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AOL has found a buyer for its social networking site Bebo. Although the sale price is undisclosed, it is rumored that Los Angeles-based private equity fund Criterion Capital Partners snapped up the site for US$10 million. If true, that price represents a steep drop from what AOL paid for it two years ago: $850 million. AOL has said it will record ...

Google has unveiled the YouTube Video Editor, which lets people edit their videos in the cloud The application lets users merge clips into a longer video or edit down a video, among other things. Google said it will add new features based on user feedback....

As social networks strive to become mainstream, profitable businesses, they are bound to experience some growing pains. For Facebook, figuring out how to turn all the information its 400-million plus members are posting on the site into a steady revenue stream -- without drawing complaints about violating those members' privacy -- is proving to be a major pain...

It's hard to imagine a topic more central to the argument for or against free and open source software than security Hardly a day goes by without news of some fresh exploit in the Windows environment, after all -- but what about Linux and other open software? Can they do better?...

Every year since 2001 has been hailed as the year of mobile. But after years of hype and over-revved anticipation, the year of mobile may never come to be. Instead, it looks as though this is the year mobile will morph into something else entirely. "We're rapidly evolving into a more mobile, always-connected, open Internet society --- moving from...

The last two years have been rough for many sales and marketing departments: Head counts have been cut, goals have increased, and the emergence of technology has boosted expectations. Those are recent issues, but the issue that persists is that sales and marketing are still too often working at cross purposes. Each side of the equation has its uni...

As director of marketing for the Qualcomm division that manufactures the Mirasol display technology, Cheryl Goodman is racking up the frequent flyer miles, thanks to the boom in the e-reader/tablet computer market. She's the one who educates journalists and analysts about Mirasol's promise of color e-reader screens, along with lower power consumption, better viewing in sunlight and a smaller environmental footprint...

San Francisco's Board of Supervisors has voted 10-1 to approve a law requiring cellphone retailers and vendors to post how much radiation their devices emit. The measure calls upon stores to display the "specific absorption rates" next to the devices. SAR -- that is, the amount of radio frequency energy absorbed by the body when using a wireless p...

The auditorium darkens, the audience members put on their 3-D glasses, and a screen fills up with point-of-view images of sci-fi warfare -- futuristic soldiers leaping from one military platform to another in special weaponized jetpacks, raining death and destruction A scene from a potential sequel to James Cameron's "Avatar?" No, just another atte...

Verizon and Motorola are planning to unveil the next Droid device at a launch event that will take place just a day before eager Apple fans will get their hands on iPhone 4 Verizon Wireless, Motorola, Google and Adobe will share the stage on June 23rd in New York, with Verizon Wireless Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer John Strat...

Sony Ericsson has announced a mid-range addition to its Xperia smartphone series targeting European entertainment-hungry consumers looking for a small, stylish Android device The Experia X8 sits between the company's X10 and X10 Mini models; its 3-inch capacitive touchscreen has a pixel dimension of 320x480.

The question of security is one that has plagued proponents of proprietary and open source software alike for as long as there has been a choice Is free and open source software more secure by virtue of all the many pairs of eyes that can see the code, identify vulnerabilities and fix them? Or is "security through obscurity" the safer route for the...

Since January, the high-technology industry has witnessed a dizzying spate of dueling vendor product announcements So what else is new? It's standard operating procedure for vendors to regularly issue hyperbolic proclamations about their latest/greatest offering, even (or especially) when the announcements are as devoid of content as cotton candy i...

In May and June of 2010, Aberdeen surveyed more than 260 executives regarding their plans for the second half of 2010 and the first half of calendar 2011. The results were clear and compelling -- marketing's ability to access and understand customer experience data means success or failure for companies. Given the average chief marketing officer's job tenure of 23 months, there is no time to waste! ...

Diary writing apps are nothing more than glorified text editors with anarrow focus. Keeping a daily diary for personal life commentary is atask that many people restrict to traditional paper-and-pen entries.Keeping a daily journal of work-related entries is more suited toelectronic entries ...

Part 1 of this series focused on development in regard to cloud computing and mobile devices Social networking is becoming increasingly important as a business tool, with businesses moving toward concepts like Enterprise 2.0 and Web 2.0....

Nintendo unveiled its highly anticipated 3DS portable game console Tuesday at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) The 3DS offers 3-D viewing without the need for special glasses....

What's the path to profit in the digital age? Publishing companies, particularly those in the newspaper and magazine business, have been wrestling with that question for at least the past decade Rupert Murdoch, chairman of the media conglomerate News Corp., thinks getting readers to pay for online content is at least a partial answer -- and on Mond...

Ask fans of FOSS what keeps them loyal to free and open source software, and security will likely be high on the list of advantages they cite. Ask proponents of paid, proprietary software, however, and they may well say the same thing Therein lies a paradox that has brought no small amount of consternation to parties on both sides for many years....

Here's what HP says its new Web-enabled ePrint all-in-one printers will allow people to do: print from any email-enabled device;...