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Live streaming of CNN's and HLN's 24-hour television networks became available on CNN.com, the CNN App for iPad, and the CNN App for iPhone and iPod touch on Monday -- but only to a limited audience. CNN's rollout of its version of TV Everywhere for consumers reaches AT&T, Comcast, Cox, DISH Network, Suddenlink and Verizon subscribers. Those who a...

Amazon.com on Monday announced an e-textbook program for its line of e-reader devices: Kindle Textbook Rentals This will encompass tens of thousands of textbooks for the 2011 school year from leading publishers like John Wiley & Sons and Elsevier, the online retail giant said.

Weeks after Google launched Google+, rumors have begun making the rounds that Microsoft is working on its own social networking platform The chatter started with an image posted on the Web. It appeared to depict a landing page for a service called "Tulalip." A message on the page read "With Tulalip, you can find what you need and share what you kno...

What would you do if 100 people visited your website tomorrow and each wanted a different variety of your company's solution? Would you take that information and develop 100 new and unique brochures? No, that would be cost- and time-prohibitive. Now imagine that you can track where website visitors originate, track their clicks through your site, ...

This last week was filled with events that made me wonder how many of our leaders had sent their brains to wacky land. On the political front, the U.S. president, our president, threatened financial default and elderly folks on fixed social security incomes in order to get the U.S. credit limit raised. Threatening old defenseless folks always works so very well, and the collapse of the U.S. credit rating would do wonders (he says sarcastically) for the U.S. recovery. ...

Tablet commerce may be the new kid on the block when it comes to online retail, but as a recent Forrester research poll indicates, many online retailers are seeing that half of their mobile commerce transactions come from tablet devices. Moreover, 7.6 percent of the U.S. population will be tablet users by the end of 2012, according to eMarketer e...

By most measures, the last two weeks have been a nonstop love fest for Google, beginning with the immediate acceptance of Google+ and culminating with stellar earnings on Thursday and an impressive performance by CEO Larry Page during the earnings call. Briefly, Google's second quarter revenues clocked in at a 32 percent increase compared with th...

The United States Department of Defense (DoD) unveiled its long-awaited cyberstrategy Friday Speaking at the National Defense University, Deputy Secretary of Defense William Lynn outlined the DoD's Strategy for Operating in Cyberspace....

The way search engines like Google make it almost effortless to find the answers to any question with a few taps of the fingertips could be changing the way our memory works, according to a study published recently in the research journal Science The report, co-authored by Betsy Sparrow, an assistant professor in the department of psychology at Col...

This week, I got emails announcing changes to two online services I subscribe to. I just sort of shrugged at one message, though it did represent a significant change in the service's business model. The second email outlined a major change as well, but my reaction to it was much stronger. It ticked me off....

Aprimo has added integrated text messaging functionality to its Aprimo Marketing Studio On Demand application via a new mobile module. ...

Sometimes things that are supposedly free for the taking -- such as open source software -- can ultimately cost a wad of dough from the corporate coffers. That could well be the lesson Google learns from a lawsuit Oracle filed last year alleging that Google violated its intellectual property as well as infringed on its copyright for using a variation of Java...

Mounting public anger over the News of the World (NOTW) newspaper's alleged practice of hacking into voice mail boxes of people targeted as subjects for stories has led to the arrests of eight people by the British police Alleged victims of their hacking in the UK included the royal family, former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, and a teen-age...

Android devices have once again been hit by a new form of malware. This time the culprit is a mobile variant of the Zeus banking Trojan that steals banking passwords Zeus and another malware package, SpyEye, "are the most malicious threats to financial institutions and their customers," Mickey Boodaei, CEO of Trusteer, told TechNewsWorld....

Spotify, a popular European streaming music provider, launched in the U.S. on Thursday. The music site is starting off its U.S. venture with an invitation-only beta that includes free, unlimited and premium plans. Spotify was first launched in Sweden in 2008 and currently boasts 1.6 million paying users and more than 10 million users total. Spotif...

Amazon could be the next retailer to jump into the tablet marketplace in time for the holiday season, according to information from The Wall Street Journal. The online retail giant could be set to release its tablet by October, in addition to two new Kindle e-reader models....

Something interesting is happening at Sage, but it looks like the company isn't ready to tell its whole story. That's a challenge if you happen to be hosting a combined partner and user group meeting, which Sage did this week in Washington, D.C. The company's annual get-together had its share of announcements and keynotes, and the new CEO, Pascal Houillon, did a good job of introducing himself to the assembled masses. He made several announcements too, but I think some of the importance of Sage Summit happened between the lines...

Now that CenturyLink has completed its merger with Qwest, what is next for the company and for the marketplace? The media, investors, competitors and others are starting to ask me on a regular basis whether this will be successful. In my Pick of the Week, I want to say thank you for a great first year writing this column....

Whenever I talk about CRM to people who aren't CRM experts, I find the discussion devolving into an examination of the real common denominator in all of this: the human aspects of doing business. The "R" of relationships resonates far more strongly with people than the "M" in management, and for good reason. It's a similar thing for social CRM. Wh...

Search History: Google and Germany, Part 2 Google's privacy-conscious initiatives are often born in Germany. Heeding the objections to Street View, which rained down from national authorities and wary Germans, Google introduced an opt-out feature that allowed people to officially request that their homes be blurred out of the Street View -- nearly ...