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Android Honeycomb tablets are now on store shelves and vendor websites. Six months from Honeycomb's release, tablet makers have finally optimized their hardware to fit the new made-for-tablets OS version to their larger-than-smartphone screens But where are the apps? Buyers of shiny new 8- and 10-inch touchscreen Android tablets suffer from a glari...

Microsoft on Monday released Avatar Kinect, a feature for the hands-free controller that will let users set up a virtual presence to interact with up to seven other friends in up to 24 virtual stages Avatar Kinect for the Xbox 360 is a chat service that will leverage the Kinect's camera, which tracks users' gestures and facial expressions....

Google has begun cleaning up its recently launched Google+ service, and in doing so, it's deleted some legitimate users' accounts Those with dumped accounts include a user calling himself "Dylan M," who has the Twitter handle @thomasmonopoly, as well as Limor Fried, A.K.A. "Ladyada."

Online financial services provider E-Trade responded to pressure from stake holder Citadel Friday, days after the hedge fund sent a letter to the brokerage service demanding a review of strategies, including discussing a sale of the company Citadel requested a vote on a number of its proposals, such as declassifying the Board so that all members ar...

Occluded by the opposition and battered by poor financial results, Research In Motion on Friday made announcements aimed at shoring up its sagging fortunes The mobile device maker announced it has received FIPS 140-2 certification from the United States National Institute of Standards and Technology....

On Sunday, July 10, Time Magazine posted a book review of sorts by Rana Foroohar. "Driven Off the Road by MBAs" is really a riff on Bob Lutz's new book, Car Guys vs. Bean Counters: The Battle for the Soul of American Business. Lutz should know something about his topic since he spent a 47-year career in the halls of power at Ford, BMW, Chrysler a...

I'm in the midst of doing the biggest tablet review I've ever attempted, and I have to admit I'm rather impressed with a number of the Android offerings. The funny thing is, the ones closest to the phone work the best, suggesting there is a bit of a Windows XP/Vista event going on in this space. While I was doing this, I was sent a link to a Goo...

Because of power tools like marketing automation, marketers are able to contribute to revenue in a very measurable way. Expectations are high because of this capability -- like salespeople, marketers are now accountable for making a direct revenue contribution to the top line. They are being asked to show exactly how that contribution has occurred and will occur In the future. ...

Membership in Google+, which was launched only about three weeks ago, is soaring Calculations by Comscore indicate the service had 20 million visitors in just 21 days....

Microsoft revealed its quarterly earnings Thursday, and despite stalled sales of Windows, strong Xbox 360 and Kinect numbers boosted the company's to revenue 8 percent higher than the same period last year, at US$17.37 billion Operating and net incomes also increased by 4 and 30 percent, respectively, on the year, at $6.17 billion and $5.87 billion...

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote that Google+ could be the most significant product release in the history of social media. That declaration was based on my belief that this platform represents Google's best -- and perhaps last -- chance to offer Facebook any competition in the social networking arena That may have seemed like hyperbole at the time.

Oracle has released version 19 of its Oracle CRM On Demand application, providing upgrades that range from small, incremental changes to significant innovations. These include new cloud extensibility and mobile options; more access for sales reps via a new connected smartphone application that allows them to access and update information remotely;...

Less than a month after Mozilla evangelist Aza Dotzler blew off enterprise users of the company's Firefox Web browser, triggering an avalanche of angry responses, the Mozilla Foundation is seeking to make nice with corporate America The Foundation has announced that it's re-establishing the Mozilla Enterprise User Working Group (MEWG)....

Eyebrows -- those highly mobile facial features that always get raised when people are astonished -- got a good workout Tuesday at Apple's quarterly earnings call Apple COO Tim Cook surprised analysts by stating that some customers are spending their money on iPads instead of new Macs....

Days after the FBI arrested a number of alleged members of the hacking group Anonymous, the hackers struck again. They claim to have stolen a gigabyte of information from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization The group alerted the world to its latest activities via a series of tweets, including one with a link to a PDF file as evidence it had the ...

A team of scientists has achieved what might prove to be a breakthrough in quantum computing The group has managed to partially suppress quantum decoherence, one of the major obstacles to quantum computing, by using crystalline molecular magnets....

AT&T collected US$31.5 billion in revenue and delivered $3.59 billion -- 60 cents per share -- in profit, according to Thursday's second quarter earnings report. Profits were down 10 percent from last year's second quarter profit of $4 billion. Revenue rose 2.2 percent over last year. The performance was in line with forecasts Total wireless s...

AT&T collected US$31.5 billion in revenue and delivered $3.59 billion -- 60 cents per share -- in profit, according to Thursday's second quarter earnings report. Profits were down 10 percent from last year's second quarter profit of $4 billion. Revenue rose 2.2 percent over last year. The performance was in line with forecasts Total wireless s...

In a continuing effort to streamline product development, Google announced Wednesday the company will be shutting down its Google Labs project The Google Labs initiative was the tech giant's testing facility, where employees and engineers were given creative freedom to tinker with experimental projects that perhaps didn't necessarily fall within th...

Twenty-five years ago, I was in the business of auditing phone bills for many companies and saving them hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. Back then, that was a lot of money. I felt like Santa Claus and had lots of happy clients. Today, the utility and phone bill auditing business is even more important, but it's completely different. It can...