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Like almost everyone -- including government and law enforcement officials on multiple continents -- I'm struggling to answer this question: Exactly who is Julian Assange? I know he's the founder and editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks, the website that has caused an international uproar by publishing hundreds of thousands of documents detailing previousl...

In a figurative googolplex of names and programs, Google and Motorola unveiled a tablet computer Monday night at the D: Dive Into Mobile conference that runs on Google's Android 3.0 operating system, aka "Honeycomb." Only the tablet remains without a name. Conference gawkers claim the Google/Motorola Honeycomb tablet has about the same footprint a...

Salesforce.com has added 50 new features to Force.com, which it will roll out on Wednesday, company chairman and CEO Marc Benioff said ...

Salesforce.com at its Dreamforce conference in San Francisco today debuted a database in the cloud service, Database.com, that combines attractive heterogeneous features for a virtual data tier for developers of all commercial, technical and open source persuasions Salesforce.com is upping the ante on cloud storage services by going far beyond the ...

AT&T ranks as the lowest-scoring cellphone service provider in a new Consumer Reports survey that asked 58,000 customers to rate their carriers. AT&T was the only one to drop significantly in overall satisfaction from a year earlier. Consumer Reports gave a preview of the results in a blog post on Monday -- the full report will appear in the magaz...

AT&T ranks as the lowest-scoring cellphone service provider in a new Consumer Reports survey that asked 58,000 customers to rate their carriers. AT&T was the only one to drop significantly in overall satisfaction from a year earlier. Consumer Reports gave a preview of the results in a blog post on Monday -- the full report will appear in the magaz...

AT&T ranks as the lowest-scoring cellphone service provider in a new Consumer Reports survey that asked 58,000 customers to rate their carriers. AT&T was the only one to drop significantly in overall satisfaction from a year earlier. Consumer Reports gave a preview of the results in a blog post on Monday -- the full report will appear in the magaz...

It's about 8:20 a.m. on Tuesday in San Francisco, and Stevie Wonder's "Superstition" is playing as people file into a conference room at the Moscone Center for Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff's speech here at Dreamforce 2010. ...

The U.S. government's drive to adopt cloud technology has generated a huge opportunity for vendors -- and has sparked fierce competition for the business In the latest go round, Unisys, in partnership with Google, emerged victorious with a contract to provide a cloud-based email system for the General Services Administration. However, it didn't tak...

Google released Android 2.3, or Gingerbread, on Monday -- a new version of its open source mobile platform. Gingerbread made its debut on the Samsung Nexus S smartphone. ...

Managing an IT environment can be expensive and challenging. As a result, some companies prefer to rely on service providers to assist with specific projects. Others prefer to utilize managed services for operational work and to establish better services, processes, tools and methodologies to leverage their IT infrastructure. These services are u...

Salesforce.com on Tuesday unveiled Database.com, which it called the first enterprise database for the cloud This is "the exact same database technology" as Salesforce.com's existing database but is "being packaged and provided as a standalone product so people can build platforms on their own technologies," Ariel Kelman, a Salesforce vice presiden...

Companies spend a lot of money to drive traffic to their websites. Reactive live chat implementations, while highly beneficial, are similar to search engine optimization -- "the more impressions, the better." However, placing a live chat button on your website will not generate more traffic to your website, nor does it guarantee that your most qualified visitors will chat. ...

There is a great deal of commotion about the cloud, and rightfully so, but the noise can be overwhelming. The market is crowded with different products and platforms from the smallest of startups to industry behemoths, a condition that is not helped by cloudwashing and other tactics designed to take advantage of the cloud's lucrative popularity. W...

Since it arrived in 2004, Facebook has faced its share of unwelcome stories in the media, and it seems that security and privacy issues are a repeating theme. But when was the last time you heard about Facebook's site crashing? With more than 500 million active users worldwide, half of whom log in daily, Facebook chalks up some impressive statistic...

Facebook brushed itself up with a new makeover Sunday, this time focusing on the layout of members' profile screens. Users' profile pages now begin with a snapshot of information about themselves and feature recently tagged photos of the user....

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange looms like the mysterious British freedom fighter V atop the Drudge Report, threatening a "devastating" confidential document dump if his organization suffers any more hack attacks. Paypal says Wikileaks and its donors are pals no more....

After months of speculation, Google's ebookstore opened for business on Monday, revealing answers to questions about what it will offer and the formats it will support. As well as providing books for sale, Google has made some of its vast collection of out-of-copyright books available for free, including books from Jane Austen, Mark Twain and Char...

In a move that confirms the U.S. government's recent emphasis on seeking cloud-based information technology solutions, the United States General Services Administration has awarded a contract for converting the agency's email system to a cloud platform. GSA gave the US$6.7 million, five-year task order to Unisys, which partnered with Google, Tempus Nova, and Acumen Solutions to compete for it...

For the next year, Wafaa Bilal, an assistant art professor at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, will record his life through still images taken at one-minute intervals by a camera surgically attached to the back of his head The photos will be sent to an art museum in Qatar which commissioned the work....