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HP posted numbers Wednesday for what was the worst financial quarter in the company's long history. It reported an US$8.86 billion loss for its third fiscal quarter, which ended July 31. In the last three months, it took in a net revenue of $29.7 billion, down 5 percent year over year and down 2 percent when adjusted for the effects of currency The...

The U.S. Department of Justice executed seizure orders against three website domains allegedly engaged in the illegal distribution of copies of copyrighted Android cellphone apps. It is the first time that website domains involving cellphone app marketplaces have been seized, the DoJ said The seizures of the domains -- applanet.net, appbucket.net a...

Archos on Wednesday unveiled a new Android tablet line, the Gen10 XS ...

Amazon.com is now listed number 206 in the Global 500 listing of corporations, a singularly amazing feat for a company that was created in July of 1994 by Jeff Bezos. From a business that started as an online retailer of books, because it could offer more books than the brick-and-mortar bookstores, it has certainly transformed itself into a global electronic behemoth. ...

Why did Verizon Wireless just get regulator OK to acquire wireless spectrum from cable television companies, whereas AT&T got turned down in its attempt to acquire T-Mobile for the same reason? And why is it still important for regulators to solve the growing wireless data spectrum crunch? The truth is, we are running out of available wireless data...

Why did Verizon Wireless just get regulator OK to acquire wireless spectrum from cable television companies, whereas AT&T got turned down in its attempt to acquire T-Mobile for the same reason? And why is it still important for regulators to solve the growing wireless data spectrum crunch? The truth is, we are running out of available wireless data...

If Winston Churchill had been a CRM pundit, he may have penned the immortal turn of phrase, "never in the course of human events have so many paid so much to have so few use an application." That would have made him a pretty awful CRM writer. But give fictional Winston a break -- it is difficult to summarize the ongoing struggle with user adoption...

I've written about gadget battery technologies and how to calculate basic battery needs in previous articles like "Juicing Up Your Gadget Battery Power." I've also covered some of the ways to keep yourself charged up on the road with extended battery packs for smaller devices Continuing this theme of maximizing battery life on your devices, this ar...

While AT&T and Verizon have been busy moving to tiered shared data plans, rival carriers T-Mobile and MetroPCS on Wednesday joined Sprint in offering so-called all-you-can-eat data plans. Beginning on Sept. 5, T-Mobile will offer a new Unlimited Nationwide 4G plan that has no data caps or speed limits Under the new plans, customers can use a subsid...

Dell announced an 18 percent drop in profit for its fiscal second quarter on Tuesday and warned that PC sales could continue to decline in the second half of the year. The company is in the midst of a transformation that will switch its focus from consumer PCs toward enterprise and commerce customers as increased competition from rival PC and mobi...

There are still 19 million Americans who lack access to high-speed Internet, according to the Federal Communications Commission's Eighth Broadband Progress Report At this stage in the Internet's evolution, that number is shocking and brings home the fact that the natural spectrum landscape is not as stable and robust as one might assume, Chris Hoov...

Nikon on Wednesday announced an Android-powered digital point-and-shoot camera, the Coolpix S800c ...

The Starship Enterprise has its deflector shields to defend itself from attacks by enemy weaponry, and if all goes well with a pilot program launched Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), road warriors will have wireless systems to defend themselves from collisions with other vehicles Under the year-long Safety Pilot program set i...

This week has not been good to Facebook, nor have the past several weeks. The social media giant's stock has been hammered for days, at one point touching $19 per share -- half of its IPO valuation months ago. It still is within a stone's throw of that marker with a Tuesday close of $19.16 per share Some of the company's strife is likely due to the...

It's not enough to have just a website, or just social media profiles. Businesses need to have both, and the traffic needs to flow seamlessly between them Numerica Credit Union was looking for a way to offer customers a useful tool on its Facebook page while driving traffic from Facebook to its site. When Shastic offered it a chance to test drive C...

Pascal Houillon, the CEO of Sage North America, has been at the job for a bit over a year. He took over the reins at last year's Sage Summit where he famously introduced a new branding exercise. Houillon's idea was to make Sage a more prominent brand by de-emphasizing the individual product names, in many cases renaming them. For a little backg...

Mousepad is a notepad-like graphical text editor for Xfce based on the Leafpad text editor that runs on any Linux desktop. It is very handy as a go-to tool when you do not have any heavy lifting to do....

Just after 11 p.m. on Aug. 15, 1977, while pointing toward the constellation Sagittarius, Ohio State University's Big Ear radio telescope picked up a mysterious transmission that would very soon make history For 72 seconds, the Big Ear was able to listen to that signal, which has since come to be known as the "Wow! Signal" for the excited notation ...

In nature, glaciers are slow but steady masses of ice that flow as theymelt. They take many years to accumulate and often just as long todeform. In other words, a glacier is typically here for eons, andfittingly "Glacier" is the name of Amazon's new data archive service aimed at enterprise and small businesses This Glacier, which Amazon launched on...

Japanese electronics manufacturer Panasonic has launched an app for cloud-based services that will let consumers control home appliances using their Android smartphones Named "Panasonic Smart App," it will be available from September -- but only in Japan....