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Struggling mobile phone maker Motorola announced drastic measures on Wednesday to cut costs as demand for its products flag in the now year-old U.S. recession The Schaumburg, Ill.-based company will cut the pay of its co-CEOs -- Greg Brown and Sanjay Jha -- by 25 percent in 2009, freeze its U.S. pension plans and stop matching employees' 401(k) con...

Move over Black Friday and Cyber Monday, and make room for yet another retail-inspired shopping event. Free Shipping Day is here -- or rather, it will be here on Thursday, Dec. 18 -- the last day someone can order a gift online and have it guaranteed to arrive on Christmas Eve with free shipping. Free Shipping Day is the brainchild of Luke Knowles...

The technology industry was rocked by more dismal news Tuesday with a Gartner report predicting sales of semiconductors will drop by 16.3 percent to US$219.2 billion in 2009 due to the recession and lower consumer spending The decline in chip sales in 2009 will mark the first time the sector has seen back-to-back years of declines. Worldwide chip s...

Part 1 of this two-part series discusses the importance of choosing the right partner when considering whether to outsource social media tasks. Part 2 focuses on vendors, risks and outcomes Social media outsourcing will be the next big business opportunity for India after business process outsourcing (BPO) and knowledge process outsourcing (KPO), c...

I don't know about you, but I will be happy to write "The End" on the chapter we call 2008. Normally, at the end of a year I look back at some of my predictions from a year earlier and look for some indication that I was on track at least some of the time. This year is different. Who cares, really -- the big story in the economy was on no one's radar that I know of...

Some 20 years after the Exxon Valdez went ashore on Prince William sound, oil still remains at the bottom of the arctic waters -- but not because those responsible for cleanup have ignored it. Rather, multiple attempts to remove the oil from the sea floor have failed. Cold temperatures have rendered the oil too thick to move through pumping equipment.

Right after the collapse of the dot-com bubble, I bought a used Netra T1 (a 1 rack-unit Sun box). I got it for a song on eBay from a hosting provider that was going under, and for the price, how could I pass it up? Sure, it was unnecessary -- but it was so cheap! I had to have it. At the time that I bought it, I wasn't entirely sure what I was ...

Palm has joined the mobile application shop bandwagon, launching its own app store for Palm handsets running the Palm OS as well as those running Windows Mobile The launch means owners of Palm devices now have access to more than 5,000 applications, including over 2,000 games and more than 1,000 free apps. Applications include a Facebook app for th...

Yahoo has launched an enhanced version of its Mail service. The changes to Yahoo Mail offer users a "smarter in-box" experience that the company said it will roll out gradually to its users during the coming months The move is part of its ongoing Yahoo Open Strategy initiative....

Sure, it's a survey commissioned by a major tech company, which should trigger "Star Trek"-style alarms in most newsrooms. The headline, though, might draw some journalistic interest considering recent Dow Jones gyrations: "Most Adults Find Internet Access Essential to Daily Life in Today's Economy: Intel Survey." But just to make sure that the wor...

Consumer electronics giant Best Buy is the latest casualty of the recession and slowdown in consumer spending The Richfield, Minn.-based company reported a whopping 77 percent drop in year-over-year profit in the third quarter ended Nov. 29 and announced a plan to offer voluntary buyout packages to all of its corporate employees....

Over the past eight years, HP has quietly built itself a solid constituency in the Software as a Service community. The company offers a huge range of applications hosted in the cloud -- almost its entire IT portfolio, in fact. That is why the company views the current economic crunch with equanimity. While many vendors see it as an opportunity to...

Over the past eight years, HP has quietly built itself a solid constituency in the Software as a Service community. The company offers a huge range of applications hosted in the cloud -- almost its entire IT portfolio, in fact. That is why the company views the current economic crunch with equanimity. While many vendors see it as an opportunity to...

Over the past eight years, HP has quietly built itself a solid constituency in the Software as a Service community. The company offers a huge range of applications hosted in the cloud -- almost its entire IT portfolio, in fact. That is why the company views the current economic crunch with equanimity. While many vendors see it as an opportunity to...

The number of diabetes patients and those with the potential for diabetes has grown substantially over the past decade and continues to expand. This trend creates a tremendous demand for innovative care solutions and service models. New service innovations will take advantage of the latest monitoring and communication technologies. As a result, the diabetic care service sector will experience a boom period with annual revenues topping US$1.9 billion in 2013 and growing at a five-year CAGR (compound annual growth rate) of 33 percent...

The advantages of open source, standards and methodologies have been working their way to the surface for the past few years. Whereas in the past, open source projects were more likely to be described as fledgling efforts that lagged far behind proprietary counterparts, "open source" has become a buzzword with more positive than negative connotations...

The Asian cellular phone market is something of a paradox. Countries such as Japan and South Korea have invested the equivalent of billions of dollars to develop sophisticated, high-bandwidth wireless services, such as mobile video and mobile commerce technologies. One reason for doing this was so they could lead the world in deployment of such services; however, other countries have been slow to follow that lead.

The Federal Communications Commission canceled a meeting scheduled to plan how to divvy up wireless spectrum for a free, nationwide broadband Internet network The announcement on Saturday came after Democratic lawmakers including Sen. Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia and Rep. Henry Waxman of California asked FCC Chairman Kevin Martin to delay any F...

Google is either a major supporter of Net neutrality -- the concept that all Web traffic from all companies should be treated the same -- or is quietly working behind the scenes to set up its own Internet express lane with ISPs. The incoming Obama administration is either a big fan of Net neutrality, or its celebrated technology advisers are backing off their stances that no company's data traffic should get preferential treatment on the Web...

Researchers at the University of Utah have developed a new device designed to prevent drivers from talking on their cell phones or sending text messages while operating a car The Key2SafeDriving (K2SD) technology, for which provisional patents and licensing have been granted, is a device that's coupled with the car's ignition key. Once the car's en...