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There may not be a white lab coat big enough for Adam, the newest and most expensive member of the scientific department at Aberystwyth University in Wales, UK Adam, a US$1 million robot-computer amalgam about the size of a large pickup truck, carried out genetic experiments on yeast and reached groundbreaking conclusions without human help, accord...

Is Google close to making a bid for Twitter? Yes, according to a report from TechCrunch, though neither company has made an official announcement Google declined to discuss the issue. "We don't comment on rumor or speculation," Google spokesperson Rachel Nearnberg told the E-Commerce Times....

The headlines appeared at 9:30 p.m. Pacific Time on April Fools' Day. The joke, apparently, was on the readers of AOL.com The part of the page where your eyes usually focus first had a picture of President Obama meeting Queen Elizabeth with the headline, "Obama Gives Queen a Gift: Do You Think She'll Really Use It?" ...

Job insecurity combined with financial fear-mongering has consumers slashing their budgets. Cell phone and premium TV services look like easy items to eliminate. Typically, however, those services tie users to contracts as well as three ugly words: early termination fees. Can customers break those contracts and avoid significant financial hits? Ma...

The Pinup Shoes Web site is moving to the cloud. The decision was a no-brainer for Jim Keough, e-commerce manager for the company. "We are talking about cutting costs by 500 percent on the server with this move and getting, in exchange, a higher-performance environment," he told CRM Buyer....

This week, a federal judge blocked a prosecutor from filing child pornography charges against three teenage girls in northeastern Pennsylvania over risque cell phone pictures they took of themselves. This respite from the bizarre "sexting" scandal allows time for a national dialogue on an issue that goes deeper than simple changes in technology "S...

AT&T has announced plans to sell wireless broadband laptops starting at US$50 plus the cost of a monthly wireless plan The mini-laptops will come with built-in 3G wireless capability and are part of a limited trial at retail locations in Atlanta and Philadelphia....

AT&T has announced plans to sell wireless broadband laptops starting at US$50 plus the cost of a monthly wireless plan The mini-laptops will come with built-in 3G wireless capability and are part of a limited trial at retail locations in Atlanta and Philadelphia....

AT&T has announced plans to sell wireless broadband laptops starting at US$50 plus the cost of a monthly wireless plan The mini-laptops will come with built-in 3G wireless capability and are part of a limited trial at retail locations in Atlanta and Philadelphia....

Aiming to rev up momentum behind its yet-to-be-released Pre smartphone, Palm has offered a few more details about the handset and the software running on it, webOS Palm will open up its Mojo software development kit (SDK) for webOS to more developers later this year. The Pre smartphone will also tap cloud computing capabilities....

The founders of the social network Twitter -- having already conquered the technology press/mainstream media and experienced the kind of rapid growth that one usually associates with viruses or kudzu -- are hard at work on new features that may bring it the true holy grail of Web 2.0 companies: money In an April 1 blog post titled "The Discovery En...

A bill introduced in the U.S. Senate would give the government dramatic new powers to regulate and enforce federal standards for cybersecurity The government already monitors and regulates military networks, of course. This measure, however, called the "Cybersecurity Act of 2009," would extend that control to private systems that power essential ac...

Even as the recession grinds on, the gaming industry continues to draw in consumers' entertainment dollars. Nintendo hit a console shipping milestone last week with the Wii, while retailer GameStop announced a monster of a sales quarter Sony made a price cut that may have some players scratching their heads, while the "Rock Band" series has gamers ...

The traditional sales pressures of lengthening sales cycles and low quota achievement have only been exacerbated by the recent economic downturn. Many businesses have been forced to cut costs, eliminate waste and often freeze spending. The few organizations that might be looking to spend are increasingly engaging in intense due diligence through various online sources, such as consumer-generated content forums and other third-party information providers, to inform their purchasing decisions.

This is the ninth in an ongoing series on building a Web site for your small business. Part 1 looks at essential elements of a business Web site. Part 2 offers basic site design guidelines. Part 3 tackles some advanced design issues.Part 4 examines social media tools for building traffic.Part 5 compares outsourcing against doing maintenance work in-house.Part 6 offers tips on marketing your site. Part 7 covers analytics for measuring effectiveness.Part 8 delves into content management issues...

Software giant Microsoft announced Wednesday that it will offer a stripped-down version of its server software, targeting small businesses with fewer than 15 employees Windows Server 2008 Foundation, priced at US$1,000, provides small-business customers with the ability to run business applications, house databases and host Web sites. It also gives...

Yahoo on Wednesday rolled out its new Yahoo Mobile service for smartphones. The company also announced Yahoo Messenger for the iPhone, which will be launched soon Yahoo Mobile for the Web is available as a service on the mobile Web, accessible by cell phones with Web browsers. It's also available at Apple's App Store for the iPhone and the iPod to...

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion has launched an app store for its iconic device. BlackBerry App Worldwent live Wednesday morning with some 1,000 applications available The site gives developers the option of setting up their own stores -- an interesting differentiator fromother carriers' app stores, noted ABI Research Senior Analyst Jeff Orr. ...

Social networking has left an indelible mark on consumers in terms of the way they connect and interact with each other. Sites such as Facebook are adding users at an incredible rate, and the online dating site Match.com reported good growth in the latter stages of 2008. Parks Associates has found the percentage of broadband households using socia...

You do not need another diatribe on how tough the economy is and how the next tsunami is hitting IT departments. You have seen the signs and have to take necessary actions: budget cuts, pay cuts. You know the drill However, bad times need not be all doom and gloom -- they can be times of opportunity for your IT department. More pedantically speakin...