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Siri, the voice recognition technology on Apple's new iPhone 4S, has attracted buyers by the millions with its ability to handle complex search queries. Siri's personified as a somewhat sassy female personal assistant, but at least one person finds her downright disturbing: Google Chairman Eric Schmidt. At a U.S. Senate antitrust hearing in Septem...

Google has introduced Google+ Pages, an element of its Google+ social network that has been much anticipated by corporate brands. Pages provides a public placeholder on the Google+ network for any entity -- not just companies. A sports club like FC Barcelona, for example, could have its own page. Or a band -- such as alternative music group The Al...

The countdown to Cyber Monday has begun. Is your online business ready for the holiday shopping spree? We're all too familiar with sluggish online shopping experiences that have left us frustrated or caused us to leave the site altogether before we've completed a transaction. As the holiday shopping season looms, businesses can't afford to have th...

Last week, Calxeda launched its ARM-based "EnergyCore" Server on a Chip, which the company said consumes as little as 1.5 watts -- the first server CPU to achieve this milestone. This makes EnergyCore ideal for workloads such as Web serving, Big Data applications, scalable analytics such as Apache Hadoop, media streaming, and mid-tier infrastructure such as caching and in-memory scalable databases, the company said.

The CRM Idols have been announced. The goal of the contest was to identify the best corporate video developed by an up-and-coming CRM company. In the Americas, the winning firm is Get Satisfaction. In the EMEA region, it is BPMonline.

Despite the hundreds of millions of dollars the U.S. federal government spends on cybersecurity, it seems that shoestring-budget attackers are still often able to get a foot in the door At a security colloquium in North Virginia on Monday, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) told reporters it's losing ground in the battle to secur...

Bookseller Barnes & Noble expanded on its Nook line of handheld devices and unveiled the Nook Tablet on Monday The company also announced upgrades to its Nook Color, a device that was previously offered as its entry into the tablet market, and its Nook Simple Touch e-reader....

Best Buy said Monday it would buy out Carphone Warehouse's (CPW) interest in its North American Best Buy Mobile business for US$1.3 billion. By purchasing the CPW stake, Best Buy is trying to shift more of its focus to mobile devices. Best Buy has asked CPW to stay on in a consultancy capacity for up to five years With sales of TVs and other e...

A coalition of film studios, record labels and media entities led by the UK record industry lobby group BPI recently sent a letter to British Internet service provider (ISP) BT demanding that the company block access to The Pirate Bay website The group said that if BT doesn't act within two weeks, the matter will proceed to court. BPI is banking on...

Google is reportedly taking aim at one of the few digital screens and content sources it doesn't dominate -- paid television. The search engine provider is considering offering paid cable-TV services to consumers, sources have told The Wall Street Journal. This service would leverage its high-speed Internet access project under way in Kansas City,...

Microsoft on Friday released a temporary fix for a Microsoft Word vulnerability that allows the Duqu worm to attack PCs The flaw, in TrueType font parsing, could let an attacker run arbitrary code in kernel mode, installing programs; view, change or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights, Microsoft said....

The industry joke on the early MacBook Airs was that even though they had decent Intel processors, they stepped down in performance in order to keep from burning up. What was kind of funny was that Lenovo, which had a similar product in market with a slower processor but running at full speed (so it was actually faster), got dinged -- and Apple didn't. However, most folks I knew who had one of these early Airs quickly tired of their slow speed and blazing hot bottoms, and moved to other products -- mostly MacBook Pros. ...

Before it went public, Groupon priced its stock at what turned out to be a highly conservative US$20 dollars per share. Ha! was the market's response Friday morning, the day Groupon finally debuted on Nasdaq. Trading immediately pushed the share price up to $27.96. The low of the day was $ 25.90 and the high, $31.13. ...

Open publishing platform Lulu is known for making a global print-on-demand, disc manufacturing, and distribution and fulfillment network available to independent authors, filmmakers and other individuals. For several years, creators have been able to make everything from hard-cover and paperback books to photo calendars, CDs and DVDs available in ...

Sometimes you can't win for winning. LinkedIn's stock price fell more than 10 percent Friday morning. On Thursday, LinkedIn reported higher-than-expect third-quarter revenue of US$139.5 million, more than doubling last year's revenue of $61.8 million. The company also beat analyst expectations of $128 million for the quarter....

HTC on Thursday announced its latest smartphone, the Rezound, an Android handset for Verizon's 4G LTE network ...

Google is introducing a change to its search algorithm that will impact some 35 percent of searches on the Internet. The end goal of the massive shift is to encourage publishers to keep content as fresh as possible, especially as it relates to recent news and events that are regularly updated.

One would think that after all of the publicity in recent years about insider trading and its illegality, that such a phenomenon would be a thing of the past. Not so. On Oct. 13, 2011, the hedge fund billionaire Raj Rajaratnam, received the longest prison sentence to date for insider trading. A judge for the Federal District Court of Manhattan, Ri...

O sole mio? How about SoLoMo? Time for some new jargon in the massive local commerce space that's emerging. Forecasters are trying desperately to get a handle on the pending collision between social, local and mobile media, referred to as "SoLoMo." The part that most of them forget is the reality check. I hate hype and you do also, right? Even underhyped...

SAP has updated SAP Business One, rolling out its 8.82 iteration for both the on-premises and hosted versions. ...