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Korean electronics giant Samsung on Monday announced that it will launch a mobile application store in Europe on Sept. 14. This follows the release of its mobile widget software development kit around mid-August and its unveiling in July of the Samsung Application Seller Site, a portal geared toward...

Nokia and Microsoft on Wednesday announced they are teaming up to create and offer mobile enterprise applications in a bid to tap the fast-growing mobile apps market. Apps could constitute the next gold rush for the mobile industry, and carriers and smartphone vendors are both battling for a share o...

Barnes & Noble is taking another stab at the e-book market with its announcement on Monday that it is launching a new store for e-literature.. Barnes & Noble will offer e-books on the Plastic Logic e-reader device. Customers can also read their purchases using proprietary eReader software fo...

Barnes & Noble is taking another stab at the e-book market with its announcement on Monday that it is launching a new store for e-literature.. Barnes & Noble will offer e-books on the Plastic Logic e-reader device. Customers can also read their purchases using proprietary eReader software fo...

Barnes & Noble is taking another stab at the e-book market with its announcement on Monday that it is launching a new store for e-literature.. Barnes & Noble will offer e-books on the Plastic Logic e-reader device. Customers can also read their purchases using proprietary eReader software fo...

Though the video game industry weathered several months of relatively healthy sales despite a troubled overall economic climate, declarations that the sector is recession proof may have been premature. Video game industry sales fell 31 percent year-over-year for the month of June, totaling $1.17 bil...

Roughly six weeks after launching its Bing search engine, Microsoft proudly announced the number of unique hits to the site grew by 8 percent in June. This shows users are trying Bing and the word is spreading, said Yusuf Mehdi, senior vice president of Microsoft's online audience business group, wh...

Though consumers won't be able to buy a copy of Windows 7 until October, businesses will reportedly be able to order copies of the upcoming operating system on Sept. 1. However, the OS doesn't look like it will rake in money from the majority of businesses -- at least, not right away. In fact, more ...

Although it already has a store for selling cellphones and other wireless communications products, Amazon.com has launched a new site targeting the same market. AmazonWireless, currently in beta, only carries phones from AT&T and Verizon Wireless at the moment, but other carriers will be added l...

Despite strong opposition from business groups and a lawsuit, the Obama administration is making E-Verify, an online verification program, mandatory for businesses working with the federal government. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Wednesday announced support for the p...

Just three years after launching in a fanfare of publicity, Joost, which provides professionally made TV on the Web, is shifting directions. It will now provide white label online video platforms to media companies and distributors. Joost is closing down its offices in the Netherlands, retaining off...

The government of China says it will put off the July 1 deadline for mandatory installation of the controversial Green Dam Youth Escort Internet filtering software on new PCs, according to state-run news agency Xinhua. Originally, the country's government had said it would require vendors to include...

Microsoft said last week that designated PCs with premium versions of Windows Vista preinstalled will qualify for upgrades to the equivalent Windows 7 product once the final version of Redmond's next-generation operating system becomes widely available in the fall. However, reports that Microsoft is...

Palm continued to hemorrhage money in the fourth quarter of its fiscal 2009. For the quarter that ended May 31, the firm's net loss totaled more than $91.5 million. However, the figures it revealed Thursday represent the months just ahead of Palm's release of the Pre. Palm's latest smartphone sold 1...

China's bid to clamp down on online porn has sparked a flurry of activity. PC makers are scrambling to install Green Dam Youth Escort, an Internet filtering software application, on every desktop and laptop sold in the country by the July 1 deadline issued by the nation's government. However, they'r...

MySpace on Tuesday announced it will lay off 420 staffers, or nearly 30 percent of its 1,420-strong workforce. MySpace and parent company News Corp. both said, in effect, that the cuts would result in a more efficient and innovative company. One reason for the cuts could be that Google reportedly wa...

Europe's nearly 18-month battle against the dominance of Microsoft's Internet Explorer has entered a new stage. The EC has rejected Microsoft's offer to strip Internet Explorer from some copies of Windows 7 destined to ship to the EU when the new operating system is released in the fall. Instead, th...

Fresh off its attempt to sideswipe Apple with its "Laptop Hunters" ad campaign, Microsoft is apparently now gunning for Google with its upcoming search engine, Bing. Announcing Bing on Thursday, Microsoft promised a worldwide launch by June 3 and pointed readers to a Web site where the service would...

Smartphone sales worldwide grew 12.7 percent in the first quarter of 2009, according to recent figures from research firm Gartner. Growth was led by Apple's iPhone, which doubled its market share, and by Research In Motion's BlackBerry phones, sales of which grew by almost 50 percent. While Nokia ag...

As the frequent news reports of data breaches attest, maintaining data security is a tough row to hoe -- even for large enterprises. It's even harder for small and medium-sized businesses, which don't have the money or IT resources their larger counterparts have. The plethora of threats is daunting,...