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Foursquare has released a fully made-over version of its geolocation app "They told me it was a byproduct of everything they learned over the past three years," Greg Sterling, senior analyst at Opus Research, told TechNewsWorld.

Oracle on Wednesday announced what it described as the industry's broadest cloud strategy, outlining a vision of offering customers a soup-to-nuts cloud solution. The development has been seven years in the making, involving relentless engineering and innovation, key strategic acquisitions, and billions of dollars in investment, Oracle CEO Larry E...

Google unveiled new features to its mapping technology Wednesday, including an offline mobile version of Google Maps and 3D enhancements to Google Earth The announcement comes just before Apple is expected to drop Google Maps from its built-in mapping application on the iOS platform and pursue advanced mapping development on its own.

LinkedIn has reported that some of its users' passwords have been stolen and published on the Internet. The company is withholding details, including exactly how many passwords were compromised Members with accounts associated with the compromised passwords will find that their LinkedIn account password is no longer valid, and they will be receivin...

Who will acquire Nokia? It is struggling as the wireless industry continues to transform itself, and we can expect many changes. The industry reinvented itself over the last five years, with smartphones like the Apple iPhone and the countless devices running Google Android, and it will be just as different five years from today. My Pick of the We...

There's a lot of opportunity for CRM vendors seeking to reach small businesses.While there are 15 million seats of CRM in action today, there are a lot more than15 million customer-facing workers out there, and the vast majority of them are insmall businesses. That's a big opportunity for CRM vendors -- but what does it mean for potential CRMusers...

Samsung on Tuesday deepened its involvement in the Linux ecosystem, reportedly upgrading its silver membership in The Linux Foundation to platinum and forking over the US$500,000 annual membership dues its new status requires The move will give Samsung a seat on the Foundation's board alongside six other industry heavyweights, including IBM, Intel...

If you've been waiting with the patience of biblical figure Job for your handset makerto release a hardware-specific version of Android's latest incarnation, the 4.0 operatingsystem called "Ice Cream Sandwich," or ICS, and it hasn't yet, you can try cloning it You can achieve this without rooting, by taking advantage of a launcher replacement app t...

A new poll does not bode well for Facebook's goal of stepping up its ad revenue. Four out of five Facebook users said they were never influenced by advertising or even comments on the site to buy a product or service, found the poll, which was conducted by Reuters/Ipsos.

Google has begun informing certain individual users whom it believes may be the target of state-sponsored cyberattacks Those users will see a pink ribbon at the top of their Google pages bearing a warning notice....

Web entrepreneurs Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning, best known for propelling music into the digital-download age with Napster more than 10 years ago, have launched a new endeavor, Airtime, with much fanfare. It is a browser-based video chat service that connects people via their Facebook login directly from the Airtime website It is aimed not only at...

Mozilla released Firefox 13 Wednesday, which it says is a speedier, safer version of the open source web browser The newly launched Firefox also boasts a new home page and tab page layout similar to those of competing browsers such as Google's Chrome.

It starts in kindergarten. Three playground swings and 15 kids. The teacher introduces the concept of sharing the swings by limiting the time per child. Fast-forward 30 years and those same children are hugging their IT servers and programs and clinging to "their" silo stash of legacy equipment and software Now Federal CIO Steven VanRoekel and th...

Salesforce.com announced it was buying Buddy Media for nearly US$700 million on Monday. In any discussion, that's a lot of money, maybe more than Salesforce has yet spent on any acquisition. What's going on? As you might expect, I see economics playing an important role here, and I think there are two issues to consider. They may even boil down...

Linux Mint 13, the Maya release, is an impressive upgrade that builds on the progress found in version 12. It contains few additional innovations to the operating system. But it updates numerous core elements and provides more solid performance from the two new desktop interfaces introduced in Mint 12.Linux Mint 13 offers one of the best alternati...

Encryption on the Go, Part 1 The growing consumerization of IT is turning into a security nightmare for many IT departments, but it's perhaps hitting the healthcare industry worst....

Corning unveiled a new flexible glass -- called "Willow Glass" -- at the Society for Information Display's Boston Display Week on Monday. It's about as thick and flexible as a piece of paper, while having the strength, durability and other qualities of existing glass....

Microsoft demoed its new Xbox SmartGlass system at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles on Monday SmartGlass will connect devices running Windows 8, Windows 8 RT (for mobile devices), Windows Phone, iOS, and Android to a user's Xbox 360 console....

While rivals at Sony and Microsoft have long looked to create encompassing living room entertainment devices, Nintendo once again looked to what it does best -- namely to provide an immersive gaming experience. At its Tuesday press conference at E3 in Los Angeles, the company suggested that it could once again make an industry game-changing move R...

Facebook is exploring ways to include children younger than 13 years of age as members of its social network, according to The Wall Street Journal. To that end, it is working on developing technology that would allow tweens to be active on the site under parental supervision Facebook's move in this direction -- if it is indeed going down this road ...