Between the Lines

While Android began with the greatest of intentions around openness and collaboration, here’s the dirty little secret that haunts Google’s mobile OS.

A Groupon deal for 50 percent off at The Gap last week may have sparked a buying frenzy online, but was the deal a business loser for The Gap?

Chatroulette has disappeared temporarily, promises to return today.

Facebook acquired startup Hot Potato, which focuses on location-centric streaming conversations.

Salesforce reports a strong quarter and says things look bright for the company and the cloud as it looks ahead.

Are BlackBerry users sticking with the smartphone giant or looking to jump to one of the newer platforms? That’s the topic of this new ZDNet poll.

LG is reportedly planning to launch another 10 smartphones — and a tablet computer for the global market.

The medical industry is fast adopting Apple’s tablet device,

Hereâs a list of the 10 accreditations with the greatest potential for technology support professionals, administrators, and managers seeking employment within consulting firms or small and midsize organizations.

Intuit reports better-than-expected Q4 earnings and says the company’s strategy is on track for fiscal 2011

Corporate sales carry Dell’s second quarter while consumer sales remain flat. HP also reports.

Oracle plans to integrate virtualization throughout its applications, hardware and software lineup in an effort to portray rivals like VMware as narrowly focused.

Tech giant Intel on Thursday announced that it would acquire security firm McAfee for about $7.68 billion.

The Dell Streak is the first Android tablet from a major PC maker. Learn the pros and cons of the Streak and whether TechRepublic recommends it or not.

It’s game time in mobile ads and Google and Apple are suited up and starting to play - without RIM, which is clinging tight to its wallet in its search for a mobile ad network of its own.

Some analysts say that Dell may be able to pick up some lost enterprise ground to HP.

Facebook launches a built-in geo-location services tool called Places.

I’m sitting on a planning committee for a big family reunion later this year. There has been a lot of back-and-forth correspondence with several of my cousins in the past few months and we’ve shared some documents and spreadsheets over Google Docs.
On several instances, as I’ve needed to refer back to the documents to find [...]

Hollywood seems a bit nervous about the tech industry’s sudden interest in television - but instead of fighting it the way the music and news industries did, TV execs would be better off finding a way to embrace and help shape the inevitable transformation.

As young people head back to school, it’s important for teachers - and all of us - to understand the cultural references that they will or will not understand.