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Worldwide mobile device sales translated into 1.6 billion new units in the hands of consumers in 2010 -- an eye-popping 31.8 percent increase from 2009, according to new figures from Gartner. The firm found also that smartphone sales were up 72.1 percent from 2009, accounting for 19 percent of total...

Watch today as Verizon Wireless sells its first Apple iPhone: The media will change its focus from writing positive stories to negative stories. Over the next several days and weeks, we will read startling pieces about what is going wrong. This is the same news we have been so thrilled with over the...

A leaked internal memo written by Nokia CEO Stephen Elop, circulating in press reports, indicates major changes are in the works for the company; an official announcement is expected Friday. Elop's memo lays out Nokia's major problems, comparing its current situation to that of a man standing on a b...

In 1998, Congress enacted the Internet Tax Freedom Act, effectively banning sales taxes on sales on the Internet, with some exceptions. Its purpose was to encourage and foster the growth of Internet business. Internet sales totaled an estimated $155 billion in 2010 and will reach about $250 billion...

Groupon CEO Andrew Mason released a statement on Monday regarding his company's Super Bowl ads, in response to a lot of flak from critics and the general public regarding Sunday's commercials. The ads start out appearing to be seeking support for humanitarian causes, but then switch up, revealing a ...

Politicians would give almost anything to garner a voter-approval rating north of 75 percent. However, a surprising number of federal agencies are getting much higher marks for their customer-facing websites than the politicians who oversee agency operations from the vantage of Capitol Hill. Citizen...

Anyone in the technology industry not captivated by recent events in North Africa and the Middle East needs to consider a change in career. First in Tunisia and then in Egypt, Internet-connected mobile devices and social networking sites were reportedly leveraged by protesters to effectively exchang...

On midnight Monday, AOL announced it will buy The Huffington Post for $315 million -- $300 million in cash and $15 million in AOL stock. The price is about 10 times the Post's revenue of $31 million. The cofounder and public face of The Huffington Post, Arianna Huffington, will become president and ...

An apparent leak from Best Buy has kicked up rumors that Verizon Wireless will launch the Motorola Xoom tablet Feb. 24 with a price tag of about $800. However, the carrier has refused to confirm that information. "We have not announced a date," Verizon Wireless spokesperson Brenda Raney told the E-C...

Nasdaq OMX startled the market this weekend with news that it found "suspicious files" on its computer servers. Hackers have apparently infiltrated the stock exchange's computer systems, gaining access to confidential data on the companies that list on Nasdaq. The files were found in the Directors D...

Recently, HP fully threw its hat into the public cloud-computing ring, joining the likes of Amazon Web Services and IBM, to provide a full range of Infrastructure as a Service offerings hosted on HP data centers. Targeting enterprises, independent software vendors, service providers, and the global ...

In making a case for outsourcing SaaS or PaaS, it's important to have a solid foundation on which to measure and compare and contrast your actual internal costs against the external service provider costs. It is also important to seek Finance's help in ensuring you add one more piece to your model....

As IT attempts to separate hype from reality, finding the real ROI in cloud adoption can prove elusive. Nonetheless, a demonstrable ROI must be developed as the basis and justification of a cloud transition plan. In this article, I will examine a method of valuing IT resources to build a case for ...

Rumors have emerged that Nokia may drop its Symbian and MeeGo mobile platforms and instead adopt Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system. The reports were kick-started last week when Nokia CEO Stephen Elop made some remarks during the company's fourth-quarter 2010 earnings call about it ...

On Jan. 26, a federal judge in Denver granted a preliminary injunction to prevent Colorado from enforcing an information-reporting law that requires e-tailers to report sales made to Colorado residents. This preliminary injunction is a first step toward a formal decision by the trial court that woul...