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This story was originally published on Sept. 3, 2011, and is brought to you today as part of our Best of ECT News series The mobile age has arrived.

This story was originally published on Oct. 19, 2011, and is brought to you today as part of our Best of ECT News series I am developing an appreciation of the Occupy Wall Street movement that surprises me. You know the news about it and how over the weekend the movement went global. You probably also know that the authorities are not dealing wit...

This story was originally published on Oct. 5, 2011, and is brought to you today as part of our Best of ECT News series Solar is no longer on the back burner; it's right there at the front of the stove, demanding that economists and job seekers alike take notice....

Amazon shares fell to their lowest point since late March after Goldman Sachs released a research note Thursday citing comScore data suggesting its holiday sales grew roughly 38 percent -- 2 percent off analyst expectations of 40 percent. The numbers imply fourth-quarter revenue of US$17.87 billion, below the current consensus of $18.19 billion, t...

LG Electronics will show off an 84-inch 3D Ultra Definition (UD) TV at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January The world's largest 3D TV will offer 8 million pixels at 3840 x 2160 screen resolution -- four times that of existing full HDTV screens, LG asserted....

Lately, I have been asked by reporters to compare AT&T and Verizon and predict what 2012 will look like for them and their competitors. At this point, all I can say is it's happy holidays at Verizon, but not so much at AT&T. What a difference a year makes. These two companies led the changes in the wireless industry over the last decade. They look...

Lately, I have been asked by reporters to compare AT&T and Verizon and predict what 2012 will look like for them and their competitors. At this point, all I can say is it's happy holidays at Verizon, but not so much at AT&T. What a difference a year makes. These two companies led the changes in the wireless industry over the last decade. They look...

For many companies, the role of the PMO seems like an enigma. Sure, everyone knows that PMOs exist to streamline project operations so time and money aren't wasted, but what do they actually do? Failure to answer this question has led many companies to question the value of the PMO in the years after its establishment. However, the burden of proof is on the PMO -- not the executives -- and let's face it, many have not risen to the occasion to concretely demonstrate success.

Intel announced its third-generation Atom mobile processor-based platform, code-named "Cedar Trail," on Wednesday It consists of two dual-core mobile processors, the N2600 and N2800, and two others, the D2500 and D2700, that target entry-level desktop and other solutions....

After seven years of a neck-and-neck race for first place in customer satisfaction, Amazon has pulled decisively ahead of Netflix, according to ForeSee, which released its annual Holiday E-Retail Satisfaction Index on Wednesday Amazon moved ahead 2 points to reach the top spot with 88 on the index's 100-point scale. Netflix slid 7 points to 79...

A road map for the future development of the Windows Phone OS has apparently been leaked. The new information comes in the wake of a recent flurry of criticism over Windows Phone's performance in the smartphone market The road map, published by the VMPowerUser blog, is purportedly accurate as of October 2011....

GoDaddy, the Internet's largest registrar of domains, would like the world to forget it ever supported the much-maligned Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) now before Congress. Namecheap, the second largest registrar, wants to make sure the world never forgets it....

Traditionally, online advertising was viewed primarily as a direct-response vehicle. However, the growing use of data to define and deliver audience targeting means it now can have an impact on all levels of the purchasing funnel -- from fostering awareness to reaching consumers at the ideal intersection between desire, intent and action. The abi...

"It takes two to tango." Ronald Reagan said this of the contentious relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union in the final stages of the Cold War. Unfortunately, this also applies to executives and project management offices. At times, it seems they are destined to face off against each other, but this should not be the case. In reality, when PMOs are properly implemented, executives can rely on them to enchance their chances for success, and vice versa...

Backing up data and restoring a crashed computer are two of those "I wish I hadda" moments in the life of every computer user. When you maintain a collection of computers for your job or organization, those tasks can be critical.One of the fastest and most reliable ways to restore an afflicted computer is to copy its previously saved image onto th...

This story was originally published on Aug. 18, 2011, and is brought to you today as part of our Best of ECT News series. As a Sprint corporate customer I'm referred to as "preferred," which basically translates to "preferred because I give them increasing amounts of money." Anyway, it gets me a phone upgrade annually, rather than the non-preferre...

Hackers claiming to belong to the Anonymous hacking community broke into the servers of private think tank Stratfor over the holiday weekend They stole thousands of credit card numbers and other personal information, and also claim to have stolen the company's list of confidential clients. This includes organizations such as the United States Air F...

The Windows Phone OS is great, but Microsoft's dealings with device makers and carriers is lousy. That's the gist of a blog entry posted recently by Charlie Kindel, a former general manager of Windows Phone, who's explained why he thinks Windows Phone sales have failed to take off Kindel also laid blame on customers who don't know what they're buyi...

As the U.S. government continues to pound out proposals for getting its IT security ducks in a row, it appears it's not the only party in Washington, D.C., to have a problem with network intrusion IT systems belonging to the lobbying group the United States Chamber of Commerce were breached by hackers using servers located in China, according to Th...

With the evolution and proliferation of cloud computing, as more and more applications are being migrated to the cloud, many organizations are considering moving their database to the cloud as well. Two main concerns on users' minds are database scalability and availability. How scalable/elastic is a database in the cloud, and will the data be hig...