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Groupon CEO Andrew Mason released a statement on Monday regarding his company's Super Bowl ads, in response to a lot of flak from critics and the general public regarding Sunday's commercials. The ads start out appearing to be seeking support for humanitarian causes, but then switch up, revealing a tongue-in-cheek plug for deal-a-day website Group...

Cybercriminals are following innocent consumers away from email and toward more popular, smartphone-style platforms, McAfee reported Tuesday "New mobile malware in 2010 increased by 46 percent compared with 2009," noted McAfee spokesperson Joris Evers.

Politicians would give almost anything to garner a voter-approval rating north of 75 percent.However, a surprising number of federal agencies are getting much higher marks for their customer-facing websites than the politicians who oversee agency operations from the vantage of Capitol Hill Citizen satisfaction with federal government websites remai...

Anyone in the technology industry not captivated by recent events in North Africa and the Middle East needs to consider a change in career. First in Tunisia and then in Egypt, Internet-connected mobile devices and social networking sites were reportedly leveraged by protesters to effectively exchange information with one another and offer insights regarding events in their countries to a spellbound world.

Beagle Research is exploring one of the few categories of online videos that thus far has escaped formal scrutiny: the marketing videos of software -- specifically, CRM companies. The research group has announced "The Beagle Short Tale Awards" for 2011. A panel of five industry experts rated about 150 clips in such categories as production values,...

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is compiling information on the capabilities of vendors that can assist it with its Linux-based information system. NGA has asked vendors to provide a description of their capabilities by Feb. 11. In a quick-response "Sources Sought" notice issued Jan. 28, NGA said it was "researching the market availability of firms that can potentially provide services and products that could be seamlessly incorporated" into the agency's baseline program...

Server virtualization technology offers lots of benefits for administrators looking to consolidate to make more efficient use of resources, improve management, and save on power, cooling and floorspace. However, deploying server virtualization technology may lead to a few surprises. Let's walk through a very typical scenario on the storage side A...

Anonymous, an amorphous group of cyberactivists, has set its sights on HBGary Federal, a company claiming to provide security expertise to the United States' federal government The group took down HBGary Federal's websites and posted a message denouncing the company online....

With lightRadio Cube, the engineers at Bell Labs sound like the slick designers at Apple ...

On midnight Monday, AOL announced it will buy The Huffington Post for US$315 million -- $300 million in cash and $15 million in AOL stock. The price is about 10 times the Post's revenue of $31 million. The cofounder and public face of The Huffington Post, Arianna Huffington, will become president and editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post Media Group, which will handle all Huffington Post and AOL content.

An apparent leak from Best Buy has kicked up rumors that Verizon Wireless will launch the Motorola Xoom tablet Feb. 24 with a price tag of about US$800 However, the carrier has refused to confirm that information....

Nasdaq OMX startled the market this weekend with news that it found "suspicious files" on its computer servers. Hackers have apparently infiltrated the stock exchange's computer systems, gaining access to confidential data on the companies that list on Nasdaq. The files were found in the Directors Desk Web application, which is used by boards of d...

AT&T has announced that the Motorola Atrix 4G smartphone will be available for preorder Feb. 13 ...

Recently, HP fully threw its hat into the public cloud-computing ring, joining the likes of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and IBM, to provide a full range of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offerings hosted on HP data centers Targeting enterprises, independent software vendors (ISVs), service providers, and the global HP channel and partner ecosyste...

History is filled with stories of companies that dominated their segment and then either fell from that high spot or fell off the map. RCA is probably the best example of a firm that went from dominance to obsolescence because, in its case, it played chicken with the U.S. government and lost. A lot of us think the iPad is unstoppable, but many...

Continued from Calculating Cloud ROI, Part 1 Funding Further Expansion and Making a Profit!...

As IT attempts to separate hype from reality, finding the real ROI in cloud adoption can prove elusive. Nonetheless, a demonstrable ROI must be developed as the basis and justification of a cloud transition plan. In this article, I will examine a method of valuing IT resources to build a case for cloud ROI. I will also dive into some related is...

Part 1 of this series focuses on combining engineering and management for project excellence It's not hard to guess that PLM relies on some core processes to provide a unified picture of several products and its versions for decision makers and knowledge workers. Innovators, designers, manufacturers, marketers, service providers all are required t...

An international crew of cosmonauts and astronauts reached orbit around Mars Thursday, marking a major milestone on a 520-day simulated journey to the fourth planet from the Sun. ...

This week, the Internet reached a turning point in its history that presents a wide-ranging set of implications: from future electronic device design to law enforcement tactics -- even to online advertising. Simply put, it has depleted the pool of addresses available under Internet Protocol version 4, or IPv4. The Internet Assigned Numbers Authori...