Michelle Megna

Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) is doing a tech version of the Texas Two-Step with Plano, Tx.-based Perot Systems, grabbing the IT services firm in an acquisition that’s worth $3.9 billion and is designed expand the hardware maker’s reach. Under the terms of the purchase agreement, Dell will commence a tender offer to acquire all of the […]

In a letter to the FCC, Google says Apple rejected its Internet phone application, contradicting the iPhone maker’s earlier statement that it was still reviewing Google Voice for sale at the App Store. The conflicting statements were revealed today as Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and the FCC made the search giant’s regulatory filing public by posting […]

Palm’s (NASDAQ: PALM) fiscal first-quarter 2010 earnings showed the company narrowly meeting shipment expectations for its flagship Palm Pre — but still posting a net loss for the quarter and lowered estimates for the next three months. The industry has been watching to see whether the pioneering device maker can make a comeback on the […]

SPRXmobile’s Layar technology in actionSource: SPRXmobile Augmented reality, or the ability to overlay information on real-world views seen through a smartphone camera lens, is poised to become the next hot trend in mobile apps. Until recently augmented reality (AR) was mainly relegated to college and other research labs. That’s changing, as AR is starting to […]

eBay and the investment group that inked a deal to buy its Skype unit are facing a lawsuit, with the Internet phone service’s founders charging that eBay and Skype’s buyers are violating copyright law. Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, who sold Skype to eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) in 2005 for $2.6 billion under the terms of […]

Facebook and Twitter see the highest adoption rate in social media marketing while customer reviews rank No. 1 for increasing sales and customer engagement, according to a study released Wednesday. Retailers are revving up their social media marketing efforts as the past six months show aggressive adoption of the emerging trend with Facebook and Twitter […]

Developers can now get their hands on Donut. The new SDK for version 1.6 of Google’s Android mobile OS — a release codenamed “Donut” — has made its debut today, offering developers improvements that will extend the reach of mobile apps written for Google’s open source platform to more wireless devices and networks. Android 1.6 […]

With the proliferation of hot new smartphones such as the iPhone 3GS and Palm Pre comes a dilemma for enterprise IT: employees are insisting on using their favorite mobile devices for business, even if their companies don’t support those devices and can’t secure them. And yet, most IT staff want to accommodate their fellow employees […]

Motorola today unveiled a new mobile handset targeted at the field service worker and boasting some key enhancements. Chief among those new features in the Motorola (NYSE: MOT) MC9500, introduced today at a press event in New York City, is the ability for enterprise users to select the 3.5G network that best suits their needs […]

Nokia’s spending spree on small, complementary tech firms continues as the Finnish wireless giant’s GPS mapping unit today bought a location-based mobile ad firm. Navteq, the Chicago-based Nokia (NYSE: NOK) subsidiary that provides digital maps, traffic and location data for wireless devices and vehicles, today acquired Acuity Mobile, whose embedded mobile advertising platform enables location-targeted […]

Google Voice for the iPhone has yet to be sanctioned by Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), but Palm (NASDAQ: PALM) has embraced the Internet phone program by green-lighting a free third-party version for its smartphones. Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) VoIP call-routing service, which is also available in Android and BlackBerry applications, offers users a centralized platform handling a […]

Deutsche Telekom, owner of T-Mobile, could be angling to scoop up Sprint in a bid to improve its overall bottom line by expanding its U.S.-based business. German-based Deutsche Telekom (NYSE: DT) asked banking advisors to evaluate a multi-billion dollar bid for Sprint (NYSE: S), the No. 3 mobile phone company in the U.S., according to […]