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• You love your tablet - now it's official

  By Jeff Bertolucci | 23 April, 2012 23:37

  Your tablet is a homebody.  And you love it more than any other tech gizmo in the house.

• Mobile shoppers prefer websites to apps

  By John P. Mello Jr. | 13 March, 2012 03:49

  Smartphone owners prefer to use retail websites, rather than retail apps, when researching products on the fly, comparing prices, finding retail locations, and redeeming coupons, according to a survey released by Nielsen.

• Smartphone sales boom - who needs a laptop?

  By Jeff Bertolucci | 07 February, 2012 01:47

  Will your next laptop be a smartphone? The idea isn't as crazy as it sounds. In the coming decade, mobile phones will gain capabilities that make them suitable replacements for the conventional desktop/laptop computer.    

• Tablets will kill laptops, say nearly half of Americans

  By Melanie Pinola | 12 January, 2012 10:22

  Although super-thin Ultrabook laptops are all the rage at CES this year, the majority of surveyed adults in one poll predict the tablet will ultimately take the place of the laptop altogether.

• Smartphones on rampage: next, camcorders

  By Brennon Slattery | 10 January, 2012 03:57

  The smartphone is on a device-killing rampage, and camcorders are next on its hit list.

• Datacentre security an investment, not a cost: Frost & Sullivan

  By Hafizah Osman | 18 July, 2011 11:44

  Analyst, Frost & Sullivan, claims local datacentre security should be considered an investment instead of as a cost.

• Search engines ruin our memory, make us smarter

  By Paul Suarez | 17 July, 2011 09:05

  By now you've probably heard that Google and other search engines are making us think differently. Columbia University researcher Betsy Sparrow said we are remembering less information if it is readily available online, but we are remembering where we can find that information on the Internet.

• NASA May Launch Boat to Saturn's Largest Moon

  By James Mulroy | 13 May, 2011 09:15

  Have you ever wanted to sail the -290 degree Fahrenheit seas of Titan? Yea, me neither. But thankfully NASA has come up with a method to sail the aforementioned seas, all while sitting at NASA HQ drinking a hot cup of cocoa.

• Inside the labs at Microsoft, HP and IBM

  By James Niccolai, Nancy Gohring and Joab Jackson | 30 November, 2010 08:48

  At Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard and IBM, investment in research and development is a reflection of corporate culture. This three-part piece examines the different approaches taken by each of these influential tech companies. Hewlett-Packard prides itself on its pragmatism, while Microsoft holds the flag of basic research aloft -- and IBM continues to file more patent applications, year after year, than any other tech company.

• 5 awesome free tools for small businesses

  By Keir Thomas | 13 November, 2010 11:16

  These are frugal times for business, and an organization starting out might have very little money to spend on IT. Even if you're part of an established business, you're probably feeling the pinch.

• 5 fabulous free tools for small businesses

  By Keir Thomas | 13 November, 2010 18:32

  These are frugal times for business, and an organization starting out might have very little money to spend on IT. Even if you're part of an established business, you're probably feeling the pinch.

• IDC: 1 billion mobile devices will go online by 2013

  By Agam Shah | 10 December, 2009 08:54

  The growing demand for online applications could push the number of mobile devices accessing the Internet past 1 billion by 2013, IDC said in a survey issued on Wednesday.

• Study finds big rise in job cuts planned at IT shops

  By Chris Kanaracus | 14 July, 2009 04:06

  Forty-six percent of North American IT shops are planning to cut positions this year, up from 24 percent last year, with one-quarter planning to slash staff by 10 percent or more, according to a newly released study by Computer Economics.

• Survey: Even Linux-loving firms only deploy it to one-fifth of employees

  By Eric Lai | 22 May, 2009 04:14

  Half of the businesses that have deployed Linux on the desktop have rolled it out to less than 20% of their workers due to perceived and real obstacles, according to a survey released today by UK analyst firm, Freeform Dynamics.

• In tight times, IT managers more likely to postpone than cancel a project

  By Matt Hamblen | 15 May, 2009 02:30

  IT managers have canceled outright fewer client computing projects during the recession than expected, preferring instead to postpone or scale them back, according to a Gartner Inc. survey of 475 IT administrators at large companies in nine countries.