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The visit to North Korea this week by a team led by Google Chairman Eric Schmidt and former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson has stirred up controversy The U.S. State Department has criticized the move, while Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., has described Richardson and Schmidt as "useful idiots"....

The cloud may be the future, but it's not a bed of roses. The Amazon Cloud had a meltdown on Christmas Eve, affecting many customers who use the service. Companies that use Amazon as their cloud, their customers and workers were all affected. What should we learn from this high-profile meltdown? It may be the talk of the Consumer Electronics Show i...

Target has announced that its brick-and-mortar stores will extend the company's holiday season price-matching policy year round. It has promised to match the prices customers find on identical "qualifying" products at Amazon, as well as the e-commerce websites of Walmart, Best Buy, Toys 'R' Us, Babies 'R' Us and others Target also said its stores w...

By now, common sense, the business media and practical experience have taught the lessons of multi-channel engagement for service. Businesses have come to realize that they need to provide service in whatever way their customers wish to receive it, whether it's through the phone, via chat or text, over email or through social media This is a reflec...

With screen real estate, as with the dirt version, more is generally better Like earlier incarnations of the OS, Windows 8 has external monitorfunctionality that lets you spread out. However, there are Windows 8-specific features -- like the snapping of apps that lets you use apps side-by-side to do two tasks at once; and communications like Skype ...

Iran is behind a wave of distributed denial of service attacks that hit U.S. banks in the past few weeks, according to a report in The New York Times The amount of traffic flooding American banks' sites was several times the volume Russia aimed at Estonia in a month-long online assault back in 2007, said James A. Lewis, senior fellow and director a...

The original analog NTSC TV standard for sets that graced living rooms for decades was only phased out in 2009 after years of delays, extensions and efforts to reach a standard for digital TV, but already TV manufacturers are looking to the next big thing At this year's International CES (formerly the Consumer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas, all th...

Dish Network has made a multifaceted offer to acquire all or part of Clearwire, potentially complicating Sprint's recent proposal to acquire the rest of the wireless network operator Sprint, which is already Clearwire's majority stakeholder, last month announced a proposal to buy the remaining 49 percent of Clearwire. The agreement is still subject...

A security researcher has hacked Windows RT to allow it to run desktop applications by bypassing the OS's security systems. The jailbreaking isn't dangerous to users' systems, he insists "It cannot at this point be exploited without the user actually wanting it, so it's not dangerous," researcher C.L. Roker told TechNewsWorld....

U.S. government officials and security experts are convinced that a recent cyberattack on American banks was executed by Iran, according to The New York Times The U.S. has not yet divulged any evidence to corroborate their accusations, but The Times reports that security experts say the attack displayed a level of sophistication not possible for an...

Samsung has unveiled a slew of smart TVs and related technologies at the 2013 CES being held this week in Las Vegas ...

The next-gen e-commerce player is globally minded and logistically savvy, with an eye firmly fixed on the opportunities presented by mobile. If you think this sounds like Amazon, you're right. However, it also applies to countless other etailers and service providers positioning themselves for growth in 2013 The E-Commerce Times caught up with exec...

For a long time, many people have been predicting the demise of ERP, and while I share those sentiments, a demise can take many forms. The one we all understand well is the crash-and-burn variety, but that's not the only and perhaps not even the predominant approach. The crash is at best the final step. Humpty Dumpty must have teetered and lost h...

Linux Mint 14, released in December and dubbed the "Nadia" version, is loaded with a horde of improvements to all four of its desktop environments. It is not usually necessary to grab every new release to a distro, but Nadia is a significant upgrade to an evolving Linux OS. This one is a keeper. ...

TechNewsWorld's All Things Appy has been taking a hard look at the apps that arechanging our lives Some of the best apps available take existing mobile phone functionality tothe next level, and all of our Top 5 featured here are outstanding examples....

Amazon's stock price reached an all-time high of US$268.98 per share on Monday -- a far far cry from its debut at $16 per share 16 years ago. The stock was off only slightly on Tuesday, closing at $266.38 The company's share price has been steadily climbing. Monday's spike of 4 percent followed an upgrade from Morgan Stanley analyst Scott Devitt, w...

Samsung on Tuesday predicted record earnings for the fourth quarter as its mobile device line, led by the popular Galaxy S III, continued to dominate the smartphone market. In an earnings preview, the company estimated its operating profit will jump to about US$8.3 billion for the quarter -- an 88.8 percent increase from the same period last year ...

Sony Mobile Communications announced the newest model in its Xperia line, the waterproof and dustproof Xperia Z ...

Flanked by former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, Google chairman Eric Schmidt arrived Monday in North Korea Richardson, who also is a former UN ambassador, has characterized the trip as a "private humanitarian mission" -- a far more hospitable description than ones coming from the U.S. State Department (which said the jaunt was "not particularly ...

Nvidia came out Monday with a handful of announcements expanding its presence in the gaming world well beyond the graphics processing units for which it's best known ...