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The new Main Street exists anywhere thumbs can hit keys or scroll across a touchscreen. So what does your online presence say about what you have to offer those virtually strolling by? As the use of social media surges and online communities continue to grow, relationships between businesses and customers will continue to evolve dramatically. Custo...

The branding gurus at various tech companies are certainly gamblers at heart; they're always rolling the dice when they choose names for their products. Tech reporters and bloggers clap their hands together in gleeful anticipation when they hear about a forthcoming iPad, ThinkPad, Zune, Vista or Wii -- especially if said products end up sucking royally. They can imagine how much fun they would have with headlines like "ThinkPad? StinkPad!," "Goodnight Zune," "Vista's Lack of Vision," etc...

Android 2.2, code-named "FroYo," will fully support Adobe's Flash platform, Andy Rubin, Google's vice president of engineering, told The New York Times' Bits blog Tuesday Google's show of Flash support came weeks after Apple, Android's rival, announced changes that made it more difficult for Flash application developers to create apps for its iPhon...

Microsoft on Tuesday announced that it has signed a patent agreement with HTC covering the phone maker's Android-based devices, and it's talking with other phone vendors as well about its "concerns" regarding Google's mobile operating platform The deal with HTC provides broad coverage under Microsoft's patent portfolio for HTC's mobile phones runni...

The high-tech industry lost jobs in 2009 for the first time in several years, but the cuts were fewer than those experienced in the private sector as a whole, thanks in part to relative strength in the category of software services That's according to TechAmerica Foundation's 13th annual edition of the Cyberstates report, which was released Wednesd...

Part 1 of this series explored the market for robots, Japan's robotics program and some of its results, and the love some people have for their robots Is it abnormal to love robots? Do people who love robots, adopt them as friends or members of the family, give then names and bring them along on family vacations have an unnatural fixation on robots...

It's one of the world's most popular manufacturers of phones. It has a globally recognized brand. It's ready to show off the latest enhancements to its smartphone operating system. And as far as anyone can tell, it hasn't lost a prototype phone in a Silicon Valley bar and seen it torn apart on a technology blog Maybe Nokia could use some of the pub...

If you think long enough about acquiring a CRM system, you will come to vendor lock-in, the idea that you won't be able to easily change vendors down the road for whatever reason. It's almost an existential problem, like rent and alimony put together. Every approach to CRM has its benefits and deficits, and ultimately it comes down to what you are comfortable with...

Gnome Commander, an advanced twin-panel graphical file manager for the Linux OS, brings back memories of mypre-Windows days. That is an era when graphical shell programs werepopular before the Microsoft DOS (Disk Operating System) desktop gaveway to the Windows 95 GUI (Graphical User Interface) ...

During his homily this Easter, Pope Benedict argued that medical science, in trying to defeat death, is leading humanity toward likely condemnation. It's a position at odds with the value of life, one that the Church will likely revise years from now, replaying the institution's embarrassment over censoring Galileo "Let us reflect for a moment," P...

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion has released a sneak peek of its upcoming new operating system refresh and appears to be taking pains to suggest just how fresh and hip it is To the pounding beat of "Boom Boom Pow" by the Black Eyed Peas, the brief video features three characters dancing -- two wearing business attire and the third dressed casua...

Salesforce.com and VMware jointly announced Tuesday a new platform for enterprise application development in the cloud They will offer application development as a service in their VMforce venture....

Newer versions of Microsoft's operating systems and software products are better at fighting cybercrime than older versions, according to a new report put out by Microsoft researchers Windows 7 and Windows Vista with Service Pack 2 had the lowest infection rates of any Microsoft OS, found the "Microsoft Security Intelligence Report," based on data ...

The U.S. Federal Court for the Southern District of New York recently ordered the unsealing of court filings submitted by Viacom and Google in Viacom's three-year old, US$1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit against Google-owned YouTube The released documents paint a tale of corporate intrigue and greed, and shed light on some of the behind-th...

For B2B marketers, social media has quickly become a desirable component of most cross-channel marketing campaigns. According to an August 2009 survey by Mzinga and Babson Executive Education, the vast majority of professionals worldwide are using social technologies for business purposes. Eighty-six percent of respondents to the survey of professionals from a variety of industries said they had adopted social technologies, with 57 percent of those respondents using the tools for marketing purposes.

Targeting a market already replete with numerous contenders, a consortium of six Japanese firms on Monday announced plans to build a new mobile operating system that will be compatible at least with Linux and Symbian -- and possibly with Android too NTT Docomo, Renesas Electronics, Fujitsu, NEC, Panasonic and Sharp have agreed to jointly develop a ...

The PDF format is now the standard for publishing and print-basedindustries. As you would expect, numerous free and inexpensive PDFreaders are available, but relatively few inexpensive PDF creator apps exist ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to review a California law banning the sale of violent video games to minors. California civil code 1746.1 reads "A person may not sell or rent a video game that has been labeled as a violent video game to a minor." ...

Research In Motion on Monday unveiled two new BlackBerry smartphones and a voice over WiFi feature to its voice technology ...

In response to a raft of recent privacy changes at Facebook, U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., on Monday asked the FTC to design privacy rules for social networking sites, including clear guidelines on how information submitted to sites like Facebook, MySpace and Twitter can be used and disseminated. "Hundreds of millions of people use social net...