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When you conduct business online -- whether it's selling merchandise through a Web site or simply using email for company communication, there is some level of digital risk. The Web has enabled instant global access to conduct business remotely like never before in history. Personal meetings allow you to securely exchange physical documents and i...

Here's the game plan regarding the National Football League and Twitter: If it's gameday, there will be no tweeting. If it's training camp, it's up to each team (with suggestions from the NFL, of course). When it comes to players' off-time, it would be wise to take the advice of San Diego Chargers outside linebacker Shawne Merriman, who navigates social media as easily as he takes down opposing quarterbacks: Think before you tweet...

Researchers at two Southern California schools may have achieved a breakthrough in the search for chemicals that can slow -- or even reverse -- the progression of Alzheimer's disease and possibly even diabetes. Surprisingly, the breakthrough didn't come from doctoral programs at UCLA or USC. It came from undergraduate departments at Loyola Marymou...

Google will be acquiring video compression technology provider On2 Technologies in a stock deal valued at US$106.5 million. The deal, which requires On2 shareholder and regulatory approval, is expected to close in Q4. Google did not respond to the E-Commerce Times' request for an interview in time for publication....

Hot on the heels of rival Nikon's new Coolpix line, announced earlier this week, Sony announced its latest entries to the fiercely competitive digital camera market on Thursday. The two new cameras in its Cyber-shot line are the DSC-TX1 and DSC-WX1. Along with the new cams, Sony revealed a device it calls the "Party-shot Docking Station."

There's a rumor that honor exists among thieves, but outside of Robin Hood, no one considers them a bunch of do-gooders. Yet there may be a bright side to their shadowy work, at least in terms of enterprise software. It could very well be that they will drive the prices down "Microsoft is attempting to combat the temptation for consumers to use bla...

Despite the enormous popularity of peer-to-peer social networking, the adoption cycle for branded online communities has been relatively slow. That a growing number of consumer brands are transforming their existing static Web sites into interactive online communities is a trend that is not only recent, but also rapidly accelerating. The proven bu...

Despite reports earlier this year about spies penetrating the computers that help control America's electrical grid, utility companies appear to be slow in clamping down on security, and that perception has led to a tongue-lashing from a House of Representatives committee U.S. Rep. Yvette Clarke (D, N.Y.) as accused the utilities of exploiting a lo...

Sony fired its latest salvo in the battle for the e-book reader market on Wednesday with the unveiling of two new e-readers, one of which will be priced at under US$200 ...

More details about the Yahoo-Microsoft Internet search agreement have been revealed in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing. Some of the details come as little surprise -- namely, that Microsoft will be hiring Yahoo employees, specifically 400, as part of the proposed partnership. The regulatory filing also quantified what Microsoft would b...

The Obama administration appears to be having as much trouble as its predecessors in decrypting the secrets of how to retain its cybersecurity advisers Monday's resignation of Melissa Hathaway, who served as acting senior director for cyberspace for the National Security and Homeland Security Councils, has Washington insiders and tech industry obse...

The U.S. Marine Corps has banned service members from using military computers to access social networking sites, and the Department of Defense is reviewing the services to see if they pose too great a security threat to allow Such sites are popular with young service members who want to keep in touch with friends and family at home, but the Marine...

In today's world of hybrid cars and wind farms, consuming energy wisely is on every individual's agenda. Companies and their IT departments should be no different. Statistics aside, there is no doubt that collectively data centers have a huge "carbon footprint" and are the biggest or one of the biggest consumers of energy in every company. You have already heard about how it is only a matter of time until companies will be forced to make data centers green as a part of their effort to reduce their carbon penalty. If you think this issue is going away, think again...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told analysts last week that ultra-thin PCs will be the answer to the growing popularity of netbooks. I doubt that, but I can certainly understand Ballmer's interest in backing the ultra-thins, and this obviously has implications for larger issues like cloud computing By now, the sides have been clearly marked out in th...

Google apparently wants its Android mobile device platform to compete in the enterprise arena Future versions of the open source operating system will include more support for business users, suggested Andy Rubin, vice president of engineering at Google, in an interview with Reuters this week.

When I first started skip tracing -- that is, finding people -- my only tool was the telephone, and my only resource for searching was directory assistance. Unbelievably, I was able to find people from London to Fiji, but it was costly and extremely time-consuming. Half my search time was trying to be connected to directory assistance in a foreign country. Trust me -- 411 in the '90s was not cheap...

One of the nation's most venerable electronics retailers wants to update its image by calling itself "The Shack" in an upcoming branding campaign, announced Monday "We have tremendous equity in consumers' minds around cables, parts and batteries, but it's critically important that we help them to understand the role that we play in keeping people c...

If Apple and Google executives thought that Google CEO Eric Schmidt's Monday resignation from Apple's board of directors would end any governmental interest in their business practices, they may have to reboot their plans. The Federal Trade Commission has announced that it had already been looking into the board membership situation among the Silicon Valley tech giants and doesn't plan on ending its probe anytime soon...

Intel has built an application that will connect Facebook's masses to a volunteer computing application designed to boost the research efforts of three nonprofit organizations. Progress Thru Processors is launching as a public beta and is available to all Facebook users. It runs as a background process on the computer, automatically directing idle...

Nikon on Tuesday unveiled four new digital cameras in the Coolpix line, but one of them -- the Coolpix S1000pj -- generated most of the buzz. This model has a built-in projector that is currently unique in the industry, according to the camera maker ...