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Social media advertising revenues will double by 2016, and native ads -- such as sponsored stories on Facebook and promoted tweets on Twitter -- will be its fastest-growing segment, according to a forecast from BIA/Kelsey The channel will grow from $4.6 billion in 2012 to $9.2 billion in 2016, predicts the report. That accounts for a compound annua...

China's state-run media could be in the early stages of a wave of attacks against U.S. telecommunications giant Cisco, according to Tech In Asia A pair of Chinese media outlets -- China Economy and Informatization and the Caijing National Weekly -- singled out Cisco on the same day, calling for the company to be investigated. According to Tech In A...

Today, few people are using an IBM desktop computer -- and if they are, the machine could be close to 20 years old. However, back in 1995 when IBM bought Lotus Notes, it was the world's largest software company and still made personal computers. Fast-forward, and today IBM isn't really known either for software or desktop computers Yet a little ove...

Have you voted yet? Not in the presidential election -- this is more important! I am talking about voting in the CRM Idol competition. It's time! OK, I know what you are thinking: What is CRM Idol? It's the brainchild of Paul Greenberg, and its purpose is to find the hottest emerging company in the front-office market. So far this year, we've ident...

FocusWriter uses an intriguing concept that makes you wonder why other word-processing tools do not offer the same hide-away tool panels to eliminate distractions. It offers a set of writing tools with the ease and speed of unencumbered text editors ...

Electronic communications are reshaping personal life, and may right now be causing the rapid demise of print Media academics know well the theories of Marshall McLuhan. He came up with the phrase "the medium is the message," and the term "global village," among other juicy contributions to our comprehension of media.

Google is stepping up its game in the battle for cloud supremacy by slashing prices and beefing up the services it offers with Compute Engine The Infrastructure as a Service product was first announced at Google's I/O show in June and is currently available in a preview version. Google hasn't set an official launch date, but it announced updates Mo...

Those who want to post reviews on Google Play will be required to use a Google+ account, the parent company of both announced on Tuesday. The new rules will be implemented with the latest version of Google Play, which the company is now introducing for Android devices. They have already been implemented in the online store Google will only allow us...

Cyber Monday online sales broke records this year, clocking in at 30 percent higher than 2011, according to IBM Smarter Commerce Sales are expected to reach US$1.5 billion for the day, making Cyber Monday 2012 the biggest online shopping day in history, comScore projects....

Cyber Monday was the biggest day ever for Kindle sales worldwide, Amazon reported Although it did not release specific figures -- it typically doesn't -- Amazon did say Kindle sales were more than double last year's figure for the holiday weekend. Nine of the 10 best-selling items on its site are Kindles or accessories or digital content for the de...

In both 2011 and 2012, U.S. authorities seized domains of streaming sites the week of the Super Bowl. The logic, apparently, was that the Super Bowl was the mother of all illegal viewing events, so it figured to be a good time to knock these sites offline The Super Bowl might yet be months away, but something similar has happened....

It makes sense to watch the calendar when putting together a marketing plan. Holidays, seasons and events, after all, drive sales "There's good reason to ride the coattails of seasonal events and holidays," Shannon Byrne, marketing coordinator at BlueGlass Interactive, told the E-Commerce Times. "When done right, it provides fresh ideas, generates ...

Based on recent statistics, one would think Houston is the mobile-commerce capital of the United States Shortly before the Thanksgiving holiday, the Interactive Advertising Bureau released its list of mobile-savvy cities. Houston was ranked No. 1, followed by Seattle-Tacoma, San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York City....

The latest release of Canonical's innovative open source operating system, Ubuntu 12.10, maintains its twice-annual upgrade pattern. Even though the last few releases have generated a steady chorus of cries for longer release schedules, Canonical's leadership stands by the schedule and the rationale behind it. Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth certa...

The Samsung Galaxy Note II could very well be the best high-end smartphone/phablet on the market today. It brings the best features of Android Jelly Bean to this combination of high-powered tablet and state-of-the-art phone. ...

Google is adding its voice to a chorus of opposition to a proposal to update the International Telecommunication Union treaty in a way that could give governments more power to restrict the flow of information online. Next week, members of the ITU -- the UN organization that oversees international communication policy -- will gather in Dubai for t...

Samsung Electronics will implement new measures to keep its Chinese suppliers compliant with labor laws after it completed a round of audits that found notable problems relating to labor policies, the company announced Monday. These included problems with overtime, but Samsung is also looking to ensure that its suppliers adopt hiring procedures to screen out underage workers...

As many as 10,000 Twitter users in the United Kingdom face the threat of legal action because of their tweets regarding recent sexual abuse allegations According to The New York Times, the tweeters could be in trouble because of comments -- either posted to Twitter or forwarded to other people -- in which they refer to a BBC report that incorrectly...

Shopping and sales activity on Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday rocked this year, with online purchases on Black Friday topping $1 billion for the first time More than 35 million Americans visited retailers' stores or websites on Thanksgiving Day, up from 29 million last year, the National Retail Federation reported. The following day -- Black Fri...

Avaya IP Office joined the BYOD revolution with the release of version 8.1 earlier this year. Now the company is gearing up for more changes, including a forthcoming release that will integrate video functionality into its feature set. It will continue to expand its functionality around mobility in 2013, said SVP Tom Mitchell, president of Avaya G...