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"Android is to Google TV as iOS (iPhone/iPod) is to Apple TV," said Josh Builder, vice president of product development and operations at The Orchard. Builder, who is credited with creating one of the industry's leading Internet and mobile content distribution networks, serves on the board of the Digital Data Exchange, an organization dedicated to developing and maintaining communications standards to support the digital distribution of content globally...

Google's Android operating system grabbed a strong 25.5 percent of the worldwide smartphone market, making it the No. 2 OS globally in the third quarter of 2010, according to a study released by Gartner on Wednesday. That's up from a mere 3.5 percent share of the market in the third quarter of 2009. The third quarter produced record sales of more ...

Samsung and Motorola have dropped three new phones on the market, from an Android number with not one but two Super AMOLED displays to a flip phone that uses an E Ink display ...

The Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday in AT&T v. Concepcion -- a case that could decide whether the arbitration clauses companies routinely insert in sales contracts can ban class actions The case stems from a suit brought by Vincent and Liza Concepcion, who signed up for cellphone service from AT&T Mobility in Southern California. The offer in...

In a blog post dropped Wednesday morning, IBM let it be known that in the most recent quarter alone, it has managed to convert nearly 400 of its competitors' customers over to IBM systems through its Migration Factory, a service designed to help customers convert from other systems to IBM servers, storage and software. Of those, almost 300 were O...

Internet privacy seems to be constantly in the headlines globally, and social media communications are clearly driving most of these privacy concerns. Since law is the glue that hold societies together, all people on Earth rely on various laws, whether they drive their cars in traffic, pay taxes, establish geographic boundaries or use the Internet. ...

One of the more interesting developments of the last week has been the announced acquisition of ATG (Art Technology Group) by Oracle. ATG is one of the leading suppliers of e-commerce solutions, and Oracle liked their stuff well enough to plunk down a cool billion bucks for the logo I thought it was a good idea at the time, but I am also intereste...

The Linux platform has several really good financial applications that are more than capable of handling both personal and small-business accounting operations ...

Because I've spent most of my working life writing about technology, people expect me to be among the first to adopt every new device and application that hits the market. So, I often find myself explaining that it's because I follow tech trends closely that I'm seldom an early adopter I know, for instance, that the first generation of any tech pro...

Tony Cass, the leader of the European Organization forNuclear Research's (CERN's) database services group, outlined someof the challenges the organization's computer system faces during hiskeynote speech Wednesday at LISA, the 24th Large Installation SystemAdministration Conference, being held in San Jose, Calif., through Friday Smashing beams of p...

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison took the witness stand in a copyright infringement trial Monday and testified that the illegal downloading of Oracle software by a unit of SAP cost his company US$4 billion in missed license fees, according to press reports Appearing in his trademark outfit of black turtleneck under a jacket, the man that Forbes has na...

Amazon.com will more than double the revenue share for periodical publishers as it faces rising competition, at least in public perception, with Apple and other rivals for magazine and newspaper publications The move comes shortly after Amazon announced that it would make magazines and newspapers available to users of its Kindle apps -- software th...

The Colorado Department of Revenue has relaxed a first-in-the-nation information reporting requirement for sales by Internet vendors to customers in Colorado The new legislation, adopted earlier this year, requires etailers that have more than US$100,000 in sales to Colorado customers to notify all customers of their obligation to pay use tax to th...

SugarCRM has released an upgrade to Sugar 6, expanding its CRM suite with new features that will build up its social bona fides. ...

Once upon a time, the word "hypertexting" referred to the process of linking one page of text to another through a specific Internet protocol. Now, public health researchers are using it to describe the practice of sending mobile phone text messages in the extreme: "hyper," as in lots, and "texting" as in, well, texting As it turns out, teenagers w...

Motorola's Droid Pro, an Android-based smartphone designed for the enterprise market, will be available in Verizon Wireless stores on November 18 for US$179.99 after a $100 mail-in rebate. Purchase will require a two-year customer agreement. Verizon will start taking orders for the phone on Tuesday. ...

Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 is in the wild, and one of the big questions about the launch involves the app ecosystem for the new mobile operating system Microsoft promised about 1,000 apps on launch day, and it appears the company has managed to cover most of the bases for big-name apps, with offerings such as Facebook, Twitter, Netflix, YouTube, S...

RockMelt has unveiled the public beta of its new Web browser featuring built-in social network sharing ...

I have a confession to make: I'm a tokenization junky. I live and breathe tokenization, and have been for a few years now. Since I'm serving as lead chair on the PCI Security Standards Council's Tokenization Working Group, it's my job to know everything about tokenization that's going on in the industry and report back to and advise the council. I also happen to work for a company that's heavily invested in tokenization, and I am keenly interested in helping data security pros understand the benefits of the technology as well as its boundaries.

Previously in this space, I've discussed the collapse of the venture industry since the bloodbath began with the collapse of two Bear Stearns funds. While publicly traded stocks have been hammered, the private market is undergoing its own painful restructuring. As of the first quarter of this year, available venture capital had collapsed to 2003 levels, according to a PricewaterhouseCoopers study. ...