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Samsung launched the Galaxy S III smartphone in London on Thursday. The device will run Android Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS), version 4.0 of the mobile OS. The Galaxy S III's features include facial and voice recognition, voice command capability and eye tracking ...

It may have been a "bad moon" rising in the famous 1969 song by Creedence Clearwater Revival, but this weekend's full moon could well inspire predictions for trouble of a similar kind That's because it's this year's "supermoon" -- the full moon that occurs when the moon is closest to Earth -- and supermoons are often believed to wreak even more hav...

Microsoft is reportedly planning to release its Xbox 360 bundle beginning next week for US$99. If rumors are to be believed, it could rival a TV infomercial's promise -- "but wait, there's more" -- by including the Kinect motion control sensor with a 4 GB version of the game console. However, as with the infomercials, there is fine print, which in this case details a monthly subscription fee of $15...

Research In Motion (RIM) has big plans for its next-generation platform, BlackBerry 10, expected for release later this year. However, in order to compete with market leaders iOS and Android, the company will need strong support from the mobile application development community To do that, the company has reportedly offered a bounty. It's promised ...

Yelp reported a net loss in its first quarter as a publicly traded company after aggressive expansion abroad led to a sharp increase in costs. The site, which provides online reviews of local businesses, released its earnings on Wednesday for its first ever fiscal quarter after filing its IPO. Yelp reported a net loss of US$9.8 million, or 31 cent...

IBM is building out its digital marketing functionality in its Smarter Commerce portfolio with the acquisition of Tealeaf Technology, a provider of customer experience analytics. Financial details about the acquisition, which is expected to finalize in the second quarter of this year following customary closing conditions and regulatory clearance, were not released.

Congratulations to Samsung on earning the No. 1 position in the wireless smartphone sector. On the other hand, what is the problem at Nokia and RIM? What is happening? What other earthshaking changes can we expect in the wireless space next? Plenty. We are just getting started. So who and what will lead going forward? My Pick of the Week is the new...

I just wrote a note to a friend of mine thanking him for his participation at a conference I recently helped organize. It was a thank you note, and he's a CRM industry influencer; I won't divulge names, because it's not important to my point, nor do I want to seen like too much of a suck-up In any event, I was grateful for his participation in the ...

Have you ever wondered what the differences are among the scores of digital image formats out there? Some of the more common ones we see are GIF (CompuServe Graphics Interchange Format) and JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group JFIF Format) but what does it all mean, and why are there so many? Plus, how do you know which one to use for the Web, a...

Amazon is taking the long-expected step of developing its own content for Amazon Instant Video. It is doing so via its content development division, Amazon Studios, which uses audience feedback to suggest content for its customers. Now it has pushed this model further, though, inviting series creators to upload proposals for comedy and children's ...

Target has decided to stop selling anything carrying the Amazon and Kindle brands "We still have some of the product in our stores, and we expect they'll be sold by the end of May," Target spokesperson Molly Snyder told the E-Commerce Times....

Nokia announced Wednesday that it has filed a complaint with the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) against HTC, as well as lawsuits in the U.S. and Germany against Research In Motion and Viewsonic, claiming the three firms violated a total of 45 patents Six of the patents in this new round of litigation also figured in Nokia's laws...

VMware on Wednesday unveiled a portfolio of end-user computing products to help manage the slew of personal mobile devices corporate employees are bringing into the workplace for use The products are built into version 5.1 of the company's VMware View enterprise virtual desktop....

Samsung is top dog in the global smartphone market. No, wait -- it's Apple that is No. 1. Well, either way, Apple is making more money than Samsung. A recent flurry of reports analyzing the state of the mobile market has provoked some head-spinning. Some issues, such as the global competition between Samsung and Apple, are being hotly disputed by ...

Motorola Mobility revealed its quarterly earnings for its first fiscal quarter of the year Tuesday, reporting a slightly higher net loss than last year The company lost US$86 million, or 28 cents per share, compared to $81 million, or 27 cents per share, for the same time a year ago.

E-Commerce buzz words sound great in theory, but innovation often founders on the shoals of "getting there from here" as IT managers slog through the details of converting to new systems and programs There has been a significant of amount of buzz at the federal level as agencies have been turning to shared services, data consolidation, commodity IT...

I read Chaucer's Canterbury Tales in college (yes, in Middle English and no, it wasn't that long ago), and now every April brings me back to the opening verses about springtime and renewal. This April was especially memorable in our industry, and as the month has just passed I wanted to take a moment to discuss some of the things I witnessed Mostl...

Music lovers have numerous strong choices for organizing and playing their collections of songs on the Linux desktop. But music creators have far fewer professional-strength options among Linux applications. With Linux MultiMedia Studio, or LMMS, though, one option may be all you really need....

Research In Motion unveiled its vision for its much-anticipated -- and delayed -- BlackBerry 10 platform Tuesday at the BlackBerry World conference in Orlando, Fla., together with prototypes of hardware devices and app dev toolkits The platform has sparked interest among developers, the company said, citing positive comments from executives at vari...

In most respects, the numbers reflecting the state of organ donation in the U.S. paint a grim picture. There are 114,183 people waiting for an organ -- 18 of whom will die each day, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services webpage OrganDonar.gov. Facebook has now added another number to the mix: 900 million -- its user base In ...