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Taxes on all of the great new tech we just got? I was a guest on the Fox News show "Your World with Neil Cavuto" on Monday, and Brian Sullivan asked me about all the new taxes we better get ready for on all of our new holiday gifts. That's right. We better get ready for taxes galore. In fact, it's w...

Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen's company, Interval Licensing, on Tuesday reopened a patent lawsuit originally filed last August in Seattle against 11 companies, including Apple and Google. Interval claims the defendants violated four patents owned by Paul Allen's company Interval Research before it ...

RIM's forthcoming BlackBerry PlayBook tablet will be entering a highly competitive market burdened with a relatively short-life battery and minimal app store monetization, according to a research note authored by Kaufman Bros. analyst Shaw Wu. The company has made "good progress" on the device, he...

The SEC is getting curious about intensified trading in shares of private social networks such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter and social game developer Zynga. The SEC reportedly has sent information requests to several participants in the trading of shares of these four private companies. The co...

Monitoring online conversation can provide insights that are relevant to a range of functions and activities, and that drive different types of value to a company. Companies need to understand what these sources of value are and then design their social media monitoring program so that the findings ...

The third-generation Kindle reader is now the bestselling product in Amazon's history, passing Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, book seven in the wildly popular series. Even those who own LCD tablets are purchasing the Kindle, Amazon claims. "They report preferring the Kindle for reading becaus...

AT&T on Tuesday announced plans to add more public WiFi hotspots in major markets. It has already put one in San Francisco's downtown Embarcadero Center. The wireless giant will also expand its existing Times Square WiFi hot zone and add new ones near Rockefeller Center and St. Patrick's Cathedr...

AT&T on Tuesday announced plans to add more public WiFi hotspots in major markets. It has already put one in San Francisco's downtown Embarcadero Center. The wireless giant will also expand its existing Times Square WiFi hot zone and add new ones near Rockefeller Center and St. Patrick's Cathedr...

AT&T on Tuesday announced plans to add more public WiFi hotspots in major markets. It has already put one in San Francisco's downtown Embarcadero Center. The wireless giant will also expand its existing Times Square WiFi hot zone and add new ones near Rockefeller Center and St. Patrick's Cathedr...

Annual summing-ups are common currency during this season, but for some industries and some years they seem particularly valuable, such as business IT in 2010. Following 2009's devastating financial meltdown, many in IT hoped the new year might spark a partial recovery or at least provide some badly...

Delta Airlines has pulled it flights from three travel aggregation sites, including BookIt.com, CheapOAir.com and OneTravel.com. Delta will honor fights that were booked on those sites before its mid-December cutoff. However, Delta did not opt to remove its listings from the travel site Orbitz, whic...

Which should companies focus on first -- investors, customers or workers? This is a question we have asked and answered so many times, you would think the answer would be obvious. However, we always see companies either doing well or struggling because they just don't get it. A look at a few of toda...

Let the exceptions and exemptions begin, Net neutrality critics cry, as the Federal Communications Commission's newly approved rules take effect for all but a chosen few -- mobile broadband providers, that is, with a Google-Verizon pact taking the lead. Striking similarities between the FCC ruling a...

In the rush to Facebook, marketers are discovering that different kinds of content drive different kinds of results -- and different social networks respond in different ways. It was not that long ago that the experts warned that brands could not "sell" in social media, that the audience would rebel...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has apparently opened an inquiry into former HP CEO Mark Hurd's sudden departure from the company last August. The SEC is looking into whether Hurd leaked information about HP's planned $13.9 billion acquisition of Electronic Data Systems to Jodie Fisher, ...