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Maybe I'll take some heat for this, but I am trying to live by Don Tapscott's and Anthony Williams' ideas, especially concerning transparency. Let me digress already Tapscott and Williams wrote a very good book called Wikinomics and followed it up with a better one, Macrowikinomics. As the titles suggest, the books deal with general and macroecon...

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Once considered the red-headed stepchild of the gaming industry, social gaming is finally taking its rightful place at the table. Over the past several years, the free-to-play (F2P) model has surged to the forefront of next-generation gaming, while console game companies and traditional game developers have faltered by the wayside. With its risk-f...

Two major publishers -- the Tribune Co. and the Philadelphia Media Network, or PMN -- plan to offer long-term subscribers free or heavily subsidized tablet readers The Tribune is developing an Android tablet, according to CNN. PMN plans to offer deeply discounted Android tablets together with applications developed in-house....

Twenty-one-year Microsoft veteran Charlie Kindel announced he is leaving to start his own company via a blog post on Monday. He joined the Windows Phone division in 2010, prior to its launch, and has been serving as general manager. He led the team that built the Windows Phone application platform and worked as developer evangelist. During his car...

IBM Global Services (IGS) is an organization the company's customers love to use and its competitors love to hate. That is, when they're not trying to copy it. From a revenue standpoint, there's certainly a lot to love. IGS' two central organizations -- Global Technology Services (GTS) and Global Business Services (GBS) -- together account for wel...

The old sports maxim "There is no 'I' in team" is getting repackaged for use in the U.S. government's approach to acquiring information technology and related services. Federal agencies are being urged to utilize a team approach as they collectively spend US$80 billion per year for IT products and services The Office of Federal Procurement Policy (...

The Future of Android, Part 1: The Legal Squeeze The number of attacks on Android devices has been rising over the past few months....

It's been a mighty interesting week in security Kids learned about cryptography and received a visit from federal authorities at a special session at DefCon, McAfee is duking it out with other security vendors over Operation Shady Rat, facial recognition is stripping away what little is left of our privacy, and Microsoft is offering big bucks for a...

Technology analyst Scott Steinberg answers the question, "Why is it that privacy is not a huge topic in social media?" The recent launch of Google+, which offers users a convenient way of managing who gets to see what, addresses the social networking privacy issue to an extent. However, the vast majority of Facebook's multitudes are still not terr...

Members of the Communications Workers of America and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers voted to go on strike at Verizon Communications [NYSE: VZ] on Sunday. The 45,000 striking workers are employed in the wireline side of Verizon's operations and their absence will, theoretically at least, affect the company's service in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic.

The twenty-somethings arrested by the FBI in July on suspicion of partaking in criminal activities tied to the Anonymous hacker community may soon be regarded as geriatrics The first annual hacker conference for kids, DefCon Kids, was held in Las Vegas last weekend as part of DefCon, which bills itself as the world's largest hacker conference....

Shoppers for HP's TouchPad tablet were treated to a special bargain over the weekend -- after coupons and promotions, the 16 GB tablet was available for US$299, a $200 drop from its original price The price cut came relatively early in the device's life on the market.The TouchPad debuted in June to a largely chilly response. Many first users liked ...

Verizon Communications [NYSE: VZ] is struggling through yet another strike. Actually, all the workers, customers and anyone who touches Verizon are also struggling. I have commented on these strikes many times over the last couple of decades. What is happening is unfortunate, but it's a necessary part of the process as the industry changes. First,...

Sprint on Friday unveiled the Samsung Conquer 4G, an Android smartphone that will be available for purchase Aug. 21 ...

For more than 15 years -- since the dawn of the Internet, really -- display advertising has held promise, but it has often underperformed with boring, static banner ads whose value diminished greatly as consumers became trained to ignore them. Today, innovative technologies are pumping new life into display advertising and helping e-commerce brands profit by turning this medium into a finely tuned, money-making channel.

Last week was kind of an amazing week. Google's chief counsel earned himself a new title: chief whining officer. He tried to blame Microsoft, Apple and Oracle (missed EMC) as companies that were colluding to force Google to stop stealing other people's stuff. Google's whiny argument made me wonder if anyone over there actually reads what they write. ...

The prudent CIO sees the need for a quantum level improvement in the way IT delivers services and resources. To survive, IT must rapidly regain competitive strength by emulating the key strengths of external cloud suppliers. The internal IT delivery model has to change from a bureaucratic process that can take days or weeks, to one that supports self-service and makes resources immediately available.

Security expert and diabetic Jerome Radcliffe has hacked into the wireless insulin pump he wears on his body around the clock to keep his blood sugar level stable Radcliffe talked about the hack in a presentation at the Black Hat Security Conference, held in Las Vegas....

A war of words continues between executives at tech giants Google and Microsoft as accusations regarding patent bullying fly between the companies The public dispute began Wednesday, when David Drummond, the chief legal officer at Google, posted a company blog missive accusing Microsoft, Apple and Oracle of excluding Google by banding together to b...