Don Reisinger

After more than a year of an on-again, off-again courtship with many twists and turns, Microsoft and Yahoo finally announced a search partnership that will see Microsoft Bing power Yahoo search, with 88 percent of the search advertising revenue going to Yahoo in the initial stages of the 10-year partnership agreement. The deal is a […]

Twitter is quickly becoming the most important social communication platform on the Web. Although Facebook still dominates the social networking arena, Twitter is leading the way in communications. It’s a social phenomenon. And although some organizations are still trying to decide if they should allow employees to engage in tweeting, the British government has made […]

Rumors abound that the Apple Tablet, the subject of much debate over the past few months, will finally be making its way to store shelves sooner than some might think.According to a report in the Financial Times, Apple is readying its tablet for this year’s holiday season or, at the very latest, the first quarter […]

Open source. It’s the fruit of much labor by many people. It follows the tech world’s latest trend of wanting everything and anything to be “open.” It could also be a boon for the enterprise.Open source, by its very nature, makes a program’s code available to companies, consumers, or organizations to modify it as they […]

Apple announced its quarterly financial data July 21 and, once again, the Mac and iPod maker is performing extremely well.According to Apple, its quarterly profit has risen to $1.23 billion, representing a 12 percent gain year-over-year. It beat Wall Street estimates on revenue and earnings per share. Once again, the company is one of the […]

Yahoo investor Carl Icahn, who owns 5 percent of the company, said in a recent interview that he still supports a search deal between Microsoft and Yahoo. Icahn said he believes that by engaging in such a deal, Yahoo could save some cash and become more solvent. At the same time, Microsoft could enjoy far […]

The cell phone industry is an interesting space. It’s highly competitive. It has all the features of a mature, yet growing market. And because it has so many products available, few phones are able to make a mark for longer than a few weeks (except, of course, for the iPhone). But it’s because of that […]

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer has been a lightning rod for controversy as of late. The software giant has been facing intense pressure from the European Union not to bundle its browser with Windows 7 when the operating system is released later in 2009. Opera Software has continued pelting Microsoft with criticism about policies that Opera claims […]

Social networking is an important part of the lives of most Web surfers. After people get home from work, they go to their computers, see what their friends are up to on Facebook, MySpace and Twitter and go about their lives. There’s just one problem: those social networks are being hit hard with some serious […]

Although desktops were, at one point, integral to business operations at practically every organization around the world, today, they’re on their way to becoming a relic of the past. Those desktops that were in almost every cubicle are being replaced with slim, lightweight and portable notebooks. According to a recent study by research firm iSuppli, […]