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The email industry is under a prolonged and targeted attack. Going back almost a year now, service providers and their clients have been the focus of so-called spear-phishing (targeted phishing) and other intrusions that have resulted in large-scale direct and indirect data breaches. It's scary stuff, and the worst of it is far from over Largely...

Google has introduced a new tool to the social networking world using one of its strong suits: Gmail. In the next couple weeks, Google will debut a feature for Gmail called the "People Widget." The widget will appear to the right of messages and display information about contacts, including recent messages, shared documents, calendar events, statu...

PayPal and its parent eBay have filed a lawsuit against Google over mobile payments, in the wake of Google's announcement Thursday of its new e-wallet services The suit personally names two Google executives as defendants. It also names another 50 defendants as "John Does," meaning the plaintiff doesn't presently know their identities....

I have a love-hate relationship with social media. I love platforms like Twitter and LinkedIn that let me keep up with people I truly value as friends and colleagues, even as we move on to new stages in our lives I hate social media's potential for baring intimate details of your life with people you never really cared for, or never even met. That'...

DemandResults is getting set to release version 2.0 of its SEO for Salesforce.com app. This iteration builds on the premise of the first app, founder and CEO Howard Brown said, which was essentially a basic insertion of Google Analytics into the Salesforce.com platform. ...

Based on initial sales reports and some tablet market flip flops, the few Android tablets that have hit the shelves so far seem to have crashed and burned. Early sales figures indicate that no Android tab is coming close to being the much-awaited Apple iPad alternative. But will time heal all? Does the Android tablet just need the same growing time that consumers gave the iPad?...

Italian security researcher Rosario Valotta has discovered a new way for hackers to steal their victims' online credentials -- stealing the session cookies from whatever site a victim is visiting The stolen cookies can then be used to get victims' computers to download malware, forge clicks or send messages, according to Valotta's website....

Google officially unveiled its e-wallet Thursday in a presentation with its partners at an event in New York Google executives demonstrated making purchases and downloading e-coupons with the e-wallet through a Google Nexus S Android smartphone. They added that eventually consumers might even store their drivers' licenses in it....

Time to move over, Ballmer. Greenlight Capital President David Einhorn has reportedly called for Microsoft's CEO, Steve Ballmer, to step down. Einhorn spoke on the subject Wednesday at the Ira Sohn Investment Conference in New York City. Einhorn showed support for Microsoft in general, recommending the company's stock as a "buy" because the compan...

The wireless and wire line telecom industry is changing, again. Remember a decade ago, when we had long-distance companies? Then the long-distance giants were acquired by the baby bells. Next, the baby bells merged into three. Then the wireless industry merged its way down to a handful of giants. So what's next? We are watching the next wave of in...

I've written several CRM Buyer Guides in the last four years, and the buying process I recommend hasn't really changed much. Unlike people who leap into the technology right at the outset, I always advocate a period of self-assessment for the company -- in other words, a thorough internal examination of how a business works and what the employees in the business do...

Microsoft has rolled out app development tools for Mango, the Windows Phone 7 update about which the company released details earlier this week Registered developers can download the Mango Beta Windows Phone Developer Tools from AppHub, Casey McGee, marketing manager for Windows Phone, told TechNewsWorld....

After much rumor and speculation, Twitter and TweetDeck announced what many had already concluded: the popular third-party client has been acquired by Twitter. The terms of the deal were undisclosed but various news reports put it between US$40 million and $50 million Of perhaps greater interest, at least to its users, are Twitter's plans for Tweet...

Google will unveil a mobile payment service on Thursday in New York, according to a recent Bloomberg report This will be available on Android smartphones from Sprint Nextel....

Social media game maker Zynga is reading itself to file for an initial public offering (IPO), according to a report in All Things Digital. The filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission could come as soon as this week, or next week at the latest, according to the report's sources. The rumor mill is running hot for social media IPOs, especially since LinkedIn's stock price more than doubled with its explosive IPO on May 19...

Barnes & Noble has introduced its new Nook -- a more elementary, less expensive black and white WiFi e-reader device geared toward a simpler market and hoping to compete in the growing e-reader field ...

Square, a startup founded by Twitter alum Jack Dorsey, has rolled out revamped versions of its iPhone/iPad and Android apps. The company is positioning the offering as an alternative to NFC (near field communication) technology, the next-generation standard -- once it is finally settled -- for mobile contactless payments.

Most of the people I talk to think of a business model as the way a company makes money. We certainly agree on that. One's business model can encompass numerous things, like product mix, marketing and sales plan, how you sell -- direct, channel, retail -- and lots more. One thing that usually misses inclusion, at least where SaaS companies are concerned, is the cloud model, which I consider as important as the sales and marketing piece...

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Few ideas convey the mystery and awe-inspiring nature of space better than the black hole Dark, vast and little understood, black holes in many ways represent all that we still don't know about the universe. With their seemingly infinite emptiness and general unexplorability, they're also more than a little terrifying....