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The online music storage and streaming field is heating up, with Amazon having launched its own service recently and Apple reportedly readying its own. Recently Google put out its own cloud music service, Google Music, though it didn't arrive without its share of rough spots Currently, users can upload their music collections to the service in orde...

Looks like Facebook wanted to mount a dirty tricks campaign against Google, but so far all the mud is clinging to the social network and its PR goons. Burson-Marsteller was hired to run a negative campaign against Google's Social Circle, akaSocial Search, according to reports circulating in the blogosphere. Facebook confirmed it hired the PR pro...

Say you're a real estate agent, and you want to show a new listing to your client. You don't want to just email a link to information about the house, however; you want to personalize it somehow. Like, perhaps, with a video of yourself describing and selling the good points of that property to your potential buyer Sound complicated? With video ema...

LightSquared sounds like a great idea. The company sees a growing need and has a plan. It plans on building a network and offering extra capacity to wireless carriers for wireless data usage. Wireless carriers that need wireless data capacity can just partner with this company and get the connectivity they need. Sounds good so far. Think about AT&...

"What's my motivation?" Sounds like a corny question an overwrought actor might pose to a director on the boards or in front of a camera. But we all have motivations -- and it's smart to understand your own and those of your vendor when it comes to CRM No one wakes up one morning and decides, "What my business really needs is a CRM solution." It's ...

Google revealed on Wednesday a Chrome OS-based notebook, a device it's been talking about for several months Called "Chromebooks," the laptops will initially be available from Samsung and Acer June 15 through Amazon and Best Buy....

You may think you know the shortest, quickest route to work, but wait till Google get its hands on your steering wheel. Smart technology may save you gas you didn't even know you were wasting ...

Microsoft's announcement Tuesday of its purchase of Skype for US$8.5 billion stunned industry watchers, who had seen Facebook, Google and perhaps Cisco sniff around the VoIP giant in recent weeks The impact of that deal, if it gets the thumbs-up from regulators, will reverberate through the online services industry....

No doubt you've heard the term "Net neutrality." Proponents and opponents have much to say on this topic. However, many Internet users don't even know what it means, or how it will affect them. What is Net neutrality?...

Yesterday Zuora, the billing and payment solution company for subscription businesses, did a smart thing, at least I think so. At NetSuite's user meeting, SuiteWorld, Zuora chief Tien Tzuo announced that his trademark product is now pre-integrated with NetSuite's financials. But that wasn't what's smart, only the thing that enabled the thing that is smart...

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Microsoft has announced that it would hold a VIP preview of the next major release of its Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system May 24 in New York City This release is expected to be the one that's been discussed under the code name "Mango."

In "Glee" parlance, it looks like the football coach just sat down at the cool kids' lunch table. Microsoft announced on Tuesday that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Skype for US$8.5 billion in cash from an investor group led by Silver Lake. The agreement has been approved by both Microsoft and Skype's boards of directors.

Every now and then -- or possibly a great deal more often -- the FBI will plant a car-tracking device on someone's automobile to track their movements. How do we know this? Occasionally, these devices are found by the persons being monitored. Some incidents have found their way into the court system. And some have made their way into the media's h...

A key element in the shifting political winds in Washington is a call for less business regulation, especially from the conservative wing of the now ascendant Republican majority in the U.S. House of Representatives. But one leading Republican last week tossed that mantra aside and launched into a tirade of criticism of Internet enterprises and pr...

Rash assumption of leadership on the part of product managers creates an environment of uncertainty, and can result in the degradation of work ethic and productivity. Therefore, wise project managers will pay special attention to how they portray themselves and the manner in which they execute the tasks for which they are personally responsible. ...

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Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism released a report on Monday detailing how people navigate the digital news environment. Based upon an in-depth study of detailed audience statistics from the Nielsen Company, the study examines the 25 most popular news sites in the U.S. and focuses on four main facets: how users get to sites; how long they stay; how deeply they navigate sites; and where they go afterward...

The phrase "In the beginning was the Word" may soon take on a whole new meaning for cellphone users, if work being done by a researcher at South Korea's Sungkyunkwan University pans out The scientist, Sang-Woo Kim, has been working on converting sound into electricity....

You may not know it, unless a friend or relative has had treatment for breast cancer, but it is the little things that can kill you during recovery -- or at least make you very sick. Little things as in commercial brands of toothpaste or mouthwash. A patient undergoing chemotherapy must use medicinal versions of these products, which can be surpri...