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Research In Motion looked to turn the page with its PlayBook tablet on Wednesday with the release of the 2.1 update, which added features many users had hoped to see sooner They include email and PIM enhancements, along with improved Android application support, as well as print via WiFi networks, text messaging with BlackBerry Bridge, and portrait...

T-Mobile announced that it will acquire rival carrier MetroPCS to create a larger company. The deal is expected to close in the first half of 2013, following shareholder and regulatory approvals. Until then, T-Mobile and MetroPCS will continue to operate as separate companies. When the deal is closed, T-Mobile will be a separate customer unit of t...

The Federal Trade Commission has put a stop to a handful of tech-support scams based mainly in India that promised to remove viruses or other malware from users' computers The scams primarily involved telemarketers contacting people in the United States and other English-speaking countries, falsely telling them that their computers were infected wi...

If thermostats were cars, Nest Labs' would be a Cadillac Selling for US$249, the gadget brings design verve -- the company was founded by Tony Fadell, the former leader of the team at Apple that designed numerous generations of the iPod and iPhone -- and mobile technology to a device that barely registers on many consumers' consciousness scale....

Apple's Asian component suppliers have begun mass-producing parts for a new tablet, according to The Wall Street Journal Apple reps didn't immediately respond to questions about the tablet, which is believed to be smaller, and with a lower resolution, than the latest iPad that went on sale last March....

LinkedIn took the first step toward opening up its walled garden with the introduction on Tuesday of a feature that lets members follow 150 of the most influential thought leaders on its network These super-influencers include President Obama, Mitt Romney, motivational speaker Tony Robbins, British mogul and daredevil Richard Branson, and Craigslis...

I've been at OpenWorld for two days as I file this, but so far I have little CRM-oriented material. CRM really kicks in on Wednesday when the company focuses on CX -- or customer experience -- the moniker that Oracle has given to much of its CRM focus CX is good for what Oracle is about and some of the announcements about private cloud and high cap...

The Calligra Suite is an unusual compilation of office tools with much potential -- but it has a good deal of maturing to do before it can advance beyond its mediocre performance following a debut almost three years ago.

Remember Charlie? YouTube isn't just about cat videos and basement productions anymore. Charlie's a big boy now, and YouTube has been growing up too.

The California federal judge who issued a preliminary injunction in June against U.S. sales of a Samsung Galaxy tablet has lifted the ban. Judge Lucy Koh had originally found the Galaxy Tab 10.1 likely violated a tablet design patent held by Apple, but a jury found in August that it did not. Apple was the overall winner in that particular patent ...

Microsoft is moving deeper into a strategy of content generation as part of its launch of Windows 8. The company is planning to create a news organization that will provide MSN.com with a steady stream of original content As it releases its latest operating system designed to help it compete in the evolving mobile marketplace, the redesign of Micro...

On the first day of OpenWorld, Oracle unveiled a slew of products designed to position the company as the preeminent cloud vendor: a high-end server; an upgraded flagship database, version 12c, which will be released early next year; and a range of new or upgraded applications for the cloud. Although Oracle highlighted a number of apps during the...

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg met Monday with Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev in Moscow According to The New York Times, Russia is something of a "test case" for Zuckerberg and Facebook: a country that is commercially significant but nonetheless tightly regulates -- and censors -- its media....

Amazon began shipping its Kindle Paperwhite e-reader on Monday, to a chorus of praise from reviewers who had been allotted a unit in advance Most of the positive remarks were about the screen, with its built-in lighting. A typical comment, published in Time, said the screen makes it the best e-reader yet....

The debate in the U.S. Congress over a comprehensive national cybersecurity program is wearing on, largely because of differences over the roles of government and business in protecting information technology Elsewhere, however, cybersecurity awareness and research projects are being launched through cooperative efforts. For example, the National ...

CRM is a mature software category with a decades-plus history of development and evolution. Still, one important problem remains unsolved: A lot of employees, especially sales staff, just can't be bothered with it Corporate "solutions" have ranged from bribing to arm-twisting to appeals to corporate loyalty. None, though, have worked so well as bui...

Oracle's proprietary posture may have soiled the welcome mat and vilified its good standing in the FOSS community as CEO Larry Ellison has pushed the balance point between servicing his customers and nickel-and-diming them to turn a higher profit. Clearly, since Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems -- and with it OpenOffice and Java -- the company has not acted very neighborly with open source developers.

The threat to enterprise security is increasing as the BYOD phenomenon gains ground in corporate America The amount of Android malware out there has gone through the roof, and hackers are leveraging Twitter to create command and control servers for mobile botnets, according to McAfee's Q2, 2012 threats report....

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has approved a notice of proposed rulemaking that will lay the groundwork for the agency to auction television spectrum to mobile carriers. The NPRM establishes proposed rules and asks for public comment on the auctions This would be no ordinary FCC auction. Under the proposal, U.S. television stations wou...

The Iranian government is reopening access to Gmail agter taking flak for its decision to block Google's email service, according to the Telegraph Even members of parliament have complained about the Gmail block, according to the AP. A member of parliament was quoted in Iranian media saying that the minister of telecommunications would be summoned ...