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Microsoft's search engine, Bing, launched a new daily deals aggregator on Thursday. The service, called "Bing deals," compiles offers from Groupon, LivingSocial, Restaurant.com and more through a partnership with The DealMap, another daily deal aggregator. Bing deals is able to sort by location based on the user's mobile device, allowing people to...

A second high-profile failure in two days has helped make a bona-fide rough week for NASA. ...

President Barack Obama made an overture to the business community, emphasizing the mutual benefits that come with a truly effective partnership between government and business, in a speech to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce last month Following up with a practical initiative, the White House has directed federal agencies to do a much better job of eng...

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has taken the first steps that could eventually rework -- perhaps significantly -- two programs that provide low-income residents with subsidies for their telephone service. How those subsidies and services might look when all is said and done is unclear. What the FCC is proposing touches upon many topics...

With Apple revealing that the second generation of its popular tablet computer-- aka the iPad2 -- will be available for purchase next week, it's a good time to think about mobile devices in general: how they fit into our lives now, and how they may ultimately change our lives in the future Of course, it's impossible to predict exactly what the futu...

Adobe recently introduced version 5.4 of its Web Experience Management application, a collection of content and campaign management tools with mobile, social media and multichannel capabilities. It also offers tighter integration with Adobe Online Marketing Suite. The suite is based on the CQ5 content management system Adobe acquired from Day last year.

In what could potentially be a huge win for Android, Swedish automaker Saab has selected the operating system as the basis of its IQon in-vehicle infotainment system ...

Late last month, Google deployed a new algorithm intended to improve the quality of its search results, and as some critics feared, the results have in several cases hurt legitimate websites The algorithm was meant to clamp down on website owners gaming the system to raise their standings in search results.

A U.S. Air Force space vehicle called the "X-37B" that caused "conniptions among Chinese space bloggers" during its first mission last year, according to Heritage Foundation Chinese political and security affairs research fellow Dean Cheng, is being prepared for its second mission launch on Friday. What that mission will entail, however, remains ...

Word on the street about Twitter in recent weeks has pointed to a company looking for new dollars. The latest buzz: It wants to sell out to Facebook or Google; or JP Morgan is about to make a significant investment. Cofounder Biz Stone has been dispelling those rumors, but it's possible, of course, that Twitter is deliberately fanning the flames t...

A recent study that I just read shows that the startup success rate over a period of 10 years is about 30 percent. This obviously means that about 70 percent of startups are out of business after a 10-year period! There is no doubt that the failure rate of startups is stunning and, in my opinion, will continue to be so into the foreseeable future.

Now is the winter of our disconnect Made glorious summer by this son of UC...

In this column, you will find answers to how Nokia and Microsoft can succeed in the smartphone marketplace, and even how RIM can be saved. First I'll explore the current problem, then offer my solution. Through the late 1990s Motorola led. It missed the change from analog to digital, though, and over the last decade, Nokia grew to become the No. 1...

One of the goals often cited for implementing CRM is an improvement in customer loyalty. That sounds like a logical objective, and knowing more about your customers and the history of your interactions with them certainly helps you understand how to keep them coming back Still, there's a long way from the starting point to the ending point in the l...

Faulty seals are NASA nemeses, bringing down the Space Shuttle Challenger in 1986, delaying the Shuttle Discovery's launch late last year, and now hampering the space walking abilities of Shuttle Discovery astronaut Steve Bowen, whose space suit experienced a minor leak just before he set out to circumnavigate the International Space Station (ISS) Wednesday...

Google removed a slew of apps containing malware from the Android Market on Tuesday. At least 21 of the tainted apps appear to have come from publisher called "Myournet," which copied apps developed by others and modified them to include a Trojan horse before re-uploading them, according to an Android Police blog post by Aaron Gingrich.

SAP has introduced a new on-demand application for its CRM base. Unlike its earlier attempts at this model, this product is the first of many that are being developed strictly to be used in a Software as a Service environment. The application, SAP Sales OnDemand, is built on the SAP Business ByDesign platform. Other offerings in the works include...

Aptly named Tobii Technology -- spelled with not one, but two "i's" -- unveiled the world's first eye-controlled laptop at CeBIT Tuesday Developed with computer manufacturer Lenovo, the laptop uses Tobii's eye-tracking technology to enhance interaction at a glance. Eyeing points on the screen releases information from icons and gadgets, zooms pic...

Technology leaders in the White House have promoted greater use of cloud technology at the federal level almost from the start of the Obama presidency. The administration issued its strongest backing yet for cloud technology with last month's release of the "Federal Cloud Computing Strategy." Officials are using the strategy not only to pull togeth...

There's a great Churchill quote, "Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing ... after they have exhausted all other possibilities," which I think applies to our long sojourn in the valley of social networking. Social networking is important and will be a major part of our future, but I can't help but think that the way we are appro...