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Qualcomm has taken the unusual step of restructuring its organization in order to better protect its patent portfolio There are other reasons for the move as well, the company said Thursday, including the ability to more quickly deliver products to customers. However, it emphasized the patent protection element in particular....

All businesses can't afford pricey website designers, which is why Shanti Sosienski was inspired to start DIY Websites Now, a company that teaches people how to build their own "Basically, we are a collective of designers, programmers and project managers who saw the need to service those potential clients who couldn't afford a US$2,000 site," Sos...

Marketing automation provider Act-On Software has added a unique feature to its product lineup that allows users to track, compare, and then take action on what is being said online and in social media about their company or executives Act-On Insight lets users benchmark and track these mentions, as well as other online marketing metrics, from one ...

Plex for Android, an app from Plex, is available for US$4.99 at Google Play.Plex is a good looking media platform for running media files on Google TV, tablets,phones and so on. Online channels include Hulu, Vimeo and more....

Researchers at Rice University have developed a paint that works as a battery, and it could change the way batteries are produced and reduce energy storage restrictions The paint-on battery is similar in material balance to traditional lithium-ion batteries. It has five layers -- a positive and a negative current collector, a cathode, an anode and...

New Zealand police used invalid warrants to search and seize property from the mansion of Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom, a high court judge in that country has reportedly ruled The papers that authorities used were general warrants and fell well short of describing the offenses alleged, High Court Judge Helen Winkelmann said....

Google's new Nexus 7 is the company's first attempt to push its line of Nexus Android devices into the tablet realm. However, instead of launching a head-on attack on tablets like the Apple iPad and the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, Google has designed the new Nexus as a smaller slate measuring seven inches. That puts the Nexus in the same league as de...

In what could prove to be the final lights out for near-defunct LTE mobile network startup LightSquared, the SEC on Wednesday filed charges against hedge fund manager Philip Falcone, along with his Harbinger Capital Partners fund and its former CEO Peter Jenson The charges include misappropriation of funds, market manipulation, and preferential tr...

Skydivers, mountain bikers and rappellers donned Google Glasses on Wednesday and captured video of their stunts at the Google I/O conference, giving the world a glimpse of the capabilities of this new wearable technology Google is selling the glasses for US$1,500 to U.S.-based developers who were in attendance at the conference. In true Google fas...

Avaya has added new products and enhanced existing ones in its Customer Experience Interaction Management portfolio. The overarching goal of the changes was to allow users to reach out to customers via any channel the customers chose -- for example, mobile application, social media or phone Such accessibility has become key to many companies and i...

Best Buy founder Richard Schulze is exploring a private takeover of the electronics retail chain, according to The Wall Street Journal Schulze is the largest company shareholder with about a 20 percent stake in Best Buy. He has reportedly conducted discussions with Wall Street banks to determine the best strategy for a buyout but has met resistance...

Airbnb, an online site that lets people list and book rooms in private homes, has relaunched with social discovery features and new visuals. In particular, the site is touting a new product called "Wish Lists." As the name suggests, Wish Lists allow users to plan dream trips with better access to visuals as they browse Airbnb listings by letting t...

Google worked toward pulling together its ecosystem Wednesday, announcing an array of new products and services at its I/O Developer Conference In addition to its widely anticipated Nexus 7 tablet, the company unveiled its Nexus Q media streamer and its Google Cloud Messaging service for Android; made much of its enhancements to Google Play; and la...

Most don't realize it yet, but Microsoft is completely reinventing itself right before our eyes. It is expanding from software to hardware and even to the cloud, starting with tablets and wireless smartphones. It is fundamentally transforming the company we have all known and used for decades. This path is full of enormous opportunities and challenges...

About a year ago, I heard a great story on National Public Radio's "Marketplace" that illustrated the concepts of sunk costs and opportunity costs using baseball players as a sample group. While fans marvel at the enormous contracts paid to star players,there are thousands of younger players who toil away in the minor leagues for verylow salaries;...

With the apparent clamp-down on formerly liberal U.S. data quotas by mobile operators,public WiFi hotspots -- like cafes -- for daily Web consumption may become an evermore likely Internet environment for many of us Europeans have been used to limited mobile data quotas under various euphemismslike "fair use policies" and "data plans" for some time...

Samsung Electronics was dealt a legal blow on Tuesday, as a judge ordered it to halt sales of the Galaxy 10.1 tablet computer while it considers whether the device's design is so similar to Apple's iPad that it constitutes patent infringement. Samsung has already filed an appeal of the California federal court's injunction, and this likely isn't the last of this dispute...

Facebook's initial public offering in May was a disaster. The question now is how much of the fiasco can be laid at the feet of Nasdaq and how much, if at all, on the IPO process itself? Or for that matter, on Facebook. Those questions were points of debate at a Tuesday hearing of the U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee The hearing...

Google launched its Nexus 7 tablet on Wednesday at its Google I/O developers conference in San Francisco ...

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has arrested dozens of alleged cybercriminals in an international sting to crack down on Internet fraudsters The arrests were the result of a two-year global sting operation conducted by the FBI and designed to nab hackers in "carding" crimes, in which perpetrators steal credit card or other personal informa...