The ascendancy of former Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd to a co-president slot at Oracle could give the vendor's strategy of selling integrated systems a boost, according to some industry observers.

Google CEO Eric Schmidt said the company will launch its TV service in the U.S. this fall.

Apple's U.K. site over the weekend revealed that the iOS 4.1 update will be launched tomorrow.

The Pirate Bay is down this morning after reports of raids across Europe.

Two new pieces in NRDC's Switchboard blog remind us that the debate over corn ethanol subsidies is alive and well; and illustrate, through two new reports, the benefits of ditching Federal support altogether.

Two new pieces in NRDC's Switchboard blog remind us that the debate over corn ethanol subsidies is alive and well; and illustrate, through two new reports, the benefits of ditching Federal support altogether.

Facebook simplified its byzantine privacy policies, making it easier for users to hide most of their info from strangers, including status updates. In light of all that, creditors began to wonder how they could regain access to all your personal information. The answer? By friending you, of course.

IDC is increasing its earlier projection for 2010 smartphone shipments by 10% to 270 million.

The point of demarcation is important to service providers as it limits their exposure and risk, thus limiting their scope of responsibility and costs, but the growing popularity of cloud computing and hosted communications services promises to dramatically change the picture -- perhaps most dramatically in the wiring closet.

You live your life at 2.4GHz. Your router, your cordless phone, your Bluetooth earpiece, your baby monitor and your garage opener all love and live on this radio frequency, and no others. Why? The answer is in your kitchen.

LG Electronics on Tuesday announced a new series of smartphones with next-generation dual-core processors, which should provide a big leap in performance while maintaining device battery life.

The World Wide Consortium is investigating integrating speech capabilities into Web standard

The Samsung Fascinate smartphone goes on sale online Wednesday for $199.99 after rebate and will be in Verizon Wireless stores on Thursday.

The American Civil Liberties Union and other groups have filed a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Customs and Border Protection practice of searching laptops and other electronic devices at U.S. borders.

I’m on Facebook. And I don’t want to be. But let’s face it. Anything Facebook does, another web service somewhere does better. But that’s not the point – the point is that Facebook is the default. Everyone is on Facebook because everyone is on Facebook. It’s a business model based on tautology.

Bob Bragdon says legislative developments can help or hinder the security industry

We talked with five ad pros to find out what they predict for the future of social media marketing.

A Japanese journalist freed over the weekend by captors in Afghanistan managed to send two Twitter messages before his release while teaching a captor how to access the Internet on a new cell phone, he said Tuesday.

In this collection I would like to show you very handy and useful online applications for developers.

Apparently Google's graphic designers spent Labor Day weekend on the job because the search giant rolled out a funky new homepage logo today that's (wait for it) pretty baller. Visitors to Google.com today are greeted with a swarm of moving, brightly colored circles.