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November 6, 2008

A No-Nonsense Phone from China's ZTE

China's ZTE is stepping up its assault on the U.S. market. In February the maker of wireless gear introduced the C88, its first U.S. cell phone (BusinessWeek.com, ...

November 5, 2008

The Vote: A Victory for Social Media, Too

The 2008 contest for the White House may go down in history as the first social media election. How else to explain the unprecedented role the Web played in this ...

November 4, 2008

Apple: Soon to Be a Mobile Gaming Force

I didn't expect much from games on the iPhone. I had visions of casual games, perhaps a fancy take on solitaire or a version of poker that takes advantage of the ...

November 4, 2008

Apple: Soon to Be a Mobile Gaming Force

I didn't expect much from games on the iPhone. I had visions of casual games, perhaps a fancy take on solitaire or a version of poker that takes advantage of the ...

November 3, 2008

Net Geners Come of Age

(Editor's Note: This is the first in an eight-part series of Viewpoints by author Don Tapscott, who will draw on the $4 million research project that inspired his new ...

November 3, 2008

Who Killed the VoIP Revolution?

"VoIP is dead," Skype General Manager for Voice and Video Jonathan Christensen declared at an industry conference a few weeks ago. He spoke figuratively, of course, ...

November 3, 2008

The Recycled Cell-Phone Trap

The sales director of a large Japanese company thought he was doing a good deed when he donated his BlackBerry for recycling. But later a group of British and ...

November 3, 2008

Salesforce.com Leaps Into Cloud Computing

Salesforce.com Chief Executive Officer Marc Benioff strides into San Francisco brunch spot Ella's, clad in workout clothes, replete with baggy shorts and a baseball ...

November 3, 2008

The Recycled Cell-Phone Trap

The sales director of a large Japanese company thought he was doing a good deed when he donated his BlackBerry for recycling. But later a group of British and ...

October 31, 2008

Motorola's Turnaround Plans Meet with Skepticism

The latest flurry of turnaround plans for Motorola is being met with about as much enthusiasm as previous attempts to revive the company's foundering mobile-phone ...

October 30, 2008

Google, FCC, Broadcasters Fight for White Spaces

Besides the Presidential election, there's another big political battle brewing in Washington on Nov. 4. This one is over the airwaves that are used to deliver ...

October 29, 2008

Google Settles with Authors

After more than two years of negotiation, Google (GOOG) has settled lawsuits filed by the Authors Guild and five publisher members of the Association of American ...

October 29, 2008

Where to Get Live Election Night Coverage Online

The 2008 election and online video have had a lot of special moments together: The CNN-YouTube primary debates. Obama Girl. Will.i.am's "Yes We Can." Saturday Night ...

October 29, 2008

Craving Motorola's Krave ZN4 Touchscreen Phone

Motorola (MOT) has made a habit of falling behind in recent years. The money-losing handset maker arrived late to the music-phone craze and camera-phone party. And the...

October 28, 2008

Azure: Can Microsoft Meld Windows with the Web?

After years of efforts by Google (GOOG) and Amazon.com (AMZN) to spin visions of a future where the Web supplants Windows, Microsoft (MSFT) struck back on Oct. 27. The...

October 27, 2008

Can Anything Derail Google's Growth Engine?

You probably won't get rich betting against Google (GOOG). Every quarter, cynics predict a stumble. Most of the time, they're wrong. Even when Google misses analysts' ...

October 26, 2008

Letting Wi-Fi Do More With Less Energy

In the quest for a truly mobile device, we've managed to cut the phone cord and the Ethernet cable, but the power cord? Well, that's still a problem. While some ...

October 24, 2008

Sumner Redstone's Investments Face Mortal Kombat

It's sure no fun being Sumner Redstone these days. He's just filed for divorce from his wife of five years. The billionaire chairman of both Viacom (VIAB) and CBS ...

October 23, 2008

AT&T's Troubling Trends

At first glance, third-quarter results from telecom giant AT&T (T) appear strong. The Dallas-based phone service provider posted net income of $3.23 billion, or 55¢ a ...

October 22, 2008

Steve Jobs: Apple Will Be 'Fine'

Steve Jobs may not be sure how much the economic slump will hurt Apple, but he's clear on this: It won't be as bad as pessimists predict. And for the first time in ...

October 22, 2008

In Defense of Cable

With Apple's iTunes now offering HD programming from all four major broadcast networks, Netflix streaming shows from CBS, and Hulu letting you cherry-pick the best ...

October 21, 2008

McCain: Education's Disruptor-in-Chief?

For a candidate who's been criticized as being out of touch on technology, Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) has been refreshingly ahead of the curve when it comes to ...

October 21, 2008

Yahoo: It Coulda Been Worse

Thanks to aggressive cost-cutting and surprising strength in search advertising, Yahoo! (YHOO) pleased investors on Oct. 21 with third-quarter earnings that managed to...

October 20, 2008

Motorola Readies Its Own Android Social Smartphone

As the wireless world awaits the Oct. 22 debut of the first phone based on the Google-backed Android software, engineers at Motorola (MOT) are hard at work on their ...

October 20, 2008

Software Makers Get an iPhone Bump

It has been widely reported that iPhone owners use data connections to surf the Internet more often than people with smartphones that have built-in browsers. Indeed, ...