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Dell's announcement of new solutions and investments around its Virtual Era data center strategy provided clear insights into the company's future plans and direction. The new solutions include the following: vStart; Email and File Archive; and Dell Desktop Virtualization Solutions. Dell also plans ...

Dating website Match.com has announced it will shortly begin checking existing and new members against public sex offender registries. The move follows on the heels of a lawsuit filed by a woman who says she was sexually assaulted by a sex offender -- a man she met through Match.com. The move is a d...

Has there ever been an easier time to reach an international customer base? And has there ever been a more complex time to optimize for global reach? Certainly, the Web and social media platforms make it easier for brands to reach prospects in virtually every plugged-in region of the world. However,...

Investors met Google's earnings for the first quarter with a near universal sigh of disappointment. The next sound was the dumping of Google's shares, which fell by some 7 percent in the aftermath. The company reported an adjusted profit of $8.08 a share -- which missed analyst expectations of $8.11...

Groupon is likely to select Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley to be the principal underwriters for an initial public offering later this year that could value the company between $15 and $20 billion. J.P. Morgan Chase is expected to have a co-manager role in the IPO, and at least two other banks want...

Management troubles! Foolish business decisions! Still no monetization platform of note! All of this is old news about Twitter, but it seems as though reports about these issues have been proliferating lately, both in volume and in detail. The latest barrage started with an article describing the co...

After a long period of unfulfilled hype, there finally appears to be some real momentum behind a nationwide movement to electronic medical records -- and that's just one of a series of recent developments that have caused me to change my attitude about online privacy. Over the years, I've gone to gr...

Reviews for RIM's new PlayBook tablet have hit the Web, and so far, they are not good. The company's first tablet, the PlayBook will hit stores on April 19, ranging in cost from $499 to $699. The PlayBook was intended to be a worthy iPad 2 rival, but according to countless reviews, the PlayBook does...

This week Cisco pulled the plug on the Flip camera, a pocket-sized video camera. It was an abrupt and surprising reversal, given the popularity of the camera and the fact that Cisco acquired it from Pure Digital just a few years ago for $590 million. Cisco's explanation: It is realigning its operat...

Suddenly, mHealth is very visible in the wireless industry. At the CTIA show a few weeks ago in Orlando, there were many companies up and down the aisles from every corner of the industry. They were trying to capture the attention of the attendees, who were mesmerized by all the bright lights and co...

Senators John Kerry, D-Mass., and John McCain, R-Ariz., introduced an Internet privacy bill on Tuesday that proposes new rules about how websites can collect information about users. The measures would help protect Internet users by requiring sites to notify customers when their data is being collec...

Courts and regulators have recently made life more complicated for Google, impacting millions of Google users worldwide. Notwithstanding Google's $29 billion revenue performance in 2010, new challenges continue to plague the company. As you may know, Google planned to digitize millions of books. In ...

More legal trouble could be in the cards for Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook. Old pal Paul Ceglia claims he's entitled to half the company in exchange for $1,000 funding he provided in 2003. Ceglia sued Zuckerberg last July, and in the weeks following the suit he presented a contract bearing Zuckerberg...

Government reform initiatives are frequently long on saying, and short on doing. White papers and strategic plans are the stuff of good intentions, but actual implementation is often elusive. The ambitious goal of the Obama administration to improve information technology management and procurement ...

Sony Entertainment has reached a settlement with George Hotz, aka "GeoHot," the hacker who jailbroke Sony's PlayStation 3 gaming console. The settlement was reached on March 31, according to a Sony blog post. The terms were not fully disclosed, but Hotz has apparently agreed to a permanent injunctio...