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The breach of Sony's PlayStation Network will cost the company at least US$171 million according to the company's preliminary financial forecast released on Monday -- the latest predictions for its fiscal year ending March 2012. The total figure will likely grow. . . and grow. Sony has racked up expenses for the repair and resurrection of PSN, Qri...

Microsoft on Tuesday unveiled Mango, an upcoming version of its Windows Phone 7 mobile OS Mango will deliver more than 500 new features, focusing around communications, apps and the Internet, Microsoft said....

Facebook hopes to one day be permitted to draw young children into the Facebook fold. CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently suggested altering legal restrictions that prevent children younger than 13 from signing up for a Facebook account....

Federal chief information officers appear to be heeding the unofficial Missouri state slogan: "I'm from Missouri -- Show Me." In a challenging time for procurement of IT systems and services, CIOs are trying to adopt improved methods for acquiring and managing information resources. In a recent survey of CIOs, federal officials charged with IT ope...

Salesforce.com is participating in a social media project with Toyota Motor, in what could launch the CRM company into an entirely new industry -- telematics. Or not. The agreement between Salesforce.com and Toyota to collaborate on this offering, called "Toyota Friend," is still very much in its early days, Robin Daniels, director of product mar...

Much has been claimed by Google ever since the infant days of its Android mobile operating system. The claim it has seemed to champion the most is that its platform is open by nature. One of the biggest complaints about iOS has been Apple's lockdown policy, so naturally, Google would want to make its platform's openness a main selling point. Latel...

Reports indicate Amazon may be poised to surge into the tablet PC market In an interview with Consumer Reports, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos uttered what might be construed as a hint about the company's plans....

Nine months after Barnes & Noble put itself up for auction, Liberty Media made a bid for the retail bookstore chain John Malone's Liberty Media offered US$17 per share for a 70 percent stake in the company, making the potential deal worth over $1 billion....

Nine months after Barnes & Noble put itself up for auction, Liberty Media made a bid for the retail bookstore chain John Malone's Liberty Media offered US$17 per share for a 70 percent stake in the company, making the potential deal worth over $1 billion....

Mobile-connected devices allow users to browse where desktop computers can't go, thus increasing the amount of online connectivity for many consumers. This could make a major difference in how marketers choose to reach consumers online A Nielson report released last week details just how customers use their tablets, smartphone and e-readers -- info...

The Mozilla Foundation launched a beta version of its fifth edition of the Firefox Web browser Monday -- just eight weeks after it rolled out Firefox 4 This includes a mobile version for Android as well as versions for Windows, Mac and Linux desktops....

AT&T Labs has demonstrated download speeds of nearly 29 Mbps (megabits per second) on an experimental LTE network in Plano, Texas, according to a report in GigaOm Upload speeds reportedly hit 10.4 Mbps in the demo....

It's long been discussed that marketing and sales need to "get along." But the reality is that marketing and sales actually need to work smoothly together along a defined lead management process. The lack of this cooperation costs companies more than wasted leads. It increases sales costs and reduces revenue growth. I'm not suggesting that sales a...

The Intel-Apple war has been on a break ever since Intel won and Apple moved its PCs to x86. However, Apple has clearly been itching for a rematch with the iPad, and it has been chewing up PC market share at an impressive rate while Intel's been caught napping. Well, Intel has promised 10, count them, 10 new iPad butt-kicking tablets at Compute...

Verizon Wireless is planning to cancel its unlimited data offering for smartphones this summer, replacing it with tiered packages including a family plan, according to comments made by CFO Fran Shammo at the Reuters Global Technology Summit. It will be a blow to some heavy users accustomed to the flat fee of US$30 -- but not too great a shock, as ...

LinkedIn's doubled stock price after its IPO on Thursday has many wondering if this could be the start of another tech bubble. LinkedIn initially offered 7.84 million shares at US$45 each. Within minutes, the shares doubled in price and eventually peaked at $122.70 each. The price lingered around $100 on Friday. LinkedIn reportedly has the highest...

Amazon has reached a momentum milestone: Its customers are purchasing more Kindle books than print books -- hardcover and paperback combined. This day was clearly coming. In July 2010, Kindle book sales surpassed hardcover sales. By December of that year, Kindle books overtook paperback books, becoming the most popular format on Amazon. The compa...

The Android platform tops the list in sales of smartphone operating systems for the first quarter of 2011, according to a report by market researcher Gartner Total smartphone sales accounted for 23.6 percent of global handset units overall, and various phones sporting Google's Android OS took 36 percent of that market. They sold more than 36.3 mill...

With more than 600 million members and counting, Facebook is the world's largest social networking community. Lately, however, a lot of people have concluded that this community is too large for their tastes That has created an opportunity for a number of startups that are promising users a much more meaningful -- or at the very least more private ...

Aplicor rolled out Cloud Suite 7 last month -- the latest update to its flagship suite -- with some significant changes. One, the user interface, backed by new Microsoft Silverlight technology, is now completely customizable depending on the end-user's needs. ...