By Rob Mayeda Everyone loves a great against-all-odds story. From religious fables to present day sporting events we can remember nearly every instance.  Perhaps it was the story of David armed with only a slingshot to take down the mighty …

Do you remember not too long ago hopping into your car, driving, across town (when gas was $1- something) to your local retail store and searching the computer department to purchase a cereal box that contained between 2- 8 3.5” …

Cloud computing technology offers both time- and money-saving benefits, which makes it a great fit for small business. As cloud computing benefits become more tangible, more small businesses are moving to the cloud. Still, as with any technology, you don’t …

Your next Apple TV could be more like the Microsoft Kinect than a normal set-top box. Apple has just filed one insanely cool series of patents on 3D display technology. Essentially, Apple has detailed 3D gesture and imaging designs of …

Microsoft kicks off its BUILD conference in Anaheim, Calif., on Tuesday, where it will give an extended preview of its next operating system, which is being referred to as Windows 8. The company is talking to its developers about what …

Cloud computing discussions invariably begin with the “IPS” taxonomy: Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service and Software as a Service. This taxonomy has the virtue of being comprehensible and neatly partitioning assessment requirements: Want an application? Look to …

Analysis: Understanding who needs to do what can sometimes be tricky. Over the last two decades, the now-famous 1993 New Yorker cartoon showing two canines in front of a PC with one saying to the other, “On the internet, nobody …

To hear the experts tell it, cloud computing may be the most innovative technology development in decades, or should be dismissed as a marketing tool for existing know-how that’s as old as computers themselves. We can’t settle the debate on …

Amazon’s Android tablet device hasn’t even been announced yet and research firm Forrester is already betting on its success. “If it’s launched at the right price with enough supply, we see Amazon’s tablet easily selling 3 million to 5 million …

By Adrian Kingsley-Hughes | August 19, 2011, 10:55am PDT Summary: Lesson One: Don’t launch a product, launch an ecosystem. So, HP’s TouchPad tablet went from launch to having the plug pulled on it in 49 days. What lessons can other …