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Many of the world's largest tech companies were started by Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, but that doesn't mean that the startup mecca of the world will remain dominant forever. Instead, some argue that Silicon Valley stands in danger of losing its competitive edge to entrepreneurs in other parts of the world. Silicon Valley "has become pampered,...

E-commerce is growing, but it's no longer on fire. Forrester Research released two new forecast reports on Monday. The reports project online retail in the U.S. and Europe will grow at a rate of 10 percent per year from 2010 to 2015. The report expects 2015 online retail to reach US$279 billion in the U.S. and 134 billion euros in Europe. The forecasts are comprised of business-to-consumer sales without travel and financial services. The European forecast includes 17 Western European countries and a summary by category of each of their markets...

Google says it has restored email access to some Gmail users who lost it over the weekend "We're still working fast and furious to restore account access," Google spokesperson Jessica Kositz told TechNewsWorld....

Despite the national effort to cut government spending, expenditures for information technology at the federal level will actually go up in fiscal 2012 compared with 2011. That's good news for vendors Federal agencies will spend about US$79.5 billion on information technology in fiscal 2012, which begins Oct. 1, according to the Obama administratio...

In the Aberdeen benchmark report "Sales Intelligence: Preparing for Smarter Selling" (February, 2010), the research among 528 end-user sales organizations revealed that the most frequently used delivery models for sales intelligence were limited to remarkably traditional, if not predictable, applications: email, search engines, CRM/SFA tools and spreadsheets.

How many out there use Linux? I bet if I asked 100 people, less than 10 percent would say yes. To be fair, people think in terms of computers, laptops, netbooks, and desktops, and that demographic is 90 percent Windows, 90 percent Microsoft-centric. But computers and OSes that power them permeate all aspects of our lives today While people mostly d...

In the wake of the highly publicized payment card security breaches of the past few years, point-to-point encryption (P2PE) has emerged as a frontrunner in the search for a stronger defense against data compromise. The technology is also being touted as a solution to limit the scope -- and therefore the expense -- of complying with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS).

Hundreds of thousands of Gmail users woke up Monday to find their emails had vanished and they had lost their contacts Initial estimates put the number of people affected at between 150,000 and 500,000....

Rob Glaser -- founder, chair and former CEO of RealNetworks -- hopes all eyes will soon be on an app developed by his new company,SocialEyes, which is designed to bring video chat to Facebook. It requires no download or setup -- users simply log in with their Facebook account Like all social media services, SocialEyes can be used both publicly, f...

Android users can now purchase e-books from the Android Market using a new feature that allows them to tap into Google's ebookstore for Android-ready reading Google launched its ebookstore last December. Users can search its database by genre, and in addition to books for sale, it offers a section for free books. Books can be viewed on the Web or ...

Salesforce.com released its Q4 figures last week, peppered with the usual positives: growth, acquisition, more growth, and so on. Specifically, the company reported that earnings per share were 31 cents on revenue of US$456.9 million. Year-over-year revenue increased 29.1 percent.

Unlike its arch-rival, the Apple iPad, the Motorola Xoom tablet is easy to open up for repairs and upgrades "It appears Motorola built the Xoom to be upgraded, so they have this parting line about an inch from the top on the back that lets you separate the device into two pieces," Miroslav Djuric, who tore down the Xoom for iFixit, told TechNewsWor...

Last week, I tried to come up with some epic things I would like to think I'd do were I given six weeks to live -- a rumor that's been floating around about Steve Jobs -- and was as insanely wealthy as he is. The purpose was to focus on something other than the end we will all eventually share. One of the folks commenting on the piece thought I...

In the midst of the civil unrest in Egypt and throughout the Middle East, U.S. Senate-proposed legislation that has become known as the "Internet kill switch bill" was recently reintroduced. The controversial bill, first introduced by Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn, in June 2010, seeks to empower the president and, in...

Just shy of 40 successful space journeys, the NASA shuttle Discovery headed to the International Space Station (ISS) Thursday on a final mission that followed repair problems and bad weather. Known as "STS-133," Discovery's last voyage will take 11 days. The shuttle is delivering a variety of parts and modules to the space station and carrying an ...

Google on Thursday began using a new algorithm to rid its top search results of what it described as low-quality websites This will reduce the rankings for sites that are low value-add for users, ones that copy content from other websites, or sites that just aren't very useful....

Microsoft's search engine, Bing, added a Facebook integration feature on Thursday that will let searchers see which results their Facebook friends have liked. After users connect Bing with their Facebook account, pictures of friends will appear below any relevant results generated in a search. They also have the option of disabling the feature wit...

Numerous sites supporting some form of mobile photo sharing have popped up over the past few months, ushering in the next big social media trend While the press coverage of these sites generally has been positive, they also have been subject to a fair amount of criticism in online forums. The common knock is that sharing photos over cellphones is a...

Avaya has made enhancements to several Avaya Healthcare Solutions products -- adding tools to automate patient outreach for chronic disease management and follow-up. Built on Avaya's workplace collaboration and patient care lines, the new products were unveiled this week at the 2011 Annual HIMSS Conference and Exhibition.