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Adesso's newest keyboard, the Wireless Slimtouch Ergo, is a love-it-or-hate-it type of product. If you can getalong without the features it misses and get through the learning curve,you might just keep it It has a few interesting features to offer those looking for a changeof pace. However, making the move probably will not be an easy transition....

The universe of enterprise resource planning providers is huge; ditto for open source. The space where twain meet? Not so much. xTuple is an open source ERP provider, and CEO Ned Lilly says there are few fellow travelers on his company's path. In this tanking economy, the company has been leveraging both its open source bona fides and the fundamen...

Over the last two weeks I attended two events: one organized by the Blu-ray folks and one by HP. Both PR teams did excellent jobs; however, one had a strong offering to work with, while the other was stuck with a toad of a product offering. Both products look to add value to platforms that are struggling at the moment. Printing is dropping off ...

Microsoft is the target of yet another legal challenge -- this time from the online travel Web site Kayak, which has sent the software giant a letter noting similarities between its own site and Bing's travel service. It has asked Microsoft to take steps to address the matter "Our concern is about confusion from consumers and suppliers," Kayak Chi...

Three months after unveiling its Google Voice application, Google unveiled a limited public roll-out on Thursday. The application's home site says the tool is available by invitation only. Anyone can sign up for an invitation, though they must then wait for a go-ahead from Google....

Palm continued to hemorrhage money in the fourth quarter of its fiscal 2009 However, the figures it revealed Thursday represent the months just ahead of Palm's release of the Pre. Palm's latest smartphone sold 100,000 units in its first weekend on shelves, according to partner carrier Sprint....

Right now, Microsoft is focusing on the consumer market by getting Windows 7 out in time for the holiday season and announcing price points compatible with recession-era budgets. However, an even bigger constituency is the business community -- and after the debacle that was Vista, it is understandable to wonder how eagerly it will embrace Windows...

After two weeks of news from Iran, it wasn't a tweet from Tehran that came to symbolize the horror in a potential revolution and the real-time, cinema verite nature of its storytelling. True, it was a moment brought to you by digital technology and the Internet, but it wasn't Twitter that made the leader of the free world search for the right words during this week's presidential press conference...

So you are ready to embark on an e-commerce project. You are not alone The Economist found that of 15 major industries studied in late 2008, only one -- e-commerce -- had a sunny outlook for 2009. My analyst (techno, not psycho) tells me that 20 percent to 30 percent of firms that do business online will start a major e-commerce project in the next...

Online retail sales in the U.S. are projected to reach US$156.1 billion in 2009, jumping to over $229.1 billion by 2013 and accounting for 8 percent of total U.S. retail sales, according to a recent report by Forrester. When e-commerce was born some 13 years ago, systems were typically proprietary, requiring a large team of internal developers to...

When I was asked to write a guest column for LinuxInsider, I sat down and thought long and hard about what I wanted to convey. I believe with the right approach, Linux can take a great chunk of the market; you just have to give the market what it needs and wants, while allaying its fears.

This month, the Federal Communications Commission begins drafting a national broadband plan as part of the 2009 stimulus package. This is not the first government attempt at broadband ubiquity, so the FCC can learn from past failures The commissioners have less than eight months to "ensure that all people of the United States have access to broadba...

A beta version of Microsoft's free computer security software is now out. Microsoft Security Essentials, or SE, aka "Morro," replaces Redmond's OneCare subscription service Features in SE are designed to preempt such typical malware activities as stealing passwords or turning a PC into a zombie bot.

Microsoft has announced price points for its highly anticipated Windows 7 operating system, which is expected to be generally available on Oct. 22. OEMs will start shipping new machines with Windows 7 on Oct. 2 Regular buyers of Windows will not see a significant change from the Windows Vista price schedule. On average, the new OS will cost about 1...

China's bid to clamp down on online porn has sparked a flurry of activity PC makers are scrambling to install Green Dam Youth Escort, an Internet filtering software application, on every desktop and laptop sold in the country by the July 1 deadline issued by the nation's government....

Your 21st birthday party will no doubt go down in the record books as a legendary debauch, but the photos of you doing jello shots off a stripper's belly won't be nearly as impressive to future employers as they are to your Facebook friends. So, Facebook made it easier Wednesday for you to decide exactly who gets to see those photos -- as long as you are the one doing the posting.

Part 1 of this two-part series provides some insights on where the money can be found to finance a startup business that has the right stuff Lacing a shoestring budget with enough green to get your startup up and running takes some finagling. Still, it can be done. If you can't find investor backing right now, then turn to alternative funding route...

When Microsoft rolled out its beta version of Hohm on Wednesday -- a Web site that helps consumers save electricity -- it scored a veritable hat-trick First -- good publicity from positioning itself as a public benefactor....

The cable industry's new rallying cry may indeed be "TV Everywhere," as announced Wednesday by Comcast and Time Warner executives. However, TV arguably is already everywhere -- on the Web, on your smartphone, on your Xbox 360. Perhaps what Brian Roberts and Jeff Bewkes really meant to announce was "Pay TV Everywhere." Roberts and Bewkes, CEOs of th...

The Obama administration filed its first official complaint about China to the World Trade Organization on Tuesday, and it was all about steel, aluminum and access to raw materials. Its second complaint may focus on software, PCs and access to the Internet....