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HP has made up its mind: New CEO Meg Whitman announced Thursday the PC business is sticking around, at least in the short term The company had been pondering whether to continue selling personal computers. Earlier this year, under the leadership of then-CEO Leo Apotheker, HP said strategic options such as a sale or spin-off were on the table for th...

Research In Motion has not heard the last of the days-long outage of its network earlier this month. Lawsuits seeking class action status have been filed against the company in both the United States and Canada, seeking damages for the loss of service. One suit was filed in federal court in Santa Ana, Calif., on behalf of all U.S. BlackBerry owner...

Salesforce.com has a developed a new tool for companies to help them develop and publish Web pages and landing pages specifically for marketing campaigns. ...

"Build once, run everywhere" has been the goal of many platforms, although most recently, the motto was used for Java. It has rarely been completely true. In Java's case, "build once, test everywhere" was closer to the mark A true universal platform offers many financial benefits: It removes uncertainty about future hardware; extends the applicatio...

Dropbox, a cloud service that lets users store and share documents and media files over any device, has introduced a paid version of its product aimed at businesses Known as "Dropbox for Teams," this comes with new administrative controls, centralized billing and phone support and, of course, more storage....

Sony is cutting itself loose from its European partner in smartphones. The company announced Thursday that it will acquire Ericsson's 50 percent share in their Sony Ericsson venture, making the mobile handset business a fully owned subsidiary of Sony. Ericsson will receive cash compensation of US$1.5 billion. Sony Ericsson produces a wide-range of...

Facebook is planning to build a massive new data center in the industrial town of Lulea in Swedish Lapland, about 70 miles from the Arctic Circle The data center will consist of three buildings, the first of which will cover about 33,000 square yards, Facebook spokesperson Alex Kirschner told TechNewsWorld....

The creators of a new social network are challenging users to ditch Facebook and other networks to "unthink" and de-clutter with their new, completely user-controlled and private network Unthink.com, launched Tuesday in beta, hopes to capitalize on growing discontent among social network users for support....

Sprint delivered third quarter earnings with a relatively nice surprise -- its losses were less than expected. Any good feeling from its numbers, however, was short-lived as Sprint went on to remind shareholders that it would be seeking capital -- as much as US$7 billion -- to fund new handsets and a network upgrade. The net loss for the quarter w...

IBM debuted industry-specific data analytics tools for the healthcare and communication sectors at its Information on Demand conference. These packages are part of IBM's drive to help companies manage their information processes and data storage needs as efficiently as possible. For the communications analytics appliance, IBM is leveraging the tec...

What will T-Mobile do if the merger with AT&T does not work out? On the outside, both AT&T and T-Mobile are pushing as hard as they can to get the deal done. However, behind the scenes, T-Mobile is working even harder on the path it will take in the event the deal does not get done. And it may have hit on something My Pick of the Week is how both G...

Fast, easy and accurate -- ask any consumer to describe good customer service and that is the likely response you'll receive. Traditionally, people have reached out to call centers, confident that a well-trained customer service representative would have the knowledge to fill in the blanks. But moving away from the computer and picking up the phon...

The convenience of using your smartphone to store, stream and curate your music collection -- or simply stream music from online, personalized radio stations like Pandora -- doesn't mean you need to sacrifice your home stereo system for the dubious quality earbuds that came with the phone. The investment you've made in the stereo gear is as valid ...

Research In Motion has once again pushed back the release of a much-desired software update for its PlayBook tablet This appears to be due to technical problems....

Nokia announced its first smartphones running Windows Phone at Nokia World 2011, being held in London through Thursday ...

Amazon missed expectations with its third quarter earnings report and projected a loss for the current quarter. The double-down on its Kindle Fire is at the heart of the matter. With razor-thin profits projected for the tablet, Amazon is betting it all on content sales. The market is not so sure. Amazon stock fell 20 percent after its earnings report was released Tuesday after the market closed...

IBM named Virginia Rometty as the company's first-ever female CEO Tuesday as Sam Palmisano stepped down from his nearly decade-long tenure. Since Palmisano took over in 2002, the CEO oversaw a transition that included selling its PC business, buying PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting and making more than US$25 billion worth of software acquisitions...

Android has become the platform for mobile advertisers to target, it would seem, based on separate reports from ABI Research and Millennial Media. Android served up more ad impressions overall in Q3 than rival iOS, at 56 percent, Millennial Media reported. For its part, ABI Media noted that in Q2, Android overtook iOS to become the market share le...

Government authorities in the United States showed an increased interest in Google account holders in the first half of 2011, according to a report released Tuesday by the search giant The report showed that 5,950 requests for information were made by U.S. government authorities during the first six months of this year, compared with 4,601 requests...

It might not be as glamorous as some industries, but recycling is booming. The industry supports more than 450,000 jobs for Americans and generates US$10.3 billion in revenue for federal, state and local governments -- making it larger than the forestry and fishing industries combined, according to a recent study released by the Institute of Scrap...