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Comcast has grown and changed so much over the last 15 years that many expect this wave to continue. It may, but for that to happen Comcast must realize the marketplace is changing and steer through the upcoming rapids. Can it do that? My Pick of the Week is AT&T's plan to stop texting while driving.

More companies than ever are seeking to understand project accounting costs as they realizethat knowledge of this data impacts their bottom line and exposes areas where costs can be cutand profits can be made. By understanding project accounting costs, companies can discoverfinancial problems with projects early on and fix them. This can potentially save millions of dollars.But just because companies seek to understand these costs doesn't mean they know the bestway to go about finding the information...

If you've been experiencing choppy voice quality or dropped calls from your mobile provider atyour home or workplace, there are steps you can take to correct the problem Cellular phones use radio signals to communicate, and like any other radio, signalpropagation issues -- including topography, obstructions, distance to tower andinterference -- aff...

The revolving door at Yahoo continued to turn on Tuesday as the CEO Marissa Mayer announced bold new plans that included bringing in a new CFO, Ken Goldman Mayer is the latest in a string of chiefs to take turns at the company's helm. Yahoo has had three CEOs and two interim CEOs in just a little more than a year, following the firing of Carol Bart...

Staples is joining the ranks of big box retailers that want to push deeper into an activity that historically has been of secondary importance to them -- e-commerce. That is not to say that retailers such as Walmart or Target have been absent from the online sales space. Quite the contrary, in fact. However, they -- and now Staples is part of this group -- are increasingly placing their online sales operations in the same priority category as their brick-and-mortar footprint. In Staples' case, a stronger mobile presence will also be part of the mix...

Driverless cars might be making more of an appearance on California roads, thanks to a bill signed this week that sets safety and performance guidelines for advancing autonomous vehicles in the state. Gov. Jerry Brown and the bill's sponsor, Sen. Alex Padilla, joined Google cofounder Sergey Brin at the company's Mountain View headquarters to sign ...

Battered bookseller Barnes & Noble has joined the slew of vendors releasing new tablets for the holiday season, announcing the latest additions to its Nook tablet family on Wednesday, but the content that will grace their screens is getting just as much attention The tablets are the 7-inch Nook HD and 9-inch Nook HD+. The two offer ad-free content,...

Electric car maker Tesla Motors on Tuesday introduced a network of solar-powered rapid charging stations for its vehicles beginning with several locations across California The network of "supercharger" stations already is in operation in six California locations: Folsom, Gilroy, Coalinga, Lebec, Barstow and Hawthorne. Tesla makes its cars in Fremo...

Having already mapped Antarctica and the North Pole, Google has added panoramic images of coral reefs on Google Street View As the BBC reports, Google gathered the materials through the Catlin Seaview Survey, a project designed to study the health of coral reefs. Scientists with the Catlin Group, based in Bermuda, used a trio of wide-angle lenses s...

RIM Chief Executive Thorsten Heins on Monday told the crowd at BlackBerry Jam, a developers' conference being held in San Jose, Calif., that BlackBerry was still very much a player in the mobile world. He made the somewhat startling pronouncement that the company's subscriber base had risen to 80 million from 78 million over the most recent quarter, which ended Sept. 1, despite the lack of new products or major initiatives...

The U.S. government is worried about the improper release of federal information that finds its way into the electronic IT systems of all federal contractors. In a recent notice, the government said it was seeking comment from the business community on a proposal to tighten security related to the transmission of "non-public" information through the IT systems of contractors working for federal agencies.

It's over, Dreamforce that is, and I have gotten some needed sleep on the flight back to Boston. As I contemplate Dreamforce 2012 and its meaning, I have three observations First, it was what I expected it to be. If you refer back to my post just before the show opened my expectations were more than met. You might wonder about the timing of that po...

If you fancy game playing, the latest release of the Mageia Linux OS will be a fun experience. Even if you never open a game, Mageia 2 is a solid distribution well suited to newcomers and seasoned Linux users alike.Mageia is a fork of the now defunct Mandriva distro. It was developed by a team of former employees of the France-based company that f...

A security researcher has discovered a flaw that could potentially allow hackers to force a factory reset of Samsung Galaxy S III smartphones with a single line of code Ravi Borgaonkar announced his findings at the Ekoparty security conference....

Facebook came under fire again on Monday as a privacy advocate called for the Federal Trade Commission to investigate the social network's relationship with data marketer Datalogix. This wasn't just another instance of what have become typical privacy concerns with Facebook The latest call came from the Electronic Privacy Information Center and cou...

MySpace is rolling out a sleek, media-centric new version of its social network in an effort to restore some of its Web popularity. MySpace was once one of the hottest online social networks, but it declined with the rise of Facebook and Twitter MySpace posted a video this week previewing its new look, along with a message from its owners teasing a...

If Wall Street could truly predict a company's future, then Facebook should be packing up its offices this morning. The social media giant's stock value dropped close to 10 percent on Monday, to US$20.79. The trigger for the stock drop -- this time -- was a report in Barron's questioning whether Facebook had the wherewithal to successfully develop a mobile ad platform. The stock price hadn't moved by mid-day Tuesday...

Technologically inclined businesses and other organizations have long enjoyed what Icall IT "trickle down": Continuing, rapid development results in the mainstreamingof hardware, software and services that were originally unthinkably expensive andspecialized. This doesn't mean that higher-end products ever disappear. In fact,the baseline performan...

Discover Bank is refunding approximately US$200 million to more than 3.5 million customers under a joint enforcement action by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau. Discover will also pay a $14 million civil money penalty, with half going to the U.S. Treasury and half to the CFPB's civil penalty fund The a...

Ubuntu Made Easy: A Project-Based Introduction to LinuxBy Rickford Grant with Phil BullJuly 2012, 480 pp.ISBN: 978-1-59327-425-2$34.95 Print Book with free Ebook$27.95 Ebook (PDF, Mobi, and ePub) Ubuntu is one of the most popular and user-friendly Linux operating systems you will find. That said, Ubuntu can be intimidating and frustrating to comput...