Prepare Your Business for Facebook Mobile Ads

Facebook Mobile ads are rumored to arrive in March. Here are five things I expect Facebook do with them, and how you can optimize your site in advance.

How Social Is Your Culture?

Building a social business means cultivating a social culture within your company. It's time to get the whole team -- yes, even the leadership -- to walk the walk.

As Firefox 11 Hits Beta, Work Begins on Push Notifications for the Web

With this new, mobile-style feature, websites will be able to alert users when new content arrives.

Why I Switched from AT&T to Verizon

I was reluctant to switch, and I tried to give AT&T the benefit of the doubt, but in the end it was not interested in keeping me as a customer.

Pomodoro Smartphone Apps Promise a Cheap and Easy Productivity Boost

Whether you're new to the Pomodoro Technique or a practiced veteran, an inexpensive Android or iOS app can help you manage your time.

Samsung Galaxy Note: Is it a Phone or a Tablet?

The Samsung Galaxy Note is a very large smartphone, or a very small tablet, and may have trouble capturing attention in either market.

Relax, Facebook Timeline Paranoia Is Misguided

Everyone seems to be all in a tizzy over the impending switch to the new Facebook Timeline layout. It's going to be OK people, just like it always is.

Google's New 'Bouncer' Targets Android Market Malware

Last year saw a 40 percent drop in malicious app downloads, the company says.

Putting Your Amazon Kindle Fire to Work

I don't suggest tossing your laptop out just yet, but with the right mix of apps the Kindle Fire can fill in as a mobile business productivity tool when the need arises.

More Details Emerge on the Fully Open 'Spark' Tablet

Though it won't ship before May, you can preorder this Linux-based device starting next week.

Denial-of-Service Attacks Are on the Rise, Anti-DDoS Vendors Report

Japan named as primary source of DDoS attack traffic for Q4 2011

Red Hat Launches Storage Appliance for Amazon's Cloud

The open-source company wants enterprises to move their network-attached storage to the cloud

Large Data Center Coming to India, As Regional Demand Booms

Tulip Data Center Services is setting up the largest data center in the country so far

Microsoft Teams Up with 24/7 for Customer Service Software

The companies will integrate their customer service technologies and do joint research and development

India Builds a Mega Data Center

IBM has designed and helped to build a 900,000-square-foot data center in India that it says is the largest in that country in terms of size and power. It's also among the largest in the world.

Prepare Your Business for Facebook Mobile Ads

Facebook Mobile ads are rumored to arrive in March. Here are 5 things I expect Facebook do with them and how to optimize your site in advance

HP to Let Partners Host LoadRunner

Instead of buying LoadRunner up front, businesses will be able to pay for the application-performance-testing software as they use it

Unilever in Major SAP Usage Expansion

Unilever has extended an SAP enterprise resource planning rollout to North America, vital to its core business processes including supply chain management in one of its largest business regions.

Data Breach? Blame Your Third Party's Remote Access Systems

An in-depth study of data-breach problems last year where hackers infiltrated 312 businesses to grab gobs of mainly customer payment-card information found the primary way they got in was through third-party vendor remote-access applications or VPN for systems maintenance.

Sony Merges PlayStation Network Into Broader Online Services

The Tokyo-based tech giant continues to align its once-independent PlayStation platform with its other products and services

Amazon Web Services Lowers Price of Storage in Its Cloud

Amazon says that economies of scale are allowing it to cut some monthly charges by 12 percent

China Plans to Improve Internet Speeds, Bring Down Costs

China wants to improve the nation's Internet network amid user complaints of slow connection speeds

Anonymous Claims to have Released Source Code of Symantec's PcAnywhere

The hacker group had earlier released emails between a hacker and a person said to be a Symantec representative

Oracle Asks for Retrial Against SAP in TomorrowNow Case

A federal judge last year lowered the award to Oracle by US$1 billion

Auto Industry: Super Bowl Plus for Obama?

CFO Ammann speaks up in WSJ for GM as job-creator, while Eastwood talks up Chrysler in Super Bowl ad.

Spectros 2011 sales revenue increases 69%

Spectros announced today that year-over-year sales revenue rose 69% in 2011. This is the fourth year in a row for double-digit revenue growth for Spectros since the current T-Stat Oximeter was launched in 2008.

Clinical Cancer Research publishes results of Aduro's ANZ-100 and CRS-207 Phase 1 studies

Aduro BioTech, Inc. is pleased to announce the publication of two therapeutic cancer vaccine Phase 1 studies in Clinical Cancer Research. In the article, which was featured as one of the highlights of the issue, Dr. Dung Le et al. reported that intravenous administration of ANZ-100 and CRS-207 was well tolerated in subjects with advanced, treatment-refractory cancers.

Ultrasound makes arthritis evaluation and treatment quicker and more accurate

Ultrasound is transforming the way arthritis is diagnosed and treated, making evaluation and treatment quicker and more accurate. The new approach is dubbed fast arthritis sonographic evaluation and treatment, or FAST, by rheumatologists at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center who are leading its development.

Antiretroviral therapy does not increase severity of psychiatric disorders

A study of more than 300 children and adolescents with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) revealed no association between specific antiretroviral therapy and the severity of psychiatric disorders.

NYU Langone experts to present at American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons annual meeting

Experts from the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at NYU Langone Medical Center will present their latest research and clinical findings on diseases of the muscle, tendon, bone and joint at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS), February 7-11 in San Francisco, California.

ECNP expresses deep concern at withdrawal by AstraZeneca from neuroscience drug research

The European College of Neuropsychopharmacology expresses its deep concern at the recently announced withdrawal by AstraZeneca from neuroscience drug research. AstraZeneca's pull-out is especially disturbing given that it follows a series of similar withdrawals in the last two years by major pharmaceutical companies. There is a growing sense that neuroscience in Europe is now facing a severe crisis.

BD first quarter revenues increase 2.5% to $1.888 billion

BD, a leading global medical technology company, today reported quarterly revenues of $1.888 billion for the first fiscal quarter ended December 31, 2011, representing an increase of 2.5 percent from the prior-year period, or 2.4 percent on a foreign currency-neutral basis.

Three new targeted drugs can lead to fatal cancer complications

Treatment with three relatively new "targeted" cancer drugs has been linked to a slightly elevated chance of fatal side effects, according to a new analysis led by scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. They added that the risk remains low, but should be taken into account by physicians and patients.

ED can lead to potential cardiovascular disease in men

More than 12 million men have type 2 diabetes and that number is growing at an alarming rate. A little talked about complication of this disease is erectile dysfunction (ED), which can lead to an even more serious condition.

Proactive test-and-treat case-detection strategy can combat malaria

As researchers work to eliminate malaria worldwide, new strategies are needed to find and treat individuals who have malaria, but show no signs of the disease. The prevalence of asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic malaria can be as high as 35 percent in populations with malaria and these asymptomatic individuals can serve as a reservoir for spreading malaria even in areas where disease transmission has declined.