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Looking to get alerts on your mobile phone when a stock hits a buy or sell point? And then quickly execute a trade with a few taps on your handset based on that data? "There's an app for that," says Apple's marketing campaign for the iPhone. Indeed, software applications, or apps, are popping up on all sorts of smart phones, including Research In Motion's (RIMM) BlackBerry and devices running Google's (GOOG) Android mobile operating system.

Most serious investors know about the large financial portals run by Yahoo (YHOO), Microsoft (MSFT) and Google (GOOG). Those megaportals — which offer everything from real-time stock quotes to analysts' ratings to industry news — can be powerful additions to any investor's tool kit. But no single site can be all things to all investors. Like makers of specialty tools, dozens of smaller investment sites offer lots of information catering to

Analysts say the Motorola Droid, which service provider Verizon Wireless starting selling Nov. 9, is the latest big competitor in the fast-evolving U.S. smart phone market. Droid is the first phone out that uses the new Version 2.0 of the Google-backed Android operating system. It's received mostly positive reviews. Eight Android Version 1.0 phones are on the market. Google (GOOG) says as many as 18 Android phones could be on the market by year's

Google Inc.(NASDAQ: GOOG) may be testing a new search interface on randon users.

The new user interface seems akin to the Google Wave-inspired interface for Gmail, and is clearer and bolder than the current interface. It also promises more options for the user. While deployment may be quite some time away, seeing some changes after so many years of status quo is quite pleasant.

As Lenovo steps back into the mobile business, it's becoming clear that Android will democratize the hardware for mobile phones allowing the PC makers (both Dell and Acer are using it) to make a compelling handsets and put the hurt on traditional handset makers.

While its chief competitor Oracle Corp. (ORCL) is laboring to smooth out the wrinkles in its merger with Sun Microsystems Inc. (JAVA), International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) is streamlining its core business and fulfilling its mandate for innovation. IBM - which had itself attempted to buy Sun but balked at the hefty price ...

Salesforce.com (CRM) entered into a number of strategic alliances that are expected to enhance the cloud computing service and solutions offered by it. The first among these strategic alliances is with enterprise IT management company CA Inc. (CA). This partnership is expected to deliver agile development management in the cloud on the Force.com platform. The CA Agile [...]

(CRM) Salesforce Partners with CA & BMC

BloggingStocks: Google (GOOG) changed the game of many global GPS appliance makers this month by announcing a completely free and quite capable GPS product as part of the Motorola Droid handset announced and now being sold by Verizon Wireless. ... Read more

Google is a modern day deity. And I believe the pages of history will document the prominent gods as such: Apollo... Zeus... Google. The company quickly grew from start-up obscurity into a search giant. It's cornered e-mail with gmail. It has a web browser. Google Wave is all the rage. An operating system is coming soon. And, oh yeah, they have a solid candidate in the wireless phone arena, as well.[More...]

Schaeffer's analyst Morgan Searcy takes a look at news on the Street before the market open.

Tom Dorsey and Tammy DeRosier - An Anniversary of Sorts

Schaeffer's analyst Morgan Searcy takes a look at news on the Street before the market open.

Schaeffer's Andrea Kramer takes a look at unusual option activity on the Street

Tom Dorsey and Tammy DeRosier - The World Bullish Percent Reverses Down