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HTC revealed a new line of smartphones at Barcelona's Mobile World Congress Sunday, showcasing handsets designed to emphasize audio and sleek, efficient displays ...

Internet privacy appeared on the big stage last week when the Obama administration unveiled its plans on the subject, which included a bill of rights for consumer privacy The president's privacy framework evoked reactions from stakeholders ranging from enthusiastic to guardedly optimistic....

Salesforce.com hit it out of the park with quarterly earnings for its fiscal fourth quarter and full fiscal year, which ended Jan. 31, 2012. Total Q4 revenue was US$632 million, an increase of 38 percent on a year-over-year basis, topping the $624 million expected by analysts. For the full fiscal year 2012, the company reported revenue of $2.27 billion, an increase of 37 percent from the prior year.

This weekend,"Act of Valor" opened, but this isn't a review of this Navy Seals-based action movie. Instead, I'll focus on the incredibly low budget of US$13 million for a film with massive amounts of live action and the feel of a war movie. Movies like this can easily cost 10x to 50x as much. An amazing combination of technology from Adobe, Canon, HP and Nvidia made this thing possible, and much of this technology is available to you. In fact, the movie was created mostly with tools you could have in your home.

Leave it to a comic strip, published 18 months ago, to allude to what has become a radical change in how technology is being adopted in the consumer world. Still, very few have recognized how this aspect would fundamentally transform enterprise software. When an ecosystem includes a marketplace or "app store," developers get direct access to custo...

Daily, we create with every keystroke 2.5 quintillion bytes of data from sensors, mobile devices, online transactions, and social networks. Monthly, we express ourselves through 1 billion tweets and 30 billion pieces of content on Facebook. Geeks call this "big data," but astute businesspeople realize that this is a unique market opportunity. This...

Users of social networks, especially women and younger members, are managing their accounts better in recent years, Pew Research has found About two-thirds of Internet users belong to social networking sites, and metrics for profile management have improved, Pew said....

Microsoft will release a beta of Visual Studio 11 on Feb. 29, the same day it releases a preview version of its Windows 8 operating system VS 11 is an integrated development environment spanning the entire software creation lifecycle from architecture to code deployment, testing and validation....

Speculation that Google is going to disrupt yet another industry -- this time cable television -- is circulating, prompted by an application the search engine giant filed with the Missouri Public Service Commission, seeking a franchise to provide video service in Kansas City, Mo. A similar application was filed in Kansas City, Kan This is not the f...

T-Mobile plans to invest US$4 billion in improving its wireless network to expand existing coverage and launch 4G LTE service The "network modernization" strategy will also include improvements to voice and data coverage, an expansion of the company's sales force, retail store remodeling, an aggressive pursuit of business-to-business opportunities,...

The global marketplace for broadband services is dynamic and growing. At the end of 2011, approximately 660 million households subscribed to an Internet service, and about 580 million -- 32 percent of all global households -- received broadband service The populous countries in Western Europe have high broadband penetration, but predictably, they a...

When Microsoft's next service update to Microsoft Dynamics CRM is released in Q2 2012, users who rely on its business intelligence functionality will be in for a pleasant surprise. ...

PrinterShare Mobile Print Premium Key, an app fromMobile Dynamix, is available for US$12.95 at the Android Market.We all know that the 20th century predictions of a paperless office were a pipe dream, maybe never to happen now. Digital media appear to have created more paper swirling around us, rather than less....

The Mozilla Foundation will begin accepting developer submissions for its own app market at the Mobile World Congress (MWC), which will be held in Barcelona next week The Mozilla Marketplace will let devs distribute and monetize their apps. It will also be the sole repository for cross-platform apps and Firefox extensions. Further, it will include ...

Microsoft has filed a formal complaint with European Union antitrust authorities alleging that Motorola Mobility -- and hence, Google -- is improperly restricting the use of certain patented technologies The complaint comes a week after the European Commission approved Google's US$12.5 billion acquisition of the handset manufacturer -- with the war...

Top mobile app providers like Apple and Google have sided with California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris to increase privacy protections on mobile apps by providing consumers with more information about the personal data the apps collect The effort was spearheaded by the California AG in an effort to crack down on apps that access and use person...

Undeterred by its battle to convince Congress to pass the cybersecurity legislation it proposed last May, the White House on Thursday unveiled a proposal for an online consumer privacy bill of rights This is part of a blueprint to improve consumer privacy protection in the United States....

A few weeks ago I visited C Spire Wireless in Ridgeland, Miss. I didn't know what to expect. It's gone through quite a few changes recently; however, I have to say it was a delightful surprise. They were impressive and friendly. I met with the senior executives, they showed me around, we toured a retail store, they explained their strategy and ans...

I have a lot of fun writing about CRM -- the ideas, the tools and how they're brought together as a coherent strategy. CRM is a foundation on which to build relationships, layer on additional sales and support tools, and create a customer-centric business But this foundation needs a foundation. After all, businesses thrived even before CRM technolo...

If you think of some of the more recent significant developments in television viewing, you'll probably come up with a list that includes the digital video recorder (DVR), which provides easy time-shifting without lossy tape; the flat-screen, high-definition television, which provides high-quality images as well as space-saving and eco-advantages over the bulky old cathode ray tube; and rampant cord-cutting, wherein viewers ditch traditional cable in favor of programming that's now delivered a la carte through the Internet...