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Twitter's No. 1 focus is now on revenue, and the social-networking Web site wants to reassure software developers that they will get a piece of the growing pie At Twitter's first-ever conference for developers -- the Chirp conference being held in San Franscisco on Wednesday and Thursday -- the young company's leaders outlined in further detail th...

Google isn't the only entity taking an interest in Twitter's tweets. That most venerable of government institutions, the Library of Congress, announced Wednesday it will archive every single "what's happening?" update broadcast on the short message service since it opened for business in 2006 Granted, Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey's first-ever twee...

When CRM first came into being -- before it was even an acronym -- it was intended as a way to streamline and organize some very basic and essential processes and data. Those underlying features are still there today, and we take them for granted Once things like contact information, sales histories and call logging were arranged so that they made ...

The constant drumbeat of bad economic news didn't stop Jennifer Cloud from pursuing a job in her chosen field of interactive marketing. Armed with a degree in communications and a desire to learn new technologies, she started using Twitter "I was wondering if the resumes I was blindly submitting online were launched into a vortex," Cloud said. "Wit...

Obama on Thursday will speak at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida about his plans for drastically changing the direction of the nation's human spaceflight program Included in those plans is a decision -- originally announced back in February -- to end the Constellation moon program and shift NASA's focus to developing new technologies for deeper ...

Moving slowly and deliberately, a pair of white-gloved hands reach out, grasp a white cloth and carefully pull it back, revealing a manila envelope. The hands then deftly move to the envelope, pick it up and present it to onlookers The scene is from a NASA video, and the hands belong to a character known as "R2," or Robonaut 2 -- a startlingly huma...

After months of questions about how Twitter plans on making money, the short message service and social media phenomenon on Tuesday launched its first foray into advertising. However, in doing so, the company made it clear that traditional corporate interests would take a back seat to overall customer happiness After all, how attractive would the T...

OK, some people thought my last post was somehow bearish on social CRM, but I don't agree. I am trying to be accurate about what we ought to reasonably expect, nothing more A bandwagon effect in early markets often has predictable results. Often people become adopters of new technologies not because they've done the necessary homework to know a p...

The Linux world is filled with numerous capable packages for justabout every computing category. Graphics manipulation applications areno exception. In any list of able-bodied graphics candidates, GIMP 2.6 should be one of the top three contenders ...

With a name like "Incredible," you'd better be good Based on leaked documents published on Tuesday, phone enthusiasts are buzzing over prospects that what's rumored to be Verizon's next big phone will live up to its name and more....

If the Department of Homeland Security has its way, cellphones will soon do more than transmit calls, GPS information and a host of data from the Web. They'll also monitor the air for toxic substances that could be part of a chemical warfare attack ...

The cocreators of the blockbuster "Call of Duty" series are back in the game Jason West and Vince Zampella, who formed Infinity Ward in 2002, are launching a new development studio, Respawn Entertainment, and the duo signed an exclusive publishing agreement with Electronic Arts, which will distribute the new studio's games around the world....

Symantec announced on Tuesday four newsecurity and compliance software suites that it claims remedy the most commonsecurity shortcomings exploited by today's targeted attacks These latest softwaresecurity products complement the company's four-pronged approach basedon the phases of a targeted breach attack versus a more tradition massattack. The se...

In today's economic environment, the last thing a CIO wants to hear is that the IT security product his or her organization purchased last year isn't going to make the cut moving forward. Sometimes the product simply doesn't work with existing infrastructure or doesn't integrate well with established business processes. In other cases, new risks or threats emerge that weren't planned for when the initial investment was made -- or newly available solutions offer a significant advantage. ...

One of Salesforce.com's challenges in driving Chatter's acceptance comes from positioning it for the buying public. That's a tall order since the company is simultaneously trying to establish a new product and its category The product and the category are classified as social networking and leverage the wisdom of crowds -- James Surowiecki's idea....

Apple's newly launched iPad may be taking up the majority of consumer mindshare in the tablet category following its launch earlier this month, but Google is furtively working on a device of its own that will be powered exclusively by Android That's according to a report in The New York Times, which cited comments made by Google CEO Eric Schmidt at...

Part 1 of this series discusses the different approaches being taken to design more efficient urban landscapes.Part 2 addresses the need for designers to take moral and ethical issues into account. Part 3 focuses on the risks and rewards of using cloud computing. As city administrators grapple with the notion of tying all their apps into one overa...

Now that rumors of Palm putting itself up for sale are being substantiated left and right, speculation turns to suitors. Which companies would most enliven the smartphone market by purchasing the company that nearly single-handedly developed the PDA space lo those many years ago? Prospective acquirers fall into several categories: PC manufacturers...

In a perfect world -- albeit one that's more than a little tech-centric -- Monday's release of the Creative Suite 5 update from Adobe would have commanded a lot of attention. Bristling with advances that help both consumers and developers create multimedia content on their computers and on the Web, CS5 is getting rave reviews for its attempts to help key moneymakers like Photoshop, Illustrator and (of course) Flash stay at pace with the latest technological developments and trends...

Google is rolling out an update to users of its Docs service allowing them to do more real-time collaborating and making a variety of speed and service enhancements Elements of the update began rolling out Monday, with others scheduled to filter out to users over the next few days, according to Google....