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Adding the iPhone to its product mix helped Radio Shack lift its net income 23 percent in the third quarter, the company announced Monday. But falling margins and continued uncertainty about the venerable brand's future left the market unimpressed Radio Shack reported diluted earnings per share of 37 US cents compared to 30 cents in the same period...

The Wi-Fi Alliance, a consortium of companies making WiFi products, has unveiled a new protocol, Wi-Fi Direct This lets WiFi products certified by the Alliance connect directly with each other, without the need for a wireless access point or router....

Adobe has released version 2.5 of Adobe LiveCycle Enterprise Suite, which delivers more interactivity, as well as three new solution accelerators and a batch of new mobility features. The rollout is significant from a big picture perspective, Chris Ethier, group manager of LiveCycle product marketing for Adobe, told CRM Buyer....

Barnes & Noble may soon announce a full-color version of its Nook e-reader, acording to a Cnet report The bookseller is likely to unveil the device at an event it will hold Oct. 26....

On October 14, 2010, the Federal Court of Canada handed down its much-anticipated decision regarding Amazon's patent application for an invention entitled "Method and System for Placing a Purchase Order Via a Communication Network," or what has more colloquially been referred to as the "Amazon 1-Click Patent." While the Federal Court did not explic...

Best-in-class sales organizations that leverage B2B teleprospecting stand out. How? They consistently achieve 90 percent of their sales team quota; they experience at least a 10 percent year-over-year increase in average revenue per sales rep; and they gain an average 7 percent year-over-year improvement of the bid-to-win ratio, according to analyst firm SiriusDecisions...

Unfortunately, I think I'm part of a group that is becoming extinct. Regardless of which party holds office in the U.S., my true hope is for its success, because I have this twisted view that if we have successful president, we'll have a better quality of life. Unfortunately, both of the U.S. parties seem to be competing as to which can screw up the country more effectively and, at the moment, the Democrats are winning, largely because they control government. ...

In the holiday selling season, the most frantic and exciting time of the year, it's a good time to put aside your marketing plan and your email strategy and just blast out mailings to everyone you've ever had on any list you've ever put together. Right? ...

Google is negotiating with the big-three television networks and Hulu to unblock access to their programming to users of its new Google TV service. News Corp.'s Fox has not blocked programming but is considering the move There have been reports that CBS content can be viewed, noted ITIC principal Laura DiDio, even though the network is suppose...

HP on Friday launched the HP Slate 500, a tablet PC aimed at the enterprise ...

Venture capital group Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers has launched a US$250 million fund aimed specifically at startups that are developing social applications and services. Other investors in the "sFund," as it's called, include Facebook, Amazon, Zynga, Comcast and Liberty Media There are 10 U.S.-based KPCB partners working on the fund: Chi-Hua C...

It's been more than a decade since the publication of the The Clue Train Manifesto -- a business classic, well ahead of its time Rich with both insight and foresight, it still amazes me that it was written before Twitter, Facebook and YouTube -- and, as business leaders, as marketers and as technologists, we can greatly benefit from revisiting its ...

At the beginning of July, MicroStrategy rolled out MicroStrategy Mobile -- a platform designed to allow companies to extend their on-premise business intelligence application to the mobile environment The following day, VHA, a provider of supply chain management services to reduce healthcare costs, rolled out its own iPhone app built using MicroSt...

Since the latter days of the 20th Century, business and political leaders have moved between each others' fields with increasing ease. Vice President Dick Cheney was one; Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is another Right now, two former leaders of high-tech companies are running for office: former HP CEO Carly Fiorina and former eBay CEO Meg Whitma...

IBM is continuing its steady march to build out its cloud computing bona fides, this time with the rollout of new security offerings and an expansion of its cloud-based development tools with an emphasis on Windows The larger point, said Harold Moss, IBM's emerging technology and cloud computing Architect, is to provide Big Blue's customer base wit...

A team of European astronomers has determined that a far-off galaxy spotted last year by the Hubble Space Telescope is the most distant object ever seen ...

The first reviews of Windows Phone 7 smartphones -- the Samsung Focus and the HTC HD7 -- are in, and they range from lukewarm at the low end (nice, but not enough pizzazz) to acceptable (much improved but not enough features) Will smartphone buyers be influenced by the reviews? Or do they generally decide what they want first, then go get it? Will...

I recently gave a speech to a group of AT&T executives in a university MBA program, and during the Q&A afterward I got a very interesting question about the future of the AT&T brand. It grew into an interesting and important discussion that I'd like to share here. The questions after speeches this year were astounding. Talking with folks at even...

I recently gave a speech to a group of AT&T executives in a university MBA program, and during the Q&A afterward I got a very interesting question about the future of the AT&T brand. It grew into an interesting and important discussion that I'd like to share here. The questions after speeches this year were astounding. Talking with folks at even...

I recently gave a speech to a group of AT&T executives in a university MBA program, and during the Q&A afterward I got a very interesting question about the future of the AT&T brand. It grew into an interesting and important discussion that I'd like to share here. The questions after speeches this year were astounding. Talking with folks at even...