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User interfaces will not necessarily change the way we live -- the technology will. However, for technology to work and be embraced by new consumers and emerging populations around the world, user interface design is crucial; it enables people to access and use the advancements in technology. Without simple and intuitive interfaces, end-users are ...

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of the video game industry on Monday, striking down the California law forbidding the sale of violent games to minors. In its decision on Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association, the court says that the act does not comport with the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution The vote was 7-2 in favor of reje...

The hacker group LulzSec has apparently decided to shut down operations and sail off into the sunset Fellow hacker community Anonymous, with which LulzSec has teamed up, may take up where LulzSec left off....

Google announced Friday it will discontinue its Google Health service, a program launched three years ago to allow users to upload and store electronic health records in a central, online repository The service was designed to provide users with an online database where they could manage personal medical records from home, saving costs and adding e...

A recently published University of Exeter paper brings the possibility of achieving brain-like computing one step closer The paper, published in Advanced Materials, states the result of a study that demonstrated for the first time the ability to simultaneously perform information and storage tasks using phase-change materials (PCMs)....

LoopFuse has updated its marketing automation application with functionality that includes new integration for Web form hosting through the popular Wufoo, as well as more support for global users and tighter integration between the inbound marketing features and the CRM app. ...

OK, last week was a really interesting week. We had AMD basically divorcing itself from Intel's model after living under Intel's shadow from inception; we had Google repeating yet another of Microsoft's greatest mistakes; we had IBM repeat a famous political debate by basically saying Oracle wasn't an enterprise vendor anymore; and we had Harry Potter's author begin to kill off publishers and book stores. ...

The average American credit cardholder carries 3.5 credit cards, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston's 2010 Survey of Consumer Payment Choice. Today, consumers use credit cards to pay for more than just large-ticket items. Everything from household items and utilities to insurance premiums and student loans are tallying up charges on the average monthly statement, demonstrating the growing reliance of consumers on credit cards and the importance of protecting these numbers.

Google was notified by the Federal Trade Commission on Thursday that a broad formal investigation will be launched. Google respects the FTC's process, it said in a blog post, and will be working with the agency over the coming months. The FTC's Bureau of Competition will issue subpoenas to Google within the next few days, The Wall Street Journal r...

Hacker community LulzSec has revealed it's broken into the Arizona law enforcement agency's servers and released hundreds of sensitive documents on the Internet "We are targeting AZDPS [the Arizona Department of Public Safety] specifically because we are against SB1070 and the racial profiling anti-immigrant police state that is Arizona," LulzSec s...

Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz and company board members addressed investors Thursday at the company's annual shareholder meeting. Despite majority support for Bartz and other board members, a certain level of discontent was palpable among investors, and one particular shareholder called for an end to Bartz's tenure. A degree of discontent among some Yahoo...

There's no denying that social media is migrating from the consumer realm to the business arena. What can still be debated is how quickly this technology is making its way into the core of the enterprise, and becoming something more than marketing and sales tools Some people -- primarily analysts, vendors and media types -- contend social media alr...

Two events in the CRM industry this week are shining a spotlight on a broad and sometimes nebulously defined space. First, Oracle announced its agreement to acquire FatWire, a provider of Web experience management software. Second, Adobe rolled out its Digital Enterprise Platform for Customer Experience Management. Customer experience management, ...

The face of the Linux desktop is drastically evolving. While the Linux communities struggle to bring more business and home users to the Linux desktop, existing users face choices about adopting redesigned desktop shells or finding suitable replacements. The fallout might well be the start of a Great New Linux Schism The Linux desktop has always be...

Mozilla released Firefox 5 earlier this week, just three months after rolling out Firefox 4 and a month after it released version 5 in beta Version 5 has "more than 1,000 improvements," which include the "Do Not Track" privacy feature and support for the CSS Animations standard, among other things....

Electronic Arts could be on the verge of closing a deal to acquire casual game creator PopCap for a sum exceeding US$1 billion, according to a report in TechCrunch. The high price tag on the deal represents a big wager for EA -- the cost is 13 percent of the company's market cap. The move is a "hail mary" attempt by EA to break into social and mob...

Nokia CEO Stephen Elop Thursday showed off the company's first Windows Phone 7 device in what he described as a "secret" briefing to a room full of journalists The announcement comes hard on the heels of the company's Wednesday reveal of the N9, a new Nokia smartphone running the MeeGo mobile OS....

The European Commission released a new report this week on privacy and social networks. Neelie Kroes, EC vice president for the digital agenda, expressed concern that most social networking sites don't make younger users' profiles private by default "I am disappointed that most social networking sites are failing to ensure that minors' profiles ar...

One way or another, change is clearly coming for the online television website Hulu. Either it will be acquired by Yahoo, or it will put itself out on the market to be snapped up by another deep-pocketed company. Yahoo apparently has made an unsolicited offer for the company, according to news reports citing anonymous sources. However, this is no ...

It's beginning to look like 1999 all over again. Ten to 15 years ago, the IPO craze was amazing. As I said in many speeches, a great time was had by all. Everyone seemed to win -- workers, investors, executives, even customers. Over the years, these waves rise and fall, and a new wave is beginning to rise. This time, there are a few important diff...