With technology increasingly intertwined with all aspects of business, CNET@Work can help you — from prosumers to small businesses with fewer than five employees — get started. For Todd Spodek, the decision to equip his New York law firm with Google‘s software applications boiled down a single need: collaboration. “We settled on Google because it …

With technology increasingly intertwined with all aspects of business, CNET@Work can help you — prosumers to small businesses with fewer than five employees — get started. A domain name is a company’s virtual real estate on the internet, and it’s naturally best if it’s memorable. This ranks as one of the biggest decisions a small company or startup will face, …

New Motorola COO Rick Osterloh Weinberg-Clark Photography Rick Osterloh will take over as president and chief operating officer of Motorola, now part of Google but soon to become part of Lenovo. Osterloh, who previously ran Motorola’s product management group, replaces Dennis Woodside, who departed the company earlier this year to join Dropbox as COO. “We are pleased to learn that …

New screens for new iPhones are said to be in the works. CNET The next incarnation of the iPhone will launch with a 4.7-inch screen while a 5.5-inch version may be delayed, according to Reuters. In a post out of Tokyo early Tuesday, Reuters quoted unnamed supply chain sources saying that Apple’s suppliers — Japan Display Inc, Sharp Corp and …

The Wall Street Journal has a scoopy item out this evening suggesting that Comcast and Apple are discussing the potential for a streaming television service — one in which Apple’s set-top box would receive “special treatment” to allow it to avoid congestion. The report, citing unnamed sources, said that the discussions are in the preliminary stages and and so could …

Yang Yuanqing may not yet be a household name outside of China, but within the space of a week, he has closed a couple of multibillion deals to turn Lenovo into one of the technology world’s most important hardware companies. Not that Lenovo was a shrinking violet until now. The company already was the world’s biggest personal computer maker after …

In the latest tit-for-tat in the escalating jockeying between carriers, Verizon has modified its Edge payment and early upgrade plan. Until now, customers had to wait six months to upgrade. Now they can do it after 30 days. A Verizon Wireless store in Arlington, Texas. Verizon Wireless The move comes shortly after rival T-Mobile announced at the Consumer Electronics Show …

During his quieter moments — assuming they even exist any more — outgoing Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer might be excused for wondering why the company he has led for the last decade, blessed with enormous wealth and so many smart people, has had to struggle so long and hard for its tech cred. Even if Microsoft’s board lucks into …

Another day, another kick suffered by BlackBerry, once one of the world’s leading smartphone brands, as we get word that Britain’s The Times newspaper has pulled its mobile app available for the Blackberry because of flagging interest. “While the Times’ app on iPhone, iPad, and Android continues to be very successful, very few people use the app on their BlackBerry,” …

A sucker throwing good money after bad? Or a quintessential financial sharpie who can spot value where others only see a lost cause? In the coming months, we ought to have a clearer idea after Monday’s surprise offer by Fairfax Financial to acquire woebegone smartphone maker BlackBerry for about $4.7 billion in cash. But the man at the center of …