Looking for an ideal holiday gift for that brooding philosophy student in your life? Check out Lose/Lose. It's reminiscent of classic arcade games like Space Invaders, but with a sobering twist: Each time you destroy an alien, the game deletes a file from your Mac. Forever. Created by Zach Gage, a digital ...

America is thanking AT&T this morning for drawing attention to how limited its 3G coverage is. This is something I never paid much attention to until yesterday, when AT&T sued Verizon over a TV ad comparing the carriers' 3G coverage. AT&T sued over Verizon's "There's a map for that" TV ad ...

All the big outsourcing players from IBM and HP to Infosys and Wipro can offer their customers soup-to-nuts IT services these days. Even though these providers serve as one-stop-shops for IT organizations' needs, IT leaders should think twice before approaching them with a single RFP for both application ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Siemens is invoking the model of iPhone-application development by opening a site in Amazon's cloud to encourage creation of unified communications apps, priming the pump with a mashup it created that mixes its UC gear with Twitter. During his keynote at VoiceCon Wednesday, Siemens ...

The Federal Communications Commission this week asked for suggestions on how to improve E-Rate, the federal program designed to give U.S. schools and libraries access to affordable telecom and Internet services. Raise E-Rate cap, panel tells FCC In a request for public comments, the FCC asked for ideas ...

The current court battle between the nation's two largest wireless carriers, AT&T and Verizon Wireless, involves issues that are more than just a matter of black and white (or maybe that should be blue and white?). The dispute seems straightforward enough on the surface. Essentially AT&T claims ...

Screen shot 2009-11-04 at 11.43.03 AM Two weeks ago, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce was the target of an elaborate hoax by the Yes Men leading some major media outlets to believe that it had reversed its opposition to the Kerry-Boxer climate bill pending approval in the Senate. Now it seems the chamber ...

Users running Microsoft Office can stump nearly three-fourths of all known attacks targeting the suite by applying just one three-year-old patch, according to recently published data. Almost three-out-of four attacks -- 71% of all those spotted in the first half of 2009 -- exploited a vulnerability ...

High shipping costs emerged as the top reason US online buyers abandon their shopping carts, recent research from payment gateway Paypal revealed. A significant 40% of shoppers, however, said they would've completed their purchases had the shipping costs been displayed upfront, prompting the gateway ...

clara_shih Author and entrepreneur Clara Shih gave a keynote speech at today’s Enterprise 2.0 conference in San Francisco that distilled many of the ideas in her book The Facebook Era. I already interviewed Shih about the book, but it was still compelling to see how her ideas have evolved — instead ...