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Verizon Wireless will reportedly unveil the HTC Thunderbolt 4G Android smartphone at the Consumer Electronics Show, to be held in Las Vegas next week ...

Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen's company, Interval Licensing, on Tuesday reopened a patent lawsuit originally filed last August in Seattle against 11 companies, including Apple and Google. Interval claims the defendants violated four patents owned by Paul Allen's company Interval Research before it closed its doors in 2000. When the company closed, it transferred the patents to Interval Licensing, a patent-holding company also owned by Allen...

RIM's forthcoming BlackBerry PlayBook tablet will be entering a highly competitive market burdened with a relatively short-life battery and minimal app store monetization, according to a research note authored by Kaufman Bros. analyst Shaw Wu. ...

The Securities and Exchange Commission is getting curious about intensified trading in shares of private social networks such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, and social game developerZynga. The SEC has sent information requests to several participants in the trading of shares of these four private companies, according to DealBook SEC spokes...

Monitoring online conversation can provide insights that are relevant to a range of functions and activities, and that drive different types of value to a company. Companies need to understand what these sources of value are and then design their social media monitoring program so that the findings are applied efficiently to create that value. It'...

Recessions are always a good time to rebuild your competitive infrastructure, and the slow growth/recession of the last couple of years has been no exception. On the stock market, the technology sector seems to be doing quite well. After bottoming in the middle of the summer, the software companies especially seem to be rebounding. Microsoft, O...

One of my biggest concerns when I adopted the Linux OS over Microsoft Windows was Linux's ability to supply me with a robust presentation program. I did lots of lecturing and instructional seminars. Those activities required a product that closely mimicked Microsoft PowerPoint quality. The resulting file also had to be compatible with PowerPoint ...

In the ongoing argument about whether the government should pass laws to prohibit companies from tracking Internets users' browsing habits, one voice has been conspicuously absent -- the voice of actual Internet users Both the government agencies and public advocacy groups that have been pushing for the tracking ban claim to be acting in the intere...

iPads, iPhones and Android smartphones will be among the major targets for cybercriminals in the coming year, McAfee has warned That's because the consumerization of technology is leaving enterprise IT unprepared for the onslaught of personal devices in the corporate environment....

Amazon's new, slimmed-down Kindle devices are notable for several things, not the least of which are the upgrades to their experimental WebKit browser The third-generation Kindle reader from Amazon is now the company's bestselling product in its history, passing Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, book seven in the wildly popular series.

AT&T on Tuesday announced plans to add more public WiFi hotspots in major markets. It has already put one in San Francisco's downtown Embarcadero Center. The wireless giant will also expand its existing Times Square WiFi hot zone and add new ones near Rockefeller Center and St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City....

AT&T on Tuesday announced plans to add more public WiFi hotspots in major markets. It has already put one in San Francisco's downtown Embarcadero Center. The wireless giant will also expand its existing Times Square WiFi hot zone and add new ones near Rockefeller Center and St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City....

AT&T on Tuesday announced plans to add more public WiFi hotspots in major markets. It has already put one in San Francisco's downtown Embarcadero Center. The wireless giant will also expand its existing Times Square WiFi hot zone and add new ones near Rockefeller Center and St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City....

Samsung is about to debut the new Galaxy Player, an Android-based music and applications device that will be similar to the Galaxy S smartphone, but without the cellular connection. Samsung has confirmed it will unveil the media player at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next month, according to Samsung follower, Samsung Hub ...

Annual summing-ups are common currency during this season, but for some industries and some years they seem particularly valuable, such as business IT in 2010. Following 2009's devastating financial meltdown (whose repercussions continue to rattle global economies and millions of people), many in IT hoped the new year might spark a partial recover...

What does the future of Java look like? Many say Java is reaching the end of its life, while others go so far as to say Java is dead. Will Java become Cobol, an antique enterprise platform too entrenched to get rid of, but no longer relevant? Will Oracle's takeover of Java prove to be the final nail in the Java coffin? Does it still make sense...

Remember that holographic message from Princess Leia to Obi-Wan Kenobi in "Star Wars"? In five years' time, mobile phone users will be able to interact with three-dimensional (3D) holograms of people they're talking to, just like in the movie, according to an IBM prediction It's one of several future technologies IBM has predicted in its latest "Ne...

Logitech has temporarily stopped ordering the Revue Google TV set-top boxes from its supplier, according to a recent Digitimes report The Logitech-branded Revue is a device used to provide users with the Google TV service....

Delta Airlines has pulled it flights from three travel aggregation sites, including BookIt.com, CheapOAir.com and OneTravel.com. Delta will honor fights that were booked on those sites before its mid-December cutoff However, Delta did not opt to remove its listings from the travel site Orbitz, which itself is currently in the middle of a dispute wi...

Eying what could be a substantial business advantage, enterprises are racing to make their workforces mobile. Salesforce.com's ongoing love affair with the Apple iPad extends beyond equipping its executives with the device to singing its praises at every opportunity Mercedes-Benz distributors are giving their staff iPads, banker JPMorgan Chase plan...