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Hybrid cars now produced by Toyota, Honda and other mainstream automakers are veritable gas hogs, says Felix Kramer, founder of California Cars Initiative. Not that he doesn't appreciate the technology that has led to mileage ratings in the range of 40 to 50 miles per gallon of gasoline Still, that amounts to child's play, compared to Kramer's drea...

At 12:01 p.m. EST on Tuesday, the White House Web site underwent a transformation. The old look was out, and a brand new one, designed by the Obama administration, was in. The changeover took place without fanfare or formality. Indeed, the new site was up even before Supreme Court Justice John Roberts had administered the oath of office to Barack Obama, who had quietly undergone his own Constitutionally mandated transformation, becoming president at precisely the same moment.

Virtualization software provider Citrix and chipmaker Intel announced a deal Tuesday that will see them teaming up to develop the industry's first application and desktop delivery solutions optimized for desktops with Intel's Core 2 processors and laptops featuring Centrino 2 chips with Intel vPro technology Under the terms of the joint venture, Ci...

Massive credit card payment processor Heartland Payment Systems (HPS) disclosed Tuesday that a security breach within its processing system some time in 2008 resulted in the potential exposure of millions of credit card and debit card numbers. No cardholder Social Security numbers, addresses or telephone numbers have been compromised, and the intr...

IBM's stock surged more than 9 percent to US$89.61 per share on Wednesday after Big Blue beat Wall Street expectations with its fourth-quarter financial results and predicted it would maintain high profit levels all the way through 2009 IBM reported $4.4 billion in earnings during the fourth quarter, up 12 percent compared to $4 billion in earnings...

A competitor of computing giant IBM has accused Big Blue of violating antitrust laws in the European Union In a complaint to the European Commission, the EU's Brussels-based antitrust authority, Tampa, Fla.-based mainframe computer maker T3 Technologies has accused IBM of using its dominance of the mainframe market to shut out competitors....

Barack Obama has made it as clear as a 1080p high-definition image that he intends to be the Digital President. He used online fundraising, Facebook, text messages and YouTube to get elected, and he has an ambitious agenda that calls on technology to create jobs, clean up the environment and bring transparency to government So why shouldn't the med...

The landmark inauguration of Barack Obama as president of the United States Tuesday drew an estimated 1.8 million spectators to the Mall in Washington, D.C. Online, many more followed the pomp and circumstance online at their favorite social networks. Facebook teamed with CNN.com to provide simultaneous streaming coverage, while MySpace joined wit...

Every marketing tactic gets more scrutiny when budgets face the severity of a struggling economy. Marketers are increasingly responding to the accountability found in digital marketing, placing their budget toward efforts that they can clearly measure against Put SEO under this microscope, and it consistently delivers. But marketers need to insure ...

Last week Salesforce.com introduced its new support concept dubbed "The Service Cloud." I have to say it makes a lot of sense both as a product direction and as a business decision The announcement is in line with many of the business initiatives that the company has made over the last decade in that it is a leapfrog event. The service and support...

Netbook computers remind me of travel toothbrushes and portable air mattresses. You use them only when you need to move a lot, like when you're on the road or camping or running around at a trade show. They're just not nearly as functional or comfortable as the at-home version But when you're on the move and you need a real keyboard, a real Web bro...

Chip giant Intel has slashed the price of some of its microprocessors in what company spokesperson George Alfs has called "a regularly scheduled price move." Among Intel's myriad chips, the Celeron 570 saw the steepest cut, going from US$134 to $70, a 48 percent decrease.

Cisco, the dominant maker of routers and switches, appears to have designs on the blade server market. It has begun working on its own virtualized technology code-named "California Server," according to The New York Times. It is said to run on Intel processors and Cisco's own Nexus switch.

For anybody who is trying to spend a little less money, a visit to Freecycle may be just the ticket. The concept is a simple one: You sign up for a group based on your ZIP code. Then, if you have something, anything really, you don't want -- a desk, a flowerpot, a printer, even a used Halloween mask -- you post it to the board. The board then e-mails everyone in the group that your item is available.

They may not be the most thoughtful presents in the world, but they sure are convenient. Gift cards relieve shoppers of having to find the perfect size, style, and color of any item on a shopping list. They also avoid scenarios where what the buyer views as desirable is antithetical to the receiver's outlook. Consequently, consumers spend billions...

CardioTrainer, a GPS-based workout tracking application for Android by WorkSmartLabs, is available free on the Android Market ...

In an almost surreal scene, unprecedented numbers of euphoric people are mobbing America's capital city to celebrate a new hope for a beleaguered nation. It is a celebration so huge that the bounds of reality cannot hold it in. For the very first time, the inauguration of a new president will be trumpeted in this world and another; in life and in Second Life.

IBM plans to release a Web-based version of its Lotus business software, called "LotusLive," its latest contribution to the fast-growing cloud computing market IBM also announced a portfolio of Web-based social networking and collaboration software services through partnerships with LinkedIn, SAP, Salesforce.com and Research In Motion....

The European Union is taking aim at Microsoft again, with its antitrust regulatory arm alleging on Friday that the U.S.-based software giant is breaking European anticompetitive rules by tying Internet Explorer to Windows. Such a link harms competition, undermines product innovation and reduces consumer choice, said the European Commission.

An uproar hit the Web over the weekend when it was discovered an employee at consumer electronics company Belkin had offered to pay people to write positive reviews for his company's products, even if they hadn't tried them. The reviews may have been fake, but the outcry on the Internet over his take on online marketing practices is real and, as it turns out, very loud...