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Newly hired Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is reportedly considering a change in business strategy for the company, beginning with a restructuring plan that would use the revenue from Yahoo's Alibaba sale for long-term investment options rather than an immediate payback to shareholders Yahoo announced in May it would sell half of its 40 percent stake in t...

New online book publisher StoryBundle is taking a leap of faith with its customer base: Readers get to decide how much to pay StoryBundle, which launched this week, offers readers five e-books written by independent authors in one bundle. The bundles are grouped according to genre. First out of the gate is a group of sci-fi novels. However, anyth...

The fallout from the Flame malware that was identified in May continues. Ongoing research into the malware has led antivirus vendor Kaspersky Lab to discover a new malware platform, which it has named "Gauss." This platform has several similarities to Flame, Kaspersky said....

Now that Software as a Service and the broader cloud computing concept havegained widespread recognition and acceptance, it will be interesting to see whether onlinemarketplaces will become a preferred method for acquiring these on-demand resources Given the proliferation of SaaS/cloud providers and solutions, it makes sense that manyIT and busines...

Awareness has enhanced its social marketing automation suite, Social Marketing Hub, with a new feature called "social scoring." The feature allows marketers and brands to identify, store and rank prospects across all the major social networks based on scoring criteria they define ...

IP Cam Viewer Pro, an app from Robert Chou, is available for US$3.99 at Google Play.IP Cam Viewer Pro lets you view and control an Internet protocol (IP) camera throughAndroid OS on a phone or tablet....

Speeding Up Your PC, Part 1: Take Control of Your Programs What is hard-drive clutter, and why is it bad? ...

Earlier this week, Microsoft OEM Acer criticised the company's plan to launch its own Surface tablets -- a decision that led to consternation among Redmond's hardware partners. Lenovo could be the first vendor to offer a product that might help kill off Microsoft's plans....

Open source hardware startup Ouya looked to kickstart funding of its Android-based game console, and the effort has resulted in more than nine times the amount it sought. Ouya had asked to backers to pledge US$950,000 through the Kickstarter website, and the total climbed to nearly $8.6 million as of Thursday, the day the campaign was scheduled to...

HP dropped a bombshell on the investment community: The tech conglomerate said it was taking a goodwill charge, or write-down of US$8 billion. It didn't say for what exactly -- just that it stems from the recent trading values of HP's stock, coupled with market conditions and business trends within the services segment However, the write-down is wi...

Nasa's Curiosity rover has begun satisfying the curiosity of mission scientists by sending high-quality images of Mars' surface back to Earth. Although it's only had since Sunday night to collect data, following its touchdown in the Gale Crater, Curiosity has sent a batch of snapshots that are already allowing the NASA team to garner a good deal of information.

Facebook announced Tuesday that it is testing a new ad program for mobile apps in a limited beta The system is aimed at iOS and Android developers who want to grow the audience for their apps, according to Facebook engineer Vijaye Raji. Anyone who clicks on an ad for an app will be sent to the App Store or Google Play to download it, assuming it i...

Once again, reports that troubled smartphone maker Research In Motion (RIM) may enter a deal with burgeoning smartphone rival Samsung are making the rounds Shareholders appeared to welcome the news, sending RIM's stocks soaring to close up 3.3 percent at US$7.56....

Google has announced it's testing a new service that will include relevant information from a user's personal Gmail account when that person types in a query on the company's basic search page Google said the service is meant to further integrate the company's Web presence and its many functions, including e-mail, so that users can have faster, mor...

As both Verizon and AT&T rapidly build out their 4G LTE networks in preparation for Apple's launch of the next iPhone this fall, Sprint Nextel is in a very distant third place. The big question is can it keep up? The answer depends on a number of items, including what its customers want most. Do they want 4G LTE speed? Or do they want Sprint, even...

When people are under stress, many respond with remarkable grace, courageand decisiveness. Then there are those who, under great stress, becomeparalyzed, flail about, or lash out in unproductive and unprovoked ways The social era is showing us that while corporations are not people, they are run bypeople. And choosing wisely when elevating people t...

As these dog days ramp up for hurricane season in the east, and wildfire season in the west, it's worth taking a look at ways to gather information that can help you decide when to evacuate, keep tabs on what's going on back at home, and find out when it's safe to return Half a dozen camera-spouting news helicopters in the air, in the case of a w...

Facebook filed a friend-of-the-court brief this week arguing that clicking on a "Like" button is akin to making a statement and therefore is protected speech The case, being heard in the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, stems from a 2009 incident in which a deputy sheriff, Daniel Ray Carter, lost his job after he "Liked" his boss' rival, w...

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday overturned a rulingby a lower court judge who had awarded US$40,800 in damages and $2.5million in attorney fees to the now-defunct Al-Haramain IslamicFoundation. This is the latest chapter in what has been a five-yearchallenge to the Bush administration's Terrorist Surveillance Program The appeals co...

Starbucks has selected Square to process mobile payments at its approximately 7,000 stores nationwide in the United States, in a move that could shake up the nascent mobile payments market in the country The coffee company had introduced the first mobile payment via iPhone app in 2009. It took mobile payments nationwide in January 2011 after testin...