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After 83 years, Motorola has formally split into two entities -- a move that was more than two years in the making. Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. [NYSE: MMI] will produce consumer products, and Motorola Solutions Inc. [NYSE: MSI] will sell into the professional and corporate markets. The break was spurred by activist investors such as billionair...

Sprint on Tuesday announced that it will offer the HTC EVO Shift 4G smartphone later this month ...

With a sexy splash page -- a young woman in short shorts waving her arms before a TV screen -- PrimeSense and hardware maker Asus are inviting consumers to connect with kinetics through Wavi Xtion, a three-dimensional technology that couples cameras, motion sensors, and televisions with personal computers It also reminds several tech pundits of Mic...

Governments in a number of jurisdictions are moving not only to regulate online gaming but also to become an active participant in the industry Various provinces in Canada have recently entered into the online gaming industry by developing and providing online gaming websites. In July of 2010, the Province of British Columbia opened the first gover...

Self-service is a concept that has been evolving. In decades past, self-service meant providing a detailed manual. The downside, of course, was that a printed manual could not be updated dynamically and was costly to distribute. In the late 1990s, with the advent of the Web and content management, self-service meant the publishing of information o...

Modern data centers with large number of Linux servers and heavy use of virtualization often don't have the tools they need to handle system version control and modeling "Twenty years ago, most companies had tens of servers to manage," said Erik Troan, founder and chief technology officer of rPath. "When Intel took over the data center, that grew t...

Intel has reportedly revealed details about its new family of laptop and desktop processors, code-named "Sandy Bridge." The processors, which will be demoed at the CES 2011 show in Las Vegas later this week, offer better energy performance, improved 3D and graphics performance, and can overclock when needed without overheating, according to press r...

Rampant speculation about which major financial institution Wikileaks founder Julian Assange means to target with a document dump in 2011 has at least one U.S. bank -- Bank of America -- playing aggressive defense BofA executives are reportedly scouring documents for potentially damaging information, and trying to determine if any computer hard dri...

It looks like this year's Consumer Electronics Show will yield a bumper crop of Android tablets, with news that Vizio, Lenovo and Toshiba will demo their products at the conference later this week ...

With a US$450 million investment in Facebook, Goldman Sachs gets to look cool. Facebook gets capital to help face its competitors, particularly Google The latest investment in Facebook rises to $500 million when you add another $50 million investment from Russian investors Digital Sky Technologies, which is a Goldman partner. Digital Sky acquir...

You'll see the weird, the wacky and the wonderful at this week's CES 2011, in addition to the standard array of bread-and-butter high-tech consumer electronics advances One of the items to be displayed is what's claimed to be the world's first consumer 3D camera that can recognize gesture-based applications....

LiveOps, a contact center software and call center outsourcing provider, recently announced six new features designed to enhance its contact center cloud solution. The enhancements include Call Flow Authoring Studio, configurable recording, real-time configurable dashboards, call visualization reporting, APIs and powerful administration tools LiveO...

This week starts the biggest U.S. trade show of consumer electronics. CES is held every year in Las Vegas, which is kind of poetic given that it is the city of unrealized hopes and dreams. We will soon see how many vendors hit the mark and how many miss their target. Apple's shadow hangs over the show and at least one vendor, Samsung, is planni...

A new Trojan that can create botnets has emerged in China, according to Lookout Mobile Security This Trojan, dubbed "Geinimi," is the most sophisticated Android malware so far, the company said....

A hearty 65 percent of Internet users have paid to access or download online content, according to survey results released Thursday by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. The study focused on content such as music, articles and apps There were a number of surprises in the data. With the exception of software, which is a predominantly mal...

Federal authorities have arrested Fremont, Calif., resident Winifred Jiau Tuesday on charges related to her involvement in an insider trading scheme. Jiau has been charged with conspiring to commit securities fraud and engaging in securities fraud by selling material nonpublic information about publicly traded companies The investigation was c...

Taxes on all of the great new tech we just got? I was a guest on the Fox News show "Your World with Neil Cavuto" on Monday, and Brian Sullivan asked me about all the new taxes we better get ready for on all of our new holiday gifts. That's right. We better get ready for taxes galore. In fact, it's worse than we think. Instead of just one set of ta...

This Christmas, I was sitting around with the in-laws after the presents were opened, when my father-in-law asked me a question that has probably been nagging him for a long time. "What is it that you do?" he said Well, I'm a writer, first off, but what is it that I write about? CRM. Explaining what that acronym is and what it encompasses was prett...

With electron microscopes and tiny wires far thinner than a human hair, U.S. Department of Energy researchers have pinpointed key events in the life of a consumer electronics staple -- the lithium ion battery Their findings could lead to smaller, longer-lasting, more powerful batteries ready to rev up next-gen electric vehicles, laptops, cellphones...

Nintendo has issued a warning for parents of children under age 6: If you're planning on giving the kid a Nintendo 3DS when the device is released early next year, keep it in 2D mode The 3DS is a portable video game system capable of displaying 3D games without the use of special glasses. However, the warning (originally posted on Nintendo's Japane...