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Search engine powerhouse Google has decided to sell its decaying 5 percent equity stake in struggling Internet portal AOL just two years after investing US$1 billion in the company AOL parent Time Warner disclosed Google's decision on Wednesday -- the same day Time Warner announced fourth-quarter financial results that showed a clear decline in AOL...

It's not "Star Trek" and Dr. "Bones" McCoy's tricorder sensor, but it is one step closer to where no medical patient has gone before; the ability to stream his or her vital signs from a health monitoring device to a computer, thanks to a partnership announced Thursday by IBM and Google IBM's new software will work with Google Health, the search gia...

The hunger for moving pictures, like a global conspiracy or an underground movement, has almost killed still imagery. Every marketing or propaganda message now has to move in dimensions or it will be considered boring or dead This change has already made a very positive impact on screen-based mediums, from handheld devices and wall-size TVs to buil...

Virtualization projects can help organizations improve key business metrics, but with these benefits also come risks that these projects could cause issues with end-user experience, visibility into application performance, and bandwidth utilization While performance issues can impact business metrics, more than 20 percent of organizations surveyed ...

The home-agent contact center model has undergone a metamorphosis in the last few years. A few short years ago, it was the refuge of small companies that couldn't afford to outsource operations to typical brick-and-mortar contact centers, said Alpine CEO Christopher Carrington However, larger companies are increasingly drawn to the model's lower co...

This is the fifth in an ongoing series on buiding 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 Many small-business operators have been especially hard-hit wh...

Yahoo introduced a new feature Wednesday designed to help make online research easier. Dubbed "Search Pad," the new companion search tool will enable users to keep track of Web sites and take notes when conducting online research Currently in beta, Search Pad will allow students, information workers and Internet surfers on a mission to do away wit...

Shares of Ticketmaster Entertainment and Live Nation surged more than 15 percent in early trading Wednesday on press reports that the two companies could merge as soon as this week in a blockbuster deal that would change the landscape in concert and sports ticketing Ticketmaster is one of the world's largest ticketing operations, and Live Nation is...

In yet another sign of the worsening global recession, Japanese consumer electronics giant Panasonic said Wednesday that it will lay off 15,000 employees, or 5 percent of its workforce, by March. Half of the job cuts will be made in Japan Panasonic is the second large Japanese consumer electronics company to announce massive layoffs in the past wee...

Until now, it seemed the only thing Google didn't know about you was where you were. Now that its mission to capture and categorize all information online is well in hand, Google has taken steps to add that missing piece with the introduction of Latitude. Built into Google Maps for Mobile and iGoogle, this location-sharing feature tracks users' comings and goings.

Not content to essentially dominate online book sales -- not to mention a slew of other merchandise categories -- Amazon.com launched a new game download service Tuesday. Aimed at casual gamers, the e-tailer's new Game Downloads store offers users more than 600 downloadable PC games, all priced for less than US$10....

The two biggest dogs in the CRM fight are Salesforce and Oracle. You could debate that, but not with me. Salesforce has had a good run lately with announcements about its platform technology, its community of developers and its new foray into social media and social networking. Oracle has been plowing the same field, but you might notice the com...

VMware is introducing an open source version of its View product -- specifically, an open source client for virtual desktop infrastructure aimed at the data center. ...

California-based LeapFish launched a new style of search engine last month, offering users a multi-dimensional search aggregator that combines several features to provide more focused results. This one deserves a prominent spot in your browser bookmarks Similar to the Gogimon Search Channel, which launched last month as well, LeapFish has a look an...

The Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has tapped IBM to build a massive new supercomputer that will deliver a record-breaking 20 petaflops of computing power. The proposed supercomputer is nicknamed "Sequoia," and it'll come with 500 teraflop sidekick, Dawn. Both computers will be delivered to the Lawrence Live...

The latest installment of Net Applications' monthly survey of Web browser use chronicles an accelerating trend away from Internet Explorer in favor of "alternative" browsers such as Safari and Firefox All three browsers reached new milestones: IE accounted for 67.6 percent of browser users in January 2009, its lowest percentage of market share si...

Mobile phone manufacturer Motorola reported yet another disastrous quarter of financial results Tuesday that sent the struggling company's stock plummeting 11 percent to US$4.03 per share in mid-day trading Motorola reported a $3.6 billion loss, down from $100 million in earnings during the fourth quarter of 2007. Fourth-quarter revenue was $7.1 bi...

Google unearthed the latest version of its Earth mapping tool Monday at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. Google Earth 5.0 adds a number of new features to the geo-mapping service, perhaps the most significant of which is providing some definition to the world's great bodies of water with Google Ocean Although the application had...

The cost of data breaches continued to rise in 2008, according to a new study from network security company PGP and the Ponemon Institute The study, which was sponsored by PGP, surveyed 43 organizations across 17 different sectors and evaluated the financial consequences of data breaches involving consumers' personal information....

In 2004 the term "Web 2.0" was originated by O'Reilly Media. The "2.0" means that this is the second generation of Web usage Web 2.0 has created a variety of new and innovative ways to promote Web sites using social bookmarking, social networking, blogging, wikis, RSS Feeds and video feeds. These all allow and encourage user interaction, thus the t...