up for fashion, shopping and art This week, TechNewsWorld's All Things Appy takes a look at the best iOS apps in the lifestyle category...