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Net neutrality may be anything but after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) votes Tuesday on the proposal, rumored to contain a controversial "usage-based pricing provision" that could boost service provider bottom lines. A PowerPoint presentation leaked to Wired Magazine "by a trusted source" reveals two large wireless suppliers -- Allot...

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg was spotted in Beijing Monday at the headquarters of Baidu, China's largest search engine. A photo of Zuckerberg heading to lunch with Baidu cofounder and CEO Robin Li spread across the Internet, setting off speculation that Facebook is trying to figure out a way to overcome the Chinese government's blockade of Facebook. China blocks a number of American websites, including Facebook, Twitter and YouTube...

The British government has joined China, Iran and Australia in seeking to actively restrict access to certain portions of the Internet Communications officials have revealed plans to ask Internet service providers in the UK to restrict access to pornographic websites, especially for minors....

A quantum mechanics experiment performed by physicists at the University of California in Santa Barbara has been honored by the journal Science as its Breakthrough of the Year. The researchers' work may shed light on just what actually gravity is, among other things ...

When we think about financial bubbles, we typically recall the recent run-up in house prices or the dot-com craze of the late 1990s (and some think of the 17th century tulip bubble). We might define "bubbles" as sharp price increases for an asset without supporting increases in the intrinsic value or other fundamental financial characteristics. Another defining feature: You can't see a bubble until it pops...

FuzeDigital characterizes its customer service solution as social business software that uniquely blends comprehensive multichannel support and online community technologies. "The Fuze Suite is a blending of SCRM and E2.0 technologies," Chuck Van Court, president of FuzeDigital, told CRM Buyer. The community knowledge base, search engine capabilit...

Another year is about over, and many of us are now given time to spend with our friends and families thinking back on the year that was and ahead to the year that will be. We have been and are defined by the choices we make, and often we can learn from the mistakes of others as well as their successes. I'll look back this week on 2010 and the ...

The challenges that all enterprises face today are numerous -- store more data, provide more services, control costs, and now monitor and manage energy costs and carbon impacts. Today there is mounting pressure on CIOs and CFOs to deliver improved services while curtailing costs. To transition IT organizations into service providers for their businesses, CIOs must be empowered with new levels of visibility into the financial and environmental impacts of their IT services and the facilities where they operate.

Oracle on Wednesday announced two cloud-based office productivity suites for the desktop and mobile devices -- Oracle Cloud Office and Oracle Open Office 3.3. Both products will compete directly with Google Docs and Microsoft Office The products are designed to be enterprise-level suites with applications for word processing, spreadsheets, pr...

With Google's announcement Thursday of the Body Browser, online mapping technology finally caught up with the medical crew of "Fantastic Voyage," miniaturized in the 1966 sci-fi flick to enter a renowned scientist's bloodstream and save his brain from a life-threatening blood clot. A Chrome-OS driven online Gray's Anatomy, Body Browser continues G...

Hot on the heels of its announcement of the Optimus 2X smartphone this week, LG is reported to be working on yet another Android mobile phone ...

Yahoo's grand scheme for repositioning itself is becoming more clear. Earlier this week, news came out that the Internet company was instituting widespread layoffs, with some 4 percent of its staff expected to be let go. It was a tough but necessary call, CEO Carol Bartz reportedly wrote in a memo to employees. Now comes the news that Yahoo is doi...

The United States government is falling behind in making critical and productive investments in research related to networking and information technology (NIT), a government panel reported Thursday Federal agencies have used funds designated for direct pioneering research and development in NIT for alternative purposes, such as the creation of inf...

The U.S. Commerce Department's proposed federal Internet privacy rules are a giveaway to data collectors, according to some consumer groups. Other critics say they could spell the end of the free Internet The Commerce Department wants to create an online privacy bill of rights and a code of conduct regarding privacy that would be enforceable b...

Communications as a Service. Cloud communications. Hosted PBX. You've heard the terms, and you've witnessed the hype. But what are these technologies? And what will they do for your business? Generally, a CaaS solution involves your business utilizing the resources, equipment and software of a service provider in its network or data center, as oppo...

Zoho has enhanced its CRM app with new accounting and telephony functionality via integration with QuickBooks and several telephony systems. Zoho CRM for QuickBooks and Zoho PhoneBridge -- which hooks into PBX systems from Asterisk, Avaya, Elastix, and Trixbox -- each take about 20 to 30 minutes to download and configure, Raju Vegesna, Zoho evange...

Things took an interesting turn in the aftermath of Cablegate, which saw 250,000 documents, many of them sensitive, put on the open Web by WikiLeaks Julian Assange, the founder of the site, has been charged by Swedish police with a sex crime; the U.S. government is seeking to try Assange, who's currently out on bail; hundreds of mirrored WikiLeaks ...

At least partly reversing Bush Administration aversion to emergent exotic biological research, President Barack Obama's 13-member Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues Thursday issued 18 recommendations on synthetic biology -- life, designed and built in the laboratory "Our major recommendation is that the federal government, through the Ex...

Twitter has received US$200 million in financing from the Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, according to a Wednesday post by Twitter CEO Dick Costolo on the company blog. The funding pegs Twitter's valuation at $3.7 billion. Clearly, the investors believe Twitter will find an effective way to squeeze substantial revenue from its massive user community.

South Korea's LG Electronics on Thursday unveiled the LG Optimus 2X, a smartphone with a dual-core processor ...