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Google wowed analysts and shareholders with its fourth-quarter earnings released on Tuesday. The search engine giant reported consolidated revenues of US$14.42 billion for the quarter ending Dec. 31 -- an increase of 36 percent compared with the fourth quarter of 2011. Its GAAP net income, including a net loss from discontinued operations, was $2...

A court in Saudi Arabia declined to hear the case of Raif Badawi, a liberal blogger who was accused of apostasy, according to the BBC Apostasy,defined as the abandonment of one's faith, is a particularly grievous charge in Islam. Had it been so inclined, the court that turned down the case could have sentenced Badawi to death....

Major programs designed to reduce costs and improve healthcare through the automation of medical records have fallen short of the potential to do either, according to a recent Rand Corp. report The effort to convert paper health documents to electronic form got a huge boost from the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act...

Last week Ayasdi came out of stealth mode and told the world it had a new wayto analyze big data, and I think the implications for CRM and social are very largeindeed. The new way is called "topological data analysis" (TDA) and hearing about it has the feelof hearing about relativity for the first time (or Salesforce.com) and learning thatspace is curved.

OpenArtist is an infant Linux distribution that holds impressive promise for users heavily involved in graphic productivity. Based on Ubuntu 12.04, openArtist is infused with audio, 2D and 3D graphics, and video production tools, plus Blender software ...

Many of us have got health and fitness on the mind as the new year gets under way, and thesmartphone is proving itself to be a remarkable little healthcare provider This week, All Things Appy takes a look at key players in this area....

AT&T has reached an agreement with Atlantic Tele-Network to buy its wireless assets for US$780 million. The deal will add approximately 585,000 subscribers -- mainly in Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, North Carolina, Ohio and South Carolina -- to AT&T's user ranks. Perhaps more importantly, AT&T's acquisition of the Alltel brand will bring in spectrum complementary to AT&T's network -- that is, in the 700-, 850- and 1900-megahertz bands...

AT&T has reached an agreement with Atlantic Tele-Network to buy its wireless assets for US$780 million. The deal will add approximately 585,000 subscribers -- mainly in Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, North Carolina, Ohio and South Carolina -- to AT&T's user ranks. Perhaps more importantly, AT&T's acquisition of the Alltel brand will bring in spectrum complementary to AT&T's network -- that is, in the 700-, 850- and 1900-megahertz bands...

Publisher Bethesda Softworks and game development studio ZeniMax Online Studios on Tuesday announced that beta signups were open for The Elder Scrolls Online. The long-running video game franchise is going in a new direction, one that will take players back in time -- a thousand years before the time period of the 2011 hit title The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim -- and open the world to the masses. ...

Groupon is halting its gun-related daily deals in the wake of an increased awareness about gun violence in the U.S. The site's coupons for gun-related materials and activities, including shooting ranges, conceal-and-carry and clay shooting are under review and suspended indefinitely....

Cuba has activated an underwater cable that could alter the nation's Internet landscape -- but its impact would be greater if the cable were turned on all the way The long-awaited cable is only facilitating incoming -- not outgoing -- Web traffic, according to Internet monitoring company Renesys.

CEO Thorsten Heins has suggested that Research In Motion may one day license its BlackBerry operating system and stop producing handset hardware, according to reports circulating Monday of an interview published in German daily Die Welt Whether such a move would help put the embattled company back on track or be the final step in a march to oblivi...

Browse any mobile app store and you'll find a number of apps relating to monitoring activity and tracking fitness while you work out and train. Shelf space is increasingly dedicated to fitness-related gadgets including activity monitors and other workout gear. Now there are massively multiplayer-style games to complement the fitness games published for console games...

Mobile CRM is usually not a company's first foray into CRM. Before going mobile, a company usually has a SaaS-based CRM application, at a bare minimum, as well as an online presence that has become increasingly interactive over the years -- and likely a social media presence as well Unlike traditional CRM, which is built upon a decade of knowledge ...

FlightTrack,a mobile app from Mobiata, is available for US$4.99 at Google Play.Keeping track of airport information can be a challenge even for a nonstop, there-and-back trip. Multiple legs increase the number of things that can go wrong geometrically, but I recently took the risk, in a week-long loop from Los Angeles to Los Cabos, Mexico, then to...

Hybrid and electric vehicles have marketed as the "cars of the future," but consumers just aren't getting in gear with alternative powertrains; neither hybrids nor electrics are rolling down the road in great numbers Although each year sees the introduction of new hybrids at auto shows, the most notable being the North American International Auto S...

Kim Dotcom on Sunday opened the doors to the new file-sharing website Mega. The site is making a splash in the file-sharing world with its promise of exceptional privacy and security. That is not the only reason Mega's debut is notable, though: Dotcom is the founder of Megaupload, which was shut down by U.S. authorities following indictments for p...

Google is envisioning a future in which email and online banking accounts are safer thanks to technology that would add a physical component to security protection, according to a report from Wired Members of the Google security team will publish a paper in next month's IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine examining scenarios in which passwords would b...

Google chairman Eric Schmidt took to Google+ to discuss his recent trip to North Korea Schmidt's Google+ post discusses the "very limited" technology available in North Korea. Schmidt said that North Koreans are not allowed to use the Internet without someone watching them, and that it wouldn't be difficult for North Korea to connect its highly res...

Facebook may have given phishers a reason to rejoice last week when it announced a new way to search for information about its billion members Graph Search allows a Facebook member to use semantic search to find and aggregate information about people on the social network....