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Researchers at the University of Illinois claim to have made a breakthrough in phase-change materials (PCM) technology that could lengthen battery life by up to two orders of magnitude, or 100 times The team, led by Professor Eric Pop, used carbon nanotube electrodes, it stated in a paper published in Science Magazine....

Sage offers companies a choice of CRM options for sales automation, including Sage ACT, Sage CRM, and SalesLogix. The company currently has about 3.6 million users and serves about 80,000 businesses "Sage has a portfolio of CRM solutions," Joe Bergera, executive vice president and general manager of Sage, told CRM Buyer. "We have mobile solutions f...

I'm writing this before the iPad release last week, so you now know what I don't -- whether it met expectations. I imagine Apple sold out, but things aren't looking so rosy at the moment, and I wonder if it will sustain the kind of growth the iPad 1 did I remain concerned that no other Tablet has shown anywhere near the success of the iPad and that...

More and more, we are seeing tablets and smartphones becoming integral to user access. Coupled with the ever-increasing burden of managing or even seeking to lower storage costs, this has become a major challenge for IT departments. Public cloud storage -- also known as "Storage as a Service" -- makes a compelling case for companies looking to est...

From the 39th floor of a new office building in downtown Tokyo, Appirio cloud computing's director of Japanese operations Jason Park shared with TechNewsWorld his harrowing, moment-by-moment account of Friday's 8.9 magnitude earthquake, a mere 150 miles away from the temblor epicenter. Park and colleagues "saw other high-rise offices and apartme...

An 8.9 Richter Scale-magnitude earthquake that hit Japan Friday has technology experts weighing in on the temblor's possible long- and short-term effects on technology in its many incarnations -- from mobile, social networks and cloud computing to WiFi, mainframes and security. Their analysis is cautious; their predictions reasonably optimistic.

Addressable Ads on TV Worse Than Being Stalked by Cookies "Convergence" is a popular term in information technology. It generally refers to the meshing of separate technology platforms -- telephones, computers and televisions, for instance -- to give users multiple options for accessing information Convergence is what allows us get some of the same...

When the Software as a Service (SaaS) idea emerged from the embers of the failed Application Service Provider (ASP) model of the past, pioneers of the new generation of software solutions pointed to its multitenant architecture as the critical differentiator that would make it more scalable, economical and successful than its predecessor Leaving as...

It was only a matter of time before Mellmo, developer of the Roambi ES3 mobile business intelligence application, got around to integrating it with SAS BI. ...

More than 70 percent of mobile applications containing open source code fail to comply with basic open source license requirements, OpenLogic claims The company scanned compiled binaries and source code where available for the top paid and free Android and iOS apps in the business and consumer sectors....

The turmoil surrounding Microsoft's efforts in the mobile market last year and the spectacularly rapid changes in this sector has raised concern about the company's hopes of ever catching up to the competition Product miscues and a loss of high-profile personnel have contributed to the perception. Robbie Bach, who headed Microsoft's entertainment d...

Search giant Google released its latest Chrome browser Thursday with less emphasis on security, instead touting the new version's increased speed and JavaScript performance. "With today's stable release, even your most complex Web apps will run more quickly and responsively in the browser," Google software engineer Tim Steele posted on the company...

The House Energy and Commerce Communications and Technology Subcommittee approved a joint resolution to overturn the Federal Communication Commission's Net neutrality rules on Wednesday. The measure, which passed in a 15-8 vote, still needs to clear the full committee before moving to the House for consideration.

The explosion of e-commerce has exposed consumers to an unprecedented level of risk regarding personal privacy. Businesses, government agencies and consumer groups agree that privacy protection needs to be drastically improved However, there is a tug-of-war brewing over how to accomplish that goal -- whether protecting Internet privacy should be a ...

mHealth is an exciting new industry that blends healthcare and wireless. In the next couple of weeks, I will be meeting with many people representing companies and new ideas in the mHealth industry at the annual CTIA show in Orlando. Some of these are established large companies, while others are small and spunky startups, but all have some very hot ideas and technologies they want to talk about.

Around the time the Telecommunications Act of 1996 was passed and signed into law, I was a reporter covering that area of technology. Specifically, I was writing about service, measurement, data management and the software that made all that possible for telecommunications companies. Little did I realize it, but this was a great laboratory to get ...

It used to be that if you wanted a work of art, you either had to get an original or settle for a less-than-perfect reproduction. Now, however, digital technologies, new printing processes, and the online world have converged to create a whole new world of collectible and affordable prints and reproductions ArtWeLove.com, for instance, specializes ...

Opera Software has opened the Opera Mobile Store -- a device-agnostic app store that offers a catalog of applications for phones based on the Android, BlackBerry, Symbian and soon-to-be-defunct Windows Mobile operating systems. Also available are Java-based apps for feature phones as well as some older Palm apps, by virtue of the fact that an earl...

Android 3.0, aka "Honeycomb," took center stage at Wednesday's AnDevCon keynote address, and LinuxInsider joined about 200 Android developers in a small room at the Marriott Hotel in San Mateo, Calif., to listen in Presenters Chet Haase and Romain Guy of Google explained some things about the Honeycomb operating system and demoed some of its featur...

Mobile is getting grounded, HP CEO Leo Apotheker has announced. In 2012, HP will include the mobile operating system it purchased with Palm in 2009, webOS, on every PC it ships, along with the latest version of stationary computing standard Microsoft Windows....