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A woman in Florida was floored recently by a T-Mobile cellphone bill that totaled nearly a quarter of a million dollars, according to Miami TV station WSVN After intervention on the part of the TV station's news department, though, the carrier slashed Celina Aarons' bill from US$200,000 down to $2,500....

Google unveiled Android 4.0, aka "Ice Cream Sandwich," in Hong Kong on Wednesday. The presentation was accompanied by Samsung's announcement of the Galaxy Nexus, the first smartphone running Ice Cream Sandwich ...

Malware that appears to be similar to the highly toxic Stuxnet worm was made public Tuesday by security firm Symantec. Duqu, named for the "~DQ" file names it creates, appears to work as a remote access data-collecting program that uses some of the same infecting techniques as Stuxnet, the malware discovered about a year ago infiltrating global co...

Dropbox has completed a US$250 million Series B financing -- a windfall for a company whose fundraising up until now has netted $7.2 million. The financing was led by Index Ventures with participation from Benchmark Capital, Goldman Sachs, Greylock Partners, Institutional Venture Partners, RIT Capital Partners, and Valiant Capital Partners, as wel...

Can a new mobile operating system pull Research In Motion (RIM), maker of BlackBerry devices, out of its current funk? Not only has the company been steadily losing market share to competitors with flashier phones -- namely Apple and makers of Google Android handsets -- but its worldwide network recently experienced technical difficulties that left...

Compared to solar and wind, geothermal energy is still a small fraction of the renewable energy market. It's holding its own, however, and it's likely to become a much bigger player in the not-so-distant future "The resource is enormous," Karl Gawell, executive director of the Geothermal Energy Association (GEA), told the E-Commerce Times. "We're l...

The Novell v. Microsoft antitrust lawsuit entered its trial phase in the Utah U.S. District Court this week, with jury selection taking place on Monday. The case, which Novell originally filed in 2004, has traveled a long and winding road. Novell won the right to go forward with the trial in May 2011, when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth...

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 with it effectively. They've been content to watch and wait, hoping that the movement will exhaust itself. That's a good strategy for the last millennium, and the movement may wear out if only because as winter approaches it gets harder to remain committed to living on the street. But I wouldn't bet on it...

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Organizations love false economies. It may not be an entirely conscious act on their part, but it's certainly the truth: Hang around any organization long enough, and you'll find at least one instance where it tries to save on doing A but winds up spending more on doing B in the process. Consider, for example, expense policies that require emplo...

A recent test flight of Virgin Galactic's private SpaceShipTwo spacecraft caused some tense moments for those participating and observing, but ultimately a new safety feature on the suborbital craft allowed its three-person crew to regain control and bring it safely back down to Earth ...

There's a new social network in town -- Chime.in, the brainchild of Bill Gross, known for creating Google's AdWords platform. Gross is the CEO ofUberMedia, the developer of popular Twitter clients Echofon and Ubersocial. Chime.in launched as a public beta on Tuesday and will fully launch in November.

Motorola Mobility on Tuesday announced its latest smartphone, confirming many of the rumors and spec leaks that had already begun to surround the handset ...

Scientists at Northwestern University have developed a new nanomaterial that can reconfigure itself by directing the flow of current This could lead to computers that can reconfigure their internal circuitry as needed....

Apple did not violate four HTC patents, an International Trade Commission judge has ruled. HTC filed a complaint with the commission in May 2010, alleging Apple infringed on several mobile patent technologies, including those for power management of mobile devices and phone dialing. It asked the ITC to bar the importation of Apple devices that use...

It is almost hard to remember when all Amazon did was sell books -- the paperback and hardcover versions, that is. Over the years, the company has morphed and then morphed some more into a multilayered e-commerce platform, selling everything from digital music to storage space in the cloud to, well, just about any consumer product imaginable. Now ...

Prospects for enacting an ambitious and comprehensive national cybersecurity protection program during this year's congressional session may be fading. That's the bad news. The good news is that various approaches to a cybersecurity agenda may be melding into a program that is acceptable to politicians of both parties and to e-commerce businesses as well.

October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month -- so says the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which asserts Americans have a shared responsibility in increasing the resiliency of the nation and its online infrastructure Perhaps other federal bodies and departments should visit that website, beginning with the United States Air Force (USAF...

A new partnership plans to create a Facebook app that will leverage social networking to improve consumer awareness about energy consumption The partnership consists of the social networking giant, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and energy information software creator Opower....

Wireless customers just caught a big break on those surprising overage fees. Wireless industry trade group CTIA, the Federal Communications Commission and Consumers Union released a joint announcement on Monday of an agreement that requires wireless providers to let their customers know when they're about to incur extra fees The "Wireless Cons...