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Whether you're a user or whether you purposely ducked the invitations to join, you've probably discovered that Google+ is all but inescapable as a topic of conversation. Responses run the gamut from rejection to an all-in embrace of Google's new social media platform; users are trying to figure out the best ways to use it, pundits are trying to fi...

The growing consumerization of IT, the rapid pace of change in technology, the rise of new variants of malware, and the hack attacks carried out by cybercommunities such as LulzSec and Anonymous are putting enterprise IT under tremendous pressure Users are increasingly bringing in their own devices for use in the enterprise, keeping IT on the hop....

Google is stepping up its efforts to improve computer security by adding warnings to users' search results when it suspects their systems might be compromised by a certain type of malware. Up to now, Google's security efforts have focused on the Chrome browser and the Android Market. These new alerts are not intended to be a comprehensive solutio...

Lenovo unveiled its first round of tablets on Wednesday: the IdeaPad K1 for consumers; the ThinkPad for business customers; and the Windows 7-powered IdeaPad P1 for home and office use The IdeaPad K1 and ThinkPad tablets are the first Lenovo mobile Internet devices to feature the Android 3.1, or Honeycomb, platform. The Android-powered tablets will...

Isis, a mobile commerce venture that includes the U.S.' largest wireless providers, announced Tuesday that Visa, MasterCard and American Express will be partnering with the organization The agreement makes Isis, a joint venture between AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile and supported by Discover at its start, the only mobile payment product that accepts al...

Let's face it, texting is ubiquitous. A constant stream of information comes and goes through our phones. Harnessing the power of this medium to reach customers is the goal of a whole new breed of mobile marketers "If you want to reach everyone, text messaging is the only way to do that," Josh Malin, marketing director with Ez Texting, explained to...

The final voyage of NASA's space shuttle program represents the biggest collapse of a national exploration program since China turned inward after the remarkable 15th century voyages of Chinese Admiral Zheng He. The space shuttle, known formally as the "Space Transportation System" (STS), descended from the original Kennedy-era response to the So...

We tend to think of social media as a property of CRM, and it is, but the story hardly stops there. Social media is changing the world beyond CRM too, and that's what makes it valuable. If being social were strictly about commerce, it might not be worth writing about. ...

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For years, security vendors have warned users to be careful about unsolicited emails. Clicking on embedded links in these emails, they say, could be dangerous, as could opening attachments that come with them That includes emails purporting to be from couriers such as DHL and UPS, which could in fact come from malicious hackers and have attachments...

A Swedish hospital recently announced that a cancer patient was saved after doctors grew him a new windpipe in the lab using a synthetic structure and the man's own stem cells. That might have sounded like science fiction just a few years ago, but today it is landmark news. Regenerative medicine has the ability to usher in radically longer and healthier lives, yet few are considering the implications...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has initiated a nationwide sweep targeting the hacking group "Anonymous." Armed with some 30 to 40 subpoenas, the FBI raided homes in New York, New Jersey, California and Florida, arresting at least 16 suspects, according to FoxNews, which first reported the story. "Yes, a number of law enforcement actions have ...

LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner voiced his opinion on Google+ on Monday, saying there just isn't enough room for the search giant's foray into social media. Weiner made his remarks at an event at the Churchill Club in San Jose, Calif., sharing the stage with AllThingsD's Kara Swisher and William Morris agent Ari Emanuel Swisher reportedly asked the Linke...

Less than a month after the hacker group LulzSec announced it was disbanding, it has apparently made a comeback with a massive attack on the websites of embattled media mogul Rupert Murdoch and his News Corp. empire LulzSec -- or at least a group using that name -- first redirected visitors of the Sun newspaper, a News Corp. publication, to the New...

The world's largest online search engine recently revealed its Google News Badge feature, a system through which readers can earn virtual badges based on their search and reading histories in the U.S. version of Google News. Someone searching for all the latest news on the NFL lockouts, for example, could earn a football badge. A tech analyst cons...

The latest e-business report from ACSI, The American Customer Satisfaction Index, has some bad news for Facebook -- and by extension, yet more good news for Google. The survey, produced in partnership with customer experience analytics firm ForeSee Results, found that despite a small 3 percent jump in its score, Facebook ranks as the lowest-scorin...

It is extremely exciting to be in the middle of what is arguably the fastest-growing segment of the largest-growing market in the world right now -- the mobile application ecosystem While this segment has many components and even more underlying noise and confusion, it is possible to see some patterns emerging....

Federal agencies will be much more careful in how they spend taxpayer funds for information technology in the future. Proposed budget cuts and a new White House initiative designed to cut US$6 billion in professional services contracting underscore a significant change in IT procurement Agencies will not only be more parsimonious regarding how much...

Google Friday announced Android 3.2 and released updated software development kit (SDK) tools for the platform Android 3.2 is an incremental release that adds several new capabilities for both users and developers, the Internet giant said....

Let's face it: Social engineering -- attacking an organization through deception by "tricking" internal users into sharing inappropriate levels of access -- isn't a topic that comes up very much in most IT shops. This isn't because social engineering is ineffective or because organizations aren't susceptible to it. To the contrary: Although dire...