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Motorola Mobility's financial performance has been less than stellar in the last three years, so its acquisition by Google for US$12.5 billion could be a boon for the company "Motorola has been running at an operating loss for quite a few quarters," observed Ramon T. Llamas, who analyzes mobile devices technology and trends for IDC. "Now it has acc...

U.S. government agencies are looking everywhere they can to cut costs -- including the cost of information technology. Tight budgets will be the dominating factor in federal IT procurement over the next several years -- at least Yet in the face of budget discipline -- and even slightly projected declines in spending -- two venture capital companies...

Last week was like the fireworks on the Fourth of July. You know how at the end they fire off a huge flourish of explosives, and if you live in Boston for some reason the Boston Pops play "The 1812 Overture?" It was like that minus the Pops. Actually, the crescendo was not limited to last week but to a rolling thunder effect that happened because many software companies have decided Q2 is a good time for analysts to visit the Bay Area...

Whether you are writing code or creating editorial content, a noisy computing environment often can silence your productivity. The Pyroom Text Editor gives you a quiet environment where computing noise cannot distract you from your creativity....

The educational e-book market has grown fiercer in the last few years, raising the question of where the end game will leave educational institutions in their attempts to reduce student churn, increase productivity and radically reduce costs. As the battling e-textbook giants try to cut exclusive deals and limit competitors' supplies of e-content,...

Amazon has begun taking pre-orders for the Samsung Galaxy S III, a handset that will become available in Europe at the end of this month The offering has caused some head-scratching: If this were the newest iPhone, the rush to get one might be understandable. However, the unlocked Galaxy S III smartphone will cost an eye-popping US$799.99, and it w...

Alcatel-Lucent on Tuesday unveiled its 7950 Extensible Routing System (XRS) core routing platform in a bid to take on rivals Cisco and Juniper Networks, the current leaders in the US$4 billion market The company's seeking to leverage the increasing demand placed on carrier networks by the growing move toward cloud computing and the explosion in onl...

Google has officially closed its acquisition of Motorola Mobility for US$12.5 billion. This could transform the search engine giant from a software player to a maker of hardware: smartphones, tablet PCs and even set-top boxes. More importantly for Google is gaining control of Motorola's patent portfolio, which could help it fend off lawsuits from ...

Verizon Wireless on Tuesday introduced Viewdini, a mobile video aggregation portal It will run on the company's 4G LTE network and let users search and access videos from a variety of content providers....

Leap Motion released its new Leap motion control system for pre-order on Monday, with shipment promised in early 2013. The US$69.99 Leap is 200 times more sensitive than any similar existing technology and allows for a variety of natural and intuitive 3D motion controls. Leap Motion is shipping out developer kits as well, and the technology could ...

The European Union's antitrust ax is about to fall on Google, but the company can still avoid the worst repercussions. That is the essence of the message from EU antitrust chief Joaquin Almunia. After a year-and-a-half investigation into Google's activities in the market, there are four areas of concern that need to be rectified, he said.

The x86 data center revolution has been a tale of industry standard upward mobility pressuring and displacing traditional systems. In essence, continually evolving x86-based systems and complementary technologies -- particularly virtualization, memory and I/O -- have provided hardware vendors the means to develop systems capable of challenging and beating traditional enterprise server platforms.

Personalization sits at the very heart of marketing performance improvement in B2B as well as in B2C companies. The latter camp has made enormous strides in recent years in being able to present customers and prospects with relevant content, offers, recommendations, and other types of messages via online channels, including the company website, in an automated and systematic fashion.

China's antitrust authorities have approved Google's purchase of Motorola Mobility, on the condition that the Android operating system remain open source and its code be made freely available to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) Android devices had nearly 74 percent of the Chinese market in Q4, 2011, and that -- together with Google's large w...

Information security has changed a lot over the years. Way back in the dinosaur days, life was simple. Companies set up a firewall at the border and life was good. Bad guys stayed on one side of the fancy flashing box, and our personnel lived in the pristine, attacker-free paradise on the inside. Well, that's how it was supposed to work, at least....

No one could accuse Facebook of having beginner's luck on Wall Street. The company's initial public offering on Friday was delayed by two hours due to a glitch in Nasdaq's trading system, prompting many traders to cancel orders because they were not sure of the stock's price. The day, in general, was arguably a disappointment for the social media giant, with its per share price ending only slightly above the US$38 starting price...

Microsoft opened So.cl, its experimental approach to a social network, to all users Monday, aiming to create a place to find and share online articles, videos and digital content, all with the help of its search engine Bing So.cl doesn't appear to be a direct challenge to established social media sites like Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn. In fact, i...

While Google remains the search engine champion, it is also now apparently the top dog with the Web browsers where searches take place. Google's Chrome is now the most popular Web browser, having overtaken Microsoft's Internet Explorer worldwide, according to the latest figures from StatCounter Chrome took the lead with 32.76 percent of the market ...

Five major cable service providers in the United States are teaming up to allow their high-speed Internet customers access each other's metro WiFi networks The five are Bright House Networks, Cablevision, Comcast, Cox Communications and Time Warner Cable....

Yahoo will sell half its stake in Chinese e-commerce heavyweight Alibaba back to the company for about US$7.1 billion, setting in motion a deal that will send cash toward Yahoo shareholders The deal will take place in multiple stages. First, Alibaba will purchase about 20 percent of Yahoo's stake in the company. The total $7.1 billion would be made...