Apple's iPhone isn't only gaining fast on the company's U.S. turf, but sweeping across the international market at an amazing pace, according to the monthly Mobile Metrics report from mobile advertising network AdMob on Friday. The application -rich and user-friendly

Technology acquisitions continue to make headlines in a down economy. With Google, Apple and Microsoft going tit for tat on the acquisition front this year, Yelp could be the next digital property to get scooped up. Google may pay $500

Palm reported a drop in earnings for its fiscal 2010 second quarter, but the handset maker hopes news about an updated webOS will encourage the market. Total revenues for Palm's second quarter were $78.1 million, with gross profits of $5.5

December 17, 2009 -- New research by ContactBabel, the contact center industry analysts, has found that US contact centers spend $12.4bn each year simply making sure that the caller actually is who they say they are.

CrossView, a premier provider of global cross-channel commerce solutions, announced today the launch of its next-generation cross-channel commerce platform. The latest release enables retailers to unify sales channels via a single platform, creating a consistent customer experience across websites, contact

If you're trying to decide which -- if any -- phone platform your IT department will support , Google's open-source Android is likely moving into your sights very quickly. A key reason is that the Android Market now has a

Adorning the walls of Facebook's Palo Alto, Calif., headquarters are multiple prints of Rene Magritte's iconic painting The Son of Man. The image of a man's face partly obscured by a green apple is considered a critique of people's attempts

My daughter returned to college in New York this fall. During the summer she kept many of her belongings in an off-campus storage facility. Everything was secured with a new "Made in China to U.S. quality specifications" lock from a

Microsoft , famous for prosecuting infringements on its intellectual property, got some mud in the eye this week. Amid charges that its Juku micro-blogging service for China contained code and design elements stolen from Plurk.com, Microsoft issued a formal apology

The Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit against Intel Wednesday that accuses the world's leading microprocessor maker of illegally stifling competition for more than a decade. By waging a systematic campaign to prevent competing microchips from gaining full access to

SALT LAKE CITY, December 16, 2009 -- Surveys are a powerful and cost-effective way to gather information and uncover new opportunities. However, businesses find it challenging to get the right mix of people and achieve a high enough response rate

Along with winning its lawsuit against Psystar, Apple on Tuesday won a permanent injunction against the Mac clone maker it has been battling all year. The two companies reached a $2.67 million settlement on Dec. 1 when Apple was awarded

Your next business-office-away-from-home could be a McDonald's. The fast-food chain has announced that, beginning in mid-January, it will offer free Wi-Fi Internet access at 11,000 of its 13,000 U.S. restaurants. The service is presented as a partnership with AT&T .

Imagine not being able to use a mouse to open a Web browser or a keyboard to type an e-mail. What if you couldn't distinguish colors on a computer screen or type the distorted letters in order to buy concert

Racy text messages from a SWAT team sergeant in California are at the heart of a legal battle that could have a far-reaching impact on employee privacy. The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday it will hear an appeal by the

With Mac sales expected to reach as high as 2.9 million this quarter, the last thing Apple needs is bad publicity about its new iMac with 27-inch screen. But YouTube clips of flickering screens on the new units, which went

Apple has redesigned the App Store for the iPhone and iPod touch, bringing the online store in line with the rest of the iTunes shopping experience, emphasizing screenshots and logos and downplaying developer marketing copy . The previous version of

In a not-uncommon development for the social- networking leader, Facebook's recently released privacy controls are leaving the company a bit red-faced. As a result of a new policy that by default makes users' profiles, photos and friends lists available on

The disparity in usage between smartphone users and other subscribers -- and the stress it puts on the network -- is a problem that AT&T intends to deal with, according to Ralph de la Vega, head of the company's wireless

Social media sites including Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. have influenced 28 percent of U.S. holiday shoppers in gift-buying decisions this year, according to a survey by ComScore Inc.