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(News) Microsoft Sues Salesforce.com in Battle for CRM
(News) Feds Threaten Apple's Control of iPhone and iPad
(News) Buyer Beware when Purchasing Used Software
(News) Oracle-Sun Merger Could Benefit Small Business
(News) Oracle has no plans to launch a competing service to Amazon's EC2, an executive said Wednesday.
(News) Oracle has promised Sun customers market-leading support, but at what cost?
(Reviews) Thomas Jefferson, a compulsive note-taker, would have loved Eastgate Systems' Tinderbox, an innovative and endlessly versatile tool for recording, cataloging...
(News) As part of its new iPad tablet unveiled Wednesday, Apple has come out with an e-book reading app. Dubbed iBooks, the app lets you read e-books on the iPad's...
(News) The new version of Sybase's flagship database system software, released Wednesday, will be the first version that can be run entirely within working memory.
(News) Oracle has sued third-party software maintenance provider Rimini Street claiming it illegally downloaded material from the software vendor's support Web site.
(News) You might think you can't fully customize iWeb's themes. You can, but it's not easy. It involves making extensive changes to documents inside the iWeb...
(News) Talend has released an open-source MDM (master data management) suite.
(News) Recosoft has announced the release of the latest edition of PDF2Office Professional. Version 5.0, which offers Snow Leopard support, now converts PDFs to...
(News) It's fun to wear your own artwork on a T-shirt, and easier than ever to do so without resorting to poor-quality, iron-on transfers. Services such as Zazzle...
(News) How to Save on Microsoft Business Software
(News) Infor is surprisingly low-profile given its size, but that could soon change.
(News) The TOR Project is advising users update to a new version of the software following a hack that compromised three of its servers.
(News) YouTube made waves Wednesday evening when it announced a Flash-less HTML5 video player. And now, mere months after rolling out a mobile-friendly site for iPhone...
(News) SAP is still doing a KPI program for its Enterprise Support service - in a sense.
(News) The European Commission granted Oracle an unconditional approval to take over Sun, following a controversial and widely criticized examination of the deal.
(News) IBM is buying a consulting firm that specializes in analytics for national security and defense agencies.
(News) I guess most people don't really punch a physical clock anymore, but if you're a business owner who needs an up-to-date way to track your employees, the...
(News) Microsoft will release SQL Server 2008 R2 in May.
(News) Samsung will make its app store available to users in Brazil and China by the end of this month as it continues to expand globally.
(News) Ballmer: Microsoft Will Stay in China
(News) SAP announced Thursday that customers would once again have a choice of support options.
(News) ZTE will launch smartphones based on the Android operating system in the first quarter of this year.
(News) Adobe Illustrator's Live Trace feature is a phenomenal way to transform a raster image into a vector image--or to put it more plainly--to turn a photograph into...
(News) If the hard drive in your Mac starts misbehaving, you can run Apple's Disk Utility (or any of numerous third-party utilities) to repair it. But what if the drive...
(News) Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft will invest US$250 million over three years on a product integration strategy meant to "significantly simplify" technology...
(News) A $500 million debt offering from Salesforce.com indicates it may go on a shopping spree, but analysts have differing opinions on what's in store.
(News) To FileMaker, Bento is more than just an option for individual users who need the organizational power of a database application but might otherwise be...
(News) Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard will invest together to prepare customers for "the next generation of business computing" related to IT infrastructure software
(News) Indian outsourcers are seeing a pick up in business; as globally the IT market picks up
(News) Apple has released Logic Pro 9.1 and MainStage 2.1, major updates to Logic Studio (2009) ( Macworld rated 4.5 out of 5 mice ). Available via Software Update, the...
(News) Memeo and Google today announced MemeoConnect for Google Docs. The cross-platform app allows Google Apps Premier Edition customers to sync documents of any type...
(News) Google Docs will now let users store any type of file.
(News) A new Forrester report paints a positive picture of 2010 tech spending.
(Reviews) So you've joined the growing ranks of the unemployed. Obviously, you're not alone. You need to find a job soon, though, because you need to pay your monthly data...
(News) Microsoft on Monday announced a new ERP suite aimed at speciality retailers.
(News) Problems with a Microsoft Web site that handles software licenses have left some businesses unable to activate and use their Microsoft apps for more than a...
(News) Peruse any story about Nuance Communications' voice-enabled iPhone apps, and it won't be long before an aggrieved iPod touch owner poses this question: Why won't...
(News) SAP kicks off its sustainability marketing effort at the National Retail Federation Conference.
(News) Progress is buying BPM vendor Savvion for US$49 million.
(News) Oracle's upcoming patch update includes 24 fixes.
(News) Welcome to the final installment of Macworld's Design Basics series. So far, we've covered the importance of proximity (placing related information closer...
(News) BMC has purchased Java application deployment vendor Phurnace Software.
(News) Next week, Adobe Systems will begin testing new automatic software designed to make it easier for Reader and Acrobat users to keep their products up-to-date.
(News) New version of Groovy released
(Reviews) As I wrote back in September, Snow Leopard changes the rules regarding how documents you create are opened--at least for certain file types. Although the...
(News) Oracle has made its first acquisition of the year, buying data-quality vendor Silver Creek Systems.
(News) MySpace is now accepting submissions for its developer contest.
(News) EMC is digging deeper into GRC, announcing Monday it will acquire Archer Technologies.
(Reviews) A long, long time ago, in a galaxy light years away from the iPhone and iPod touch, I used to track consulting time using a Palm Pilot. To be honest, I can't...
(News) A campaign to 'save' MySQL by creator Monty Widenius is rapidly gaining momentum.
(News) Designers, writers, and other independent and/or indentured laborers will soon be able to get more things done on the road. Actually, to be more specific:...
(News) While it may be a stretch to characterize 2009 as a banner year for anything, the Mac creative community welcomed a variety of advances: new twists on old...
(News) I use the Stickies application as a catch-all for weird stuff I know I want to keep, but I'm not quite sure where I want to keep it. Eventually, I find homes for...
(News) We spent most of 2009 listening to an unending stream of information about the world's financial crisis. But not all the news was bad for Mac businesses. Here...
(News) Toshiba has developed a cell phone translation system for English, Chinese and Japanese.
(Reviews) Even in an age of MobileMe and Google calendars, there is still a need for stand-alone desktop personal information software. SOHO Organizer 8.11, a suite of...
(News) Oracle is being sued by software toolkit maker MB Technologies for fraud and copyright infringement.
(News) While you were sleeping through the past 12 months, Microsoft would like you to know that its Mac Business Unit (MacBU--or Mac Boo!, if you prefer) had quite a...
(News) Microsoft is updating its Dynamics ERP suites to accommodate changes in Europe's VAT law that take effect next year.
(News) Bento is Filemaker, Inc.'s database for Everyman. This easy-to-use application puts powerful relational database capabilities at your fingertips without...
(News) Oracle shed about 1,300 jobs in the second quarter, but isn't specifying how many were layoffs.
(News) Google has released the source code of the EtherPad hosted word-processing application it acquired earlier this month.
(News) A beta version of MySQL 5.5 has been released.
(News) Oracle's Q2 earnings topped analyst estimates, and an executive is confident the EU will approve its deal to buy Sun Microsystems.
(News) Canonical's CEO will vacate the position by March as the company takes on more commercial demands.
(News) If "my enemy's enemy is my friend" then Apple and Microsoft have plenty of reason to work together, starting with the iPhone.
(Reviews) TypeStyler is more than 20 years old, and to employ an overused but apt phrase, this version is definitely not your father's TypeStyler. The type-effects...
(Reviews) In 2005, I reviewed Nisus Writer Express and gave it good marks, while noting that it may not appeal anyone who needs the tools found in Microsoft Word. Since...
(News) IBM is buying BPM vendor Lombardi for an undisclosed sum.
(News) Adobe has published a security advisory offering advice on avoiding a brand-new Reader 0day attack.
(News) A new Apple Knowledge Base article confirms that iWork software (Pages, Keynote, and Numbers)--as well as iLife's iWeb '09--may crash when running under Mac OS X...
(News) HyperOffice is trying to expand its presence in the online collaboration space with an updated suite.
(News) Adobe is warning of a zero-day attack on its Reader and Acrobat software.
(News) French ERP vendor Nexedi is offering to take over management of the MySQL database.
(News) Apple's acquisition of Lala was the outcome of a brutal war with Google, a titanic struggle between behemoths straight out of a Ray Harryhausen film.
(News) MySQL creator Monty Widenius is urging users to help 'save' MySQL from Oracle.
(News) Microsoft has patched a problem that prevented opening Office 2003 documents encumbered with an access control technology.
(News) The Oracle-Sun merger seems set for EU regulatory approval after the Commission said that new promises to safeguard MySQL would lead to a satisfactory outcome
(News) Every year, we see literally hundreds of Mac products. From those hundreds, we pick a handful to receive our annual Editors' Choice Awards. We've already showed...
(News) The global recession took a major toll on enterprise software vendors and their customers in 2009, leading to flagging license sales and tight IT budgets. But...
(News) Microsoft and Swiss banking systems provider Temenos have joined forces to push SQL Server in the banking sector.
(News) SAP has announced a sustainability-tracking application for enterprises.
(News) Holiday time is here and what better way to remember it all than by using your iPhone to take shots of yourself with family and friends? Joby, Inc. has released...
(News) A Maryland gaming software developer settles a complaint that it was using unlicensed software.
(Reviews) It has been nearly two years since we first reviewed the MacSpeech Dictate speech-recognition program. At the time, the program was relatively new, being pretty...
(News) Apple Makes iPhone Developer News Available via RSS
(News) JSON gains ECMA standards blessing to help better compete with XML
(News) SAP is planning to open up its on-demand software development platform to third parties, but not just yet.
(News) Who doesn't love getting something special delivered to their door during the holidays? Newsletters are a great way to keep in touch, but time is running out to...
(News) MySpace is opening up to developers the public activity stream of its users.
(News) Mozilla Messaging on Tuesday released version 3 of its Thunderbird e-mail client. It comes with a tabbed user interface and improved search features.
(News) Google Apps is gaining a discussion forums component.
(News) A group of companies has formed a council in hopes of removing barriers to the use of hosted cloud computing.
(News) Cloud computing, virtualization, and open-source software could see big growth in the U.S. government, an analyst firm says.
(Reviews) Often, reviewing server software can be frustrating, especially for new releases. You rarely have the kind of time needed to do proper testing, to see how it...
(News) IBM has released Tivoli Monitoring as a hosted service for midsized companies, IBM said Tuesday.
(News) Adobe says it will patch a zero-day flaw in its Illustrator software by Jan. 8.
(News) Want to know what's being updated on the Internet right now? Turns out you're not alone, which is one reason why sites such as Twitter Search have become so...
(News) SAP is touting a rip-and-replace win over Oracle for its EPM (enterprise performance management) software.
(News) A new cloud-based service can crack passwords used by WPA networks.
(News) Tibco is the latest to get into the enterprise social networking game with Tibbr, a Twitter-like messaging system.
(News) Google has reversed its decision to discontinue its newly-acquired EtherPad application, opting instead to release it later as open source.
(News) Google has bought AppJet, maker of the EtherPad collaboration application, to bolster its Wave product.
(News) Google is getting into the DNS resolution business with a new service out in an experimental version, while Microsoft also is experimenting with a maps service...
(News) MySQL use is set to fall if Oracle manages to buy Sun, according to a new study.
(Reviews) If you work much with PDF files, you may find that Preview isn't quite powerful enough for your needs. While Preview, especially in 10.6, includes many...
(News) It may be a while before SAP convinces users its Enterprise Support program has real additional value, as well as additional cost.
(News) Readdle's Scanner Pro lets you turn the iPhone's built-in camera into a portable scanner for uploading documents onto your phone. EuroSmartz's Print n Share lets...
(News) Google will end Gears, an open-source plug-in project it launched two years ago to allow Web applications to function offline.
(News) The Season of Stuff is underway and because it is, we devote this episode of the Macworld Podcast to items that are nice to get and give. Specifically, we focus...
(News) SAP has big plans for an upcoming "virtual war room" decision-making tool.
(News) IBM opened its latest business analytics center in London on Tuesday, which will focus on services for the U.K.'s financial services sector.
(News) IBM has begun letting users of Amazon Web Services monitor their environments using Tivoli.
(News) Being social is a lot of work these days: you gotta stay on top of Twitter, entertain your Facebook friends with games, Digg your favorite articles, explore your...
(News) IBM has purchased database security vendor Guardium for an undisclosed sum.
(Reviews) Apple's App Store lately bears a curious resemblance to the American book trade of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. At...
(News) SAP's project to demonstrate the value of its Enterprise Support program is still on track despite the resignation of the two user group members leading it
(News) Data warehousing and analytics need not be expensive, thanks to fairly rich free products now available.
(News) Holiday newsletters bring your relatives and friends up to date about the year's events, but designing, printing, and mailing them can be a chore. This season...
(News) Open-source collaboration software vendor Open-Xchange is working on integrating the inbox with social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.
(Reviews) For syncing Macs with Windows Mobile smartphones, The Missing Sync for Windows Mobile from Mark/Space has been the top solution. Version 4 adds support for new...
(News) Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2010
(News) Twitter Turns on Geolocation Functionality
(Reviews) Getting the most out of the limited iPhone camera is one of the hurdles facing iPhone owners, and the sheer volume of camera apps in the App Store can be...
(Reviews) If Zengobi's Curio Professional 6.2 had a television commercial, I suspect it would be in the style of the late Billy Mays. Curio is a single application for...
(Reviews) We've all heard that every picture tells a story, but as we amass digital photos from our cameras, cell phones, and friends, sooner or later that narrative...
(News) Benioff Trumpets Force.com Platform's Success
(News) SubRosaSoft has released FileSalvage 7, an update to its data recovery software. The latest release offers Snow Leopard support and enables better recovery for...
(News) Sure, you copy (Command-C) and paste (Command-V) all the time. But did you know you can copy and paste a whole lot more than just text and graphics? When you...
(News) Salesforce Adds Social Networking Layer
(Reviews) Back in September, I reviewed SneakPeek Photo, a nifty plug-in that enhances Quick Look previews of image files, providing lots of useful information about...
(News) Salesforce.com on Wednesday unveiled Chatter, a new social networking application.
(Reviews) Version 2.4 was a major upgrade for the SyncMate sync utility, adding new features and new devices for the Mac to sync with. In addition to Pocket PCs and...
(News) The other day, we looked at ways to extract content from finished PDF files using Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro. But extracting content is not the only reason to revisit a...
(News) Mission-critical applications will not move to the cloud said SAP's CTO Vishal Sikka.
(News) Two scanning apps have been upgraded (finally) for use with Snow Leopard.
(News) IBM is hoping to goose Symphony usage with a new USB device deployment option.
(News) Elastra has announced the availability of its Cloud Server platform, which lets enterprises build private clouds for a more flexible IT environments.
(News) Google is providing templates for its Google Sites application for creating group Web pages and sites.
(News) Microsoft Cofounder Paul Allen Has Lymphoma
(News) A pair of new startups see potential in remote help desk support for SAP.
(News) I need to say it: PDF files are supposed to be the final format for content. You aren't supposed to need to edit anything once it's been turned into a PDF. In...
(News) Google, Amazon, Microsoft Fluff Up Their Clouds
(News) Since its inception,
 Google Voice has offered a wide range of features for managing your phone calls, with one glaring exception: calls passing through Google...
(News) Despite its powerful cataloging tools and easy-to-use editing features, many users are still nervous about committing their photo library to iPhoto. The...
(News) Google's Go could improve on existing programming languages by simplifying development without sacrificing application performance, but it will likely take years...
(News) Amazon Web Services is planning to add 'availability zones' in the Asia-Pacific region next year.
(News) One of the greatest thrills of a font designer is to see their font being used in a prominent place: a TV show, a commercial, billboard, or--even more...
(News) Infosys' BPO business to acquire a BPO company in the U.S.; focused on the insurance and financial services market.
(News) SAP issued a sternly worded rebuke to a recent Wall Street Journal editorial on Wednesday.
(News) Oracle's handling of a new support site switchover could have a lasting impact on customer relations.
(News) Microsoft on Tuesday issued updates for its venerable Office suite versions 2004 and 2008.
(News) Google has created a new programming language designed to simplify application development.
(News) Adobe Systems will lay off 680 staff in a move to cut costs, the company said Tuesday.
(News) Informatica released a major update to its data integration platform Tuesday.
(News) You're stuck in an airport terminal, desperate to check your e-mail, but your iPhone's battery is dead from having watched the entire 1980's classic
 Short...
(News) Oracle users are reporting major problems with a new support site that launched Nov. 6.
(News) The European Commission has issued its "statement of objections" over Oracle's planned acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Sun said Monday.
(News) Epicor on Monday announced a new program wherein the vendor and customers will share the savings or overruns on ERP projects.
(News) Is it worthwhile to be a vendor's customer reference?
(News) SAP's CEO sent Oracle CEO Larry Ellison a letter in September asking to discuss the Sun merger and other issues between the companies.
(News) As Microsoft launches Windows 7 and seeks to banish the ghost of its less-than-successful Vista OS, it is fighting to defend its primacy as the world's leading...
(News) When Microsoft first started talking about building mobile-phone software back in the late 1990s, handset makers that had been in the market for years scoffed...
(News) When Microsoft releases the next version of its productivity suite, Office 2010, it will be into a very different competitive landscape than the one Office 2007...
(News) Microsoft can't boast the ERP (enterprise resource planning) application revenue earned by giants SAP and Oracle, nor equal their breadth of technological...
(News) If you're like me, you've nearly worn out your Mac's Control key (often labeled CTRL), using it to open contextual menus. It's true that Control-clicking on...
(News) IBM sets up a top end consultancy center in Bangalore focused on business analytics
(News) If the size of your Google cloud is starting to look like Act IV of A Perfect Storm, you'll probably be interested in the company's latest feature, Google...
(News) Palm will introduce a Web-based development environment for WebOS applications, called Ares, by the end of this year.
(News) Blue Coat Systems is laying off of close to 20 percent of its staff and restructuring its business.
(News) IBM on Thursday announced new services for developing applications on public and private clouds.
(News) Google has released internal development tools as open source, hoping developers will find them useful in building faster Web applications.
(News) Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer laid out a futuristic vision for the next five to 10 years of technology in Tokyo on Thursday
(News) Microsoft is looking to expand ties with Japanese universities and has unveiled a multi-million dollar plan to deepen its research roots in the country.
(News) The app concept continues to grow: photo social-networking site Flickr has announced an App Garden where developers can show off their Flickr-friendly wares.
(News) HPC Vendor Pitches Tools to Build 'Private Cloud'
(News) Novell is developing an enterprise social networking suite that will be integrated with Google's Wave collaboration application.
(News) Google has enhanced Friend Connect by adding new social media features that Web publishers can integrated into their sites.
(News) Whether you can't afford Microsoft Word ( Macworld rated 3.5 out of 5 mice , $180), don't like it, or just find yourself without it on one of your Macs, Apple's...
(News) Microsoft and Taiwan's economics ministry plan to open a cloud computing center together in Taiwan.
(News) Critical Java and BlackBerry Desktop Software patches were issued Tuesday.
(News) Microsoft is offering Salesforce.com and Oracle CRM on Demand customers six months at no charge.
(News) Microsoft signed a cooperation deal Tuesday with a big Chinese bank, a potentially major enterprise customer for its financial products and services.
(News) Sometimes, it seems like you just can't take anything corporate executives say at face value these days. One day, it's "we're thinking about charging for Hulu!"...
(News) Aster Data Systems announced a new edition of its database that allows entire applications to execute inside the system for better performance.
(News) The world got another smartphone this week with Motorola's Droid, available from Verizon. Google rolled out Android 2.0 as well. The Internet Corporation for...
(News) Microsoft will no longer sell its Office Accounting software.
(News) Enjoy Twitter, but have trouble wading through the deluge of updates from the hundreds of people you follow? In order to help you break down your Twitter...
(Reviews) The Apple TV is a strange beast. Steve Jobs famously referred to his company's media-playback box as "a hobby." In early 2008 Apple released a major software...
(News) In an effort to make searching for and buying songs easier,
 Google has gotten into the music game, in partnership with online music stores like iLike (which is...
(Reviews) A few years ago, I covered SMARTReporter, a simple, free utility for monitoring your drives' Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART) status. As...
(News) Oracle has shed new light on its intentions for Sun's GlassFish application server and other products.
(News) Facebook has decided to end its Application Verification Program.
(News) With revenue down slightly during its latest fiscal quarter, Symantec said Wednesday that it was starting to see some stabilization in enterprise spending.
(News) Microsoft will discontinue its MSN Direct information service in 2012.
(Reviews) Ballpark is a simple, Web-based estimate and billing application that allows you to manage estimates, bills, and payments from the Web. Ballpark also allows your...
(News) Windows 7 Upgrade Decision Tied to Bad Economy for Many
(News) SAP's revenue fell in the third quarter, but earnings rose -- although neither figure was as high as analysts had hoped.
(News) Jive has given its enterprise social-networking product a major upgrade, adding native iPhone access and enabling collaboration on Microsoft Office files.
(News) Microsoft plans to expand the number of countries where it offers the hosted version of its Dynamics CRM product.
(News) Salesforce.com and Adobe have partnered on a new UI toolkit.
(News) Many bleeding-edge Mac geeks are mourning the death of the project to implement the ZFS filesystem on the Mac.
 The Apple-backed project to port ZFS to the Mac...
(News) Qualcomm has opened a new subsidiary to focus on integrating its hardware with open-source software.
(News) IBM's Information on Demand conference began Monday in Las Vegas, with plenty of BI announcements.
(News) Editing video is a task ideally suited to large monitors and lots of screen real estate. You want to see your video large, but still have plenty of room to view...
(News) How much would you be willing to pay to watch your favorite TV shows online? Not for the first time, the corporate suits behind online video-streaming Web site...
(News) EU regulators have chided Oracle for what they see as a lack of cooperation into their investigation of Oracle's Sun acquisition.
(News) Siemens has signed up for three more years of SAP maintenance, dispelling rumors it would drop vendor support.
(News) El D
ía de los Muertos--Day of the Dead or
 All Hallows Eve--Halloween.
(News) The Americas' SAP Users Group has named a new CEO.
(News) Zoho has integrated its online project management tool along with some other features with Google's Apps online office suite.
(News) When running Software Update in OS X 10.5 and earlier, you could choose to download available Software Updates, instead of installing them. To do so, you could...
(News) Oracle must be stopped from taking over MySQL, said Richard Stallman, a prominent activist and developer of free software Tuesday.
(News) Apple can't afford to be out-and-out misanthropic--it does, after all, design products that people use. That said, it probably wouldn't be missing the mark to...
(News) With cameras in the iPod nano and new export options in Snow Leopard's QuickTime Player, creating and sharing movies with your Mac has never been easier. But the...
(News) Teradata is targeting public and private clouds with new data warehousing products unveiled Monday.
(News) Few would deny the classic beauty of a grayscale (black and white) photo. Many ordinary pictures can be rendered more elegant simply by removing their colors...
(News) Oracle should sell open source database MySQL to a suitable third party, its cofounder and creator Michael "Monty" Widenius said in a blog posting.
(News) BMC has signed a deal to buy London startup Tideway Systems, maker of software for tracking and analyzing IT system components
(News) Google will takes "Gone Google" enterprise push global.
(News) Oracle plans to patch 38 security vulnerabilities in its products next Tuesday.
(News) November is National Novel Writing Month, an event in which thousands of people attempt to write 50,000 words of a novel in the course of 30 days. As a once and...
(News) Tata reports revenue down as outsourcing market is still tight.
(News) Here's a really simple Spaces tip that works in both OS X 10.5 and 10.6. As best as I can tell, this isn't documented anywhere in the help files. If you use...
(News) Microsoft stepped up promotion of Bing in China with the launch of a Web services platform for mobile phones this week. Bing has not caught on in China.
(News) Twitter has teamed with India's Bharti Airtel to offer Twitter through SMS.
(News) Oracle is planning to deliver its long-awaited Fusion Applications next year, CEO Larry Ellison said.
(News) When you circulate documents among colleagues for review and comment, there's nothing more practical and useful than the ability to track changes. Microsoft Word...
(News) Users of Google Docs are having problems printing, exporting and uploading certain files.
(News) Good design is within everyone's reach. Even though you may never have attended an art class, you can still create layouts that are compelling and easy to read...
(News) At his presentation at OpenWorld Tuesday, Salesforce.com Chairman and CEO Marc Benioff praised Oracle instead of firing back at Larry Ellison.
(News) Oracle CEO Larry Ellison will reveal more about the company's Fusion Applications during a keynote address Wednesday.
(News) German cloud vendor Zimory has set its sight on databases. Using so-called satellite databases more capacity can be added to the existing database.
(News) The Omni Group has announced that it will team up with The David Allen Company--founded by David Allen, creator of the Getting Things Done productivity...
(News) Oracle won't be delivering an Xpress Edition of its 11g database for at least a year, according to an executive.
(News) Oracle executives focused on the integration work the vendor has done to knit its acquisitions together.
(News) Oracle has purchased the assets of media IP management vendor Sophoi.
(News) Oracle is revamping the way it classifies partners with a new system based partly on their specializations.
(News) Microsoft and EU Settle, Phishing Scams, Busts
(News) If your only Mac is a laptop, and you take it with you to meetings, classes, or other such activities, you're probably used to muting your machine before the...
(News) Apple seems to be getting used to rolling out small but useful upgrades. Hot on the virtual heels of the
 iPhone OS 3.1.2 release, Apple on Friday
 announced some...
(News) SAP and Hewlett-Packard are planning to boost the integration between their BI and data warehousing platforms.
(News) Oracle will retain an HTML interface option for its support portal, following user complaints.
(News) Yahoo will encourage external developers to build applications for its home page at today's Open Hack Day
(News) Infosys reports decline in revenue and profits as it continues to be affected by the economic slowdown.
(News) Navigating Microsoft's complex rules and programs for software licensing has been notoriously difficult for businesses -- a pain point not lost on the company...
(News) Startup Konductor launched a hosted Web content management service for Web designers at Adobe Max this week.
(News) Oracle CEO Larry Ellison told shareholders Salesforce.com is a "little itty-bitty" application.
(News) Xinet has released WebNative Suite 16.0, a new version of its online digital asset management tool. It features a streamlined, Web-based graphical interface...
(News) I've reached an age where I sometimes talk to myself. Take today, for example.
(News) Rimini Street announced this week that it has expanded the number of SAP applications it supports.
(News) Now that the excitement surrounding the release of Snow Leopard and the unveiling of new iPods has dissipated, it's time to shift our gaze from Apple proper and...
(News) Even if you've cleared out old, outdated contacts, you'll still find that one of the most obvious sorts of address book clutter is multiple entries for the same...
(News) Compuware said Wednesday it has agreed to acquire Web application management vendor Gomez for US$295 million.
(News) Adobe has unveiled an update to its AIR runtime environment, due in beta later this year, that gives it greater access to local desktop resources.
(News) Kalido is announcing a new UI that will help business users take part in master data management.
(News) If a blogger or social media user gets paid to endorse--or just receives a freebie product--they are now supposed to tell their readers.
(News) Smartphone maker Palm has soft-launched a program to sell independently developed webOS applications.
(News) Adobe said it developed its tools that allow Flash developers to create native iPhone apps without help from Apple.
(News) Jive Software is developing new modules to link its SBS enterprise social-networking product with leading content management systems.
(News) Developers will be able to write Flash apps for iPhone and iPod Touch, Adobe said.
(News) Adobe will offer beta versions of Flash Player for smartphones later this year, it said on Monday.
(News) Failed BI vendor LucidEra's technology has wound up at Pentaho.
(News) I can't tell you how many times I've looked at my address book, noticed someone's name, and been unable to figure out who the person was or where I'd gotten...
(News) Photo-based avatars that look like paintings or illustrations are very classy and tend to be rare because few people possess the skills to make them without...
(News) Cisco and Salesforce.com are partnering on a new call-center offering for SMBs.
(News) Adobe Systems is updating its document-based workflow system, LiveCycle Enterprise Suite, with a new version that runs in Amazon's cloud.
(News) Upgrading to Snow Leopard was a step forward for making Macs leaner, meaner, and snow-ier. But for many users who rely on productivity Swiss Army knife...
(News) When the OpenType font format was announced more than 12 years ago, one of its most promising features was a new level of intelligence built into the font. The...
(News) Cloudera is releasing a set of applications that make it easier to work with the Hadoop data-processing framework.
(News) IBM has has launched a low-cost, Web-based email and calendering service called LotusLive iNotes.
(News) Despite strained relationships between Apple and ex-BFF Google, the Web giant's presence has continued to be felt, thanks to built-in iPhone services like...
(News) A benchmarking group fined Oracle $10,000 for using unsubstantiated numbers in an advertisement.
(News) Salesforce.com and SAP have created prototype applications with Google Wave.
(News) Facebook has released a wizard to simplify the implementation of its Connect data portability system in external Web sites.
(News) SAP and the business social-networking site LinkedIn have partnered on an application that will let users integrate their LinkedIn and SAP Community profiles.
(Reviews) Yes, of course, you can use your iPhone like a Palm or a BlackBerry, upon which people have written whole political treatises and entire novels. You can create...
(Reviews) We've recently been reviewing 2.0 speaker systems--which comprise compact, powered left and right speakers--for your Mac. Compared to 2.1 speaker systems, which...
(News) Open-Xchange is launching OXtender for Business Mobility, which adds support for push e-mail to mobile phones that support Microsoft's ActiveSync protocol.
(News) Salesforce.com is teaming up with Coda on a new company and application, FinancialForce.com.
(News) NewsGator has enhanced its Social Sites enterprise social-networking product, a complement to Microsoft's SharePoint Server 2007.
(News) Yahoo has opened up its new home page to external developers so they can build applications for it.
(News) FileMaker continued its rapid pace of updates for Bento Tuesday by releasing a new version of its personal database application. Bento 3 introduces a number of...
(News) The creator of a popular souped-up version of Android thinks he's found a way to avoid another tussle with Google over distribution of the company's apps.
(News) Kyocera is selling off its Indian development to an Indian outsourcer; MindTree; in return for development services from the Indian company.
(News) So you need a small portrait of yourself to paste into social networking Web sites, instant message clients, or other venues that call for an image that you'd...
(News) Mac software from Boinx Software and Miraizon joined the ranks of applications adding compatibility with Snow Leopard on Friday.
(News) Developer Jonathan "Wolf" Rentzsch kicked off his annual C4 indie Mac developer conference in Chicago on Friday night with a provocative claim cribbed from Steve...
(News) Xerox will buy business process outsourcer Affiliated Computer Services for US$6.4 billion.
(News) NetSuite is locked in a court battle with a customer over alleged problems with an eBay integration.
(Reviews) Since its inception in 1995, Poser has graced the desktops of visual designers, both 2-D and 3-D, around the globe. Over the years, while ownership of the...
(News) With last month's release of Mac OS X 10.6, much has been made about the potential impact of the included Exchange support in Snow Leopard. Many pundits have...
(News) NetSuite has launched an initial application for the iPhone.
(News) Microsoft launched a program that gives eligible Web development firms free software and support to help get new businesses off the ground.
(News) Microsoft has opened up for business its new Dublin data center, a massive 550,000-square-foot facility dedicated to serving primarily European customers.
(News) Microsoft's Business Division oversees one of its most successful products, the Office productivity suite, as well as the company's lucrative server and...
(News) Normally the Macworld Podcast is a sober, carefully constructed affair. But apparently it's fallen off the wagon. With "unfunny!" (--iTunes review) Macworld...
(News) Coverity has released a new study that finds the quality of open-source code is getting better.
(News) Microsoft is buying technology from three of its partners in order to bolster its Dynamics ERP products.
(News) Oracle is set to ramp up cost-cutting in coming months, according to an SEC filing.
(News) Zoho has added a discussion forum application to its Web-hosted suite of collaboration and office productivity software.
(News) Former SAP CEO Henning Kagermann will join Wipro's board on Oct. 27.
(News) Linux community members discussed desktop market share and successes in other markets at Linuxcon on Monday.
(News) What Technologies Will Impact Your Business in the Years to Come?
(News) A new Moblin-based netbook is expected to be announced at the Intel Developer Forum later this week.
(News) As social networking Web sites become increasingly popular, many users seek a way to pictorially represent themselves with a small icon. While a photo can be...
(News) Adobe Systems has announced Adobe Flash Platform Services, a new online service that lets content providers promote and measure the effectiveness of their Web...
(News) Dell Agrees to Buy Perot Systems for $3.9 Billion
(News) Former US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice defended capitalism against charges it brought about the global recession.
(News) Oracle licensing consultant Eliot Arlo Colon still remembers the enormous global publishing company that was "so darn confident" it would breeze through an...
(News) There are several types of software license audits, each with their own risks and variables, experts say.
(Reviews) GridIron Flow is a groundbreaking application--there has never been anything like it. This visual workflow manager uses a simple interface to show you important...
(Reviews) Private Pics from David Earnest is a nice little app for keeping your sensitive photos under lock and key. While locking your iPhone with a password will keep...
(Reviews) The last time we looked at OmniOutliner Pro was four years ago and the version was 3.0.2. And though a long time has passed, the current version of OmniOutliner...
(News) A pair of productivity powerhouses are sharing their superpowers in a partnership that would make the Wonder Twins envious. reQall and Evernote announced the...
(News) AT&T has gone a step ahead with its remote PC repair service, announcing a service upgrade to fix PCs before system boots.
(Reviews) Mac OS X ships with a robust set of screenshot-taking capabilities. Not only can you take full-screen screenshots, but you can also capture individual interface...
(News) One of my favorite features of iMovie '09 is the ability to see all of my stored footage within iMovie's Event Library; versions prior to iMovie '08 revealed...
(News) Earlier this summer, Ntractive updated and renamed its customer relationship management program. Now the software maker has come out with an iPhone version of...
(News) Oracle's Q1 profits rose but revenue fell overall, and new software license sales dropped 17 percent.
(News) Indian outsourcer Satyam has gained 32 clients, indicating a modest recovery after a scandal at the company in January.
(News) Sun and Oracle launched a high-end OLTP server that combines Sun hardware with Oracle's database software.
(News) Hewlett-Packard on Monday formed a new print services division with a focus on managing print and imaging hardware and software in enterprises.
(News) MySpace will release as open source an internal tool for processing and analyzing large amounts of data.
(News) Adobe has agreed to buy Web analytics company Omniture for US$1.8 billion in cash.
(News) Microsoft Zune HD: No Reason To Live
(News) Jive Software has developed a tool for companies to automate the monitoring of relevant chatter in social media sites like Twitter and Facebook.
(Reviews) Techsmith's Camtasia for Mac is a new entry in the field of screen recording and editing tools available for OS X, but Techsmith isn't new to the field of screen...
(News) IBM is trying to make a big splash in midmarket BI with a new product suite.
(News) Microsoft is urging business customers to start their Windows 7 upgrades now with a raft of examples of customers that are already using the software.
(News) CA is buying application performance management vendor NetQoS for US$200 million.
(News) Novell is releasing a tool that makes it easy for developers to build iPhone applications using .Net.
(News) Facebook has made a potentially risky choice in designing Lite, the simpler version of its social network that is generating much buzz: Lite doesn't run any of...
(News) As detailed in my articleon Snow Leopard's old and new annoyances, my main complaint is that I can't add the Size column to my Finder Spotlight search results...
(News) In the past week, Apple's brought the new shiny to iTunes 9, Snow Leopard, and its iPod line. But the update train doesn't stop there. On the sly, the company...
(News) As designers, we pretty much accept Adobe's Big Four apps as our tools of choice in creating brochures, flyers, ads, and Web sites. But Adobe has offered another...
(News) A Spanish company has released an upgraded version of software that can be used to perform open-source intelligence gathering on a company's Web site.
(News) Facebook is releasing open-source software to help developers build Twitter-like applications that let users post real-time updates.
(News) Adobe Systems has announced Adobe Flash Access 2.0, a key component of the Adobe Flash Platform, at the 2009 IBC (International Broadcasting Convention) trade...
(News) Microsoft has cofounded and is providing the funding for a new open-source foundation, the CodePlex Foundation.
(News) Despite efforts from Microsoft over the years to simplify its software licensing, a new analyst report said it's more complex than ever.
(News) An SAP executive declared its Business ByDesign product will be a smashing success, but it's still not clear when it will be broadly available.
(News) Take a deep breath: Skype isn't working so great on the iPhone right now. But a fix should be released Wednesday evening.
(News) Salesforce.com is revving up the hype around its customer-service portfolio of tools.
(News) Unpatched Microsoft Bugs Raise Red Flags
(News) A group of Linux proponents are purchasing patents formerly held by Microsoft to defend Linux distributors against the threat of patent litigation.
(News) I'm sure you have that favorite band, TV show, or movie that you absolutely adore and desperately pray to every God listening that you never have to defend in...
(News) Google's App Engine now supports the popular XMPP protocol, letting applications interact with instant messaging networks based on XMPP.
(News) After scrambling to patch security issues in July, Adobe will be a month late with its quarterly security updates, now due Oct. 13.
(News) Oracle is moving back its October security update release by one week, to accomodate Oracle OpenWorld attendees.
(News) Microsoft has teamed with House Party to help people throw Windows 7 launch parties.
(News) As I discussed in my look at Services in Snow Leopard, I think this revamped feature is one of the hidden gems in Mac OS X 10.6. While being able to control what...
(News) The United Nations is getting ready to spend more than $300 million on an ERP project fraught with potential difficulties.
(News) The European Commission opened an indepth investigation into Oracle's planned $7.4 billion takeover of Sun Thursday.
(News) Mac users may be surprised that versions of Apple's latest operating system, Snow Leopard, potentially puts them at a higher security risk.
(News) On Wednesday, SkypeCap released version 3.3 of its eponymous Skype video and audio capture tool, which allows users to record calls made with the popular VoIP...
(Reviews) Home & Landscape Design Studio for Mac 14.1 is a 3-D program aimed at home owners who want to design or remodel a home or landscape. This updated version...
(News) At VMworld, EMC announced new consulting and implementation services and lab-tested deployments for private clouds.
(News) Salesforce.com is aiming at entrepreneurs with a new Contact Manager offering.
(News) C:four has released iStudio Publisher 1.1, the latest upgrade of its design and desktop publishing software. iStudio Publisher is a Mac-based application aimed...
(News) Cisco Systems is developing a collaboration software platform that combines social networking, content and transactional applications in a single interface.
(News) Microsoft on Tuesday released a test preview of its Windows 7-based OS for embedded devices.
(Reviews) As Macworld's Gems columnist, I get many pitches from developers asking me to take a look at their software. Some of these products turn out to be great, while...
(News) Google plans to let Apps users test its Wave collaboration and communication tool, which is still in development.
(News) Bare Bones Software on Tuesday announced the release of Yojimbo 2.0, an upgrade to their information organizer for Mac OS X. It costs $39 for an individual...
(News) Despite living in a mostly digital world, every once in a while we have to veer back into the analog. How many times have you been presented with a form you have...
(News) If you place an audio file onto a slide in Keynote, it will appear as a 53x53 pixel version of the OS X menu bar's Sound icon. Assuming you don't change the...
(Reviews) Pocket Universe would amaze Galileo. It's a $3 app from Craic Design that puts the entirety of the night sky in your pocket, and it's truly an impressive marvel...
(News) Oranged Software has released Studiometry 7, a new version of its business management software for Mac OS X and Windows. It costs $199, or $59 to upgrade from...
(News) Oracle on Tuesday launched a major update to its flagship 11g database.
(News) IBM is rolling out a subscription service in October that aims to make it easier for large companies to use desktop virtualization, the company said Monday.
(News) Open-source BI vendor wants to gain new customers with a low-cost report migration plan.
(News) Literature & Latte released Scrivener 1.52 earlier this week, but before I delve into the two big features of this point release, a little background on what...
(News) Microsoft will miss its target date for releasing a technical preview of its Office Web Apps, Web-based versions of its Office apps.
(News) Now Software has announced the release of Now X, a new group calendar and contact management software suite for Mac OS X and Windows. Now X costs $130 for a new...
(News) A special Windows 7 upgrade package for households with more than one PC is now available for pre-order online ahead of schedule and at a discount.
(News) Windows 7 could inspire businesses to begin spending money on PC upgrades again because it repairs major problems enterprise users had with Vista.
(News) Smart Technologies on Wednesday announced the release of Smart Notebook SE (Student Edition) for the Mac. It's priced at $35 per student, and $49 per student for...
(News) Oracle wants third-party application support provider Rimini Street to give up details about its business model.
(News) Versata Software has won $139M in damages in a patent lawsuit against ERP software vendor SAP.
(News) Twitter's plans to let its users attach geographic coordinates to their messages have external developers very interested.
(News) Adobe Photoshop product manager (and frequent blogger) John Nack recently updated his blog with details on compatibility issues between Adobe's Creative Suite 4...
(Reviews) Digital music workstation software can include an encyclopedic array of functionality. But when it comes to using these tools creatively in music making, a few...
(News) Amazon Web Services has announced a beta version of Virtual Private Cloud, which aims to connect a company's existing computing resources and Amazon's cloud.
(News) Rackspace on Tuesday rolled out a new portal for partners working with its cloud infrastructure service.
(News) Appirio is launching a new SaaS application for large services companies.
(News) TechSmith on Tuesday announced the release of Camtasia for the Mac. It costs $149, though it's currently available for $99. A 30-day free trial version is...
(News) It's easier to spend less than you earn when you can keep a close eye on what's going in and out of your bank accounts. Launching Intuit's $60 Quicken Mac 2007 (...
(News) Whether you're using Microsoft Excel 2008 ($400 as part of Office 2008) or 2004, you need some tricks up your sleeve for easing day-to-day tasks, such as...
(News) Microsoft's decision to provide a browser ballot screen for Windows 7 in Europe has enabled it to make a family-pack option to customers there.
(Reviews) I'm not going to be shy about this--I was excited when Citrix Systems announced last summer that it was releasing a client for the iPhone and the iPod touch...
(News) Lawson Software is being sued by a California nonprofit over an ERP project allegedly gone wrong.
(News) Microsoft plans to backport a new "ribbon" user interface it introduced in Windows 7 to Windows Vista.
(News) Geolocation Coming to Twitter and its External Applications
(News) The US Department of Justice has approved Oracle's bid to buy Sun Microsystems.
(News) Forrester Research is predicting a new wave of consolidation in the predictive analytics market.
(News) Google's Search Appliance can now be used to search and serve documents and objects stored Salesforce.com, the company said on Wednesday.
(News) Microsoft's Exchange Server will play a key role in plans to embrace diverse platforms.
(News) With many Twitter applications suffering lengthy periods of downtime recently, some developers are concerned about the company's platform stability.
(News) Oracle is finally planning to release the 11g R2 version of its database in September.
(News) IBM introduced middleware that can gather data from sensors, analyze it, and feed it into other enterprise applications.
(News) Microsoft on Tuesday released previews of its Azure SQL cloud database and related tools.
(Reviews) Earlier this summer, long-time mobile software specialist DataViz brought its Documents to Go file viewing and editing app to the iPhone. The software is...
(News) Red Hat has expanded its partner program to give companies more options for how they can work with the Linux vendor.
(News) Oracle is setting aside a big chunk of its OpenWorld conference to talk about project management software.
(News) If you frequently use Microsoft Word ( Macworld rated 3.5 out of 5 mice ; $400 as part of Office 2008), you know that shortcuts and small time-savers can make a...
(News) Last week, we discussed how to create a digital signature that you can use to sign official PDF documents in your own handwriting. But what if you don't have a...
(News) There's a whole world of savings out there if you look hard enough. Here are some ways your Mac and the Internet can help.
(How To) Hire contract workers at competitive rates, or even secure new jobs for your service-based company through Elance.
(News) Netscape founder Marc Andreessen may be looking to get back into the browser game.
(News) IBM has announced a new set of mainframe packages aimed at specific IT workloads and tasks.
(Reviews) iBiz 4.0.1 is a billing and time management application that helps track the work you do, lets you bill clients for completed work, and then tracks payments so...
(News) India's software trade body on Thursday moved to reassure the government and customers that the industry was taking precautionary measures against swine flu.
(News) China so far has mainly been an alternative base for Infosys to serve global customers, but the company is now seeking a share of the country's domestic market.
(News) My first reaction to Microsoft's Thursday announcement that it will release a new version of its Office suite for the Mac in 2010 can be summed up in one word:...
(News) SAP and LinkedIn are offering some channel partners discounted access to the latter's premium recruiting tools.
(News) Microsoft on Thursday said that starting next year it will include Outlook in its version of Office for the Mac platform, replacing Entourage.
(News) Microsoft announced Thursday that the next edition of Microsoft Office for Mac will be released in late 2010. The new edition of the venerable office suite will...
(News) Here's a simple speed-up tip for working with photo-laden documents in Pages. If you work with such documents, especially on older and/or memory-challenged Macs...
(News) Whether it's the office standard or you've simply used it forever, Microsoft's PowerPoint ( Macworld rated 4 out of 5 mice ; $400 as part of Office 2008) is a...
(News) Four open-source and proprietary vendors are partnering on a cloud-based BI stack.
(News) Microsoft and Nokia will unveil an alliance Wednesday that will likely reveal a plan to deliver Microsoft Office applications on Nokia handsets.
(News) HPC systems builder Penguin Computing has launched an on-demand HPC service from a data center in Utah.
(News) We've all seen posters, logos, and headlines in which the text has a different fill color from its outline or shadow. Surprisingly, this isn't always...
(News) Microsoft is releasing early code for the next version of SQL Server 2008 this week.
(Reviews) Evernote 1.4.7 helps you capture the disparate bits of information that cross your path everyday, letting you manage that information in ways that are meaningful...
(News) Microsoft has left the Opera and Google Chrome browsers off of the list of those officially supported by its Web-based Office applications.
(Reviews) For just $3, To-Do List serves as a handy tool that can keep you organized in a pinch. The interface is easy to use, so it won't add to the confusion of your...
(News) Is this week's title in reference to silly technology pundits and their penchant for hyperbole when it come to Apple, the Windows 7 upgrade matrix, the App Store...
(News) Startup data warehousing vendor Dataupia is putting its IP up for sale.
(Reviews) Some photographs would really look better as paintings. But for those who are not artistically inclined with a brush and palette, there's Alien Skin's Snap Art...
(News) A Chinese software maker that offers a Java-based rival suite to Microsoft Office is following the industry's lead in creating a Web-based version.
(News) NewerTech has announced the $150 Intelligent Battery Charging Station, a device designed to charge and condition the batteries used by 13-inch and 15-inch...
(News) SAP BusinessObjects users are furious because a new service pack takes an overly long time to install.
(News) Barcode Producer, an application aimed at graphic designers and other visual creatives who need to incorporate bar codes into designs, such as for coupons or...
(News) Native Instruments has introduced Kontakt Player, a free software instrument based on its Kontakt 3 sampler. It offers universal playback for available Kontakt...
(News) HPC specialist Cluster Services has developed a new management product for the enterprise, it said Wednesday.
(News) SAP customers gave the company high marks during an event Wednesday, but also voiced some concerns.
(News) While setting up my new OS X-powered Dell Mini 10v mini-laptop, I wanted to install my favorite text editor, the open source program Smultron. When the Smultron...
(News) Google is throwing in two days of on-site implementation services to some new buyers of its Search Appliance enterprise search product.
(News) Once you're back from vacation, it's all too easy to stash your latest video footage on the shelf with vague intentions of spending lazy evenings cutting...
(News) Microsoft for the first time has named Linux distributors Red Hat and Canonical as competitors to its Windows client business in an SEC filing.
(News) The Microsoft-Yahoo search deal could create a difficult situation for IBM and Microsoft in enterprise search, by forcing the rivals to partner in a product.
(Reviews) Mac OS X includes the OpenSSH suite of command-line tools, most notably ssh for tunneling, a mechanism for securely shunting data across the Internet on behalf...
(News) Quark on Tuesday announced the release of QuarkXPress 8.1, a new version of the company's flagship page layout software for Mac OS X and Windows. The update is...
(News) Microsoft Tuesday released software that allows people to run applications in Windows 7 as if they are running in Windows XP.
(Reviews) Few things are as maddening as hearing a song on the radio and not being able to recall the name of the artist or the title of the track itself. Fortunately, the...
(News) IBM on Tuesday announced a business analytics center in Beijing that will serve clients including the Chinese government.
(News) Teradata announced the general availability of Teradata 13, amid a slew of other recent data warehousing and analytics news.
(News) The Khronos Group, the industry consortium responsible for the care and feeding of the OpenGL graphics standard, on Monday announced the release of OpenGL 3.2.
(News) Indian outsourcer HCL Technologies has announced the acquisition of a data center in the U.S.
(News) Layoffs Spur Startups
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(News) Microsoft on Friday let users who want to upgrade from one version of Windows 7 to another know how they can do so.
(News) Microsoft executives remained upbeat when addressing financial analysts, despite the company's recent poor earnings report.
(News) Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said Thursday he was surprised that Wall Street reacted negatively to Yahoo's plan to give up its search business.
(News) Infosys gets security cover from Indian government agency.
(News) This week MacPractice introduced MacPractice iPhone Interface 2.0, which allows medical professionals to access office records such as schedules and patient...
(Reviews) The quest for consistent color rendition across all input and output devices (from your monitor to your printer, for example) has been going on since the...
(News) India expects outsourcing revenue growth from abroad to slow to between 4 and 7 percent this year
(News) Ingres is designing a new engine that exploits new hardware for faster execution of database-related tasks.
(News) A new report by Gartner showing that software spending will increase worldwide next year may indicate the technology market has hit bottom.
(News) Verizon will launch its VCast App Store in the fourth quarter, promising to bring new mobile applications to market in less than 14 days.
(News) MakeMusic has announced the release of SmartMusic 2010, the newest major release of its music learning software for band, orchestra and choir. SmartMusic 2010...
(Reviews) The smell of fanboys is in the air in San Diego, and that can only mean one thing -- it's time for Comic-Con again. On Thursday, coinciding with the first day of...
(News) IBM is unveiling a new set of BI (business intelligence) appliances on Tuesday.
(News) EMC Corp. on Tuesday announced that EMC Retrospect 8.1 is now available through its distribution channels. The new release of the venerable Mac backup and...
(News) IBM has agreed to buy analytics specialist SPSS for $1.2B and source code analyst Ounce Labs for an undisclosed sum.
(News) Microsoft Opens Mobile App Store to Developers
(News) Software Asset Management Makes Sense in a Recession
(News) Microsoft kicked off the week of news with the surprising revelation that it had submitted source code for the Linux kernel. But this being Microsoft and open...
(News) Microsoft's disappointing Q4 results point to signs of damage from challenges to its business that the software vendor has so far deflected.
(News) Oracle seems to be moving ahead with plans to upgrade its support portal, despite complaints from users who like the old one.
(News) Apple Releases ProKit 5.0 Update
(News) Software vendors are concerned about a new set of software contract law guidelines created by the American Law Institute.
(News) We've all seen the wedding reception slide show featuring the happy couple growing up through childhood, dating, and then finally becoming permanently...
(News) Microsoft stands by its original reasoning to release Hyper-V Linux code under the GPL, saying it did not release it because of an obligation to the license.
(News) Indian outsourcers figure among top ten in the global infrastructure services market, according to outsourcing consultancy TPI
(News) If you use Keynote for presentations, and like to provide handouts of your slides to the audience, you may find yourself frustrated by the apparent limitations...
(News) Oracle is making another acquisition, this time data-integration specialist GoldenGate Software.
(News) Runtime Revolution, developers of the Revolution programming environment, have introduced RevMedia 4.0, a programming language for the Web. It debuts as a free...
(News) Apple on Thursday announced a new version of Final Cut Studio, its software suite for professional video editors. It costs $999, $300 less than the previous...
(News) In just the past year, several trends have crystallized into a mobile Web platform that promises to transform mobile application development for the enterprise.
(News) NomaDesk on Wednesday announced the release of the Mac version of NomaDesk and a "mobile extension" for the iPhone. It's priced at $15 per month for teams, $50 a...
(News) Tolis Group on Wednesday announced the release of BRU Server 2.0 Backup Software, a new version of their business-oriented backup system that runs across...
(News) Air Cursor software from ITRI is ready to go for Windows and Linux, allowing users with Web cams to control their cursor with hand gestures.
(News) Microsoft on Tuesday detailed how its partners and business customers can get Windows 7 release-to-manufacturing code, which will be available in August.
(News) Zevrix Solutions on Tuesday announced the release of LinkOptimizer 4.0, a new version of their workflow automation plug-in for Adobe InDesign. It costs $220;...
(News) Oracle is trying to ease concerns held by customers of Virtual Iron, the virtualization vendor it acquired in May.
(News) Group Logic, makers of ExtremeZ-IP, on Tuesday announced the release of ArchiveConnect, a system that enables organizations using Macs to manage file archiving...
(News) Microsoft has made its second release under the General Public License in two days with software for the open-source online learning system Moodle.
(News) Nova media has released the Modem Mate external antenna, which offers up to 2 dBi of increased signal strength for 3G modems.
(News) Windows 7 and Microsoft's search engine, Bing, will be of particular interest to financial analysts when the company reports its earnings next week.
(News) OfficeTime has updated its eponymous workplace time-tracking application to OfficeTime 1.5. The new version adds, according to the company, "over 250 community...
(News) This week Ntractive released Version 2.0 of its customer relationship management (CRM) application, Elements CRM (formerly known as Elements SBM).
(News) Research In Motion (RIM) on Monday announced plans to release BlackBerry Desktop Software for the Mac in September. Details about how the software looks and...
(News) SuccessFactors is trying to make its new HR application for small companies a hit.
(News) Microsoft's MacBU on Monday released Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Service Pack 2, a new update that promises speed, stability and compatibility improvements...
(News) SAP plans to make an offer for SAF Simulation, Analysis and Forecasting, a Swiss developer of retail forecasting software.
(News) Eltima released a new version of its SyncMate synchronization tool this week. The latest release, SyncMate 2.0, gives Mac users the ability sync their computers...
(News) A high-profile hack of a Twitter employee's e-mail and Google Apps accounts tops our news this week, in part because the whole saga offers a reminder about the...
(News) Experts say there is a deliberate strategy behind Oracle's decision to raise the cost of certain database add-ons.
(News) Oracle has pushed through 40 percent price hikes on certain database add-on modules.
(News) AVG Technologies says it is looking for a replacement for current CEO JR Smith.
(News) IBM reported lower revenue for Q2 but also raised its full-year earnings guidance.
(News) A former Microsoft employee and analyst warned the financial community not to be misled by Microsoft's claims about early business adoption of Windows 7.
(News) Rimini Street is claiming continued growth for its third-party application maintenance service.
(News) Oracle's head of software development is leaving the company, to be succeeded by middleware boss Thomas Kurian.
(News) SPSS this week is releasing PASW Statistics 18, a new version of the application formerly known as SPSS Statistics, the statistics application suite for...
(News) If you are unsatisfied with the templates included in Apple's Pages, Jumsoft this week released five Pages Templates Expert packs. Each $29 pack includes unique...
(News) NetSuite is running a new sales program that gives members of green organizations 50 percent off.
(News) Xobni is rolling out the first in a series of premium versions of its e-mail organizing software.
(News) Some analysts say Microsoft's enterprise licensing terms provide little incentive for large customers to move away from its on-premise software.
(News) SAP is rolling out a number of Web services integrations for its Business ByDesign suite.
(News) Oracle has issued more than 30 security patches for various products.
(News) India's outsourcing industry may see single digit growth this year, according to the head of trade body.
(News) Challenger, Gray & Christmas data shows fewer high-tech jobs cut in the second quarter of 2009, but the totals for the first half of the year mark the most...
(News) Software AG is launching a public takeover bid for IDS Scheer.
(News) In the future, computers will do more work automatically for people, rather than reacting to human input, Microsoft's head of research and strategy said.
(News) While pacing the office floor, wracking my brain for something to fill this space, I found this note slipped under the door:
(News) As expected, Microsoft on Monday revealed a test version of the next round of its Office suite, which will be available in the first half of 2010.
(News) Microsoft will include a feature that lets people run applications in a Windows XP mode on Windows 7 to ensure application compatibility.
(News) As our lives grow increasingly digitized, more and more valuable and irreplaceable things reside on our computers. For instance, I have 15,000 digital photos...
(News) Hewlett-Packard will establish a managed printing services group in the next few months.
(News) In its bold march to become a credible collaboration and communication suite for businesses, Google Apps has encountered a frequent roadblock that has proven...
(News) Microsoft has released Silverlight 3, a major new release of its multimedia software for Mac OS X and Windows -- competition for Adobe's Flash software. It's a...
(News) Google Chrome OS Shows Limitations of Android
(News) Microsoft is connecting its Dynamics CRM system to Twitter.
(News) Forrester Research has added 11 new entries to its "Software Licensee's Bill of Rights."
(News) JasperSoft is offering an unlimited-use license for its BI software.
(News) A team from Romania won the coveted software design award in Microsoft's Imagine Cup, which wrapped up in Cairo on Tuesday.
(News) On Tuesday QNAP Systems released Version 3.1 of the firmware-based management software for its line of Turbo NAS storage servers. This free download -- for...
(News) One objection to using a password utility is that you could someday find yourself without your Mac (or iPhone) and in need of one of your passwords. What then...
(News) Satyam to offer fresh equity to new owner after public offer to shareholders fails.
(News) On Tuesday Tidal Pool Software released Version 1.0 of its MacProxy proxy support software. This $20 program adds system-wide network proxy support for any...
(News) First VLC, now Google. The kids are all growed up! Google has finally decided to ditch that pesky beta tag on several of its major projects. After five years of...
(News) VMware is offering license discounts in an effort to entice upset Virtual Iron customers to switch.
(News) Opera is readying a deal that will bring its Opera Mini browser widespread distribution on mobile handsets in the U.S.
(News) Google is removing the beta label from Gmail and other beta components in Google Apps.
(News) Even if you come up with a perfect mnemonic to remember the passwords r[BYX9-5CY@P and b!MO.n5m862T, you may not be able to remember which one provides access to...
(News) TeamViewer GmbH has announced the release of a Mac version of TeamViewer Manager. The TeamViewer product handles remote control of users' computers, usually for...
(News) Canto has announced the release of Canto Single User, the return of a single-user version of the company's Cumulus 8 digital asset management (DAM) application...
(News) Opera CEO defends Unite against charges that the new feature in Opera 10 browser will increase people's security risks
(News) SAP users have begun measuring the performance of key aspects of their ERP systems as part of a benchmarking process agreed with user groups.
(News) Those wishing to unplug from expensive cable and satellite TV services are increasingly turning to video content streamed across the Web. Media center...
(News) Microsoft has removed an online advertisement for Internet Explorer 8 that showed a woman projectile vomiting after the ad left a bad taste in people's mouths.
(News) Red Hat has launched a new partner program to make sure its enterprise Linux and JBoss software are core components of a cloud-computing infrastructure.
(News) Micro Focus raised its offer for Borland Software to counter a rival offer from an unnamed bidder.
(News) Adobe Systems has shut down its North American offices for a week for the second time this year as part of cost-cutting measures.
(News) Oracle is now offering ISVs monthly pricing for its SaaS development platform stack.
(News) Microsoft plans to open new data centers in Dublin, Ireland, and Chicago this month.
(News) It's difficult to find a video cataloguing and playback application that rivals the formidable pairing of iTunes and Front Row. But now there's Plex, a media...
(News) Users in the market for data warehousing appliances have another option, this time from Aster Data Systems.
(News) NetSuite has received certification for its software from a German auditing body.
(News) Most of us know that formatting a table's data, cells, and borders can potentially help readers grasp what a table is trying to say. But that doesn't mean we...
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(News) Ingres' open-source database is being used by a New York investment bank and a large California supermarket chain.
(News) BareBone's two text editing applications, BBEdit and TextWrangler, have the ability to show invisible characters in your documents--spaces, tabs, line breaks...
(News) CIOs think of Symantec as a company that buys its way into new markets. Over the past decade the Cupertino, California, vendor has snatched up about 30 companies...
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(News) Evernote, the ubiquitous digital-scrapbook service that wishes it were your third arm, has finally taken the next logical step and enabled sharing. Users can now...
(News) Microsoft is doubling the amount of time it supports service packs for its Dynamics products to 24 months.
(News) Microsoft's Bing search engine filters out some sensitive results from searches made in simplified Chinese, the script used to write the language in China
(News) Large and small companies that have successfully rolled out social-networking platforms say planning is as important as technology.
(News) Google has launched a Web site for developers devoted exclusively to the issue of Web performance.
(News) MySpace will release a browser plug-in that developers can use to measure and tune the performance of their Web pages.
(News) SAP, Jive and other vendors made a range of enterprise social-networking-related product announcements at Tuesday's Enterprise 2.0 conference.
(News) Government consultancy Booz Allen Hamilton's homegrown enterprise 2.0 portal is a roaring success.
(News) LucidEra, maker of SaaS BI applications, is winding down its operations, according to a source with knowledge of its plans.
(News) Tired of being the person your friends, relatives, and coworkers run to when they're faced with a Mac problem? Providing help can be gratifying, but repeated...
(News) Infor is rolling out a new program that it says will make upgrades easier and cheaper for customers.
(News) China may be rising as an offshoring destination, but many companies are outsourcing to multiple countries rather than just choosing between China and India.
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(News) This week's Enterprise 2.0 conference is attracting many vendors but its unclear how many buyers will show.
(News) One of iCal's annoyances is that new events are always created with a duration of one hour. There's no way to change this in iCal's preferences, and if you...
(News) Microsoft Halting .Net Link to Oracle Databases
(News) Oracle has bought the IP of Conformia, maker of software for drug design, for an undisclosed sum.
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(News) SkypeCap has announced the release of SkypeCap 2.0, a new version of its Skype audio and video session recorder for Mac OS X. It costs $50.
(News) The Microsoft blogger who first called attention to a security vulnerability in Windows 7's UAC feature claims it still exists and that Microsoft won't fix it.
(News) NetBooks has overhauled its on-demand suite for small businesses.
(News) Infor is now offering customers a financing plan with interest-free monthly payments on new purchases.
(News) The company in charge of providing technology to the U.S. intelligence community has invested in an open-source firm to provide enterprise search.
(News) FileWave has announced the release of FileWave Inventory version 9.0, a new version of its cross-platform software and hardware inventory management software.
(News) Codeweavers has announced the release of CrossOver 8, a new version of its virtualization software for Intel-based Macs. Free for users with active support...
(News) Enlarging photos appears to be a simple and mundane task for the average user. But as a pro, you understand the ramifications of firing up Photoshop and just...
(News) Now this was something I never thought I'd need again, ever. A floppy disk drive.
(News) LifeSize Communications introduced desktop videoconferencing software on Monday, while Radvision and Samsung unveiled a hardware unit.
(News) A longtime Microsoft developer evangelist and 19-year company veteran will retire later this year, the company confirmed on Monday
(News) Compuware on Monday announced a yearlong road map for its Changepoint IT portfolio management product.
(News) IBM is targeting enterprises with a new set of cloud services.
(News) Adobe's Acrobat.com collaboration services emerge from beta Monday.
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(News) Symantec has killed off a test Web service called GoEverywhere. A key executive, Art Wong, has left, too.
(News) Infor is scooping up ERP vendor SoftBrands in a deal worth about US$80 million.
(News) RealVNC has announced the release of VNC Enterprise Edition 4.5. It's priced at $50 for a single VNC Server license.
(News) Google is testing a cloud-based database designed to sidestep limitations of relational databases.
(News) While Microsoft's Internet Explorer faces healthy competition with other browsers among consumers, in the enterprise it has long remained the de facto standard...
(News) HP will ship a trial version of Symantec's Norton Online Backup with PCs, starting in September.
(News) The venerable LinuxWorld event is now OpenSource World, and admission is free for qualified IT professionals.
(News) IBM pushed further into the market for railroad management systems as it opened a Beijing base for train maintenance and surveillance products.
(News) Microsoft will stop selling its Money financial management products at the end of this month.
(News) The next version of Firefox is aimed at giving people new ways to interact with the modern Web, an executive said.
(News) Dataupia, maker of a data warehouse appliance, has made deep staff cuts and is searching for new investors.
(News) IDG World Expo announced Wednesday that Macworld Conference & Expo 2010 will feature a "Mobile Application Showcase."
(News) NetSuite is using a partner's software to add financial planning capabilities to its on-demand ERP system.
(News) In these Mac 911 blog entries I tend to stick with tried-and-true advice: If Problem A occurs, Solution B should put your right (and, if not, Solutions C and...
(News) One of the things I really like about Keynote is its ability to work with images built with vector graphics (including transparency information). The big...
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(News) Infosys has set up a business process outsourcing unit targeting the Indian market
(News) Adobe has patched critical security flaws in Reader and Acrobat.
(News) Oracle is holding fast on license discounts despite the brutal global recession, according to one consultant.
(News) IBM will launch a social network for its business partners this month.
(News) New Google translator toolkit allows users to translate, edit and share or publish in local languages.
(Reviews) If you're active in the financial markets, there are many iPhone apps out there to help you stay informed and, in some cases, even execute trades. Last year, I...
(News) An Irish startup has taken over Microsoft's Software Licensing and Protection Services, a service to help ISVs protect their code and reduce software piracy.
(News) Dell is planning to offer pre-configured hardware and software bundles for small and medium businesses to deploy quickly.
(News) Google will announce enterprise enhancements to its Apps communications and collaboration suite on Tuesday.
(News) Both large and small companies are still widely concerned about the security of open-source software, according to Forrester Research.
(News) Mozilla will launch a program that will allow companies to build their own customized browsers based on the next version of Firefox.
(News) When fears over the swine flu first broke out in many parts of the world in April, El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, California, was about to pull the trigger...
(News) Data warehousing vendor Greenplum is rolling out its 'Enterprise Data Cloud' initiative on Monday.
(News) Sun shareholders will vote July 16 on whether to approve Oracle's acquisition of the company.
(News) The WWDC rumor spotlight has been shining squarely on new iPhone hardware and software that Apple is expected to announce during Monday's keynote. But thanks to...
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(News) A range of vendors has rolled out tools to help US government agencies track how federal stimulus dollars are being spent.
(News) Microsoft may have violated Russia's antimonopoly laws for withdrawing Windows XP from the market last year, the Federal Antimonopoly Service said on Thursday.
(News) Microsoft gave its first-ever JavaOne keynote Thursday.
(News) Google Apps customers can expect to see big improvements in the Docs component of it.
(News) A report says Microsoft Office is still prevalent in enterprises, but adoption of alternatives could increase in 2010.
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(News) Oracle is set to release its long-simmering Fusion Middleware 11g portfolio.
(News) Verizon has launched its first cloud-computing service for enterprises.
(News) IBM has added a range of new products and services to its teeming Information on Demand portfolio.
(News) Adobe Wednesday will unveil Adobe BrowserLab, a fully hosted online service that lets professional Web designers preview how their sites will look in various Web...
(News) Sun, Orange, Vodafone and Sony Ericsson announced new initiatives to simplify software testing on mobile phones.
(News) Intuit is buying online payroll provider PayCycle for $170 million to expand its software-as-a-service offerings for SMBs, Intuit said Tuesday.
(News) Parliant has announced the release of PhoneValet Message Center 6, a major new upgrade to its telephony hub software for Mac OS X -- and now other operating...
(News) A Texas-based company has sued Microsoft for patent infringement for technology used in dynamic Web pages.
(News) Business software vendors are using a variety of means to entice customers to buy amid the recession, a new report has found.
(News) Google has upgrade the enterprise search architecture in its GSA device, increasing its capacity to billions of documents.
(Reviews) iPhone users have quite a few Internet radio apps from which to choose. Pocket Tunes Radio from NormSoft sets itself apart from by allowing you to listen to many...
(News) Yenco.com has overhauled Finance, its bank account and budget management software, as part of its ongoing effort to move its applications to a more modern...
(News) Sun has launched a beta version of its Java Store, along with a developer portal called Java Warehouse.
(News) Apple has released security updates for QuickTime and iTunes.
(News) Microsoft has purchased software from Merck & Co. to enhance its Amalga Life Sciences data-aggregation and management software.
(News) A startup has introduced a SaaS tool for managing energy consumption and emissions across large organizations.
(News) At the All Things D conference on Thursday, Microsoft unveiled the latest re-branding of its search engine. Forget Live Search--that's so three months ago. Now...
(News) Microsoft has picked Bing as the branding for its new search engine.
(News) Google's Wave Consolidates Core Online Features in One Tool
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(News) Canto announced the general availability of Cumulus 8, a major update to the company's Digital Asset Management (DAM) software.
(News) Nocros Ltd on Thursday announced the release of myDBR, a new enterprise-class Web-based report generation tool. It's free.
(News) Linpus will show off a version of its Linpus Linux Lite operating system based on Moblin 2.0 at Computex.
(News) IGG Software has announced the release of iBiz 4, a new version of its time-tracking and billing software for Mac OS X. It costs $40. The company has also...
(News) Autonomy has released a new tool that provides companies with a way to mine information from social-media networks.
(News) Slife Labs has announced the release of Slife 3.0, a new version of their time and productivity management software for Mac and Windows. Now available as a...
(News) Ingres and Red Hat have bundled their software into a unified development stack.
(News) A new tech wage survey shows US pay holding steady overall.
(News) Mr. Somsak's students used to wish that they could go outside and play instead of attend his math lessons.
(News) SaaS can be more expensive than in-house apps if contracts aren't done right.
(News) Google brings reseller program for Google Apps Premier to Southeast Asia on Wednesday with the announcement of its first local reseller.
(News) Wolfram Alpha LLC announced Monday the general availability of Wolfram|Alpha, a "computational knowledge engine" available on the Web that shares code with...
(News) Sources said Microsoft's new search engine will include UI and other features to improve search relevancy for users.
(News) Red Hat is seeking to overturn a Swiss government contract for desktop software and services awarded to Microsoft without a call for competitive bids.
(News) Microsoft will deliver its first-ever keynote at JavaOne on June 4.
(News) Facebook's application verification program has run into some technical bugs.
(News) A group of nonprofits met on Microsoft's campus this week to discuss ways they use technology.
(News) NetSuite and a former reseller are locked in an ugly legal battle, with each accusing the other of trying to steal customer relationships.
(News) Google has released a data API for its Maps service designed to simplify the maintenance and storage of geodata.
(Reviews) In case you missed the news, the WolframAlpha search engine recently went "live." In the run-up to the site's launch, there was lots of buzz on the Internet...
(Reviews) Managing a huge collection of research papers has been the bane of scholars, no doubt since the beginning of written scholarship itself. In my particular case...
(News) Facebook's controversial application verification program is now officially available.
(News) NetSuite is making a fresh run at rivals like Sage and Microsoft with a new application that focuses on financials.
(News) Sun plans to open a Java App Store to distribute Java programs like Apple sells iPhone apps.
(News) Computer industry bellwether Hewlett-Packard reported a 3 percent drop in revenue as its major lines of business continued to be hammered by the global...
(News) SAP's CTO described the company's cloud computing strategy during an Interop keynote Tuesday.
(News) Flock has released a new version of its social browser that improves its links to social-networking sites like Facebook and Twitter.
(News) If you use Pages, you're probably familiar with its ability to save a customized document as a template. Just set up the file as you'd like it to look for your...
(News) Microsoft and HP plan to invest $180 million over the next four years to expand their partnership around unified communications, they said Tuesday.
(News) Researchers say an unpatched bug in IIS 6 could let attackers view or upload files to the server.
(News) A German organization plans to build a tool to help developers test whether software is compatible with OOXML.
(News) An Epicor customer is suing the ERP vendor over a software package it claims never worked properly.
(News) Amazon EC2 users now have more tools to monitor and scale their environments.
(News) Forrester: Vendors Use 'unfriendly Practices' on Support
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(News) Mozilla is calling on Web designers to help it build better browser tabs.
(Reviews) A few years back, I extolled the virtues of Doug Adams's repository of AppleScripts for iTunes. The hundreds of iTunes scripts available from Doug's site give...
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(News) SAP wants to make enterprises' operations "clear" with its BI and ERP software, CEO Leo Apotheker said Tuesday.
(News) Cynical Peak Software on Tuesday announced the release of Rivet 2.1, a new version of their software that lets Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 owners stream media...
(News) Chinese outsourcer Neusoft is pushing to expand in Europe and the U.S. ahead of an upswing in outsourcing the firm expects after the global recession.
(News) Vodafone is planning to set up its own app store by giving developers access to its vast customer base
(News) Rimini Street on Monday announced its plans to support a number of SAP ERP platforms at heavily discounted rates.
(News) Microsoft will make Windows 7 available to the general public in time for the busy holiday shopping season in the fourth quarter of the year.
(News) SAP on Monday unveiled new software for business intelligence and analytics, areas that are becoming integral to its strategy.
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(News) Sun shareholders filed three lawsuits last month to prevent Oracle from acquiring the company, including one that claims the deal undervalues Sun.
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(News) As the browser wars have heated up again, so have complaints that Microsoft is unfairly leveraging Windows 7 to promote its IE8 browser.
(News) Microsoft is letting people build Photosynths and plot them on a Virtual Earth map.
(News) Prostitution and drugs frighten some people away from San Francisco's gritty Tenderloin district, but the area could soon enlighten the city with a money-saving...
(News) Microsoft Gives Controversial Antipiracy Tools New Name
(News) NewsGator has added an "innovation management" module to its Social Sites enterprise social-networking product.
(News) Indian company, Adlabs Films is offering offshore content processing and digital restoration services to media companies worldwide.
(News) Citing a move toward shorter software contracts, Symantec posted a $249 million loss for its Q4 2009.
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(News) It can be a storage nightmare: Given expanding regulatory requirements and the key role that electronic records now play in lawsuits, some enterprises are saving...
(News) Oracle on Wednesday released new BI applications for project management and customer loyalty.
(News) A new version of the open-source technology called Moonlight that puts Silverlight on Linux is now available for developers to test.
(News) Micro Focus plans to beef up its range of software quality assurance tools with the acquisitions of Borland Software and a business unit of Compuware.
(News) SAP has bought Highdeal, a developer of software that helps companies to define business models for services then bill for them in real time
(News) Microsoft is offering developers a list of 12 types of applications that will be prohibited in the Windows Marketplace for Mobile store.
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(News) CA is using younger programmers to create its next-generation mainframe software products.
(News) I've recently covered the Mac mini as media center and part of that series deals with using the free media center applications, Boxee, Plex, and XBMC to bring...
(News) Ever since moving into a new apartment last year, I've been meaning to become a better cook--as in, "one who actually cooks food and doesn't just speed-dial...
(News) MySpace has expanded the pool of potential testers of applications being built for its site by external developers.
(News) Indian outsourcer Satyam gets first round of funds from investor Tech Mahindra.
(News) The SAP-IBM application Duet will someday be available on BlackBerry devices.
(News) Indian software association says President Obama's proposal to amend the tax code will make U.S. companies less competitive.
(News) Jive Software has released a SaaS version of its enterprise collaboration suite.
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(News) InfoMatrix has announced the release of VetFM, a FileMaker Pro-derived veterinary practice management software application for...
(News) MyDeveloperWorks seeks to bring the site's millions of users closer together
(News) CS Odessa on Thursday announced the release of ConceptDraw Mindmap for Projects, a new version of their business information...
(News) The company will annually grant $1 million worth of use of its hosted computing services
(News) Devontechnologies has announced the availability of two new "Paperless Office" bundles that combine Devonthink Pro Office with...
(News) Kroll Ontrack has announced that its Ontrack Data Recovery service can now restore data from Apple's Mail software and...
(News) YQL "execute" function gives developers more control over fetching and displaying data
(News) CS Odessa has announced NetDiagrammer, a plug-in for its ConceptDraw Pro 8 business graphics software package. It costs $49.
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(News) In an internal e-mail, the Salesforce.com CEO says it's time to put an end to costly annual support fees
(News) The organization is asking people to submit prior art that could invalidate the patents
(News) For most Mac users, the phrase Exchange Server has been the cause of a great deal of annoyance and frustration. From bizarro...
(News) SmileOnMyMac has announced the release of PageSender 4.5, an update to their faxing software for Mac OS X. It costs $40;...
(News) Company-contact information provider's Data Fusion offering will help CRM users clean up their contact data
(News) The company has about a dozen large customers who use its software to reduce energy costs
(News) The company launched its developer program more than a year ago, and there are just 8,000 applications for it
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(News) Apple is taking support for its MobileMe online service to the next level. The company announced on Monday a new chat service...
(News) Microsoft officially launched its hosted services in 18 countries and lined up new partners to help sell them
(News) SAP Business Warehouse will soon run natively on Teradata's database
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(News) The software giant cites weaknesses in global PC and server markets
(News) Monday was an exciting day for me. Tweetie for Mac was released, bringing atebits' popular iPhone Twitter app to the Mac. It...
(News) One of the new features in Pages '09 is the ability to insert the current document's filename as a variable in your document...
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(Reviews) Qliktech has been integrating their Qlikview software suite into some major companies' Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)...
(News) MySQL 5.4 adds scalability improvements to the open-source database
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(News) Trade body Nasscom however warns of bottlenecks like infrastructure
(News) Online e-health system allows patients to share information and receive recommendations from professionals
(News) CFOs often overlook the importance of SAP security in order to speed deployment, researcher says
(News) If Oracle alienates its server partners and lets MySQL languish, Microsoft could be the beneficiary
(News) Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit on Monday said Office 2004 will reach end-of-life status on October 13, 2009. The company...
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(News) Analysts said key features of Solaris, particularly DTrace, could be useful additions to Linux
(News) Atempo has announced the release of Atempo Digital Archive 2.3, file archiving software aimed at the enterprise. It's expected...
(News) Medical practice management software maker MacPractice has announced that it's vetted Aqua Connect Terminal Server to help...
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(News) Customers are increasingly looking at alternative locations, the research firm said.
(News) Software vendor will update its End-to-End Trust vision at RSA next week.
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(News) Data becomes accessible in sites like Facebook and those compliant with OpenSocial APIs
(News) Sun said to be willing to if Big Blue 'makes stronger commitment to complete' the deal
(News) SpiderOak on Wednesday introduced a new syncing service for users of multiple cross-platform computers that want to sync...
(News) Release includes 43 fixes, including 16 for the company's database
(News) Exchange is the first product from the new Office suite due out next year
(News) Over the last couple of months, MobileMe has gotten faster and shinier, gained that promised file-sharing feature, and...
(News) Office rejects claims surrounding final patent at issue, paving way to reverse US$358 million penalty
(News) Capgemini and IBM hope the restructuring will produce profits as the recession forced one competitor to file for bankruptcy
(News) The on-demand vendor is positioning its application as the ideal 'spoke' for an SAP hub
(News) The updated version will support soft keyboards and allow widget creation in the home screen
(News) A new program aims to get more open-source software into the channel
(News) Analysts and consultants say the vendor is making some contract concessions to customers, but not on its support fees
(News) Licensing remains expensive and complicated for enterprises, but Microsoft is allowing new usage scenarios
(News) Google's decision to support a subset of Java classes is 'wanton and irresponsible,' says Simon Phipps
(News) Apple on Friday released an update for the recently released iPod shuffle, fixing a couple of minor items.
(News) Microsoft Set Records for Bug Fixes in 2008
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(News) July 7 will be the end of the road for two of .Mac's long time features, HomePage and Groups. But don't worry, you won't lose...
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(News) Both Microsoft and Oracle are due to release security updates on Tuesday
(News) The president of company's enterprise group revealed its future plans on Twitter
(News) Its updated BSA software aims to help manage large VMware deployments
(News) The new tool could spur a range of vendors to connect their products to Google Apps
(News) A New York startup is the OpenTable of doctors' appointments, letting people book online
(News) The company added over 24 new clients in the last three quarters
(News) Apple on Tuesday posted a preliminary list of its technical sessions and hands-on labs for June's upcoming Worldwide...
(News) The release rolls up all fixes since the initial launch, and could spur adoption of the database
(News) The addition is meant to help rank-and-file workers use business intelligence
(News) Lack of standards will weaken cloud message, vice chairman says
(News) Collaboration is good, and more collaboration is better, right? Wrong, says Morten T. Hansen in this month's Harvard Business...
(News) The veteran on-premises accounting software maker built CODA 2Go natively on Force.com
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(News) HCL will manage nine data centers for Xerox
(News) New version of Almaga aims to improve flow of information between doctors and patients
(News) Dimdim has announced the release of Dimdim 5.0, a new version of the open-source Web conferencing/meeting system.
(News) The SaaS collaboration provider sees itself as a less expensive, simpler alternative to SharePoint
(News) App4mac on Thursday announced the release of FlexTeam 2.1, a new version of its scheduling application for Mac OS X. It costs...
(News) The on-demand ERP vendor announces four partner-developed applications for connecting with its rival's cloud
(News) Chip vendor hopes nonprofit's stewardship will spur support for the Linux-based mobile platform
(News) The long-awaited metrics are supposed to quantify the value of SAP's pricey service
(News) Windows Server 2008 Foundation will be sold exclusively through OEMs in the second half of the year
(News) There are SaaS features too, although Jaspersoft has no plans to offer a hosted business intelligence service
(News) The grant follows earlier funds from the Gates Foundation to fight AIDS and smoking in China.
(News) The free Linux OS shows a glimpse of technologies that may end up in a future version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux
(News) Zend Server will target software appliances and virtualized environments, unlike Zend Platform, aimed at server clusters
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(News) Adobe has partnered with one of the most popular social networking Web sites, Facebook, to give developers a new set of tools...
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(News) Infrastructure vendor's new boss wants to double revenue to $1 billion
(News) Once-Secret 'Cloud Manifesto' Sees Light of Day
(News) Nordic River has announced a significant update to TextFlow, its word processing collaboration system. Available as a...
(News) We're big fans of video-streaming site Hulu--heck, we gave it an Eddy Award last year--but if there's one area in which the...
(News) Google denies problems, but finds could raise more questions over the safety of storing data in the cloud
(News) Moving to a distributed model for energy supply will lead to management challenges
(News) They should make wider use of patent re-examinations to protect their businesses, a lawyer advised
(News) Also, Google Docs users can now create and insert drawings into their documents
(News) Google and Microsoft will create IT courses for small businesses -- but the government will pay the trainers
(News) Schwartz gave a business-as-usual speech about opportunities in open-source software and the cloud
(News) Deep cuts said to be coming in global services
(News) The move makes it easier for Java developers to write apps for the cloud
(News) A survey shows companies are ready to move on deploying hosted services for collaboration and e-mail
(News) The loss of the UN's business was a key setback for the company
(News) The firm hires only physically handicapped people to work on data-entry jobs
(News) So when Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak isn't
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 storage startup, apparently he's pretty...
(News) The company dangles big cash prizes to spur interest in RIA platform
(News) The update to Novell's Linux OS adds deep interoperability with Windows
(News) Google is mum on plans to add Facebook-like features to its collaboration and communication business suite
(News) The company offers zero-percent financing for up to three years
(News) SWFScan aims to help Web developers without a security background find troublesome code
(News) Move will boost Oracle's health sciences division
(News) Users can track and interact with customers through the popular social messaging service
(News) Reports of IBM doing due diligence suggest a merger deal may be progressing
(News) You can view an iWork '09 document on your iPhone (or iPod touch) in the Mail app, if the document is received as an e-mail...
(News) Vendor says recession is sparking interest in its services
(News) Oracle claims strong demand for its Exadata product line but declines to offer numbers
(News) In the Mac 911 vein we have a question from reader M.D. who asks a question likely on the minds of many:
(News) Gates' departure allowed executives to take new leadership responsibilities while developing Windows 7
(News) The Trouble with Apple's iPhone App Store
(News) Have you ever run into a PDF that, when viewed in Preview and/or Adobe, is just incredibly sluggish in its responses? A simple...
(News) Celigo announced Thursday the availability of NetSyncX, Software as a Service (SaaS) that helps Mac users synchronize data...
(News) A company executive says NetSuite's approach will focus on 'quality over quantity' unlike rival Salesforce.com
(News) Company-commissioned report shows Microsoft's new browser detects malware better than competitors.
(News) Executive says 11g R2 update will bring 'grid computing to the masses'
(News) I love Twitter, as my 7,121 updates will attest. But let's get this straight: while it might be okay to tweet about waffles...
(News) New software license revenue falls 6 percent
(News) A routine event brought down applications on a test version of its cloud-computing infrastructure for nearly 24 hours
(News) A Merger that Happens Once in a Big Blue Sun
(News) FileMaker on Wednesday announced the release of two updated versions of its FileMaker Business Productivity Kit. Both are...
(News) We all know that Apple operates on strict rules of secrecy that make the Cold War-era Kremlin look talkative. That's the...
(News) Agreements cover how fast customers will receive phones and SIM cards, but don't discuss penalties against Vodafone
(News) They express concerns and hopes for the future of Sun's developer tools and open-source projects
(News) The Dream Apps has released Involer 1.2, an update to their invoice generation application for Mac OS X. It's a free update;...
(News) Managers on the go can get those HR approvals done with BlackBerry support to follow
(News) The social-networking site is adding support for the open standards OAuth and OpenID
(News) Vendor looks to further align supply chain monitoring with risk management
(News) During the Great Depression, Americans found ways to repair and reuse many items -- turning gunny sacks into dresses, for...
(News) One program every Mac owner uses is the Finder. It's your Mac's filing system, organizational structure, and overseer. We all...
(News) Cloudera has launched its commercial distribution of the large-scale Hadoop computing framework.
(News) Indian outsourcer HCL Technologies bags US$350 million infrastructure management and application development contract from The...
(News) Microsoft is disputing an attempt to reinstate class-action status to an ongoing lawsuit against its Windows Vista Capable...
(News) Nopali, the medical office management software for Mac OS X, has been updated to version 1.7.5. Nopali costs US$2000.
(News) Assuming you've been using Adobe InDesign CS4 for a while now, you may have noticed that Adobe removed the Navigator panel...
(News) SAP is teaming with Sybase to offer its business applications on mobile devices, including the iPhone, Windows Mobile...
(News) Microsoft still has no plans to roll out on-demand ERP (enterprise resource planning) software, an executive said Tuesday.
(News) Perot expands BPO operations in India citing growing demand from the health-care sector.
(News) Satyam may be seen as an attractive investment only to smaller Indian outsourcers, analysts say
(News) EMC and VMware will continue to work closely together, EMC's top executive said Tuesday.
(News) Microsoft next month plans to release a toolkit to help business customers begin testing their existing applications for...
(News) In an attempt to retain recession-hit companies seeking to opt out of their software maintenance contracts, Microsoft Corp. is...
(News) Past Was Guide for Changes to Windows Development
(News) Intuit has announced plans to offer its Online Payroll service to Mac users of QuickBooks, enabling small business owners...
(News) With many companies cutting headcount and costs to weather the economic downturn, Akamai Technologies President and CEO Paul...
(News) Aleri and Coral8, makers of complex-event-processing tools, have merged.
(News) Green Olympics Planned for London in 2012
(News) Microsoft Dynamics users are looking forward finding answers to problems from peers at next week's Dynamics' conference.
(News) Facebook apps can now feature live chat, which the company foresees will increase users' engagement.
(News) Zoho has given its Web-based word-processing application a makeover with a new tab-based UI.
(News) IBM is bolstering the BI (business intelligence) capabilities of its Informix OLTP server.
(News) Zarafa is adding support for CalDAV -- which will allow integration with, for example, Mac OS X calendar application iCal --...
(News) Under pressure from popular phones from Apple and RIM, Microsoft hopes it has put in place changes that will help it meet that...
(News) Hewlett-Packard announced new products to help small and medium business save money, including printers and software that...
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(News) NetSuite is trying to lure Sage customers away with the latest in a string of discount programs.
(News) Windows 7 will include features specifically to meet the needs of enterprise customers based on early feedback from them.
(News) SAP is planning to add pre-built BI tools to its Business All-In-One ERP systems for the midmarket.
(News) Foxconn plans to use IBM Smart City software in a multibillion dollar high tech city.
(News) The Linux Foundation is reviving original content on the linux.com domain.
(News) When it comes to the Internet, Flickr may be synonymous with photos, but the online photo-sharing site branched out to videos...
(News) Amazon EC2 now supports Windows Server and SQL Server in Europe, Amazon announced Tuesday.
(News) HP is launching a set of new services for BI (business intelligence), but analysts had mixed reactions Tuesday.
(News) Software AG wants to get people talking about business process management with a new social-networking site.
(News) Socialtext will add Twitter-like functionality to its hosted enterprise collaboration platform.
(News) There's nothing like a recession to get rid of the pretenders.
(News) SAP aims to cut its employees' contribution to global warming by 60 percent by 2020
(News) Indian outsourcer HCL has won a contract in India reflecting a larger focus by Indian outsourcers on their home market.
(News) Up to 3,000 employees could be needed for Microsoft's research efforts this year, in part offsetting layoffs, a top company...
(News) Symantec is developing a new computer service to help tech gurus connect with friends and family to fix PCs.
(News) SAP and IBM are going to showcase technology at Cebit that load balances an SAP application across multiple remote servers.
(News) DEMO 09: Voice-to-text SMS for IPhone, Touch Screen Laptop Turn Heads
(News) IT vendors and their customers must invest their way out of the economic crisis, said politicians and industry leaders at the...
(News) Jumsoft has released four new designs for its Pages Templates Pro pack, a collection of templates to use in conjunction with...
(News) AppZero's virtual application appliances don't include an operating system, avoiding potential licensing hassles.
(News) Several vendors at Cebit are planning applications and services centered around business use of the Apple's iPhone.
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(News) Oracle is introducing a major upgrade to its Enterprise Manager platform on Tuesday.
(News) Whether or not Steve Jobs is at the helm, one thing Apple will never tire of is releasing great advertisement spots for its...
(News) Attorneys are trying to get the class-action status of a suit against Microsoft's Windows Capable program reinstated.
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(News) Microsoft launched a new online site for Asia Pacific health workers and sold its Amalga software to another hospital in Asia...
(News) Microsoft has been vocal about its interest in working more closely with the open-source community in the past couple of...
(News) Oracle is pulling together a new, wide-ranging suite of social-networking tools.
(News) Fanurio Time Tracking has announced the release of Fanurio 2.0, a major upgrade to its time tracking and billing software for...
(News) Corel has released Painter 11, the newest edition of its digital painting and illustration software. The software boasts more...
(News) Contrary to Apple's claims, the newest version of Safari is not the world's fastest browser, benchmark scores show. But it is...
(News) Google introduced a new dashboard on Wednesday to monitor the service quality of Google Apps services.
(News) Infosys says the company's business process outsourcing business is seeing new business from clients trying to cut costs in a...
(News) Facebook will improve the way in which applications can be found on its site.
(News) Microsoft Updates Windows 7 Beta to Fix IE8 Bugs
(News) Mac-Chi on Wednesday announced the release of Googaby 1.0, a Google Contacts management application for Mac OS X. It's priced...
(News) Not to be outdone
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(News) Netezza has acquired Tizor Systems for its data auditing and protection software.
(News) Microsoft demonstrated new technologies, including a system for recognizing conference-call participants, at its annual...
(News) India's Tata Communications continues expansion outside India with a new data center in the UK.
(News) If you've ever struggled to find something important in your mailbox--or simply lost track of messages you intended to deal...
(News) The desktop is one the areas ripe for moving into the cloud and the driver will be lower operational costs, says a VMware...
(News) Unified communications software startup Unison has added Ubuntu to the list of Linux OSes on which companies can run its...
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(News) Zoho now has single sign-on across its suite of on-demand business applications, the company said Tuesday.
(News) Aquafadas has announced the release of PulpMotion 2.1, a new version of their custom slideshow creation software for Mac OS X...
(News) Research will be key to helping Microsoft emerge strongly from the recession, Craig Mundie said at the company's annual...
(News) A settlement conference on Monday produced no resolution to Oracle's lawsuit against SAP.
(News) Google's Gmail service was unavailable starting around 10:30 AM GMT on Tuesday. Google acknowledged the problem and said it...
(News) VMware has security for its cloud OS, an API for integrating internal and external clouds, and improved management features in...
(News) Hoping to lure SharePoint customers, Ingres is teaming up with Alfresco on a new content management appliance.
(News) Google Can't Find Everything
(News) Firefox 3.1 Won't Ship This Quarter
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(News) Red Hat Monday introduced a line of virtualization software to compete with VMware, Microsoft.
(News) SAP is beefing up its college recruitment efforts with a new Web portal.
(News) Ubuntu will target cloud computing with October release, company CEO says.
(News) Asia Braces for Slowdown
(News) Apple recently added a new way to share files via your MobileMe iDisk. It is ideally suited for those times when a file is too...
(News) 7 Deadly Sins for Tech Job Applicants
(News) Infor and a Midwestern manufacturer are in a legal wrangle over retroactive software license fees.
(News) A new proof-of-concept application from Microsoft Research lets users share files from their desktop on the Web.
(News) SAP has bought the intellectual property assets of Web-based development platform vendor Coghead.
(News) Gambling on Your Career: What the Odds You'll Lose Your Job?
(News) Earnings reports and market surveys this week show that the recession is hurting even tech highflyers like Hewlett-Packard and...
(News) Intel earlier this week pitched hardware improvement that could boost performance of a cloud while cutting energy costs.
(News) Obama Nominee: Google Is the Real Monopoly
(News) Once the recession ends, the IT industry will have changed in multiple ways, industry observers say.
(News) Currently in public beta, Multiplex is a Mac OS X application that helps you managed libraries of "ripped" movies. It's priced...
(News) Microsoft's Razorfish has chosen Rackspace as its cloud-hosting platform rather than wait for Microsoft to release Azure.
(News) Xsilva Systems on Thursday announced that it's shipping LightSpeed Web Store 2.0, a new version of their e-commerce addition...
(News) Telestream on Wednesday updated its screen recording application, ScreenFlow. The update adds a few new features and fixes...
(News) Microsoft Retail Stores a Risky Proposition
(News) GooTube?: Google Wants Your Apps Demo Videos
(News) A deal between Microsoft and Red Hat unveiled Monday shows the need for vendors to ensure customers get cross-platform...
(News) Microsoft plans to discontinue Equipt, a package of software and services.
(News) Objective Decision on Wednesday announced Contactizer 3.7, a new version of their productivity management app for Mac OS X...
(News) Oracle is beefing up its recently announced CRM product update with modules aimed at large companies.
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(News) Colleges Go Online to Cut Costs in Tight Budgets
(News) You find such interesting things when you dig through the dark recesses of your file structure: hopes, dreams, ancient...
(News) A woman has filed suit against Microsoft over a $59.25 charge for downgrading her Windows Vista PC to XP.
(News) Microsoft plans to open its own retail stores to "transform the PC and Microsoft buying experience."
(News) Microsoft is crying foul over recent comments made by an Adobe executive that Silverlight has "fizzled" as a competitor to...
(News) The programs in iWork '09 share many features, including the ability to create bar charts. Somewhat strangely, though, they...
(News) Zengobi and Evernote on Thursday announced new integration between their respective products--Curio, Zengobi's brainstorming...
(News) Virtual TimeClock '09 features new capabilities like new deduction rules and unlimited overtime, new leave categories and a...
(News) Redcort Software on Thursday announced the release of Virtual TimeClock '09, an upgrade to its time and attendance software...
(News) Jumsoft on Thursday announced the release of Keynote Quartet FX '09, a new package that includes four separately available...
(News) Opera Thursday unveiled a new compression service it said speeds up browsing the Web on its mobile and desktop browsers.
(News) India's Tata Communications is investing US$430 million in a data center and cable system in the Asia-Pacific region.
(News) IBM is delivering some of its infrastructure software as an on-demand service through Amazon Web Services, the companies said...
(News) Red Hat has launched a new open-source project aimed at making it easier for enterprises to move from proprietary middleware...
(News) If you had any doubt that data synchronization was going to be a bigger deal in 2009 than, er, The Jonas Brothers (whom my...
(News) Salesforce's former president has turned up at Xactly, maker of sales performance management software.
(News) NetSuite is launching a new software suite for multi-channel retailers on Wednesday.
(News) A Microsoft partner Tuesday launched a new service for SMBs that combines hosted unified communications with a hosted PBX...
(News) IBM is helping its former workers find jobs in developing markets around the world.
(News) With the release of iLife '09, Apple updated its collection of web-hosted video tutorials covering the five programs in the...
(News) Microsoft has released four security updates including critical fixes for Internet Explorer and Exchange.
(News) Adobe Tuesday revamped an online marketplace for applications developed on its AIR technology.
(News) Microsoft laid out an extended road map for its enterprise search strategy on Tuesday.
(News) And another piece of the puzzle falls into place. On Monday, Google announced its new Sync beta, based on Microsoft's...
(News) CA has settled its patent-infringement claims against Rocket Software, CA announced Tuesday.
(News) Aster Data Systems' analytic database is now available for deployment on Amazon EC2 and AppNexus.
(News) Salesforce's Spring '09 release adds content-delivery and salesperson social networking features.
(News) US congressman is getting flack for revealing his "secret" trip to Iraq on Twitter.
(News) Unveiled at last month's Macworld Expo, latest edition of the productivity suite feels much more evolutionary than revolutionary.
(News) Facebook is expanding its menu of APIs so third-party developers can access more member data via their apps.
(News) Microsoft has released a toolset for Dynamics AX ERP that lets companies measure their greenhouse gas emissions.
(News) An Australian study revealed more people there use pirated software than in the home of the popular Pirate Bay site.
(Reviews) As a tech writer and Macworld editor, screenshots--snapshots of a computer's onscreen display--are immensely useful. But...
(News) With iLife '09 now released, users are reporting the first crop of bugs. Here are two examples.
(News) Proposal introduced as an amendment to the massive, $800 billion-plus federal stimulus bill.
(Reviews) Apple's goal with iWeb is to give home and non-professional users an easy way to create and update lively, personal Web sites...
(News) MySQL creator Michael "Monty" Widenius has left Sun Microsystems, according to his blog.
(News) Microsoft announced Premier Mission Critical Support Tuesday. The service is aimed at enterprise IT shops which already...
(News) Ubuntu should not be considered just a desktop Linux if a new survey is a good indicator.
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(News) SAP is launching Business Suite 7 on Wednesday at an event in New York.
(News) India's outsourcing industry will post slower revenue growth in the current fiscal year ending March 31, says Nasscom.
(News) Microsoft will release six editions of Windows 7 and is emphasizing the two it expects most users to buy.
(News) SugarCRM laid out its road map for the year, including new marketing and partner tools due in version 6.0.
(News) Apple's Nvidia Graphics Update 2009 has been pulled offline, and there's no sign of a replacement.
(News) Oracle and SAP's duel in the utilities software arena heated up this week with a string of announcements.
(News) Microsoft for the first time has said it will pay a financial penalty if it doesn't reach its service-level goals for a...
(News) Apple on Monday released updates to Keynote, Pages and Numbers, the applications it combines in its iWork suite. The versions...
(News) Looking for a good way of having your files accessible on multiple computers? MobileMe's an option, but if you're not looking...
(News) Google has released a new version of Google Earth, its geographic information software. The new release is available for free...
(News) The ex-Microsoft employee accused of stealing company information disputes the software firm's take on events.
(News) Satyam has added some new customers and paid staff salaries in January despite the financial scandal surrounding it.
(News) A blogger said a change in the Windows 7 beta to the UAC feature presents a security risk.
(News) A Google researcher described the company's ongoing investigations into searching structured data during a talk Friday.
(Reviews) With iLife '09 in the wild, it's time to take a look at some of its intriguing new features. And what could be more intriguing...
(News) Appirio is releasing an application that enables Salesforce customers to tap Facebook for marketing and employee-hunting.
(News) Services that store enterprise data in a "cloud" on the Internet raise questions that organizations are just beginning to ask...
(Reviews) There are scores of programs these days aimed at helping you organize your tasks and projects. The most basic simply give you...
(News) Oracle has subpoenaed about 100 former customers of SAP's now-shuttered TomorrowNow subsidiary, according to a court document...
(News) The Iconfactory on Thursday announced the release of Twitterific 3.2, an update to their Twitter client for Mac OS X. A free...
(News) Boston company Invention Machine sells software it says can help inventors invent faster and easier.
(News) Captain FTP received a major upgrade to version 6 this week, adding many new features and fixing some bugs for Leopard users.
(News) Apple's MobileMe service can be a great deal. It enables you to back up your Mac, read and manage e-mail online, synchronize...
(News) The Omni Group updated its flow charting application, OmniGraffle, fixing a bug and updating localizations.
(News) A Windows enthusiast is calling for Microsoft to release Windows 7 now.
(News) Tampa-area officials are gearing up for the Super Bowl with a specialized BI (business intelligence) system.
(News) Nokia has outsourced the management and help desk functions for its desktops to India's HCL.
(News) SAP's top North American executive has taken a leave of absence.
(News) Designers and developers say adoption of Microsoft's Silverlight technology has been hampered by the economic crisis.
(Reviews) There's something for everyone in version 10 of the Mac's most popular database management program, FileMaker Pro, and its big...
(Reviews) Serious outdoors enthusiasts--the type who get up before the roosters, eat locusts and honey, and start campfires with their...
(News) Quark has released an update to its flagship desktop publishing software, QuarkXPress. The 8.02 update is available for...
(News) MacProVideo.com and its Adobe-focused sister company designProVideo.com have released several new video tutorials on...
(News) EHarmony is tapping Netezza's data-warehousing appliance to analyze customer data, the companies said Wednesday.
(News) Google will roll out a much-awaited ability to use Gmail without an Internet connection.
(Reviews) If you frequently use your Mac laptop (or even a desktop Mac) to take notes during presentations, classes, or other live...
(News) In my review of Numbers '09, I included a tip about entering formulas using the keyboard. In the event that not all of you...
(News) Steve Ballmer should take a cue from former leader's staus report.
(News) IBM has cut more than 2,800 jobs, according to a union Web site.
(News) You understand that you can listen to music in another person's iTunes library if that person's computer is on your local area...
(Reviews) Numbers '09, the spreadsheet component of
 Apple's iWork '09 application suite, is the second major release of Numbers since...
(News) Deutsche Telekom spin-off Zimory has unveiled Public Cloud, a marketplace for companies that want to buy and sell virtualized...
(News) Oracle is making a renewed push against Salesforce with a new version of its on-demand CRM application.
(Reviews) Garmin's Nuvi line of GPS devices offers voice command support and combines visual mapping, turn-by-turn driving directions...
(News) Whenever we're on a grocery run, my wife always has to remind me to check out the cost per unit--the figure that helps you...
(Reviews) If you compulsively scroll news headlines, and enjoy browsing RSS feeds, but don't particularly care for managing them, you...
(Reviews) William Shakespeare wrote 37 plays containing 20,000 to 30,000 words, depending on who's doing the counting. Some of the words...
(News) Technology professionals are concerned about job cuts and stagnant pay in 2009, a survey shows.
(News) The ranks of iPhone client apps for the Craigslist online classified service grew a little larger this week, as CraigsPal made...
(Reviews) In 2004, a small-budget game produced by Namco called Katamari Damacy took the PlayStation 2 world by storm. Its...
(News) I don't know about you, but in my daily travels, I come across a lot of people who merit a savage dressing-down. Most of the...
(News) Repealing software patents could give a much-needed boost to the tech industry in troubled economic times.
(News) Microsoft layoffs could be a shot in the arm for Seattle tech industry.
(News) The App Store has been a battleground for much of the six months that it's been in existence, even as that battle has been...
(Reviews) You know that song? On the radio? By that band? What's it called? You know, the one with the guitars? That really catchy one?
(News) Did Apple lie about Steve Jobs' health?
(News) Next month at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Redmond is set to unveil its latest, er, homage to
 an Apple product:...
(News) Accelerated Internet Strategies has launched an iPhone development training program. It begins February 2, 2009 and costs...
(News) Enterprises could make their data centers more efficient -- but the biggest winners could be companies like EMC, Cisco and...
(News) SAP wants information related to Oracle's deal with a third-party provider of support for Oracle software, according to a...
(Reviews) Most people don't expect much of the person delivering the weather report-- timeliness, a peek beyond the obvious, and of...
(Reviews) I can see my neighborhood from space. It's a bit tricky to spot, and you have to know precisely where to look, but it's there...
(News) The books are barely closed on one holiday, it seems, before stores have already set up decorations and displays for the next...
(Reviews) Since I live in Northern California, I'm lucky enough to be able to visit the Monterey Bay Aquarium, pound for pound the best...
(News) Garnter report shows that IT shops aren't taking on more tasks, but changing their approach to the work at hand.
(News) Google's reseller program for online enterprise apps pushes SaaS into the enterprise.
(News) Steinberg unveiled the next major version of its digital audio workstation, Cubase, at the NAMM music show in Anaheim, Calif.
(News) Sometimes being one of the best, most full-featured Twitter clients for the iPhone just isn't enough. Take the case of...
(News) Apple's App Store hit another milestone this week. Apple says its online retail outfit for iPhone and iPod touch programs now...
(News) iPhone versions of desktop apps were all the rage at Macworld Expo--Marketcircle's Daylite, ProjectWizards' Merlin, and...
(News) Cloud computing suffers from too few customers and too many marketing dollars.
(News) Bill Gates will be a chapter in history -- Steve Jobs, a footnote.
(News) Analyst disagrees, thinks the company will accelerate its ongoing layoffs.
(News) Salesforce has launched a new customer-service application dubbed the Service Cloud.
(Reviews) Here's a paradox for you: Wi-Fi is everywhere, yet isn't always easy to find. Here's a possible solution: WiFinder by Lars...
(News) iPhone and iPod touch users who want to listen to stream music through their mobile device. Slacker is the latest to throw its...
(News) A Colorado jewelry chain has partly blamed a troubled SAP project for its Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing.
(News) Number of people let go on Friday unclear, but one analyst said it could be in the thousands.
(News) Microsoft released a critical security update fixing flaws in its Windows SMB service; RIM also issued a patch, and Oracle's...
(Reviews) Ever since USA Today first rolled off the presses nearly 30 years ago, critics have derided the Gannett-owned paper as shallow...
(News) You may not be able to surf tech blogs without coming across the iPhone applications, but that doesn't mean that it translates...
(News) FileWave has updated its self-titled software management tool, adding greater administrative flexibility to the process of...
(News) This year, for the first time ever, more people in the world will have a mobile phone than a land line. Mobile devices...
(News) Indian government steps in to take temporary control at troubled Indian outsourcer Satyam.
(News) ProjectWizards' Merlin is an already awesome project management app. In 2008, the company added a Web module that let you not...
(News) Microsoft released their second iPhone app, TagReader [iTunes link]. Simply point your iPhone's camera at a Microsoft Tag and...
(News) Amazon has released a long-awaited Web console for its Elastic Compute Cloud, to the relief of users.
(News) Ignore the SaaS naysayers and doom-and-gloom dark cloud crowd -- here's the sunny side of cloud computing.
(News) At this week's Macworld Expo, long-time Mac software developer Ambrosia Software released iToner 2, a new version of its...
(News) Vietnam's government will mandate use of several open-source applications by the end of next year as the country tries to...
(News) Analysts say the CRM space is due for some major changes this year.
(News) Ambitious, digitally inclined and young, Starbucks' Stephen Gillett is a new breed of CIO who hopes to turn around the coffee giant.
(News) Recessions drive cost cutting initiatives and offshoring and IT outsourcing are obvious solutions for many companies. So what's the hang up?
(News) If you're at the show, be sure to stop by the Google booth. They have an interesting hack that let's you surf across the...
(News) Have you been jonesing for Apple's new Keynote Remote app for the iPhone? Jones no more, friend, because Keynote Remote...
(Reviews) Most people are creatures of habit. I know I am. I try to maintain certain routines. I have a way of reading online that has...
(News) Sun Microsystems has bought Q-layer, a Belgian vendor of software for automating the management of computing clouds
(News) Salesforce.com was down for under an hour on Tuesday, but users were left in the dark about the outage.
(News) Health care IT is set to get a financial shot in the arm, but "job math" may be fuzzy.
(News) From 802.11n and unified communications to green IT and cloud computing, these are the technologies to watch in the coming year.
(News) FileMaker has updated its flagship database product to version 10--we've told you about that. FileMaker Pro 10 offers many new...
(News) With its revolutionary design, the first-generation iPhone captured consumers' hearts. But for the device to be welcomed into...
(News) Daylite has already established itself as a pre-eminent organization and business-management tool on the Mac. The application...
(Reviews) Hungry? On a road trip, looking for a place to stay? ActiveGuru's Vicinity is the latest app to exploit the iPhone's GPS...
(News) Recession knocks down overall payments to CIOs -- but not everyone is feeling the pinch.
(Reviews) If you've got a local newspaper within reach, chances are there's a Spot the Differences puzzle somewhere within its pages...
(News) Instead of delivering a rah-rah keynote, here are five meaningful things Steve Ballmer could say at CES.
(News) I scour the App Store a lot, looking for the latest and greatest applications for the iPhone and iPod touch so that I can...
(News) If you'd like to use your iPhone to sync up more than just contacts, calendars, and e-mails between your mobile device and...
(Reviews) Sometimes chatting with your friends and colleagues on the Internet can feel like tracking down a great diaspora across...
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(News) The first thing that struck me about the new version of FileMaker Pro and FileMaker Pro Advanced released Monday is that the...
(News) Apple subsidiary FileMaker on Monday introduced the next major version of its flagship database application for Mac and...
(News) Here's a pair of business and productivity iPhone and iPod touch apps recently appeared in the App Store.
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(News) The U.S. government's economic stimulus plans may actually boost prospects for information technology employment.
(Reviews) BBCReader from newwaytoseenews bears a passing resemblance to the NYTimes news app for the iPhone and iPod touch. Both apps...
(News) A battered economy will mean tightening belts, changing customer allegiances, and the Web as the platform of choice.
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(News) Yes, it's time again for Cringely to go out on a limb and start sawing. Here are his key predictions for the coming year in tech.
(News) From the iPhone 3G to 'unibody' MacBooks, 2008 was a standout year for Apple.
(News) Our aggregation of 2009 predictions finds prognosticators forecasting everything from increased IT money concerns and security issues to a ripening acquisition market.
(News) With the end of the year comes the inevitable awards ceremonies. And this being the first year of officially-distributed...
(Reviews) Some day very soon, all of us are going to have to sit down and figure out just what constitutes the perfect iPhone app. I...
(News) Thanks to its size and its prominence in the Mac universe, Apple tends to dominate the discussion when it comes to chronicling...
(News) Microsoft must get busy -- and ignore the analysts.
(News) Despite all the benefits of working at home, telecommuting also has its disadvantages. Before you set up your home office, be aware of these 17 rotten bits about telecommuting--both its minor annoyances and the bigger telecommuting problems nobody likes to talk about.
(News) Things have started to steam up in the App Store. A trio of newly released apps allow you to steam or fog up your iPhone's...
(News) All of us need to get things done. Few of us have the genius or the vision to come up with a system for, you know, getting...
(News) iPhone 3G, Windows 7, and cloud computing were important, but don't let them overshadow these key stories.
(How To) Avoid distractions by telling Outlook to keep quiet for all--or most--incoming messages.
(News) We had our say last week, rattling off our favorite iPhone and iPod touch apps. We listed 38 apps in all that had caught our...
(News) Files patent for metering hardware capabilities but admits overall cost 'may be higher.'
(News) Wikipedia is the great argument settler. I can't tell you how many times my friends and I have had heated debates over some...
(News) It's New Year's Eve. The clock is about to strike midnight, the big ball in Times Square is perilously close to touching down...
(Reviews) Network limitations somewhat stymie what the iPhone and iPod touch can do with video, but that hasn't prevented developers...
(News) Sonoma Wire Works updated two of its apps, one for the Mac and one for the iPhone, to work together when creating music.
(News) Satyam demands apology from World Bank after the bank barred it from future contracts.
(News) 11 leaders outline the challenges and opportunities ahead.
(News) Microsoft failed to buy Yahoo or redeem Vista, but the software giant did set its cloud computing plans in motion, deliver on the promises of Windows Server 2008 and generate strong buzz for Windows 7.
(News) IT leaders from Red Hat, Adobe, Cisco and more admit: All they really need to know they learned from ... World of Goo?
(Reviews) If you're trying to find a movie that's worth your $11 at the local cineplex, the App Store has plenty of apps that help you...
(News) There's a big wide world out there. Fortunately, your iPhone can help you stay on top of things, courtesy of apps that keep...
(News) The Rails and Merge Web development frameworks will be merged together in Rails 3, they said Tuesday.
(News) With financial and political volatility all over the world, what challenges pose the biggest risk to business in 2009? And what regions may be too risky?
(News) The Americas' SAP Users Group is looking for a new leader after ousting its CEO.
(News) Economic downturns have a way of accelerating the demise of the obsolete and inefficient.
(News) iPhone and iPod touch users planning on attending Macworld Conference & Expo should take note of iMacworld, a new...
(News) One of most tantalizing possibilities posed by the arrival of native third-party apps for the iPhone and iPod touch was the...
(News) Indian outsourcer Satyam loses prestigious World Bank business under a cloud.
(News) A Sun executive says the company is working to open source more key parts of its JavaFX development toolkit.
(Reviews) ReadPixel's RemoteTap lets you control to your local Mac from the iPhone or iPod touch (if you're on a wireless network), much...
(News) After focusing on our favorite iPhone games, our look at the best the App Store has to offer continues with our picks for the...
(News) Wipro is acquiring Citigroup's Indian software and services operation.
(News) Microsoft is warning of a critical flaw in its SQL Server database software.
(News) Is your job shaky? Considering a career change? Then let these successful IT refugees provide inspiration.
(Reviews) There's no shortage of unit conversion apps for the iPhone, and we've reviewed several of them in the past. And now we can add...
(News) Outsourcing firms warn of possible H-1B visa cutbacks.
(News) Follow these tips to avoid the common mistakes that torpedo many IT pros'job searches.
(News) The iPhone can store just about any piece of information your heart desires -- contacts, photos, and Web pages. But getting...
(News) AccuWeather.com has announced the release of a new application for the iPhone and iPod touch. It's available for free download...
(News) Matrox Graphics on Monday announced the availability of PowerDesk, desktop management software intended for use with its...
(News) GarageGames has announced the release of iTGB 1.1, an update to their 2D game development library for the iPhone. A free...
(News) Industry trade group calls the idea 'stupid.'
(News) Poorly constructed contracts, inadequate service delivery could negate cost-cutting benefits.
(News) Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said Thursday it will be some time before interest in the company's database machine translates into...
(Reviews) The iPhone and iPod touch are a gaming paradise. At least, that's what Apple's TV ads keep telling me, accompanied by that...
(Reviews) In its infancy, The Weather Channel was little more than a punchline for jokes about the paucity of decent cable TV channels...
(Reviews) It's hard to imagine, with all the great iPhone apps for sale on the App Store, that the top paid app (App Store link) would...
(News) The iPhone continues to try and make its bones as a business tool, and a number of recent releases to the App Store look to...
(News) Indian outsourcer to have its logo on Ferrari F1 car for 2009
(Reviews) The first thing you should know about Chess With Friends is that it does not require you to have any friends with whom to play...
(News) SEC filings show H-1B needs could be hurt by uncertain political climate.
(News) A mattress maker's decision to halt an ERP project reflects the bleak economic climate.
(News) Macintosh developer Rogue Amoeba on Monday released Radioshift Touch, a new application for the iPhone and iPod touch.
(News) Unity Technologies has updated its Unity game development engine for the iPhone and iPod touch to version 1.0.1.
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(News) Satyam withdraws plans to invest in construction companies, following investors and analysts protests.
(News) We've put together a poll of polls from our mailbox to come up with predictions backed by scientific research.
(News) Simply put, open source isn't free software.
(Reviews) Just as any piece of writing can benefit from the help of an good editor, so any photographer can tell you that a photo is...
(Reviews) With today's powerful computers, calculators, and smartphones with built-in calculator software, it's no wonder that people...
(News) There are only 10 more shopping days 'til Christmas, which also means there are 10 more days for developers to boost the...
(News) NewsGator has enhanced its enterprise social networking software for Microsoft SharePoint.
(News) Zannel on Monday released a new application for the iPhone called CityWatch that allows users to post pictures, video and text...
(News) At a time of economic uncertainty, Microsoft serves as a Wal-Mart of software, offering high-volume, low-cost products, a...
(News) VMware is still the top player in the hypervisor market, but the coming year will see the company move far beyond its original...
(News) As the going gets tough for Indian IT outsourcers, Satyam plans to diversify into the construction business
(News) Open-source code security vendor Palamida is giving the thumbs-up to 25 open-source projects.
(News) Microsoft on Monday released its first application built specifically for Apple's iPhone.
(News) Indian outsourcer HCL Technologies has completed the acquisition of Axon, a SAP consulting company in the UK.
(News) When you update your resume, don't overlook these Internet twists on longstanding job-seeking practices.
(Reviews) Everyone understands what an owner's manual is for, right? It's nothing more than a guide for making the most of a product...
(News) "Copy and paste." The words are shouted like a slogan whenever anybody starts discussing the limitations of the iPhone's...
(Reviews) After a year-and-a-half with my iPhone, I can't imagine ever going back to my PDA and cell phone--the iPhone runs my life...
(News) On the heels of heated discussion over the App Store's current organization, Apple has apparently made some adjustments to the...
(Reviews) More than 20 years ago, Lemonade Stand emerged on the Apple II as a means of teaching the children of Generation X basic...
(News) As reported earlier, The Iconfactory's Craig Hockenberry recently posted an open letter to Steve Jobs excoriating the...
(Reviews) Continuing our look at the many apps that help you find movie listings--such as the free Movies--we turn our attention to...
(News) India may be losing ground to smaller and newer competitors on cost and ability to retain staff, according to Gartner.
(News) Should Microsoft try to be cooler or just Leave the kids alone?
(Reviews) If a search for "voice record" on the iTunes Store is any indication, there's a market for voice-recording apps for the iPhone...
(News) Amazon has extended its Elastic Compute Cloud to Europe, a move that should give customers there better performance.
(News) SAP will allow German and Austrian customers to keep their old support contracts instead of switching to the controversial...
(News) Agency gives tech reins to former Lehman Brothers IT exec, who had headed defunct investment firm's IT division.
(News) Fourteen new companies have joined the Open Handset Alliance, the group backing Google's Android mobile-phone software.
(News) NetSuite has released a version of its SaaS ERP suite for the Japanese market.
(Reviews) When I reviewed a trio of gas station finders for the iPhone and IPod touch, I included an application called iGas, which I...
(News) A senior Sun executive on Monday downplayed the controversy over recent public criticisms by a MySQL co-founder.
(News) Google has started selling an unlocked Android phone, targeted at developers.
(News) Are you a list fiend? If so, your hard drive is probably littered with tables and spreadsheets--from Little League rosters and...
(News) SugarCRM now offers the ability to plug in third-party data sources from LinkedIn and elsewhere.
(News) Salesforce is connecting its Force.com development platform with Google's App Engine, the companies announced Monday.
(Reviews) Admit it, you're drowning in a sea of friends, photos and feeds and need a lifeline. Ziibii lassos updates from many of the...
(News) ComiXology has released ComiXology for the iPhone and iPod touch, available for purchase and download from the App Store for...
(Reviews) In my review of Facebook 1.1, I was pretty impressed with the iPhone version of the social-networking site. With Facebook 2.0...
(News) Apple on Friday said 300 million iPhone apps have been downloaded from its App Store since it opened in July.
(News) Candywriter has announced the release of My Lease Miles for the iPhone and iPod touch. It costs $0.99 and is available for...
(News) Adobe made a critical change in its algorithm used to password-protect Acrobat 9 documents that has made it much faster to hack.
(News) The open source model is broken. Fighting Microsoft was a big mistake. And, yes, open source is the key to a better future.
(News) Bill Gates tells President-Elect Obama how to fix the economy.
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(News) JDA has decided against buying SCM vendor i2 Technologies, i2 said Thursday.
(News) A top SAP executive said Wednesday that business is looking better, but the company is still reining in costs.
(Reviews) It's the most wonderful time of the year, they say. Sure, the country is in a recession and holiday sales are looking more...
(News) Late last week, iPhone app-tracking site 148apps.com noted that there were over 10,000 applications available for the iPhone...
(Reviews) Mozilla super fans will be pleased to know that the open source music playing application Songbird has debuted its 1.0...
(News) Troubled CRM (customer relationship management) vendor Entellium filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Tuesday, and Intuit is...
(News) Google cuts costs, but what about opportunities?
(News) Apple introduced two great portable devices this year: the iPhone 3G and the second-generation iPod touch, both of which...
(News) It's the world's worst way to market Linux.
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(News) CRM vendor Entellium is filing for bankruptcy and set to sell its assets to Intuit.
(News) A Danish High Court has ruled that ISPs must ensure that their customers don't use the Swedish torrent-tracking site.
(News) Amazon.com on Tuesday announced the release of an application designed to work on the iPhone and iPod touch.
(News) Steve Jobs may be among targets in fight over former IBM VP joining Apple.
(News) Research carried out by Macehiter Ward-Dutton in association with CIO.co.uk reveals changing attitudes to sourcing and SaaS.
(News) Obama's pick to head DHS is a strong advocate for increasing the H-1B cap. Joseph Lieberman, whose committee oversees homeland security, has been both a critic and a supporter of the H-1B program.
(News) SaaS vendor Zoho rolled out a SQL-based data integration service on Tuesday.
(News) Open-source advocates offer their vision of what the software world could be in 2020, and what must be done to get there.
(News) FileMaker released an update for its personal database application, Bento. The update fixes a number of issues that users had...
(Reviews) The iPhone not only has the ability to play music, but thanks to the work of some enterprising developers, it can also make...
(News) Open-Xchange, which makes an e-mail and document server, has added support for some Apple applications due to increased...
(News) The Open Solutions Alliance, an industry group that lobbies for open-source software, has named a new president.
(News) I've been catching some flack in recent days over the last FUD Watch column, in which I suggested there's been some...
(News) As a TV junkie, there are definitely times when I wish I could easily catch up on a missed episode via my iPhone. But due to...
(News) Linux distributor Good OS and BIOS vendor Phoenix Technologies are launching quick-start programs to speed the operation of...
(News) Imagebakery has announced the release of The Thmb, a new app for the iPhone and iPod touch. It costs US$0.99.
(How To) Intuit aims to serve small businesses globally using Web accounting services on mobile phones
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(News) Repeated terrorist attacks in India could scare off foreigners, including those outsourcing to India.
(News) Many iPhone owners are complaining about a bug in the iPhone 2.2 Update that affects how images are displayed. The problem...
(Reviews) I'm sure you've been in a store and had the idea of a lifetime. You frantically search around you for a slip of paper to jot...
(News) Is an advertising-supported model the way forward for the software industry?
(Reviews) Japanese developer Kenta Cho has developed a reputation for distillation. Not of the alcohol kind, but rather, for taking the...
(News) Steve Strout is out as president of the Americas SAP Users Group, a spokeswoman said Wednesday.
(News) Can Microsoft compete with Amazon, Google, and other rivals in the cloud computing space?
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(News) Some online job boards are seeing a steep decline in the number of IT jobs employers and recruiters are posting. The good news for your IT career? Executives at these job boards don't anticipate IT unemployment and job losses to be nearly as bad as 2001 and 2002.
(Reviews) Every modern English dictionary stands in the shadow of the Holy Trinity of Lexicons: The Oxford English Dictionary...
(News) Earlier this year there was a lot of hubbub over apps getting rejected from Apple's App Store, and while Apple's rules over...
(News) IT industry-watchers forecast a slowdown in high-tech job creation through the early part of next year.
(News) Membership-based patent aggregator RPX takes aim at nefarious non-practicing entities.
(Reviews) A really good dictionary is an indispensable part of any library, home or office. I have three unabridged dictionaries in my...
(News) Google's new search customization tool, SearchWiki, has quickly generated criticism for its lack of an opt-out options and...
(News) If not for help from a handful of geeks, Connecticut school teacher Julie Amero would be in prison right now for crimes she didn't commit. What's wrong with this picture?
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 Apple released the iPhone and iPod touch Software Update v2.2
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(News) Ecamm Network has announced the release of PhoneView (formerly MegaPhone) 2.1, an update to their desktop "companion" software...
(News) IBM is getting into the cloud computing services business, the company announced Monday.
(News) SAP will bring a unified interface across its entire Business Suite sometime over the next few quarters.
(News) The Omni Group released a maintenance update for its project management software, OmniPlan.
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(News) Sun's insistence that Java is still its flagship product is holding back both the platform and the company
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(Reviews) Look, there is simply no way e-books will ever replace traditional books, printed on paper and bound in cloth. There is...
(News) The Internet engineering community is grappling with what to do about a serious flaw in the DNS discovered this summer, and...
(News) Marking the two-year anniversary of their controversial interoperability agreement, Microsoft and Novell this week are...
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(News) Adobe has released the first full version of Configurator, an open source utility that enables the easy creation of panels...
(News) On Monday, Citigroup announced it would cut 52,000 jobs over the next few months in a dramatic cost-cutting move.
(News) Today's turbulent economy has made job search efforts more challenging -- and nerve-racking -- for those in IT.
(News) Networking and telecom companies are on a list of businesses that are most in need of a government bailout.
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(News) Big Blue cites business growth as reason for carbon increase.
(News) IT orgs harness wiki power to handle everything from tech training to project management.
(News) The economic recession in the U.S., and President-elect Barack Obama's tax incentive plan, will change the economics of some business process outsourcing areas. Could offshoring go the way of the dinosaur?
(News) IT services and the automation they provide are indispensable at Danone Group.
(News) Microsoft, IBM and Cisco will ultimately dominate Nortel, Avaya, Alcatel, Siemens in unified communications arena.
(News) Microsoft Wednesday released an updated bundle of infrastructure servers for small business and its first-ever offering...
(How To) Just because you don't have a large enterprise doesn't mean you can't run your IT operation like the big guys.
(News) Government's response to the financial meltdown will require major tech initiatives for compliance, despite the recession's cutbacks.
(News) The auto industry has been offering U.S. lawmakers an apocalypse-level scenario warning them that as many as three million...
(News) Simone Seth of PricewaterhouseCoopers looks at the four stages of the outsourcing lifecycle.
(News) Talk to IT leaders about cloud computing and two big worries come through loud and clear: security and management. As noted by...
(News) Twitter can be a valuable business tool -- if you know what you're doing.
(News) Antiquated resume-writing strategies will not work in current market conditions -- period.
(News) Visa looking to replicate data center success across globe.
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  the impact of President-Elect Barack Obama's successful use of social networking and other...
(News) How thoroughly has the Internet come to torment the dying industry that is print newspaper publishing?
(News) It's not easy for IT professionals to make a wholesale switch to a different technical discipline to reap the benefits of a...
(News) Last Tuesday night, I was standing in the middle of a huge crowd in the heart of Times Square in New York. We were following...
(News) There's more work and less bonus money, and salaries aren't keeping pace with inflation. Here's how some IT professionals are coping.
(News) For your next IT project, recruit a small army of users in the business units you serve.
(News) Nortel is expected to announce significant job cuts when it reports third quarter results on Monday. That would be on top of...
(News) A former Intel Corp. design engineer has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Boston for allegedly stealing trade secrets...
(News) Despite the economic downturn, making money is not a concern for two of the biggest players in the Web 2.0 consumer market...
(News) Stealing your company's 'hold' music, spoofing caller ID, pumping up penny stocks -- social engineers blend old and new methods to grab passwords or profits. Being aware of their tricks is the first line of defense.
(News) Analysts mixed on whether the end of its Google deal sounds the death knell for Yahoo.
(News) CIOs say renegotiation is difficult but crucial in poor economy.
(News) The new national administration in January will have the opportunity to set the direction on many fronts. Here are the top 10...
(News) For the second time in two days, Adobe Systems has warned users of multiple vulnerabilities in one of its most-popular...
(News) Forward-thinking IT managers are starting to install tools that can measure and analyze Web 2.0 activities.
(News) Even though Apple Inc. recently upgraded the back-end infrastructure of its problem-plagued MobileMe, the online service was...
(News) What will it take for a smoother election next time?
(News) Look at how the software maker plans to deliver its SaaS products.
(News) If you're hurting that Microsoft will soon discontinue Windows XP, you may take heart in the fact that the company has only...
(News) Adobe Systems Inc. Tuesday patched its Reader application for the fifth time this year, plugging eight security holes...
(News) We dread hearing the news that something once considered unique or innovative has turned into a commodity, where the only...
(News) More and more help is available so developers can write apps for the new-generation chips.
(News) The Trojan horse whose attacks convinced Microsoft Corp. to issue an emergency patch for Windows had infected only about 200...
(News) IT workers and managers who believe their jobs are too high-level to be sent overseas may want to look at Affiliated Computer...
(News) An infusion of social software is helping fuel an evolution of enterprise collaboration that will eventually give users more...
(News) For the second time in three months, Windows has boosted its market share, an Internet measuring company reported Monday.
(News) What's intuitive and simple for a system designer isn't necessarily easy and obvious for a cross-section of system users...
(News) Users hit turbulence on the trip to cloud computing.
(News) The revolutionary aspects of Azure have barely been touched on by all the commentary about the new offering. Here's what's really interesting about Azure.
(News) This excerpt from the upcoming book, Becoming Agile, discusses a necessity in ensuring corporate buy-in for Agile development: creating a collaborative team that can evangelize Agile in the company and shepherd the software engineering methodology through enterprise software development projects.
(News) Oracle is buying user profiling technology to give its Beehive platform a boost.
(News) You'd think Generation Y professionals would be the least equipped to weather a recession and layoffs. After all, this is the...
(News) Think leading a technology company is only for thirtysomethings? These savvy sexagenarians beg to differ.
(News) With Oracle and Microsoft now offering their core technologies via Amazon, is it time to trust the cloud?
(News) With the U.S. elections upon us, I realized how much our current presidential choices look like just the kind of IT folks who have a shot at being CTO or CIO. Weird? You betcha.
(News) Some folks hold on to dated devices and old applications. Why? Because they still work.
(News) Microsoft wants to bring developers to the cloud with Windows Azure, but is the new model all it's cracked up to be?
(News) My, my. The "Windows: Unsafe at any speed?" post last week certainly raised a few hackles -- thanks in part to a totally...
(News) What steps do IT executives need to take to get on the "A" list for a high-profile job opening? Is it bad form for IT managers...
(News) A solid IT risk and compliance program will lower costs, reduce risk and permit consistent compliance. With better security, lower audit burden, improved leverage of IT resources, faster decision-making and business process optimization, companies can gain some recession relief.
(News) Extensive support is but one differentiator between commercial and open source AJAX frameworks.
(News) Looking for job protection, health benefits, and legal assistance without a union mentality? The IITW may be for you.
(News) C-level execs aren't the only ones who should plan their first months in a new position.
(News) This is my 2009 SOA prediction story, and I'm sticking to it.
(News) An open source approach to open voting systems is essential to the integrity of our electoral process. Here's a technical blueprint for securing the vote.
(News) Ignorance of IT destroys value.
(News) If you see devils wearing parkas this Halloween, don't be surprised. Hell just froze over. I know, because a marketing...
(News) Now what? In the face of a deepening business slowdown, a global credit crunch and a wildly fluctuating stock market, what...
(News) Are young workers today fundamentally different?
(News) Do you think a soft economy lessens your need to engage your staff? Think again. Your most valuable asset-and single biggest...
(News) As long as there are mainframes, there will be Cobol. Learn the language and the culture and you might land a job that that lasts until retirement.
(News) Gartner's annual report on hot technologies puts virtualization at the head of the class.
(News) Every UI feature is extensible via PowerShell.
(News) Caspio Bridge, like a Microsoft Access on the Web, allows nonprogrammers to easily create online databases and the Web forms to fill them.
(News) Having the right technical skills is only half the battle for an IT contractor in tough economic times.
(News) Technologists look to a new White House to reverse decade-long slide in R&D.
(News) CIOs who want to run the show as CEO are finding that technology companies are a natural fit.
(News) Voters using e-voting machines urged to check printouts to verify their choices.
(News) Who will fill your shoes? The CIO of BAE Systems' Customer Solutions group shares his method for encouraging and training potential successors.
(News) One likely outcome of the financial market meltdown is an effort to improve the modeling tools that are designed to help firms spot risky business -- before it's too late.
(News) Broadcom quietly assures precision, speed for GPS apps.
(News) The trick to nipping IT miscues is testing, testing, testing, as these hard-luck lessons in boneheaded quality assurance attest.
(News) Cisco CEO Chambers predicts videoconference services will be available on planes within 18 months.
(News) Notes from the SDForum's all-day Cloud Computing Symposium.
(News) One-third of technical women wait to start families in order to advance their IT careers, according to new research on mid-career technical women. Nearly 10 percent forgo having children altogether--and despite these moves, women are still struggling to win executive roles in IT.
(News) IT service spending might not feel drastic cuts as high-tech leaders look to shave dollars off their budgets, because...
(News) OK. Enough already! I've had it with all of the economic doom and gloom. Sure, the market sucks. Sure our 401k's are in the...
(News) Believe it or not, some tech jobs are still in demand. Find out which ones employers need to fill.
(News) From e-voting to text messaging, a look at how tech trends have changed our politics.
(News) Exec explains how he got to seven, reveals Windows 7's real number is 6.1.
(News) With the world economy in shambles many businesses are already battening down the hatches expecting rough seas ahead. IT...
(News) Microsoft is objecting to a plan that would force the company to use its Windows Update service to notify potential members in...
(News) Several up-and-coming scripting languages -- some open-source -- are gaining popularity among software developers. These dynamic programming languages deserve more attention for your enterprise software development, even if your shop is dedicated to Java or .NET. Here's why.
(News) More and more IT projects involve teams from around the world, and project leaders are asked to work a grueling 24/7.
(News) A U.S. start-up has emerged from stealth mode Tuesday, and is set to introduce Windows data migration software aimed at...
(News) In data security, many of the toughest challenges have nothing to do with the bad guys.
(News) As budgets get slashed, IT is at risk of becoming invisible.
(How To) From relying on free software to buying a refurbished PC, you have many ways to save your business money in this troubled economy.
(News) With the Nov. 4 presidential election less than four weeks away, the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law is gearing...
(News) Getting customers is one thing; retaining them is another. Now is a great time to rethink your customer service strategy.
(News) Will innovation will grind to a halt?
(News) Think your project's off track and over budget? Learn a lesson or two from the tech sector's most infamous project flameouts.
(News) An internal report by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) examining the H-1B visa program has found evidence...
(News) Microsoft's SharePoint collaboration platform is all the rage in today's business world, especially since third parties gained the ability to plug security holes. But managing it can still be a nightmare for IT security shops.
(News) For IT, the choice of a deputy matters a great deal. So how do you get the right one?
(News) Where does it go from here?
(News) Microsoft denies that it has instituted a hiring freeze, despite an internal memo described by an employee indicating the move.
(News) The winning solution in the case study contest sponsored by the SOA Consortium and CIO magazine provided integrated business solutions using existing applications and legacy systems. Learn how they did it.
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(News) Many states switch to paper ballots in continuing migration from touch-screen e-voting machines.
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(News) Winners of the SOA Case Study Competition all successfully delivered business or mission value using an SOA approach.
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(News) Axon Group is recommending a higher bid from Indian outsourcer HCL Technologies after a lower offer from Infosys.
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(News) In a dramatic shift, IPOs have all but disappeared in '08.
(News) Socialtext, a Palo Alto company that made its mark building wikis for the enterprise, has added a social networking application for businesses and a microblogging tool akin to Twitter.
(News) No one expects mass adoption, but analysts anticipate companies will take a much closer look at cloud computing services, thanks to the low cost of entry.
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(News) Microsoft Wednesday released a free, low-footprint version of its Hyper-V virtualization software.
(News) Analytics, SOA, storage networking, and cloud computing providers face huge fallouts as financial customers wither.
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(News) Early adopters of virtual desktop infrastructure report compelling benefits, significant hurdles, and a cloudy view into ROI.
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(News) The U.S. Congress passes a bill that would expand penalties for copyright infringement.
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(News) A look back at the changes wrought by technology since 1978 boggles the mind. The extended InfoWorld family predicts the shocking developments we can expect between now and 2018.
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(News) Users may soon dispense of their desktop in favor of portable devices with virtualization functions.
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(News) Shai Agassi's rise to SAP's executive board was fast and furious. But his resignation in 2007 and his bold plan to rid the world of its dependence on oil have been equally abrupt. In this Q&A, Agassi speaks about his reason for leaving SAP and his vision for the electric car.
(News) After several years of hype, the results of SOA efforts have been a mixed bag. InfoWorld's SOA expert explains how to get SOA right.
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(News) VMware will ship new products next year to extend virtualization from servers to storage and network gear, it said Monday.
(News) Air passengers saw their flights cancelled or delayed on Sunday after computer system trouble at All Nippon Airways.
(News) NetSuite is trying to burnish its reputation for services and support with a new marketing push.
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(News) Litvack to examine evidence and help DOJ decide whether to pursue antitrust challenge.
(News) Huge demand for third-party ERP implementation services has pushed "availability of resources" to the top of customers' vendor scorecard and nudged customers to look at SaaS models. And look out: Here comes Microsoft.
(News) To listen to the techies, any IT manager ought to have deep technical knowledge. Or so the prevailing wisdom goes. When push comes to shove, though, your techies would far prefer that you fine-tune your management skills than compete with them on technical know-how.
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(News) Hackers trying to plant malware on PCs have switched from touting CNN news in come-on messages to pushing breaking stories...
(News) In his first speech since stepping down from daily work at Microsoft, Gates describes an expansion of Internet services that revolutionizes software development.
(News) If you've been thinking about solar power for your home, a nicely designed new site can show you just how much you'd spend and save for a custom array on your roof.
(News) Company releases source code for Java ME-based Lightweight UI Toolkit, which provides UI library for developing mobile applications.
(News) Microsoft Wednesday re-issued a July fix for a bug that had prevented some network administrators from using the company's...
(News) On the heels of Google's new write-for-money Knol site, Salon launched its Open Salon for blog-style writings, photos and videos.
(News) In this Q&A, leadership consultant and psychologist Henry Cloud explains why having priorities and setting personal boundaries is so critical to preserving some semblance of work life balance in the era of the 60-hour work week. He also discusses the damaging effects of workaholism.
(News) A beta release of the open source NetBeans 6.5 IDE is being offered by Sun Microsystems on Wednesday.
(News) Making SOA work in your organization is like getting one of those workout machines advertised by Chuck Norris and Christie Brinkley. Because then you have to USE the equipment. Ty Anderson explains why you need the Total SOA Gym, and what it means for an enterprise.
(News) Free software advocates are praising a federal appeals ruling on that allows greater protection for open-source software...
(News) Sun's new rich Internet application framework should be a hit with Java developers, but the promising preview trails Adobe Flex/AIR and Microsoft Silverlight.
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(News) IBM, HP and Microsoft all talk about 'open innovation.' Is it a feel-good catchphrase or the R&D strategy of the future?
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(News) A new toolkit exploits the automated security update mechanisms of a variety of software packages and uses them to install malicious code.
(News) Open source software projects took center stage at a ceremony to honor the best and brightest of free software.
(News) As Yahoo says it will shut down the servers that allow transferring its DRM music, Britain considers a move that would green light unfettered music downloads for a yearly tax.
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(News) A former Hewlett-Packard vice president pleads guilty to stealing trade secrets from IBM.
(News) Salesforce has released developer tools for working with Google data feeds, the company announced Monday.
(News) Oracle has scooped up another insurance software vendor, the company announced Monday.
(News) May market share numbers for search traffic from comScore are good for both Google and Yahoo, but year-over-year data tells a different story.
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(News) The just-launched Glassdoor.com invites employees to share info on their salaries, bosses and work environments.
(News) In a move that plays up both the promise of online business services, the New York Times puts an archive of its papers online.
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(News) Microsoft will launch Worldwide Telescope, a tool for exploring images of the night sky, by the end of May, free to anyone who...
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(News) Black Duck Software plans to announce Monday that it has purchased the assets of Koders, maker of a code search engine and...
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(News) A new site aggregates job postings from startup companies from around the Web.
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(News) Google now allows companies to add their own business definitions to their Google Local Business entries.
(Reviews) JuggleMyStuff's Web service helps small businesses share files and track to-dos and appointments.
(News) A handful of grassroots technology outreach programs seek to bridge the digital divide close to home.
(News) The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has extended the time some foreign graduates of U.S. colleges can stay in the country and work, earning the agency praise from Microsoft and other supporters of increased numbers of foreign worker visas.
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(News) HP on Monday said it reached an agreement to buy Tower Software, which makes document and records management software.
(News) IBM's research laboratories in the U.S. and India have fine-tuned technology to help model and manage natural disasters such as wildfires, floods, and diseases.
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(News) Microsoft is changing the name of its on-demand CRM (customer relationship management) offering to Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online, according to a company official.
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(News) Microsoft answers the Web-based app suites of Google and Zoho, staying largely anchored to the desktop.
(News) Merger and acquisition sagas involving Yahoo, 3Com, and Iomega grabbed the attention of IT investors this week as economic news took tech companies on a turbulent market ride.
(News) A technical committee in India has rejected Microsoft's Office Open XML file format as a standard.
(News) Microsoft has finished most of the major work on its Hyper-V virtualization technology and expects it will be available for Windows Server 2008 on schedule in August, the company said Wednesday.
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(News) As Indian service providers get closer to their U.S. and European customers, India's largest outsourcer, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), has set up shop in a suburb of Cincinnati.
(News) BMC Software said Monday that it intends to purchase BladeLogic, a maker of data center automation software, for US$28 per share in cash, or about $800 million.
(News) JasperSoft, the open-source business intelligence vendor, is claiming that it is now the world's most widely deployed BI product.
(News) IBM's India Research Laboratory has developed software technology that uses math algorithms to extract and deliver business insights hidden within the large quantity of information gathered by companies during customer service calls and other interactions, according to an official at the lab.
(News) Though many tech vendors are suffering as the widening U.S. financial crisis slows down consumer and business spending, IT mergers and acquisitions including bellwethers such as Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, Electronic Arts and AOL continue to reshape the technology landscape and provide opportunities for investors.
(News) Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer used his opening keynote at Microsoft's Convergence user conference to not only preview a number of updates to the company's Dynamics line of business software, but also to make a firm declaration of the software giant's enterprise market plans.
(News) Microsoft hasn't yet snagged Yahoo, but it plans to acquire another company it hopes will boost its online advertising yields: Rapt, of San Francisco.
(News) Microsoft continues to step up its virtualization push, with the acquisition of desktop virtualization management software developer Kidaro.
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(News) IBM has committed to investing US$1 billion in its unified communications strategy in the next three years as it sharpens its sword to do battle with Microsoft in a fast-growing market.
(News) Tom Brookes, Microsoft's spokesman on antitrust matters, is leaving public affairs consultancy G-Plus to join Apple.
(News) Companies might spend millions on an SAP or Oracle implementation. Knoa aims to help businesses determine whether they are getting the most from their investment.
(News) Worrying news about Google, Sprint and Nortel this week scared off investors in the 'Net and telecom sectors, as Dell results underscored a possible consumer spending slowdown.
(News) The publisher of the popular Grand Theft Auto video game series has received more takeover interest after its US$2 billion offer from Electronic Arts (EA), the company said Thursday.
(News) Indian IT outsourcing company Wipro plans a big expansion in China in the next two years, its chief operating officer said in Tokyo on Tuesday.
(News) Twenty-three percent of respondents to a ChangeWave Research study said their companies will reduce or halt IT spending in the second quarter of this year, results that underscore recent concerns about a U.S. recession.
(News) A U.S. district court judge has ordered that Oracle's lawsuit against SAP and its TomorrowNow subsidiary be sent to mediation, according to a court document posted on www.tnlawsuit.com, a Web site SAP set up for the case.
(News) IT can play a major role in reducing the world's energy consumption, Technology CEO Council says.
(News) Autonomy's ZANTAZ division said Wednesday its e-discovery software can now find information stored in virtual environments.
(News) Indian outsourcers already have a large share of outsourced application development and maintenance and are dominant in business process outsourcing. The country is now targeting a larger share of the market for remote infrastructure management services (IMS), and is planning to more than double revenue from these services to US$15 billion by 2013.
(News) Microsoft is offering a new subscription model to small businesses that will allow them to use the company's software for less cost than the currently available licensing model.
(News) Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie sees Yahoo acquisition as a way to grow Microsoft's developer community.
(News) Nvidia on Monday announced that it had agreed to acquire graphics vendor Ageia Technologies for an undisclosed amount.
(News) Review projects, set priorities, and tighten belts--just in case, Forrester Research analysts suggest.
(News) A new report from Forrester Research declares that the wave of mega-acquisitions in the software industry is over for now, though big vendors will continue to snap up smaller firms as they round out their portfolios.
(News) Google is firing back at enterprise search vendor Autonomy, saying the company recently distributed a white paper that contains "significant inaccuracies" about Google's Search Appliance.
(News) Microsoft has rolled out an update to its customer relationship management (CRM) suite in eight of 25 languages that the software will eventually support.
(News) Amid economic worries, SIIA describes strong employment and opportunity in software industry.
(News) Educational institutions will increase spending on open-source software and services over the next few years, but that doesn't mean proprietary software will be left in the dark, according to a new report covering 14 countries.
(News) Japan's Sony and Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry retained their titles for the most patent applications in Taiwan in 2007, according to the island's Intellectual Property Office (IPO).
(News) IBM is developing a new, "one-stop-shop" product offering, Lotus Foundations, aimed at companies with five to 500 employees, it said Monday.
(News) With consolidation at a fever pitch in the enterprise business intelligence (BI) market, it would be understandable if MicroStrategy customers felt nervous, given that the vendor remains as one of the market's few independents.
(News) Analysis: The DataPortability Workgroup ponders online about retaining rights but easing evolution.
(News) Hewlett-Packard has launched the FOSSology Project, a tool for tracking and monitoring the use of free and open-source software within an IT environment.
(News) IBM on Thursday provided more details of its robust fourth-quarter and 2007 financial performance, following an early preview of the figures on Monday.
(News) India's third largest outsourcer Wipro reported a 32 percent increase in revenue in the quarter ending December 31, but profits grew by only 11 percent over the same quarter last year, reflecting higher salaries in India, and reduced margins as a result of its acquisition last year of U.S. IT services provider, Infocrossing.
(News) The Open Source Applications Foundation has announced a major funding and personnel shakeup, including that Lotus Development founder Mitchell Kapor will begin to phase out his involvement and investment in the nonprofit organization, which he founded in 2001.
(News) Microsoft has announced the resignation of its head of acquisitions, Bruce Jaffe, two days after the company bid US$1.2 billion for enterprise search expert Fast Search & Transfer. Jaffe will retire on Feb. 29, the company said.
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(News) Robust software sales pushed Oracle's second-quarter net income up 35 percent compared to the same period last year, to US$1.3 billion, or $0.25 per share, the company said Wednesday.
(News) Intel's venture-capital arm has invested in Nirvanix, a San Diego start-up company that offers a scalable online storage service.
(News) Software maker Adobe reported a strong financial finish to its 2007 fiscal year, with revenue up 23 percent for the year and 34 percent for the fourth quarter on sales of its Creative Suite 3 (CS3) and Acrobat software, the company said Monday.
(News) IBM said Monday that it is partnering with ACI Worldwide, an electronic payment software vendor, to create a payments system based on service oriented architecture (SOA) principles.
(News) Open-source software developers who work at companies must get more assertive to protect their rights, say open-source software gurus.
(News) Cisco CEO John Chambers pushed collaboration for better business, home life, and Cisco revenue.
(News) A new study by the Open Solutions Alliance finds interoperability is a top concern for customers.
(News) Commissioners say there's no conflict of interest although their spouses work for a law firm involved in Google's DoubleClick acquisition, which the FCC is reviewing.
(News) Privacy groups are raising new concerns about an apparent conflict of interest in the FTC's investigation of Google's acquisition of DoubleClick.
(News) Enterprise projects, including Neoview data warehouse appliance, boosted their customer base.
(News) Oracle has bought Moniforce, a Dutch vendor of Web application performance management software, for an undisclosed sum.
(News) Microsoft's recent announcement of a pair of enterprise search products came as the market is at a "tipping point," in the words of one spokesman.
(News) AT&T plans to buy online advertising company Ingenio for an undisclosed sum, in a move that puts the telephone company in competition with Google and other online advertisement leaders.
(News) The pair of new xVM products support several operating systems and come with a lure to developers.
(News) Oracle CEO Larry Ellison didn't display much of his traditional flamboyance Wednesday at Oracle's OpenWorld conference, but he did preview the company's next-generation Fusion Applications and said its Unbreakable Linux offering has met with initial success.
(News) IBM's plan to purchase Cognos is a defensive move for the company, which was under pressure to keep up with competitors that were increasingly leveraging BI (business intelligence) for their database and data-management strategies, analysts said.
(News) IBM has agreed to buy business intelligence software vendor Cognos for around US$5 billion in cash.
(News) Peanut butter, preschool toys, children's jewelry, spinach and cantaloupes-by the pound and pallet, consumer products are being yanked back by makers and sellers of foods and hard goods. We've written in-depth about how difficult it is for companies to run their supply chains backwards during product recalls.
(News) Microsoft on Monday issued the first preview of the Sync Framework, a way for software developers to inject data synchronization capabilities into applications.
(News) Autodesk agreed to buy Chinese engineering software developer Hanna Strategies Wednesday, boosting its development of digital prototyping, building information modeling and 2D and 3D software.
(News) In the six months since Microsoft announced Unlimited Potential, a company-wide plan to help bring technology skills and resources to developing countries to foster social and economic growth, it has been building programs and testing products around the world, said Will Poole, corporate vice president for the effort.
(News) Sometimes the grass is greener ... in your own backyard. That's the message delivered in the report "Time Zones Do Matter: Rediscovering the Americas and Nearshore Delivery" by Dana Stiffler, research director for AMR Research.
(News) If you're wondering just how big SAP is becoming, IDC's Albert Pang has this nugget for you: "The recent rise of SAP as the leading enterprise applications vendor across multiple customer and product categories has created a booming economy whereby an increasing number of developers and resellers are jockeying for the attention of the market leader and its installed base of more than 41,000 customers," he wrote in a recent IDC report.
(News) The total contract value of outsourcing contracts signed in the third quarter of 2007 was down 16 percent, with the actual value of the contracts signed shrinking as well, according to outsourcing adviser TPI. At the heart of the decline: the slowing pace of contract awards in the U.S. TPI's numbers show that U.S. companies are also keeping a lid on outsourcing growth, with new scope down 50 percent from last year.
(News) Adobe is to release an update to Photoshop CS3 to improve problems with the application's printing system, the Photoshop product manager John Nack has admitted an entry to his blog.
(News) The U.S. government should give emerging companies a break on regulation and change its immigration laws to encourage well-educated newcomers to stay, panelists said at a conference Thursday.
(News) Oracle Corp. announced on Friday that it has offered to buy middleware vendor BEA Systems Inc. for US$17 per share in cash.
(News) Nokia Siemens Networks BV will transfer its research and development (R&D) team, working on radio access technologies, to Indian outsourcer Wipro Ltd.
(News) Despite fears that a stronger Indian rupee might hurt profits, Indian outsourcing companies continue to report robust growth.
(News) Microsoft is preparing to enter enterprise telephony market with launch of Office Communications Server 2007.
(News) Microsoft Corp. will launch a frontal assault on enterprise telephony when it launches Office Communications Server (OCS) 2007 later this month but plans to win over most customers bit by bit over the next few years.
(News) Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer took an hour out of his visit to Paris, Tuesday afternoon, to meet 50 French small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs). He had spent the morning with 15 of the company's largest customers.
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