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This story was originally published on May 20, 2011, and is brought to you today as part of our Best of ECT News series. With more than 600 million members and counting, Facebook is the world's largest social networking community. Lately, however, a lot of people have concluded that this community is too large for their tastes....

This story was originally published on June 2, 2011, and is brought to you today as part of our Best of ECT News series. The idea of taking CRM into the field has been around for a decade -- long enough to lull many people into ignoring it in favor of newer, flashier and more social ideas.

We have crazy months from time to time, but August will likely go down in history as one of the biggest tech news months of any year. From the torpedoing of Android by Google, to the off-again, on-again TouchPad sales, to the departure of Steve Jobs, to the slashing of Oracle's US$1.3 billion settlement, to the... Well I'll get to all this in a ...

This story was originally published on May 18, 2011, and is brought to you today as part of our Best of ECT News series. Ludology or narratology? ...

The mobile age has arrived. In 2011, global shipments of smartphones and tablet devices surpassed shipments of laptops and desktop PCs, laying the groundwork for an era in which consumers are increasingly using mobile technology for everything from airline reservations to vehicle purchases....

It will keep prices at their current low level. It will hire more people, lots more. It will sell a significant chunk of T-Mobile's stock. If it has to, it will go to court. AT&T, in short, appears ready to jump over whatever hurdles the Department of Justice places before it to win its prize -- the acquisition of T-Mobile. The company was apparen...

It will keep prices at their current low level. It will hire more people, lots more. It will sell a significant chunk of T-Mobile's stock. If it has to, it will go to court. AT&T, in short, appears ready to jump over whatever hurdles the Department of Justice places before it to win its prize -- the acquisition of T-Mobile. The company was apparen...

HTC has shown off its first two smartphones running Mango, Microsoft's upcoming update for its Windows Phone mobile operating system The new devices, the Titan and the Radar, are being shown to some consumers in London, Paris, Madrid and Berlin....

SAP won a battle in its war with Oracle Thursday when a judge overturned the US$1.3 billion sum SAP was previously ordered to pay Oracle in a copyright infringement suit The dispute regarded SAP's TomorrowNow software maintenance unit, which was accused of skirting licensing fees by downloading hundreds of thousands of copies of Oracle software. Or...

Now that summer is ending, brand owners need to think about which brand names they will opt out of registering for the .XXX top level domain name (TLD) Sunrise B launch. As most people are aware, the .XXX registry will be the first TLD targeted at the adult entertainment industry. Trademark owners outside of this industry that want to safeguard ...

Shortly before Salesforce.com's Dreamforce conference kicked off this year, with its accompanying slew of new offers and products, Microsoft Dynamics CRM played a little offense: The company rolled out a "Cloud CRM for Less" offer, which grants US$150 in cash per user seat to any customer that switches to its application. A minimum of 50 seats are required under the offer, for a maximum of 500 user seats.

The Mozilla Foundation is enhancing the tablet version of its Firefox browser It's leveraging Android Honeycomb but retaining familiar visual elements of Firefox such as the signature big back button and distinctive tab shape, according to a blog post by Ian Barlow, who works on Mozilla's mobile user experience team....

The HP TouchPad's demise and semi-resurrection seems to have lent new strength to rumors that Amazon is working on its own tablet Some rumors hold that Amazon will offer one tablet; others contend it will offer two. The speculation is that Amazon will sell the hardware at a loss and make up for that through selling content, which it has in abundanc...

Another global security mess is in the making, on the heels of the publication of thousands of sensitive security documents obtained by WikiLeaks. However, in this particular instance, WikiLeaks insists it didn't mean to do it Last week, WikiLeaks reportedly made some 134,000 diplomatic cables available. Unlike earlier disclosures, though, these ca...

Samsung has unveiled the Galaxy Note, which sports a 5.3-inch screen -- a size that places it between a typical smartphone and a tablet. It features an HD Super AMOLED display with a 180-degree viewing angle. The device comes with a slide-out stylus called the "S Pen" and sports a rear 8 MP camera capable of capturing video in 1080p HD, as well as a front 2 MP camera for video chat. The unit is powered by a 1.4 GHz dual core processor and runs the Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system...

The U.S. Department of Justice dealt a surprising blow to the proposed US$39 billion merger between wireless providers AT&T and T-Mobile Wednesday when it filed a lawsuit to block AT&T from acquiring the smaller company, claiming the deal would violate antitrust regulations The proposed merger, announced five months ago, would combine the nation's ...

The U.S. Department of Justice dealt a surprising blow to the proposed US$39 billion merger between wireless providers AT&T and T-Mobile Wednesday when it filed a lawsuit to block AT&T from acquiring the smaller company, claiming the deal would violate antitrust regulations The proposed merger, announced five months ago, would combine the nation's ...

UPDATE: 2:21 PM PT, 9/2/11: They call it a Q&A session, but when Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff takes questions, he draws the kind of crowd in front of which you often see politicians performing. The group has gotten too big for me to know everyone or even most people -- especially since it includes press, financial analysts and industry analysts. ...

At this point, most of us are quite aware of the problems that Rupert Murdoch is having in Great Britain. There has been a seismic shift in the power that Murdoch has over politics and law enforcement in England. Up until a few short months ago, most people in power there were afraid to openly criticize Murdoch for fear of retribution in the press ...

We knew this day was coming. Now that Steve Jobs is leaving, Apple will change. Apple has stood out during the last decade or more as an incredible growth engine for customers, investors, workers and partners. However, it wasn't just Apple. If Apple is the steak, then Steve Jobs is the sizzle How important is the sizzle? Will Apple still be Apple? ...