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Apple is still doing relatively well, but its valuation is falling like a rock, while Nokia and RIM areascending from catastrophically low levels. Yet judging from Twitter feeds and relevant articles, it appears the people who disbelieve that Apple can fall are matched by those who can't believe RIM and Nokia will recover From my perspective, it wo...

If done right, online selling of digital content -- including software, games, e-books, periodicals and other digital media -- can take traditional retail e-commerce a huge step further into a new and very different -- but potentially highly impactful -- sales and relationship-building environment. Unlike physical goods e-commerce, selling digita...

A French court has ordered Twitter to hand over data that could help identify users who posted racist messages on the service's website, acting on a complaint filed in October by the Union of French Jewish Students The 17th Chamber of the Paris Criminal Courts also wants Twitter to make it easy for users to flag tweets deemed illegal under French l...

Vine users who attempted to find Facebook friends on Friday received an error message stating that Twitter's new mobile app is not authorized to make the request. This is the latest apparent rift between the two social media rivals Earlier this week, Twitter launched Vine, a free iOS app that allows iPhone and iPad users to create and post very sh...

Microsoft reported an earnings slip in its second fiscal quarter on Thursday, despite strong sales from itindows 8 operating system that gave overall revenue a boost. It brought in US$21.46 billion in revenue, a 3 percent increase from the same period a year ago. However, its net income of $6.4 billion, or 76 cents per share, was down from the $6....

Governments around the world peppered Google with 21,389 information requests on about 33,634 users from July through December 2012. That represents a 2 percent year-over-year increase, according to Google's latest Transparency Report, released this week. The U.S. led the barrage, with 8,476 requests for information -- a 6 percent year-over-year increase...

Microsoft reportedly is in talks to invest in Dell as the struggling PC maker explores its options outside the public market. The software giant has been meeting with representatives from Dell and Silver Lake Partners to discuss a deal that would involve an investment of up to US$3 billion, according to multiple reports. Tha could give Microsoft a...

CRMCulture is preparing to release its latest iteration of Productivity Pack for Pivotal CRM. ...

New York Subway,a mobile app from Visual IT, is available for US$2.37 at Google Play....

Researchers at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) on Wednesday announced their success at storing data by encoding it to DNA. The system could stand the test of time -- tens of thousands of years, perhaps This method for archiving data could make it possible to store 100 million hours of high-definition video in about a cup of DNA, a...

It is known, rightfully so, as the largest annual migration on Earth -- and the ticket lines, even on the Web, are accordingly long But there's an app for that -- a few of them, actually....

Google has filed an application with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for a new or modified radio station for an experimental radio service other than broadcast. The initial base station will be deployed on Google's campus in Mountain View, Calif It appears the company intends to build a dense, hyperspeed wireless network....

Apple's stock fell after the company released its most recent quarterly report, despite record revenue, iPad and iPhone sales. It posted US$13.1 billion, or $13.81 per share, in net income for its first fiscal quarter on revenue of $54.5 billion. Net income was flat compared with the same period a year earlier, but revenue was up 18 percent from the $46.3 billion it earned in the year-ago quarter.

Deep Space Industries on Tuesday announced plans to launch a robotic fleet to scour space for asteroids that can be mined. The company will send out its FireFly spacecraft in 2015 on journeys of two-to-six months DSI will work with NASA and other partners to identify targets of opportunity....

Bronto Software this week released a significant update to its Bronto Marketing Platform: a remarketing engine that helps retailers link online and in-store purchases in order to create targeted email messages that speak to the individual user New features allow marketers to collect data such as purchase history and then use that information to seg...

So, what is Aereo all about? Well, it's a brand new idea, a Web TV service. The days of the US$200 TV bill are numbered, said the CEO of Aereo in an interview with Ad Age. This sounds like a good idea, right? Well, the cable television model is old and broken, and the need for lower-cost alternatives is growing. The timing may be right for compani...

"People buy your story." Hearing that said from the stage at DemandCon 2011 by Forrester's Jeff Ernstmade my withered writer's heart grow two sizes (to paraphrase Dr. Seuss).Covering the technology industry has made me an unwilling witness to a range ofcrimes against language, ranging from tortured grammar to made-up words to animpenetrable lexicon...

For Oracle and its Java programming language, the hurt just keeps on coming Fresh vulnerabilities have been discovered less than a week after Oracle updated Java to address two security flaws being exploited by hackers -- but wait, there's more. Net bandits launched a phishing campaign pushing bogus security updates for the software....

The Mozilla Foundation on Tuesday announced that smartphones running its Firefox OS will be available to developers in February ...

Research In Motion released a new version of its BlackBerry Enterprise Service mobile device management software on Wednesday. This comes just over a week before the official launch of the new BlackBerry 10 operating system and compatible handsets, and just days after RIM CEO Thorsten Heins suggested the company might abandon the hardware market and sharpen its focus on software...