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Intel has signed up IDT to develop an integrated transmitter and receiver chipset for the former's wireless charging technology. It will use magnet resonance technology that could enable a computer to power a device wirelessly -- just set the device down near the PC, and it starts charging....

C Spire Wireless vs. Verizon Wireless and AT&T Mobility sounds a lot like David vs. Goliath. Except this time Goliath holds all the cards, making it difficult for David to compete in the new 4G world. So why do Verizon and AT&T get smartphones before other carriers, anyway? This system is broken. And if it's not fixed, all smaller companies and con...

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it, wrote George Santayana, and if you've covered technology as long as I have, you know that the cycles of repetition become shorter with each passing year. When it comes to CRM, we're seeing it again in the form of social CRM: companies are making the same mistakes they made at the start of the CRM era...

Wiring your home for multimedia? Dreaming about it? Even if you're using an electrician to pull the CAT 5e cable, it's worth getting involved in the design of the termination -- the rack. The rack is the centralized point within the home where the wiring meets switches, router and so on. ...

Sony on Wednesday launched the Xperia Tablet S at the IFA consumer electronics show in Germany ...

Google is looking at its enterprise customers with greater integration of Google+ and Google Apps. On Wednesday the search giant introduced a preview of how Google+ features have been optimized for workplace users with specific integration of Google Apps and Gmail While Google+ hasn't caught on to the degree that it will soon eclipse social heavywe...

AMD CTO Mark Papermaster outlined his vision of the future of computing at this year's Hot Chips semiconductor design conference, detailing his plans to build systems where natural human communication could allow greater interactivity between users and computing hardware, a concept he called "Surround Computing." Papermaster outlined a world in wh...

Time Warner Cable is investing US$25 million in its fiber-optic network in certain parts of New York City. The goal is to provide faster Internet access, similar to Google's project in Kansas City, Mo., and Kansas City, Kan. Unlike Google, though, Time Warner Cable is primarily interested in targeting a specific constituency: business users that are heavy consumers of data...

Better management of memory and updates highlight the latest release of the Mozilla Foundation's Web browser, Firefox 15 Firefox's development team has steadily improved the browser's memory management over recent months, but with this release of the program, it's targeting a major contributor to the software's piggish memory ways: add-on applicati...

Hardly a day goes by that one IT vendor or another fails to announce one "fastest/biggest/bestest" achievement or another, attempting to poke in the eye or drive straight into a ditch any and all previous claims. But it is ironic that while there is no shortage of ambition in the technology industry, some of what have become IT's most transformative solutions and services began with little, if any, braggadocio.

My sources tell me that Salesforce.com will be handling its major Dreamforce announcements differently this year. Rather than letting us drink from a firehose at the event, they promise to tell us much of their news beforehand so that they can spend the keynotes (I assume) drilling down into more of the substance of their announcements. So far, ...

Blender is such a highly specialized and powerful rendering app that at least two Linux distros are built around it. This cross-platform 3D graphics application matches features and performance of the leading commercial equivalent software packages....

Samsung on Tuesday announced its new Series 7 and Series 5 All-in-One (AIO) PCs designed to run Windows 8 when the OS is launched later this year The PCs have high-resolution, 10-point touchscreens, as well as slim bezel displays, metal bases, and third-generation Intel Core processors....

VMware has launched what it claims is the first solution to deliver what it calls the "software-defined data center" -- its vCloud Suite 5.1 This integrates the company's virtualization, cloud infrastructure and management portfolio into one bundle....

While consumers await the release of Windows 8 and theexpected announcement of Apple's iPhone 5, former desktop leader IBMannounced on Tuesday the release of a new line of mainframe computers.The new ZEnterprise EC12 was designed to handle the latest computingchores, including data center consolidation and cloud computing Mainframes actually remain...

The Federal Aviation Administration announced Monday it will study the use of portable electronic devices on airliners, potentially opening the door to allowing greater use of smartphones, tablets or e-readers during flights Currently, the FAA requires airlines to determine which devices can safely be used in-flight, and all U.S. airlines now ban t...

Best Buy has reached an agreement with its founder and former chairman, Richard Schulze, who owns a fifth of Best Buy's shares. The accord could help facilitate a potential US$8.8 billion buyout of the retailer. As part of the agreement, Schulze will be granted access to certain due diligence information. He has also been given permission to form ...

In a heavily anticipated verdict, a jury last week found Samsung guilty of patent infringement and ordered it to pay over US$1 billion to Apple. This victory for Apple in the smartphone wars is a warning to others who may desire to copy the look and feel of the Apple designs. Samsung's countersuit against Apple for infringement of wireless techno...

Mobile CRM: Cost Center or Profit Maker? Part 1 Buried in a recent J.D. Power and Associates 2012 U.S. Credit Card Satisfaction study -- which showed consumers' satisfaction with credit cards was at a six-year high -- was this very telling factoid:...

Twitter on Tuesday joined the Linux Foundation. However, the move comes just days after Twitter removed its find-friends feature from blogging service Tumblr. Twitter had earlier done the same to Instagram, and has imposed new restrictions on developers....