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Tidal Wave of Tablets on the Horizon

By 2016, tablet PCs will reach an inflection point, a new study predicts: That is the year tablet shipments are predicted to outpace those of notebook PCs ...

Google’s Street View Closure: A Long and Winding Road

The U.S. Federal Communication Commission may have settled for a gentle slap to Google's wrist after investigating alleged violations of the federal Wiretrap Act via its Street View program, but Google's legal woes stemming from that issue are far from over. ...

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Insidesales.com Aims to Keep Leads on the Front Burner

Imagine walking into a department store on a Wednesday morning and spotting a pair of shoes you feel that you must acquire, or life will have no meaning. You excitedly ask the sales rep if you can try on a pair in your size and she says, "Sure, why don't you come back on Friday?" ...

RIM’s Loyal Following May Have Doomed It

Research In Motion's investors did not seem pleased with the company's latest endeavor, BlackBerry 10, which CEO Thorsten Heins unveiled at its BlackBerry World 2012 conference in Orlando, Fla., earlier this week. ...

Reading Into IBM’s Tealeaf Buy

IBM is building out its digital marketing functionality in its Smarter Commerce portfolio with the acquisition of Tealeaf Technology, a provider of customer experience analytics. Financial details about the acquisition, which is expected to finalize in the second quarter of this year following customary closing conditions and regulatory clearance, were not released.

Amazon: Hey, Gang – Let’s Put On a Show!

Amazon is taking the long-expected step of developing its own content for Amazon Instant Video. ...

Global Smartphone Market Is on Fire

Samsung is top dog in the global smartphone market. No, wait -- it's Apple that is No. 1. Well, either way, Apple is making more money than Samsung. ...

Facebook’s Organ Donor Assist Likely to Play Well on the Street

In most respects, the numbers reflecting the state of organ donation in the U.S. paint a grim picture. There are 114,183 people waiting for an organ -- 18 of whom will die each day, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services webpage OrganDonar.gov. Facebook has now added another number to the mix: 900 million -- its user base ...

Jury to Decide Winner of Java Copyright Joust

The Oracle and Google legal teams delivered their closing arguments Monday in the high-profile trial over allegations Google violated Oracle's copyright on Java, and the case was sent to the jury. ...

Samsung May Have Edged Out Apple

Samsung's first quarter earnings suggest that it has reached a significant milestone: It could be the world's largest mobile phone manufacturer, topping Apple in market reach. ...

Walmart Lets Customers Shop Online, Schlep to a Store to Pay

Walmart is targeting an interesting customer segment -- shoppers with access to the Internet but perhaps no credit card to use for purchases -- with its newly launched "Pay with Cash" initiative. It allows a customer to shop at the Walmart.com website and then pay for the order at a local Walmart store. Walmart will then ship the order to the customer.

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SugarCRM 6.5 Adds Just a Touch of Sweetener

SugarCRM has just debuted a controlled release of version 6.5 of its flagship open source CRM offering. In many ways, the release is an iterative change -- it does not represent the same major shift in functionality and user interface as version 6 did, when it was launched in 2010. ...

Can Nintendo Play a Winning Come-From-Behind Game?

Nintendo has reached a dismal milestone: For the first time ever, it posted a fiscal year operating loss -- down US$458 million for the year just ended. ...

Testimony Weakens Google’s Copyright Defense in Java Joust

As testimony unfolds in the Oracle-Google lawsuit, now in its second week, it appears that Google's defense against copyright infringement is vulnerable. That is not to say Google will not ultimately prevail in the end. ...

Salesforce.com Reaches for Bigger Slice of Government Cloud Pie

Salesforce.com has unveiled a new series of cloud computing initiatives for the government user base -- a highly lucrative niche for tech vendors, especially those that can present their products in a budget-friendly light. ...

Motorola Bests Apple in Patent Skirmish

In an initial determination, International Trade Commission judge Thomas Pender ruled that Apple was violating one of Motorola Mobility's patents for 3G wireless technology. ...

Anonymous Strikes Most Fear in the Hearts of IT Security Managers

The hacker group Anonymous and other so-called hacktivists are the biggest concern for IT security professionals, according to a survey by Bit9. ...

Netflix Struggles to Right Itself

What a difference a year makes. Netflix, the tech industry's golden child last spring, has been struggling to overcome a series of missteps it made later in 2011. There is guarded optimism that when the company posts its fiscal first quarter report after the closing bell on Monday, some progress will be evident. ...

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Kana Bridges CRM-Social Listening Gap

Kana Software has introduced a new service experience platform that combines CRM functionality with BPM, knowledge management, analytics and social listening -- the latter a result of Kana's acquisition last April of Overtone. ...

EU Greenlights Sony’s Lane in Complex EMI Deal

The European Commission's competition authority has given an investment group led by Sony the go-ahead to acquire EMI Group's music-publishing division for US$2.2 billion. The commission's approval is conditioned on Sony, which is partnering with ATV in this transaction, selling certain music assets and changing some business practices. ...

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