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The number of wireless subscriber connections in the U.S. is more than its actual population. In addition, Americans have doubled the amount of data traffic on wireless networks. So says trade group CTIA in its semiannual survey of the state of the industry. The number of wireless connections rose by 9 percent for the first half of 2011, reaching ...

After Steve Jobs' passing last week we have seen an unbelievable amount of, well, love poured out by everyone. That is truly amazing. Then it hits you. Steve Jobs and Apple are connected. They are one. It's almost like Siamese twins connected at the hip. What can we expect now that Steve is no longer with us? For my Pick of the Week, I'll consider...

Let's be honest: Marketing has always been considered a little "soft" in the business world. That may be why CMOs have one of the shortest average tenures -- about two years -- of any corporate board member. Marketing's reputation comes from reporting on metrics like "impressions" and "brand awareness" -- things that CEOs and CFOs simply do not un...

Impairments in the body's functions and structure, as well as the limitations in activities caused by those impairments, have historically placed disabled people at often insurmountable disadvantages. Reader Fred Cheshire, who's a C5/6 quadriplegic, asked how to use tablets and mobile phones when you have no finger control....

Newly minted HP CEO Meg Whitman is rethinking the company's decision to spin off its PC division, the Wall Street Journal has reported Fresh analyses apparently indicate the cost of a spinoff might outweigh its benefits....

Sony has issued a voluntary recall for 1.6 million Bravia flat-panel TVs sold worldwide covering certain TVs sold since 2007. A defective component reportedly causes them to be slightly more likely to melt or catch fire than the average TV. In September, a Japanese customer discovered that his TV started a small fire. Eleven incidents like this have apparently occurred in Japan since 2008...

The proliferation of smartphones has created headaches for security-minded IT departments everywhere, but a Motorola subsidiary aims to give system administrators more peace of mind with a solution for managing Android phones in business environments Three Laws Mobility (3LM), purchased by Motorola eight months ago, announced Tuesday that its manag...

Research In Motion's continuing BlackBerry service disruptions hit customers in North America Wednesday This makes the disruptions, which first emerged in Europe, the Middle East and Africa on Monday, a worldwide phenomenon....

Zynga is spreading its wings beyond Facebook, the giant social network that made it a giant gaming network in its own right. Some 232 million Facebook users also use Zynga It has launched a new, independent gaming platform, Project Z.

Like other renewable energy resources, wind energy is taking off ...

Last month, I discussed, from the website owner's point of view, the critical importance of using Terms of Service (ToS) and Click Agreements suited to their business. Now I will address the need for appropriate consideration of your website's Privacy Policy....

What struck me most last week in San Francisco and Silicon Valley -- beyond Oracle OpenWorld -- came out of meetings I had with CEOs of software companies situated south of Oracle on Route 101. The companies are all SaaS (Software as a Service)-based, and I promised not to spill the beans, so there will be no names -- yet Admittedly, my survey is ...

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The United States Department of Justice recently used a secret court order to get information from the email accounts of WikiLeaks volunteer Jacob Appelbaum, according to the Wall Street Journal The DoJ reportedly put the squeeze on Google and Sonic.net, a small Internet service provider (ISP), to turn over the email addresses of the people with wh...

The Oak Ridge National Laboratory has awarded U.S. supercomputer manufacturer Cray a contract to upgrade its existing Jaguar supercomputer The contract, which Cray pegs as worth US$97 million, will cover a multi-phase process scheduled for completion in 2013....

Research In Motion just can't catch a break. The outages in Internet service RIM suffered on Monday in the EMEA region have spread to India and South America. BlackBerry users across all of those areas are experiencing loss of Internet and messaging services. RIM acknowledged the outages and noted in a brief statement that "some users in Euro...

Given the sheer volume of commentaries following the death of Apple founder Steve Jobs, I hesitated to add my own voice to the chorus. Like most folks, I didn't know Jobs personally. Like many, the closest I ever got to him was by being in the audience during his Macworld keynotes, including the memorable 1999 introduction of the candy-colored Apple iMac G3.

Information technology vendors who can provide productive ways to protect against cybersecurity threats should find a welcome market among federal agencies. Cybersecurity is the major worry of government IT personnel, two recent surveys concluded. Federal IT managers polled for a Cisco-sponsored study were asked to select which of nine possible sc...

Amid continued traction for Android, there have been a number of other developments for mobile operating systems based on Linux. Given my support for and belief in Linux and open source software, you might expect me to be bullish on the prospects for all of this mobile and device Linux. However, based on what I've seen in the past in terms of mergers, reshuffles and strategic restarts, I believe the introduction of the Tizen Linux-based OS is reminiscent of a time when mobile Linux wasn't really moving ahead...

October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and it's being rung in for federal agencies with a couple of slaps to the head and a kick or two to the shins First, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a report that stated 24 major federal agencies have inadequate IT security. I...