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Hackers turn Google's April Fool's prank into reality

Mon, 04/04/2011 - 22:33 by Jaspreet Virk

Did Google ever imagine that its Gmail Motion prank played on April Fool's day would soon become reality?

HP PCs to come with pre-installed webOS

Thu, 03/10/2011 - 13:57 by Yasser Ali

Come 2012 and you can easily expect every HP computer out there to come with webOS pre-installed.

Verizon confirms: iPhone 4 to arrive in Feb

Wed, 01/12/2011 - 16:29 by Anter Prakash Singh

After a long wait, Apple’s Steve Jobs has finally agreed to allow the iPhone on other carrier!

Android phones in China face virus threat

Sun, 01/02/2011 - 15:06 by Anter Prakash Singh

Android smartphone users in China face threat from malicious malware that capable of transferring personal data of the users to remote computers, Lookout Mobile Security reported in its blog.

5 Small Caps to Juice Your Portfolio

Fri, 12/31/2010 - 15:08 by Rex Moore

This article is part of our Rising Star Portfolios series. When last we chatted, before the holidays slowed things down, we were screening for great small caps. Today, we'll take a closer look at our candidates and narrow the field.

The Best Stocks for 2011: Yahoo!

Fri, 12/31/2010 - 06:35 by Andrew Bond

 

This article is part of our "Best Stocks for 2011" series where our Foolish writers pick their top stock ideas for the year ahead. Click here to see a review of last year's picks and our 12 recommendations for the year ahead.




RightNow Shares Popped: What You Need to Know

Thu, 12/30/2010 - 12:05 by Brian D. Pacampara

Although we don't believe in timing the market or panicking over market movements, we do like to keep an eye on big changes -- just in case they're material to our investing thesis.

Best of Microsoft Kinect Hacks

Mon, 12/27/2010 - 09:55 by Gabriel Perna

Did you find a Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT)Kinect under your Christmas tree this year? If you love to tinker, then it could be much more than a game controller.

3 Top Stocks at Half Price

Fri, 12/24/2010 - 08:07 by Rich Duprey

 You love buying your shirts when they go on sale. And who can resist a buy-one-get-one-free offer? So when our stocks go on sale, why do we bemoan their low prices? Smart investors like Warren Buffett or Marty Whitman love it when their stocks are suddenly selling at bargain-basement prices. For them, these companies become no-brainer buys.

 

Google Stumbles in TV Playground

Tue, 12/21/2010 - 12:23 by Priyanka Banerjee

Google (Nasdaq: GOOG), the company known for innovation, has stumbled in what was to be its main offering this holiday season. It has asked several of its partners to delay their rollouts of Google TV so that the company can further refine it.

Maybe Next Christmas, Google TV

Thu, 12/16/2010 - 12:53 by Rick Aristotle ...

 After a rocky two months, Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) isn't giving up on Google TV. In fact, this morning the company is upgrading its platform in four meaningful ways:

 

A Salesforce That Gets Corporate Social Responsibility

Thu, 12/16/2010 - 10:12 by Andrew Bond

Corporate social responsibility doesn't have the same buzzworthiness that it did in the late '90s to early 2000s. During better economic times, companies could put more dollars into buoying the newly minted triple bottom line. A decade and a great recession later, CSR has taken a backseat to moral hazard and too big to fail, but I have always been amused by the emerging importance of companies acting responsibly and what that actually meant. A company like McDonald's (NYSE: MCD) is praised for its CSR efforts, yet it serves some of the unhealthiest food imaginable. General Electric (NYSE:GE) runs advertising campaigns promoting its clean fuel and smart grid efforts, yet it is known as one of the country's largest polluters. Most people are also familiar with BP (NYSE:BP) -- I mean Beyond Petroleum, the "clean" oil company.