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A consortium of six major tech players calling themselves "Rockstar Bidco" won a US$4.5 billion bid for 6,000 Nortel patents in June. The deal closed last week, but all is not said and done, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. The Department of Justice reportedly intends to ask the consortium members -- Apple, Microsoft, Research In Motion, Ericsson, Sony and EMC -- just what they plan to do with their new patent stash...

Technology analyst Scott Steinberg answers the question, "What do Netflix's price changes mean for subscirbers, and how stupid is splitting the costs on unlimited DVD and streaming plans?" To sum up, they mean customers are going to have to pay more -- as much as 63 percent more -- to keep the same level of service, and many are understandably mif...

The U.S. government is actively pursuing a major shift in information technology operations that emphasizes the use of cloud technology. While this effort eventually may reduce the amount of "on-site" electronic equipment used by federal agencies, other forces are at work that will keep the government's demand for electronic devices and components at a high level. Throughout the federal government, agencies are shifting to using more portable devices such as laptops, cellphones, netbooks and tablets...

To say Android's popular among consumers is like saying Godzilla's a lizard. It's a question of degree More than 500,000 new Android devices were being activated daily, and the number was growing at 4.4 percent week over week, Google's Andy Rubin tweeted in late June....

Tommy Thompson's concept of football fandom is derived from his 28 years following the Kansas City Chiefs. He was weaned on scenes from Kansas City's Arrowhead Stadium, where tens of thousands of people congregate for their own Sunday service, replacing wine and bread with beer and barbeque. With hair that matches the Chiefs' bright red uniforms a...

Adobe on Monday announced the first public preview release of its Edge HTML 5 Web motion and interaction design tool This lets Web designers add animation to websites using standards such as HTML, JavaScript and CSS in much the same way they do with Flash Professional, Adobe said....

AT&T will begin limiting data speeds for the top 5 percent of wireless data users who currently have unlimited data plans, the company announced Friday Many AT&T customers currently operate under a tiered data plan, but customers who had unlimited usage before the tiered plans were initiated about a year ago were able to continue downloading and up...

AT&T will begin limiting data speeds for the top 5 percent of wireless data users who currently have unlimited data plans, the company announced Friday Many AT&T customers currently operate under a tiered data plan, but customers who had unlimited usage before the tiered plans were initiated about a year ago were able to continue downloading and up...

Motorola's latest high-end Android smartphone, the Photon, has hit the shelves at Sprint stores for US$200 and a two-year contract ...

As companies head out into the brave new post-recession world, the top two goals for marketers are organic revenue growth (37 percent) and margin growth (41 percent), according to Aberdeen's Q4 2010 Business Review. To help achieve these objectives, marketing budgets grew by an average of 4 percent for 2011, chief marketing officers reported. The crucial question, then, is this: How do CMOs invest that marketing budget wisely to maximize gains?...

The two things I found particularly interesting last week were the continued focus on the U.S. government's inability to live within its means and Scott Adams, the father of Dilbert, accepting the Windows Phone 7 challenge. The first continues to piss me off because both sides seem to be unable to grasp the need to actually live within a budget, and the second provides a much-needed chuckle and some attention to what is likely the most underappreciated operating system in the market. ...

As recently as just a few years ago, consumers had a limited set of research options when they were looking to make an informed product purchase. They may have done a Google search to learn where to buy the product or noticed an advertisement and visited a store to speak with a sales rep about it. For larger purchases, they might have picked up a ...

Can things get any worse for Nintendo? Earnings for the three months ended June 30, 2011, were a major disappointment, with net sales down 50.2 percent and gross profit down 84.3 percent, compared with the same period the previous fiscal year. Sales of its five-month old 3DS game console were absolutely dismal -- a mere 710,000 units sold in the A...

Dell on Friday launched the Dell Streak 10 Pro tablet in China. This is the company's first 10-inch tablet. It runs Android Honeycomb 3.1 ...

Sprint Nextel stock tumbled as the company came out with its quarterly earnings report Thursday, in which it highlighted improved customer service but also announced a higher-than-expected net loss of US$847 million as well as a loss of 101,000 postpaid subscribers Wall Street analysts weren't surprised to see the company, facing stiff competition ...

On June 20, 2011, the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers made an announcement to a packed meeting in Singapore that created a global shockwave. With a thousand delegates bearing witness, ICANN released its long-awaited gTLD program, creating new types of domain names with unlimited potential.

I'm one of the thousands of Netflix customers who were outraged by the movie rental giant's decision to change its pricing structure. No one likes the idea of paying more for less, and no matter how you slice it, that's exactly what Netflix is asking its customers to do Begrudgingly, I've decided to drop the DVD portion of my Netflix service and go...

Xactly has updated its Express product, a sales compensation management application designed for small and medium-sized businesses. Xactly Express 2.2 comes with more ways for sales reps to customize their dashboards and more features for administrators to manage the information flow to the reps. Simplifying and streamlining operations is Express'...

Members of the cloud computing industry this week announced the Open Cloud Initiative, a non-profit organization to advocate open standards in cloud computing, at the OSCON 2011 open source convention in Portland, Ore The organization maintains a set of Open Cloud Principles, adherence to which will determine whether a given product or service can ...

It appears that scientists at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology proved recently that you can't travel faster than the speed of light in a vacuum That discovery, howled many popular publications, means time travel is impossible....