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A recent report has once again stirred up rumors that Google is planning a tablet of its very own, a product line that could be akin to the company's series of Nexus Android smartphones. The tablet could debut sometime in March or April of this year, according to the report, and it will be priced t...

Kodak, the 131-year-old photographic equipment company that has seen its stock value tumble with the advent of digital imagery, is selling off its patents to avoid a Chapter 11 filing, according to a recent report. The company, once the unequivocal leader for photographic film, helped invent the dig...

Let's be frank: The main reason Oracle's latest quarterly revenues nosedived was backlash from users fed up with two years of price hikes on products, technical support, maintenance and licensing contracts -- and not because of a correction in the overall server hardware market. Yes, it's true that ...

This is a followup to an article that I wrote for the E-Commerce Times entitled "Why Publishers Are Afraid of Amazon." In that article, I mention that Amazon is now facilitating those authors who choose to self-publish. I also mention that The New York Times recently quoted Russell Grandinetti, one ...

Yahoo finally gets a leader. The company announced Wednesday the appointment of Scott Thompson as CEO, effective Jan. 9. Thompson was also appointed to the board of directors. Interim CEO Tim Morse will resume his role as chief financial officer. Yahoo fired former CEO Carol Bartz four months ago fo...

Cisco has reportedly stopped selling its Umi home videoconferencing system. The decision marks the end of a short life for the product, which was launched just over a year ago in October 2010. It's yet another move by Cisco to reduce its presence in the consumer market, where the company has had dif...

Daily deal industry leader Groupon dropped some 8.9 percent in stock value on Tuesday, following the release of a report from Susquehanna Financial Group and Yipit. The report surveyed some 400 merchants about their experiences with Groupon, LivingSocial and other providers in this space. A healthy ...

Research In Motion is apparently moving toward a change in corporate leadership that could have Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie giving up their titles as co-chairmen of the board. Barbara Stymiest, an independent director who joined RIM's board in 2007, is said to be most likely to replace the co-c...

Say this about 2011 -- along with any number of natural and unnatural disasters, the year featured more than its fair share of technology industry melodrama from the highly public wrangling between Oracle and HP to the passing of singular characters, including Apple's Steve Jobs. Both of these event...

Amazon shares fell to their lowest point since late March after Goldman Sachs released a research note Thursday citing comScore data suggesting its holiday sales grew roughly 38 percent -- 2 percent off analyst expectations of 40 percent. The numbers imply fourth-quarter revenue of $17.87 billion, b...

GoDaddy, the Internet's largest registrar of domains, would like the world to forget it ever supported the much-maligned Stop Online Piracy Act now before Congress. Namecheap, the second largest registrar, wants to make sure the world never forgets it. In recent days, the domain registering titans h...

The Windows Phone OS is great, but Microsoft's dealings with device makers and carriers is lousy. That's the gist of a blog entry posted recently by Charlie Kindel, a former general manager of Windows Phone, who's explained why he thinks Windows Phone sales have failed to take off. Kindel also laid ...

Looks like Yahoo is going to let go of most of its Asian assets -- a large part of its stake in the Alibaba Group of China and its Yahoo Japan affiliate -- and load up on cash. The move may allow the company to retain control of its core assets and perhaps even buy itself a new look. Yahoo's board r...

Everyone seems to be singing the Sue-You-Sue-Me Blues in the smartphone market. Microsoft and Motorola are the latest to join the chorus, both claiming victory in a patent ruling by the U.S. International Trade Commission. The ruling found that Motorola Mobility -- which Google has agreed to acquire...

Google and Mozilla have reupped their search revenue agreement. Under the new three-year plan, Google Search will continue to be the default search provider for Firefox users. Given Google's clear desire to push Chrome into the top ranks of the browser market, it would seem counterintuitive for it...