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A team of scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has developed what it describes as the first practical artificial leaf The device, made from silicon, electronics and catalysts, is the same size and shape as a playing card, but thinner....

Google is working to let Android users make purchases using their mobile devices at retail points of sale, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. The company is said to be collaborating with MasterCard, Citigroup and VeriFone on the system, which would be based on near-field communications technology, according to the Journal's anonymous sources.

Asus on Friday announced the first shipments of its Eee Pad Transformer, which are directed to Taiwan ...

Businesses are constantly searching for ways to reduce costs and improve revenues. Mobile technologies can provide incredible value because they offer immediate business interactions from almost anywhere.

Over the past few years, we have seen a seismic shift in the relationship between sellers and consumers, with the power shifting to the consumer. Customers have always wanted exactly what they want, when they want it, at a great price. With today's technology, however, they have near total control over business. They can make or break a seller'...

Last week, Oracle FUD-bombed the Itanium processor. Like Oracle's own SPARC chip and PowerPC at one time, Itanium was supposed to be the future for most everything -- but all of these chips ended up on the largest and most fault-tolerant systems each company supports. Announcing the death of any one of them puts question marks on the class -- a...

Those of us who have been around the IT block a few times have witnessed remarkable changes in hardware and software capabilities. The big ones are fairly obvious in hindsight: from mainframes to minicomputers in the 1960s; from minis to PCs in the 1980s; and from dumb terminals to client-server technology in the 1990s. For some of us, these shi...

What is the temperature of the sun? What is free will? Who's in charge here, anyway? These questions and more -- any question one could possibly imagine, really -- are what Facebook's Questions feature is for. The social network updated Questions Thursday, throwing the general inquiry forum open to the public....

Not so fast, AT&T. A Federal Communications Commission (FCC) official has addressed the challenges that AT&T faces in pursuing its US$39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile. Both FCC and Department of Justice (DOJ) regulators will have to approve of the merger first, and the transaction will not get a rubber stamp, an FCC official told The Wall Street Journal.

Not so fast, AT&T. A Federal Communications Commission (FCC) official has addressed the challenges that AT&T faces in pursuing its US$39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile. Both FCC and Department of Justice (DOJ) regulators will have to approve of the merger first, and the transaction will not get a rubber stamp, an FCC official told The Wall Street Journal.

Not so fast, AT&T. A Federal Communications Commission (FCC) official has addressed the challenges that AT&T faces in pursuing its US$39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile. Both FCC and Department of Justice (DOJ) regulators will have to approve of the merger first, and the transaction will not get a rubber stamp, an FCC official told The Wall Street Journal.

I chuckled when I first heard of AT&T's plan to buy T-Mobile. Just days before, I had written that AT&T's movement toward phasing out unlimited data plans for the iPhone and its broadband Internet offerings was a sign that the telecommunications services that have become such an integral part of our daily lives were about to get a lot more expensive...

I chuckled when I first heard of AT&T's plan to buy T-Mobile. Just days before, I had written that AT&T's movement toward phasing out unlimited data plans for the iPhone and its broadband Internet offerings was a sign that the telecommunications services that have become such an integral part of our daily lives were about to get a lot more expensive...

I chuckled when I first heard of AT&T's plan to buy T-Mobile. Just days before, I had written that AT&T's movement toward phasing out unlimited data plans for the iPhone and its broadband Internet offerings was a sign that the telecommunications services that have become such an integral part of our daily lives were about to get a lot more expensive...

With the continued emergence of new technology and channels including social media, mobile, avatars and more, the relationship between brands and their customers and prospects has been changed forever. It's interesting to consider the role of technology in these increasingly dynamic relationships. For some, it's been an inhibitor; for others, a great catalyst...

Red Hat has by all measures hit the big time, providing validation of the open source business model that even the harshest critics will have a hard time brushing aside. In its fourth quarter, Red Hat's revenue reached US$245 million, up 25 percent from last year. The Linux distribution vendor's fourth quarter subscription revenue was $209 millio...

There has been much wailing and gnashing of teeth among vendors of mobile devices and computers since Apple launched the first iPad in 2010 Competitors frantically began announcing plans to bring out their own tablets, most of them running on Google's Android operating system....

Oracle threw a punch that left HP's knees wobbling with the announcement that it's going to stop developing software to run on Intel's Itanium processor family Intel's future roadmap focuses on x86 processors, Oracle explained....

Have you taken a look at prepaid wireless lately? I hadn't, since there is always so much noise to follow in the postpaid world and prepaid is relatively quiet, but prepaid is actually looking better and better over the last few years. prepaid is becoming a mainstream part of the mix you should consider. In fact, it is now even better than traditi...

As hard as it may be for CRM veterans to accept, there are still a great many businesses out there who don't have an application to track the customer and to feed data to sales, marketing and service. These businesses -- mostly small -- are not in the position to afford an employee designated as the CRM decision-maker or implementer; like the other activities in these businesses, customer relationship management is just one of a number of tasks being juggled by an all-too-small group of employees...