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Lines are being drawn in the fight over control of wireless spectrum space On one side is the wireless industry, which is "facing a looming spectrum crunch," said Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski....

Document-sharing site Scribd.com launched a new feature Wednesday allowing users to easily transfer many of the site's 10 million books, magazines, and documents to mobile devices, including Amazon's Kindle, the Nook e-reader, and the Apple iPhone It's part of the San Francisco-based tech company's effort to plant its hooks in the growing e-publish...

Had a meteor hit the Dulles Westin outside of Washington, D.C., two weeks ago, it would have set social CRM back 10 years. That meteor, in addition to melting a lot of snow, would have vaporized in a trice the vast majority of the world's serious thinkers on the topic of social CRM, gathered there for the BPT Partners' Social CRM Strategies for Business Seminar...

At about the same time in January that Google reported its infrastructure had been hacked, someone broke into Intel's systems. However, unlike Google, which reported the attack publicly and ended up getting the federal government involved, Intel kept relatively quiet about its intrusion The only mention Intel made of the attack was in its SEC 10-K ...

The European Commission has notified Google that it received complaints from three companies about its search ranking practices. The companies are a UK price comparison site, Foundem, a French legal search engine, ejustice.fr, and Microsoft's Ciao! from Bing. Foundem also filed a complaint with the FCC, citing concerns over "search neutrality."

After years of keeping everyone in the dark about its solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) technology, Bloom Energy officially brought its first product out into the sunlight Wednesday with a media event launching its Bloom Energy Server, a cleantech refrigerator-sized power plant for homes and businesses Flanked by California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, f...

Once again, Americans are hearing that the United States is a cybersecurity wimp, vulnerable to major damage should it ever suffer a large, organized cyberattack. The latest testimony underscoring that notion came from Michael McConnell, the former director of national intelligence, who spoke to the Senate Tuesday Testifying before the Senate Commi...

In a ruling that could have profound implications for the future of the Internet in Italy, three Google executives were convicted of privacy violations on Wednesday over a video that aired briefly in 2006 on the now-defunct Google Video site David Drummond, Google's senior vice president and chief legal officer, Peter Fleischer, the company's chief...

The Federal Trade Commission is getting proactive in trying to reduce the risk of data breaches due to peer-to-peer programs, notifying nearly 100 organizations of data breaches it traced back to file-sharing The FTC did not identify the organizations, but said they ranged in size from small businesses to publicly held corporations with tens of tho...

Citrix Online, a division of Citrix Systems,announced on Wednesday the acquisition of Paglo, a remote supportservice provider ...

In our industry, we live on innovation, and innovation takes capital -- something that has been in short supply over the last couple of years. Venture funding took a massive hit in 2009, but there are signs that the trend might be bottoming out. If it is, we might all learn to exhale again According to an article at BloggingStocks.com, a recent r...

As communication becomes more Web-centric, text editors become moreessential writing tools. Blocks of text get tweaked with HTML codes toprovide a more graphical appearance. So good text editors are thosewith many of the same features found in word processors, only withoutthe added formatting and graphic components ...

This year's Technology, Entertainment and Design (TED) conference showcased a wide variety of gadgets and ideas, one of the most interesting being Microsoft's new "augmented reality" mapping technology. Clearly, exponentially growing technologies are set to change social communications, bringing up a number of touchy privacy and control questions ...

Microsoft and Amazon have entered into a patent cross-licensing deal that covers, among other things, Amazon's Kindle and its use of Linux-based servers. The agreement calls for Amazon to pay Microsoft an undisclosed amount of money Microsoft has forged similar deals with other companies that market Linux or use it in their own operations, raising ...

On top of all the other demographic categories that segment the United States, the FCC on Tuesday introduced some new ones that its chairman says serve as reasons for adopting a new national broadband strategy, which the agency will present to the public March 17 "Near converts," "digital hopefuls," "digitally uncomfortable" and "digitally distant"...

Global iPhone sales grew in 2009 at the expense of Windows Mobile devices, according to Gartner's worldwide mobile sales report, released Tuesday The report also showed sales of Android and Research In Motion's Blackberry devices going up year over year.

With its purchase of Vudu, an online service that delivers video to Internet-ready TVs and Blu-ray disc players, Walmart is hoping its sequel turns out better than its previous attempts to enter the online movie distribution business The deal will put Walmart back in competion with the likes of Netflix, Redbox, Best Buy, Blockbuster and Amazon.com....

Lenovo on Tuesday introduced six new products to set the stage for thePC maker's Think platform for 2010. The additions to the Thinklineup include five laptops and a server, all of which target bothenterprise business and SMB users The line boasts a new ultraportable laptop and a servercosting under US$400. The new models include built-in webcams, ...

Whatever hopes Harriton High School might have had that the furor sparked by a student's privacy lawsuit would die down have surely been dashed. The school's concerns have now moved beyond the realm of unfavorable publicity to the possibility of criminal charges The Federal Bureau of Investigation reportedly has stepped into the case and is investi...

There are currently more than 270 million cellphone users in the U.S., and 82 percent of them never leave home without their devices, according to a recent study from Synovate With that many people walking around with mobile phones, it is time to get smart about mobile marketing efforts and engage customers via their favorite outlet. ...