Find out why Joshua Burke believes that the 10.1-inch Toshiba Thrive is the best best business-grade tablet on the market today.

We always knew Facebook was big, but until the social network filed papers to become a publicly traded company, we didn't know exactly how big. Facebook is very close to hitting the one billion user mark, and as predicted, that will probably happen in 2012. The company also turned a tidy profit to the tune of $1 billion in 2011. More than half of Facebook's monthly active users visit the social network from mobile devices, and about 80 percent of Facebook's fans are outside the U.S. and Canada. read more

Facebook's decision to become a public company is seen as a bellwether for Web 2.0 stock offerings, but what will it mean for the social networking giant's 800 million users, and for the companies that build third-party apps for the site? read more

The latest figures from e-skills UK show that 85 percent of Information Technology Management for Business (ITMB) students find employment within six months of graduation, with the rest going onto further study within the same period.

Tim Cook made his first major hire yesterday since taking over the company in August, bringing in the CEO of a struggling British electronics chain to lead Apple's own retail operation. read more

Whether you like it or not, Facebook Timeline is becoming mandatory. Here's CIO.com's complete guide on everything you need to know -- including first steps and privacy changes -- to help ease the transition.

Technology job cuts did surge in the second half of 2011, raising concerns about whether the upward trend will continue into 2012. - Despite a surge in tech-sector downsizing in the second half of 2011, the number of job cuts announced by these firms last year plunged to the lowest level ever recorded in tracking going back to 1997, according to the latest report on technology sector job cuts released Monday by outplacement firm ...

Apple's net profit more than doubled, as did sales of its iPhones and iPads

From technologies born out of gaming companies to hardware waterproofing products, we find some gems at the Consumer Electronics Show that CIOs will be glad to welcome to their IT shops. read more

Salesforce on Monday said that Vivek Kundra, who was the first person to serve as CIO of the U.S. federal government, has joined the company as executive vice president of emerging markets. read more

Google has appointed Diane Greene, a co-founder and former CEO of VMware, to its board of directors and audit committee.

IBM received 6,180 U.S. patents in 2011, setting a record for most patents in a given year and making 2011 the 19th consecutive year IBM has led the world in gaining U.S. patents. - IBM has done it again. For the 19th consecutive year, IBM has led the world in patents, gaining 6,180 patents in 2011. Big Blue set a record in not only leading the world in U.S. patents, but also being the first company to receive 6,000 patents in a given year. IBMs 6,180 patents for 2011 quadrupl...

We knew it was coming , and now it's here, Verizon's Droid 4 is finally here and it's running Android 2.3.5 with an Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade coming later. As with most phones these days, it strikes a slim profile for a QWERTY slider -- it's only half an inch thick -- but Moto managed to squeeze a 1.2GHz dual-core CPU, 1GB of RAM, and 16GB of memory underneath its 4-inch qHD display. Naturally ...

The Honeycomb bee has lost its buzz. (Credit: Google) Yesterday, Tech Republic published a great editorial making the case that Android tablets are a failure. I don't entirely agree, but as we head into CES 2012, one thing is certain: there will be no more talk of Android 3.0 (aka Honeycomb) as anything other than a disappointment. The future of Android, for tablet and smartphone alike, is ...

With ultrabooks poised to be the hottest devices to come out of this year's Consumer Electronics Show, analysts say the new hardware should be a boon for enterprise IT shops.