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Groupon's announcement last week that it was revising its financial results for the fourth quarter has apparently caught the attention of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The agency is taking a look at Groupon's financials, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing an anonymous source This development caps a run of bad news for the compa...

Research In Motion has released BlackBerry Mobile Fusion, extending its mobile device management platform to the Android and iOS operating systems through the company's Universal Device Service Mobile Fusion lets IT manage BlackBerry smartphones up to the BlackBerry 7, as well as the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet and mobile devices running iOS and And...

Online text depository Pastebin has decided to more closely monitor its site to quickly remove potentially sensitive information, according to a report from the BBC The site is intended as a way for Internet users to post large amounts of data outside of somewhere such as a comment forum or a blog post, where huge amounts of text would appear to be...

Visa has dropped Global Payments from the list of companies that it deems compliant with its security policies following news that the third-party vendor experienced a security breach that could have compromised some 1.5 million Visa and MasterCard accounts. The breach first came to light at the end of the last week, and Global Payments has since...

It finally has happened -- the number of U.S. mobile subscribers who own smartphones is just about equal to the number who own feature phones, according to new data from Nielsen Wire As of Feb. 2012, 49.7 percent of U.S. mobile subscribers carried a smartphone -- an increase of 38 percent from Feb. 2011, when only 36 percent of mobile subscribers o...

Managers of information technology systems in both the private and public sectors have had their hands full dealing with security breaches that come from hackers invading IT systems. Increasingly, however, IT systems are becoming vulnerable from another channel -- the actual supply chain sources of both hardware equipment and software programs Fed...

Yahoo has offered its Mojito application framework to the open source community under the BSD license Mojito is a model-view controller (MVC) JavaScript Web application framework built on release 3 of Yahoo's open source JavaScript Yahoo User Interface Library (YUI 3)....

In 2003, a group of engineers got together in Menlo Park, Calif., and began developing an all-new electric vehicle -- what would become the world's first highway-capable electric car. "[They] wanted to show the world that electric vehicles could be awesome," Khobi Brooklyn, a spokesperson for the company they formed, Tesla Motors, told TechNewsWor...

IBM is teaming up with The Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy, otherwise known as "Astron," on a five-year project to look into very fast, low-power exascale computer systems for the world's largest and most sensitive radio telescope The project, to be called "DOME," will cost about US$44 million....

Amazon is becoming a major challenger in the overall app marketplace, according to a new report from Flurry. Flurry looked at some of the top-ranked apps across three major app sources: Apple's App Store, Amazon's Appstore and Google Play. Together, the stores brought in 11 million daily active users. The study found that iTunes was the top earner...

Yahoo has been at work developing a header solution that will implement Do Not Track compliance across its global network by early this summer. The news follows the final report released by the Federal Trade Commission this week that, among other points, calls on companies to make privacy options simpler and more transparent to consumers. Yahoo is...

Facing a battle between smartphone vendors over a proposed standard for nano-SIM cards, the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) has held off deciding on the issue until it can achieve a broad industry consensus Opposing proposals have been tabled by a consortium consisting of Nokia, Motorola Mobility and Research In Motion on the...

Two zombie networks infamous for stealing banking information and spewing spam were hit with a right-left combination last week by botnet fighters Using the power of the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, Microsoft, along with organizations representing the financial services industry, took down two command-and-contr...

I clearly hit a nerve last week when I comparedMeg Whitman's moves at HP to Tim Cook's at Apple. I do sincerely think Tim Cook was set up to fail. Steve Jobs didn't hire Cook to replace him -- he hired him to do the jobs he didn't want to do. This is why a lot of great companies slide. The existing CEOs see replacement candidates as rivals, so they make sure they don't have the skills or otherwise can't do the CEO's job. ...

In January of this year, the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) issued Patent No. 2,246,933 to Amazon.com for its "one-click" technology, thereby marking the beginning of business method patents in Canada. This came more than 13 years after Amazon's initial patent application, which was rejected by the Canadian Commissioner of Patents (C...

We live in times when technology is exceeding the understanding of educational institutions and corporations. A highly social Web and a bad economy is making the Dark Side -- the Internet underworld where cybercrime and hacking run rampant -- overwhelming Hacktivism is the new, hip thing; it has become a hobby for people with higher-than-average co...

This may come as news to owners of 4G smartphones, but the Internet apparently isn't fast enough and needs to speed up. Google and Microsoft have submitted separate proposals to accomplish this Google's SPDY (pronounced "speedy") proposal defines and implements an application-layer protocol that reduces latency and seeks to replace parts of the HTT...

Research In Motion's recently appointed CEO Thorsten Heins emerged from his self-imposed 10-week quiet period by dropping a number of bombshells. Former co-CEO Jim Balsillie has resigned from the board of directors. Several other executives, including Chief Technical Officer David Yach and Chief Operating Officer Jim Rowan, are also leaving, according to reports...

Best Buy is taking an ax to its big box retail business model. The company plans to close 50 of its larger stores and test new store formats in San Antonio and Minneapolis The formats will be so-called "connected stores" that will emphasize tech support and wireless products. They will feature checkout lanes designed to speed shoppers through the ...

Can you tell me exactly where your employees are and what they are doing? Do you know what the top 10 most profitable projects were for your company last year? Can you make a bid on a project that has little or no margin of error? If you can't answer these questions, then you should know that someone else can and the business advantage lies with them...