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Android dominates the worldwide smartphone market, running on 75 percent of all smartphones shipped throughout the globe in the third quarter, IDC reported Samsung continued to hold sway over the Android market, but its market share slipped because of competition from a multitude of smaller vendors....

Google and Rosetta Stone reached a settlement in a trademark infringement case this week, ending a three year legal battle with a promise to work together to fight the misuse of trade names In a 2009 lawsuit, Rosetta Stone claimed that Google allowed rival language software companies to use Rosetta Stone keywords and language in sponsored online ad...

U.S. Federal Trade Commission staff have recommended that Google should be sued for antitrust violations, according to a report in Bloomberg that cites anonymous sources. A majority of the agency's five commissioners appear inclined to do so, the sources said.

In an effort to expand its Chinese operations, eBay will partner with luxury retailer Xiu.com According to Bloomberg, which cites a person with direct knowledge of the pact, the deal, which will be announced formally in Xiu.com's home base of Shenzhen on Nov. 12, is eBay's most ambitious move in China since current CEO John Donahoe took over in 20...

FCC Draws mHealth Road Map, Part 1 The U.S. government's efforts to advance health technology include work taking place at two obvious agencies: the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Department of Veterans Affairs....

Nudge, a marketing application designed for the real estate space, has released an update that incorporates Instagram into its offerings. ...

Car Widget Pro, an app from Alex Gavrishev, is available for US$0.99 at Google Play. ...

Researchers at the Tokyo University of Technology have developed software that lets users link up multiple mobile devices to create a giant display You just place a number of mobile devices together in any array desired, and use the pinch gesture familiar to touchscreen users to link them up....

Alleged digital pirate and German Internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom on Thursday announced plans for Mega, a service that would replace his shut down file-sharing website Megaupload Despite a high-profile raid on his New Zealand mansion early this year, Dotcom has vowed to keep fighting for the rights of users to share files over the Internet....

Billionaire investor and activist shareholder Carl Icahn has acquired a 10 percent stake in Netflix, according to a Wednesday filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The value of the 5.5 million shares is about US$169 million. Icahn Capital believes that Netflix is undervalued and positioned for expansion both in the U.S. and overseas,...

Hackers are actively attacking some of the largest banks in the nation, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano warned this week Napolitano declined to go into detail about the types of breaches or what kind of information -- if any -- had been taken. She brought up her concern about attacks on U.S. financial institutions at a cybersecuri...

A man in Melbourne, Australia, won a defamation case against Google over the search engine's image results According to The Age, the plaintiff, Michael Trkulja, contacted Google in 2009 requesting that the site remove images linking him to former meth kingpin Tony Mokbel....

The Windows 8 Live Tiles user interface already is the subject of a lawsuit, less than a week after Microsoft officially launched the OS SurfCast, a small company that has no products of its own, filed suit in the Federal District Court of Maine alleging that Microsoft is infringing one of its patents with its Windows 8 and Surface products, among ...

Why is Verizon Wireless telling half-truths in its latest advertising campaign? It does make the company look better than its competitors, but here's the problem: When customers realize what they're led to believe is only a half-truth, they will be very upset with Verizon. So why risk that damage to the brand and the customer relationship?...

If you're used to Microsoft's stratospheric pricing email program -- Outlook alone isUS$139.99 estimated retail -- take a look at the small print at Microsoft's Windows 8 website, and you'll see that a Windows 8 Pro upgrade can be downloaded for a limited-time at the measly price of $39.99 This is a surprising bargain from the monolith -- and a sig...

EMC has announced it is acquiring Silver Tail Systems, a provider of real-time Web session intelligence and behavioral analysis. When the acquisition is closed, which is expected in the fourth quarter, Silver Tail will be part of EMC's security division, tasked with extending RSA's enterprise security portfolio. Terms were not disclosed.

After a persistent series of attacks on its government computers by a Russian hacker, the Republic of Georgia got mad and refused to take it anymore ...

Norwegian Air Shuttle, one of Scandinavia's biggest airlines, announced that in 2013 it will introduce a new-age in-flight entertainment system According to The New York Times, the upgrade will vault in-flight media into the digital age....

Why would venture capitalist firm Andreessen Horowitz lead a $15.5 million B round of funding for a company that's been working in stealth mode since 2008 on a technology it won't showcase until 2013? Because that company, ItsOn, was cofounded by a couple of former Cisco executives Greg Raleigh and Charles Giancarlo. Raleigh has taken the helm as I...

I spent a day last week in Boston attending a conference called the "Inbound Marketing Summit" organized by my friend and former analyst Allen Bonde. Inbound marketing IMHO is taking off in some important dimensions Inbound marketing is a cool idea that's been pushed by multiple companies recently. For instance, HubSpot held its user meeting early ...