August 10, 2010
In the next five years outsourcing as we know it will disappear. The legion of Indian service providers will be sidelined or absorbed. U.S. and European companies that...
August 8, 2010
Microsoft (MSFT), Yahoo! (YHOO), and Hulu plan to make online advertisements less annoying and more profitable by letting users select which ones they'll watch. ...
August 2, 2010
On the TV show NCIS, actress Pauley Perrette plays quirky, über-smart forensic specialist Abby Sciuto. As part of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, the ...
July 26, 2010
In the beginning, there was the NERF Ball, a polyurethane foam sphere that could be tossed around the living room without threatening mom's Hummel figurines. It was ...
July 15, 2010
My life changed the other night. It was 10:00. I was sitting in front of my living room TV watching a baseball game. And, as usual, I was catching up on my company's ...
July 6, 2010
Wells Fargo (WFC) spent two years studying the iPhone before letting bankers use the device at work. Apple's (AAPL) iPad, released in April, took just weeks to get ...
July 6, 2010
Tim Markley recently ordered three Apple (AAPL) iPads for his warehouse. He put them on the forklift and the carts that workers push down aisles while they pull items ...
June 30, 2010
Google (GOOG) plans to push its Android mobile software in India and China, and is exploring ways for developers to make more money from applications, stepping up ...
June 24, 2010
Adobe (ADBE) Flash has long been the dominant vehicle for delivering Web video to PCs, but with the addition of Apple's (AAPL) iPad to the list of mobile devices that ...
June 23, 2010
Google's (GOOG) Android mobile-operating system is winning over an important group of allies in its fledgling rivalry with Apple: application developers. More than ...
June 22, 2010
About 90 percent of fans of Zynga Game Network's "FarmVille"—and games made by other providers offered on Facebook—return daily to play one game or ...
June 15, 2010
One would think that laying claim to the largest share of the world's smartphone market would attract the most high-quality mobile software developers, but that ...
June 8, 2010
Apple's June 7 launch of the iPhone 4 again raised the computer industry's bar for what a compelling product should be. Among the billion or so Internet-connected ...
June 1, 2010
When Dave Evans was 12 years old, he fashioned a broom handle into a crude but functional mechanical hand, complete with moving digits and tendons. Today, at 43, he's ...
May 21, 2010
One of the first things SAP co-Chief Executive Officers Bill McDermott and Jim Hagemann Snabe did after taking over in February was to kill a long-running executive ...
May 9, 2010
I run my own business, so naturally I complain a lot. I complain when customers pay me late and suppliers don't deliver on time. I complain about high taxes, red tape,...
May 2, 2010
In the history of modern media, it's unlikely that anyone of similar size or scale has embraced open principles more than Wikipedia. Co-founded by Jimmy Wales, the ...
April 30, 2010
Apple CEO Steve Jobs wrote a rare, 29-paragraph open letter on Apr. 29, panning Adobe Systems' Flash video software as having "major technical drawbacks"—and ...
April 30, 2010
At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Jan. 6, Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer brandished a prototype Windows tablet computer made by the company's ...
April 14, 2010
Every few years as softball season approaches, I get this dumb idea to upgrade my equipment. Some years I'll drop hundreds of dollars on a glove, thinking I'll be able...
April 13, 2010
Google (GOOG) is said to be planning a rival device to Apple's (AAPL) iPad that will run its Android operating system. Assuming this is true, what does Google need to ...
April 6, 2010
Kyle Osborn does a good job impersonating a technical support rep. On a recent day in Southern California, the 19-year-old is working the phones, trying to persuade ...
March 22, 2010
I was at my daughter's swim team banquet the other night and my BlackBerry saved my life. No, I didn't receive any important client e-mails or text messages. I wasn't ...
March 22, 2010
Hillcrest Labs wants to make it easier for couch potatoes to surf the Internet on TV. So it came up with a Web browser called Kylo that can be used comfortably by a ...
March 21, 2010
Shares of software maker Nuance (NUAN) are on a tear. Investors have driven the price of stock in the Burlington (Mass.)-based company up 68% in the past year, partly ...
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