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The media tablet market is poised for robust growth -- driven in large part by the emerging 7.x-inch form factor, according to new figures from IHS iSuppli Tablet shipments will reach 126.6 million units this year, the firm predicted, which amounts to a 56 percent annual increase....

HP CEO Meg Whitman revealed the company plans to launch another smartphone, in what would be a second attempt at the mobile market for the PC giant Whitman noted last week in an interview with Fox Business News that since HP is a computing company, it should ultimately offer a smartphone....

Online payment service PayPal will prevent users in Argentina from making domestic transfers,according to the BBC According to this PayPal statement, PayPal users in Argentina will only be able to send and receive "international payments" starting on Oct. 9.

Brothers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss -- famed for their dispute with Mark Zuckerberg over the formation of Facebook -- are trying their hand at the social media space again. They have invested US$1 million in SumZero, a social networking site founded in 2008 by fellow Harvard alum Divya Narendra, who also had a hand in bringing Facebook to life. ...

Motorola and Intel on Tuesday announced the Motorola Razr i, the first smartphone from the vendor that is built around an Intel processor The Razr i, which runs Android Ice Cream Sandwich, will be released in Europe and Latin America beginning in October, but there's no word as to when it might be available in the United States....

As information technology innovation comes in rapidly evolving cycles, continuity and consistency remain important factors in managing change. The adoption of innovative IT calls for a certain amount of management stability to transition from old to new methods in productive ways. In turn, that stability depends on an organization's ability to provide orderly management succession planning and execution, especially in leadership positions.

Without a doubt, mobile CRM has become a must-have deployment in the B2C world. Expect that trend to move into the B2B community for similar reasons: The devices are becoming ever more equipped to serve multiple needs, and their uses can soothe a lot of pain points. B2B, more so than B2C, is highly sensitive to screen size and quality. Companies a...

One of the stumbling blocks in migrating to the Linux desktop is the mistaken view that you can't take it with you. Your data must remain captive to the Microsoft operating system. Not true at all A related misconception that stalls many Windows users from adopting the Linux OS is the belief that when you buy a new computer or install Linux to an e...

Today nearly all professional road cyclists have one thing in common:They almost all ride bikes with carbon fiber frames. This space-agematerial, which is one of the most popular composites in the sportinggoods industry, has many features that it make it a popular choice It is lightweight and easier to manipulate into shapes than other materials,in...

On Monday, news that Google had purchased Nik Software triggered speculation that the Internet giant was following in Facebook's footsteps Nik is the maker of the Snapseed photo editing app....

The developers of the now-notorious Flame malware used command and control (C&C) servers running the 64-bit version of Debian and the OpenVz virtualization technology in their work They wrote most of the server code in PHP, researchers at Kaspersky Lab and Symantec have found during continuing investigations into the malware....

Samsung's legal battle against Apple took another hit Friday after a preliminary decision from the International Trade Commission preliminary ruled Apple did not infringe on four of Samsung's patents Samsung filed its original complaint regarding five mobile device patents about a year ago, asking that Apple products violating five of Samsung's pat...

Japanese electronics company Panasonic halted some of its operations in China after protesters -- apparently upset about Japan's claim to disputed islands -- attacked a pair of Panasonic factories, according to the BBC Protests also forced Japanese electronics company Canon to close three of its four Chinese plants,according to Reuters....

Someone with the Twitter handle @AnonymousOwn3r made a grab for 15 minutes of fame last week by claiming responsibility for taking down the network for Internet's largest registrar, GoDaddy GoDaddy discredited that claim. "The service outage was not caused by external influences," CEO Scott Wagner said in a statement. "It was not a 'hack' and it wa...

Aprimo has released its second app for Salesforce.com's AppExchange, called "Aprimo Service to Sales." It is an inbound marketing app with real-time interactive features. The first Aprimo app destined for the AppExchange was released in 2010. The newer app, however, is written on a different code base, which was acquired last year when parent comp...

Last week at Intel's Developer Forum, I was on a panel of folks -- led by renowned futurist Briand DavidJohnson -- who are trying to make sure future products are better at taking into account the people they aredesigned for This purpose was connected to one of the major points made by Dr. Genevieve Bell: that weshould take the trouble to understan...

The only topic getting more attention in the tech industry than the Cloud is the debate over the future implications of the upcoming US presidential election. And, in many ways the two topics are intimately intertwined. Both are being propelled by plenty of fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD). Fear about the current state of affairs is driving many ...

Astronomers have long suspected that Jupiter undergoes more frequent collisions with space objects than we know, but this past Monday one apparently occurred that was so dramatic as to even be visible with amateur telescopes here on Earth Wisconsin-based amateur astronomer Dan Peterson first reportedthe event, having viewed it as it happened. Soon ...

Despite pending appeals, on Friday Twitter handed over an Occupy Wall Street protester's tweets to a New York criminal court judge. The capitulation comes after months of attempts by the social networking company to fight a subpoena from prosecutors by claiming that micro-blog posts were private conversations The case involves protester Malcolm Har...

Acer has suddenly postponed the launch in China of a smartphone called the "Acer CloudMobile A800." When journalists went to the expected launch in Shanghai, Acer reportedly told them it had been canceled for internal reasons. Acer and Google are not commenting publicly -- and neither company responded to our request to comment for this story.