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On Friday, Microsoft announced the CodePlex Foundation, which will support the open source community The foundation is initially being funded by Microsoft and will be temporarily headed by departing Senior Director of Platform Strategy Sam Ramji....

Like every new generation, today's youth are unlike their predecessors, and they are poised to make a significant impact on society and business as they enter the workforce. While this may not seem like a revelation, what is important to keep in mind is who is pulling some of the strings that are already redefining how today's kids think and tomorrow's workers will behave...

In this second installment in the E-Commerce Times' series ontravel-planning Web sites, I'll review the strengths and weaknesses of Expedia, a top aggregator. My first impression of the site -- one that I used to frequent but haven't visited in at least a year -- is that its design is refreshingly straightforward: a three-column layout relatively ...

Remember the bad old days of customer self-service? Automated systems would present you with five or more different options -- any one of which could lead to five or more other options. With touchtone systems, accidentally pressing the wrong number at a prompt could result in instant death by disconnection. Then came the speech-recognition systems, with their own specific tortures: creepily cheery voices reciting five or more options; systems that went into lockdown if you sneezed into the phone. Let's not even talk about systems that couldn't understand your accent, whether you were from another country or just another region.

Motorola unveiled its much-anticipated first Android phone on Thursday, together with a new service it calls "Motoblur." ...

It has become a morbid habit for me every Sept. 11 since the attacks: I soak up all the media I can about that day in New York City. I put on DVDs, seek out TV shows on the History Channel, scour the Web for any new videos. My real focus in on the broadcast coverage of that day, watching anchors and reporters -- some of them former colleagues -- react to the second plane hitting, the Pentagon's smoke streaming, the towers falling. Archival footage of national and cable news as well as local New York TV, radio broadcasts captured in documentaries -- all of it takes me back to an impossibly sunny day and my last week in my midtown Manhattan apartment before moving to Atlanta.

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, or ADHD, stems from a biological problem with the brain's chemistry that controls feelings of reward and motivation, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association The research was coauthored by medical doctors Nora Volkow, known for her work in the study of brain func...

Dell is expanding its electronic medical records offerings with a new hardware, software and service bundle designed to help hospitals ease the transition from paper to digital records. The service is an end-to-end solution that touches upon all aspects of this process in the hospital setting, Dell spokesperson Cathie Hargett told TechNewsWorld.

Sprint on Thursday announced a new calling plan featuring unrestricted wireless calling to any mobile phone on any U.S. wireless carrier Sprint describes its Any Mobile, Anytime plan as a new feature to the carrier's Everything Data plan. The Any Mobile, Anytime plan's price starts at US$69.99 per month....

Today's volatile economy is pushing more companies to consider themerits of a virtual workplace for some or all of their employees.Often, however, the idea fails to goanywhere because neither managers nor their workers are sure how toget started Also, attitudes among some old-school managers pose hurdles that blockworkers from pursuing virtual work...

With a variety of options available for training their revenue-seeking professionals, today's sales leaders need to carefully select the methodology that will most directly impact their bottom line. Ongoing Aberdeen research of over 500 companies surveyed in July and August of 2009, which will be published this month, provides significant insight...

The average worker checks email once every 15 minutes, recent studies have shown, with some users checking email as often as 40 times per hour. In addition, increasing use of personal mobile devices means that employees have become attached to their email at all times, with some checking their device as soon as each email arrives. Now that email h...

September is shaping up to be a crucial time for the future of Google's much-vaunted digital library The month has already seen a flood of briefs on a proposed settlement in the lawsuit filed by authors and publishers over Google's effort to digitize the world's books. Next week, the U.S. Justice Department is expected to weigh in on whether it thi...

Palm is expanding its line of WebOS smartphones -- and ratcheting up competition with Apple -- with the introduction of a new mobile device called the "Pixi." The phone, meant to supplement the more serious Pre smartphone, will be available during the holiday seaon through its exclusive carrier, Sprint.

Yes, there's a slump in the real estate market. Tell that to the players who tried to log on Wednesday to a new online version of the classic Monopoly game that substitutes Google Maps for the board; gamers can "buy" real streets in cities around the world and build skyscrapers a la Donald Trump. The temptation to own Broadway in New York or Colfa...

It is rather challenging to hit a moving target when it keeps changingdirections. That's a bit like how Cameron Brain, CEO of Open BoxTechnologies, felt when he set his sights ona particular business market while still in college In 2006, Brain and a group of classmates at Rensselaer PolytechnicInstitute in Troy, N.Y., started to dabble in online s...

There is a lot of unspoken information in last week's announcements by Sage and Salesforce.com about their respective contact managers. Each is creating a disruptive innovation that affects the other, and the symmetry of these dual and dueling announcements is frankly beautiful in a funny way To review, Sage announced the 2010 version -- with new ...

Open Invention Network announced Tuesday that it acquired 22 Linux-related patents that Microsoft recently sold to the Allied Security Trust. OIN consists of a group of companies -- including Microsoft rivals IBM, Sony, Red Hat and Google -- that have been girding themselves for a legal fight over Linux. OIN acquired the patents to ensure that the...

Cybercrime is pervasive, pandemic and increasingly connected with other parts of the criminal ecosystem. It ranges from the theft of an individual's identity to the complete disruption of a country's Internet connectivity due to a massive attack against its networking and computing resources. This is the first in a four-part series that will look at the history of cybercrime, its pervasiveness today, and how it has and will continue to impact society...

Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC on Tuesday announced the Tattoo, the latest in its line of Android-based handsets unveiled this year ...