eBay is a company in transition. And that transition period has reared its ugly head today with the announcement of the firing of 10% of its workforce, which equates to roughly 1,000 being put out of work. But at the same time, eBay has gone on a spending spree of over $1 billion, acquiring Bill Me Later, and two leading Danish online classifieds sites.

Outsourcing can mean many things.  Most people when they think of outsourcing, think of all of the jobs that have gone overseas to China and India.  Talking to a customer service representative located oversees has been  a frustrating experience for most people.

Sony has announced the PRS-700 e-book reader, replete with a touchscreen interface, in advance of the highly anticipated Kindle 2 from Amazon. Does Sony’s new reader have what it takes to edge out the Kindle?

CD/DVD authoring software was once the domain of computer nerds and pirates, but this latest version of Nero has its sights set firmly on the mainstream. It’s clearly positioned as a tool for the whole family with an array of “multimedia” features. It’s actually a multimedia suite than simply a CD/DVD authoring system.

If you’re currently resident in the UK, expect your life to become a lot less private over the next few years. The British Government is considering plans to spy on every phone call, text, and email sent and received. All in the name of national security.

Yes, while it’s not as impressive as selling a billion songs, it’s still quite a feat nonetheless.  It took iTunes over three years to sell one billion songs at $.99, and MySpace Music has already hit that milestone in under a week. 

Not since the IBM supercomputer “Deep Blue” beat world chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997, have computers been regarded as being able to “think” at a human’s capacity.  Very soon, six computers are about to converse with human interrogators in an experiment to prove once and for all that they can.

Love her or hate her, you have to admit that Sarah Palin has made the US presidential election a whole lot more interesting. The attractive, gun-touting, God-fearing governor of Alaska is just what the US needs, or doesn’t, depending on your political outlook.

After the EU announced its measures to get telcos to reduce roaming charges, ASEAN may be following suit. The issue was brought up at a recent meeting of ASEAN heads in Bali.

Is that it? Seriously? I have to say I’m slightly disappointed, and that’s coming from someone who isn’t a fan of Apple and has never bought an Apple product, though the iPhone does have some appeal. It seems the Apple ‘Brick’ that has been the subject of intense speculation for the past few weeks is actually a new manufacturing process.

The Amazon Kindle is doing phenomenally well in terms of sales and consumer knowledge of the product. So what better time than now to launch its successor, the Amazon Kindle 2.

As someone who is currently in the market for a new big screen, LCD, HD television, any future developments in this department are of the utmost interest to me. So while a new technology that sees TV and computer screens thin and bendy enough to fit inside your pocket needs a lot of work before it hits consumers, even the fact that it exists intrigues me.

This is an exciting day for the Chevy Volt. For Americans, its purchase price essentially just dropped $7,500 in the form of a new tax credit just signed into law. That may be the difference consumers need to launch the Chevy Volt to stardom. That is, unless a competitor like Toyota captures the market before GM can produce enough Volts.

It’s looking as if the Justice Department could make a final decision on the Google-Yahoo advertising deal next week. But an influential politician says the deal should kept under close scrutiny even if they get the thumbs up.

The Copyright Royalty Board has frozen the rate digital retailers must pay to artists for the next five years after a showdown with Apple. The largest digital music retailer threatened to shutter its iTunes service if it was forced to pay a higher rate.

Once again Barack Obama and the folks working on his campaign team have demonstrated their eagerness to embrace technology powered by the web. But this time the Obama campaign is taking its message mobile, and doing it in a big way. Developers on his team have built an application for the Apple iPhone that motivates users to call their friends and talk politics.

No-one likes advertising breaks during their favourite television programme, and these days there seem to be more than ever. But technology such as TiVo, and Sky+, as well as the emergence of the Web as a serious threat to mainstream TV, means that broadcasters and advertisers are having to look at alternative means of getting their adverts noticed.