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Verizon delivered excellent news to its shareholders on Friday: Third-quarter earnings rose to US$1.38 billion from $659 million a year earlier. A jump in subscribers -- it signed on 882,000 new wireless customers for the quarter -- and smartphone sales led to the doubling in profits. Another group looked on with interest as Verizon unveiled its e...

The Future Enterprise, Part 3: Technology Designed to Fit the Job While the purpose of this series is to talk about the future of enterprise computing and how advances and technology are moving us along a certain path to that future, if we stop for a moment and look at the recent history in enterprise computing, it's clear that we've come a long wa...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer recently commented on Yahoo's present situation by saying "Sometimes you're lucky." He was referring to his company's rebuffed attempt to buy Yahoo a few years ago for $47 billion. But that doesn't necessarily mean he thinks owning Yahoo now would be a bad idea -- perhaps all he meant was that by waiting a few years, Microsoft may be able to get Yahoo for a whole lot less than $47 billion...

Groupon has packaged a new deal, and it's going worldwide. The Internet coupon star will go public on Nov. with an IPO designed to raise as much as US$621 million, valuing the company at $11.4 billion. That's just 5 percent of the company's shares. The numbers look big on the surface, but the total is smaller than the original expectation of $750 ...

The New York Times Co. reported a profit of US$15.7 million this quarter, compared with a $4.3 million loss in the same period last year. The boost came from a number of sources, including a cost-cutting initiative, digital ad revenues -- as opposed total advertising -- and digital subscriptions.

The Office of the Data Protection Commissioner of Ireland will launch a "comprehensive audit" of Facebook Ireland before the end of the month, DPC spokesperson Ciara O'Sullivan told TechNewsWorld on Friday The audit will assess Facebook's compliance with the requirements of the Irish Data Protection Acts as they apply to its users outside of the U....

Microsoft beat sales estimates Thursday when it announced record-setting revenue levels in its fiscal first quarter, thanks in part to strong sales in the cloud-based business operations, which overcame slow growth in the PC and mobile markets. The software giant posted net income of US$5.74 billion and earnings of 68 cents per share. That's up fr...

The U.S. Department of Labor and Facebook are collaborating on an initiative that they hope will link more unemployed people with potential employers -- a job search page on Facebook. Also participating in this initiative are the National Association of State Workforce Agencies, DirectEmployers Association and the National Association of Colleges ...

When consumers in California visit the Dunkin' Donuts website hoping to order a bag of their favorite java, they are met with the following message: "Important Notice: We are temporarily suspending the shipment of orders to California while we work to comply with Proposition 65 with the State of California. We apologize for any inconvenience." Blog...

Marketo is taking aim at the smaller end of the business community with Spark, a stripped-down version of its revenue performance management application. ...

Titanium Backup Pro, an app from Titanium Track, is available for US$6.58 at the Android Market. 4.5 stars.Anyone who's gone through the painful task of buying a new smartphone knows that the process of re-installing apps and getting the phone configured just-so is a major job, often taking hours.

"Quantum levitation" may not be a household term, but one look at a YouTube video now nearing 3 million views, and you'll soon get the gist of what's going on. In essence, it's a thin but solid disc floating in mid-air....

Google Apps seems to have stubbed its toe in providing services to the 30,000 employees of the city of Los Angeles Google and Computer Sciences Corp. (CSC), which had contracted to implement Google Apps in the city's IT infrastructure in 2009, have apparently failed to meet security requirements as promised, and the city is out for blood....

Looks like a couple of disparate groups are forming to bid for Yahoo. Microsoft is working with Silver Lake and one of Silver Lake's investors, the Canada Pension Plan (CPP), to put together a buy proposal, according to sources who spoke to The Wall Street Journal The proposal would include several billion dollars from Microsoft, with addition...

Asus offered the world a sneak peek at the company's upcoming Transformer 2 tablet at the AsiaD conference in Hong Kong earlier this week, laying to rest speculation that the device's launch might be delayed More details on the device will be formally announced Nov. 9, Chairman Jonney Shih told AllThingsD....

Microsoft is partnering with two of the most visible players in the education industry -- Sesame Workshop and National Geographic -- to roll out a series of new "edutainment" video games for its Xbox 360 platform The games -- "Kinect Sesame Street TV," "Kinect Nat Geo TV" and the code-named "Project Columbia" -- let children interact with character...

Research In Motion is the successful, but aging grandpa in the wireless business, and lately it has encountered some big problems -- but that doesn't mean the company can't turn around. I'll get into its challenges and some ideas about how it can surmount them first. Then, in my Pick of the Week section, I'll look at Cox Communications, its brand ...

As a CRM journalist, I always enjoy talking to integrators (or resellers, or VARS, or partners, or whatever term they choose to describe themselves). It's always an interesting contrast to speaking with vendors. The discussion you have with a vendor is like taking an anatomy course; the discussion you have with an integrator is like speaking to the coroner.

The stuttering and freezing that can occur when you're streaming video are indicative of issues related to bandwidth. Commercial hosted solutions like Netflix and Hulu can suffer from degraded performance. ...

Will Skype give Microsoft street cred in social networking? At Web 2.0 on Tuesday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer discussed the company's current and future projects. He touched on Windows Phone, Microsoft Office, Xbox Live, Bing and the recent go-ahead on its Skype acquisition, the buy he characterized as the company's stake in the social networking market...