IT sales to businesses help restore investors confidence

The year ends with a recovery in the technology sector thanks to sales targeted to businesses. This indicates that IT stocks are starting to lead the market. Microsoft, Apple and Intel are reporting record revenue and profits, and they are readying themselves to

Microsoft launching new TV service

In order to compete with Apple's iTV and Google TV, services anounced earlier, Microsoft is entering the Internet TV arena which looks every time more competitive and promising. 


There are infinite possibilities for all three, and others to come, if we consider the increasing computing power of new devices, which allows companies to offer millions of apps and services that will be have to be introduced by  this sector, which is starting to shake up due to the impact internet will most likely 

Facebook not reinventing the wheel

With the launching of a new email service, and taking advantage of the company’s tremendous pull, Mark Zuckerberg’s giant social networking service provider is not reshaping email, texting, buzzing or any other tool for web communication and sharing. There are other companies that have been doing the same, such as New York city startup GroupMe.

Google will to have move quickly and seriously if it does not want to lose out on this one. A while ago they launched Buzz and Wave as tools

High gear in Cloud Computing projects

There is a tremendous increase in the resources allocated towards cloud projects that currently there already is a significant amount of talk about a major shift that includes virtualization initiatives. From Linux to Windows, from government to

Social Technology driving e-business

Social technology is a driving force strong enough to determine trends, it is also big enough to promote change in people's behaviour. 


This has not gone unnoticed in e-marketing and e-business in general since we can see a tremendous

Google Voice initiative

Google is offering free phone calls from within the United States and people are taking advantage of this service. Some people have also placed calls from Europe to the States using PCs or other devices, and it seems there is no charge either. The idea is nice for the company, if it later will be used to gain a greater

Heavy competition drives Fujitso - Toshiba merger in mobile phone market

Aiming to become the leading supplier in Japan, the merger is to be completed by October 1, 2010. So far, the two companies hace been supplying phones that are re-branded by others. 

Based on the state of the japanese economy, more mergers like this one are expected.

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Google is going after Facebook

Google is gearing towards a more defined strategy that would allow the company to execute something other than the business model it has implemented so far due to increasingly heavy competition. 

Considering the kind of success Facebook is having by becoming a social media powerhouse, it looks like the competition between

Euro roller coaster driving reaction from tech stocks

The most practical way to understand the behaviour of the european currency would be to keep an eye at what bankers, politicians and speculators are doing.

The efforts currently made by the big decision makers are proving

Online press freedom

Given the latest episodes in the Google - China saga, it is clear that the only fair agreement which could possibly come out in this battle is one that could satisfy both sides, but, most importantly, one in which the people could end up

Mobile World Congress 2010

Highlights from this year's congress in Barcelona.

169 euros for a device

If that does not sound like a sexy price for a small device capable of connecting to the internet, at least it looks affordable, and certainly appealing. Apparently, Google is planning to launch netbooks by the end of this 2010. Their idea would be to build a device that boots