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With Google targeting the netbook with both its Chrome and Android operating systems, which way should developers jump? Should they pick Chrome, the browser that will soon become an OS and is likely to face strong competition from Microsoft and Apple? ...

New technologies are changing the way we watch video. DVRs, VoD, and online video are freeing us from the broadcast schedules that previously dictated when we could watch programming. The latter two, combined with an ever-growing number of channels, are dramatically increasing what we can watch. The revolution in video habits is not yet complete, ...

Though consumers won't be able to buy a copy of Windows 7 until October, businesses will reportedly be able to order copies of the upcoming operating system on Sept. 1 However, the OS doesn't look like it will rake in money from the majority of businesses -- at least, not right away. In fact, more than 59 percent of businesses have no current plans...

Nokia and AT&T Wireless have introduced a low-priced smartphone that plays up its social networking features and comes with a Qwerty keyboard. It will run on AT&T's 3G network. The primary constituency of the Nokia Surge is likely to be younger users who rely on their phones to support most of their Internet-related activities....

Not content with battling Google on the search front, Microsoft now plans to offer a free, lightweight Web version of its Office productivity suite The Web app will come as part of the next major release, Microsoft said Monday, as it announced that Office 2010 was entering an invite-only technical preview, with general availability projected for th...

The month of June saw a host of Web-based attacks compromising legitimate Web sites One, dubbed "Nine Ball," compromised more than 40,000 Web sites. Another attack injected a malicious script that antivirus vendor Sophos named "Troj/Iframe-CB" into large numbers of legitimate sites....

M.A. Ketabchi, president, CEO and founder of business process management provider Savvion, might have done just as well focusing on product marketing in his career. From the beginning, he has distinguished Savvion from the competition by concentrating on the one thing potential customers care about the most: rapid ROI. "Our customers have always a...

You betcha. OK, I'm just kidding -- but in most markets that are divided like the PC market, where one vendor has 90 percent and the other 10 percent, a well-funded competitor would likely take out the 10 percent vendor on the way to taking on the 90 percent vendor. However, as I look at this, I think Chrome will cause both Apple and Microsoft to ...

Although it already has a store for selling cellphones and other wireless communications products, Amazon.com has launched a new site targeting the same market AmazonWireless, currently in beta, only carries phones from AT&T and Verizon Wireless at the moment, but other carriers will be added later....

U.S. science, medicine and technology were under the microscope in the latest survey from the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, and one finding that's generating headlines is that only 17 percent of the public participants held the belief that American scientific achievements are the best in the world. However, the people who write...

Sprint Nextel and Ericsson startled the telco world with the announcement that Ericsson would take over managing the day-to-day operations of Sprint's CDMA, iDEN and wireline networks. "Network Advantage," as they've termed the seven-year outsourcing deal, is valued between US$4.5 billion and $5 billion. It includes an option for renewal Under the ...

The initial success and rapid growth of cloud computing is attracting a "cloud rush" of players twisting the original concept to suit their proprietary purposes and confusing IT and business decision-makers in the process. This proliferation process is also accelerating the inevitable shakeout of various startups and causing potential customers to...

LexisNexis is enhancing its customer relationship management product, InterAction CRM, with its version of social networking functionality. Called "InterAction IQ," the tool delves into the CRM app and the Exchange Server to establish which users have relationships with certain clients or prospective clients, and then rates those relationships as ...

On June 25th, many Americans learned about the death of Michael Jackson from the Internet. They had already learned how to use social networks to share that information -- and their grief -- with others, far outpacing traditional television media Apparently, the three main broadcast works didn't learn anything from that day. On July 7, they allowed...

Despite strong opposition from business groups and a lawsuit, the Obama administration is making E-Verify, an online verification program, mandatory for businesses working with the federal government Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano on Wednesday announced support for the program, which lets businesses check employees...

Maybe Amazon's dreams of beaches filled with summer readers clicking on Kindles instead of riffling through a James Patterson or Clive Cussler page-turner didn't quite pan out. Or maybe economic stimulus funds haven't trickled down far enough to get recession-weary consumers thinking of e-book readers as must-have purchases In any event, Amazon's d...

Google's announcement of a Chrome operating system, coming just nine months after its launch of the Chrome browser, has the tech sector buzzing over the possibilities. Google is targeting netbooks, claiming to have agreements with several OEMs already inked. How will the option of a Chrome OS be received by the desktop-using masses? Are they ready...

Up to 70 percent of online shoppers abandon their shopping carts before completing the checkout process, according to SeeWhy, a company specializing in abandonment tracking software. This rate, which rose substantially from 2005 to 2008, is in part a reflection of the intensified comparative shopping that visitors conduct on many sites simultaneously.

Companies seeking to organize and centralize customer, account and opportunity information are leveraging sales force automation (SFA) and customer relationship management (CRM) tools to provide sales managers with better visibility into internal operations and improve overall sales productivity. Despite the proposed benefits of an SFA/CRM initiative, some companies are still not realizing the sales potential of their SFA/CRM solutions due to inefficient processes and incomplete employee adoption...

In today's world, it is no wonder that every lawsuit has electronic evidence. Unfortunately, for the most part, lawyers and judges do not understand IT or the Internet. As a result, litigation generally misses the mark regarding what is now referred to as "ESI," or electronically stored information. It is in your best interest to learn more about the legal issues regarding e-discovery to be prepared, since surely everyone reading this article will be impacted in the future, if not already.