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EarthLink and Clearwire announced a new partnership Monday that will enable EarthLink to resell mobile broadband service on Clearwire's 4G network The new service should begin by early 2013, and will focus on in-home consumer use. Later, EarthLink said it might include more offerings including broadband for mobile devices and enterprise customers.

Sprint plans to launch 4G LTE high-speed services in more than 100 cities in the U.S., it said Monday. Included are major cities such as Boston, Chicago, New York, Miami and Washington, D.C., as well as small to medium-sized markets -- e.g., Clarksville, Tenn.; Jacksonville, Fla.; Lawrence, Kan. The service will go live in the coming months. The ...

The FBI soon will begin offering client software for its nationwide facial recognition database at no charge to law enforcement agencies in the United States This is the fourth element in its seven-increment Next Generation Identification Program....

Chief executive transitions in the IT industry often tend toward melodrama or at least bald quirkiness: The number of ignominious CEO departures at HP and Yahoo could qualify both companies for their own telenovelas. After successfully acquiring Sun Microsystems, Oracle unceremoniously booted CEO Jonathan Swartz, an event he noted by tweeting a Ze...

Want to extend your company's CRM presence in the mobile world easily and effortlessly? Vendors are lining up to help -- at least with the first part of that sentence. Sales, service and marketing are all categories in which vendors are actively rolling out products aimed at the mobile space. Whether their deployment, though, is "easy and effortless" is an open question...

The fires raging across western U.S. states this summer, at times plowing through residences and other structures, might have gotten you thinking: "What if?" That is, what if one of my buildings were destroyed in the 44-square mile California Pondorosa fire in August, which leveled more than 80 structures? Or what if my community were in the path o...

Seeing is believing, the old saying goes, but anyone who has attended a press conference typically knows that seeing isn't always enough to inspire belief. Nokia underscored this fact with last week's unveiling of its new Lumia 920 smartphone. As it turns out the impressive image-stabilized video that was supposedly shot using the handset's PureView camera system was actually obtained with a different camera...

At a time when consumers are flocking to tablets and laptops, HP has decided to push strongly into the all-in-one (AIO) PC market. The company on Monday announced four new consumer AIO PCs: the Envy 20 and Envy 23, the SpectreONE and the HP Pavilion 20 All four are designed to work with Windows 8, and are positioned as entertainment devices....

Sage North America has rolled out Sage Act 2013, a new iteration of its flagship application that has been enhanced with mobile, social and email marketing capabilities, as well as new smart task automation functionality ...

As Apple demonstrated itself with the iPod and iPad, the way to take control of a market is to redefine itaround a model that favors your products. Last week, Amazon took a page from Steve Jobs' book, bothin how it presented the new Kindle line and in how this line shifts the market dynamic from one that favors Apple to one that favors Amazon. CEO Jeff Bezos even had a "one more thing" ending that Tim Cook will find it hard to top...

Once upon a time, security shiners involving Apple were as rare as Windows Vista lovers, but now it seems that a week doesn't go by without the name of Steve Jobs' baby being dragged through the digital mud Last week's episode involved the hacktivist group AntiSec and the FBI. AntiSec claimed it compromised an FBI laptop and stole more than 12 mill...

Pandora Media's stock dropped precipitously on news that Apple might be entering the online streaming-radio space with a competing product The news is not official: It has been reported in The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, based on information leaked by unnamed sources. Still, the service would nicely complement Apple's existing iTune...

The gang behind Operation Aurora, a coordinated attack that hit Google and tens of other large United States corporations, is alive, well and hacking away, Symantec said Over the last three years, the gang has used lots of zero-day attacks against not just defense corporations, but also the manufacturers in their targets' supply chains....

Amazon launched its Kindle Paperwhite e-reader on Thursday, at an event that highlighted a slew of new Kindle e-reader and tablet devices. The Paperwhite will be available on Oct. 1, priced at US$119 for the WiFi-only version. It will offer an E-Ink XGA display with 62 percent higher resolution and features a display that will be readable in a variety of light settings...

Twitter is ahead of its social networking competitor Facebook in mobile advertising revenue, but that lead could reverse given Facebook's recent ad initiatives, according to new research from eMarketer The study tallied U.S. mobile advertising revenue for major companies including the competing social networks, and offers projections for future rev...

South Korea's Fair Trade Commission is investigating complaints by Apple that Samsung Electronics is abusing its position in wireless technology. The news, first reported by Reuters, is only eyebrow-raising because of the country in which it is occurring: South Korea is Samsung's home market. Other than that, however, it's part of a recurring patt...

CRM is not itself a technology -- it's a discipline enabled by a technology. Butthe ideas are so completely enmeshed with technology today that it's almostimpossible to talk CRM without lapsing into jargon That's led to the abduction, abuse and expropriation of technical terms, which oftenresults in confusion over what they actually mean. Just look...

Fast Burst Camera, an app from Spritefish, is available for US$3.99 at Google Play.Spritefish's Fast Burst Camera may be just the app for sports photography....

Zynga rolled out "FarmVille 2" on Facebook this week -- but if "FarmVille" fans were expecting an enhanced version of the same familiar game, they were in for a surprise. The two versions have little in common For starters, "FarmVille 2" is the first Zynga game to be built entirely in 3D. The theme of the game is also different: In "FarmVille 2," p...

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos on Thursday announced a slew of new tablets in the company's Kindle line that could give that device family new life The Kindle Fire HD dominated the announcement.