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Google is releasing a new mobile movie search app for movie-going users stranded with only a Palm, iPhone or Android device.
November 25, 2009
Apple is seeking a permanent injunction against the Mac clone maker that could force the company to shut down.
November 25, 2009
Company expands Platform-as-a-Service offerings and data integration software available through Amazon EC2.
November 25, 2009
Microsoft reduced its expenses by $3 billion in the last fiscal year under Liddell's tenure
November 25, 2009
U.S. senators led by John Kerry are urging European regulators to finish their review of Oracle's proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems and suggesting that more Sun layoffs could result from further delays.
November 24, 2009
Deal will provide Google with data on TiVo subscribers' viewing habits for use in its Google TV Ads platform.
November 24, 2009
Software patents are a hot-button issue -- and consistently in the news. Here a patent attorney runs through just why we have them.
November 24, 2009
Solution providers can move customers toward a paperless office with a software suite that is quick to search and retrieve information.
November 24, 2009
Windows 7 is still bathed in the afterglow of its launch last month, but already details are emerging about its successor, Windows 8.
November 23, 2009
The move is the latest in a growing string of acquisitions by the online search giant.
November 23, 2009
Links with on-premise software and extensive data management capabilities give the cloud computing platform an edge.
November 23, 2009
Google co-founder Sergey Brin has hinted that Google Chrome OS will eventually converge with Google Android into one Google operating system.
November 23, 2009
Critics of Apple's App Store say the approval process is too loose and that many apps are approved without being certified or tested.
November 23, 2009
Color Microsoft solution providers unimpressed with the limited details Google provided this week on its forthcoming Linux-based Chrome OS.
November 20, 2009
IBM's Rich Michos rallied solution providers at this week's XChange Tech Innovators conference to join in the push to build a smarter planet.
November 20, 2009
At Microsoft's annual shareholder meeting, CEO Steve Ballmer found himself answering the same questions that he's been fielding for several years, and his answers weren't much different than in the past.
November 20, 2009
Company sets alliances with CA and BMC Software that expand the Force.com cloud computing ecosystem.
November 20, 2009
A new video making the rounds shows Microsoft employees dancing in organized fashion at one of the company's newly opened retail stores. Is this just another ham-fisted guerilla marketing campaign from Microsoft?
November 19, 2009
Microsoft spent much of this week sharing its vision of the cloud computing future with developers, but CEO Steve Ballmer wants people to know that Windows 7 sales are chugging along at a record pace.
November 19, 2009
CIO panelists at Interop New York tell cloud providers like Microsoft, Amazon, Joyent and Google that security is still a big risk for cloud computing.
November 19, 2009
Google's YouTube offers automatic video captioning.
November 19, 2009
Google is providing more detail around its plans for Chrome OS, much of which centers on addressing the complexity that has long plagued users of a certain widely-used proprietary operating system.
November 19, 2009
Just four months after releasing Silverlight 3, Microsoft has launched the beta of Silverlight 4, which builds more bridges to line of business applications and takes Silverlight further into the enterprise.
November 18, 2009
Microsoft has a strategy for regaining its stature in the mobile device space, and there were plenty of signs of what it entails at this week's Professional Developer Conference.
November 18, 2009
Google's Chrome OS is expected to be previewed Thursday.
November 18, 2009
Microsoft is now offering the Office 2010 beta to the public, giving all interested parties a chance to check out the expanded collaboration features and cloud computing support the product offers.
November 18, 2009
The company also unveils new releases of its on-demand sales and service applications at its annual Dreamforce conference.
November 18, 2009
Google could be priming the pump to launch its own Android phone in 2010, which would inevitably burn bridges with partnering manufacturers Motorola and HTC, who currently utilize the Google's mobile operating system for their existing smartphones.
November 18, 2009
Microsoft looks to dominate cloud computing with its bold Windows Azure Platform. Will it succeed?
November 18, 2009
Google is expected to introduce an early version of its forth coming Chrome OS Wednesday.
November 18, 2009
The New Oxford American Dictionary's decision to add 'unfriend' as its word of the year for 2009 has sparked debate amongst people who use social networks.
November 18, 2009
Microsoft's Bing search engine continues to make incremental gains against rivals Google and Yahoo.
November 18, 2009
As more details emerge on Microsoft's Windows Azure platform, cloud computing is set to take center stage for developers.
November 17, 2009
Search engine giant, Google, and new Microsoft browser, Bing, reported gains in market share, while Yahoo continued its steady downward trend after suffering a market share decline.
November 17, 2009
At Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference, Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie ushered in the next chapter of the Windows Azure cloud computing development platform with a view of the back-end improvements in the offering.
November 17, 2009
New service will feed amateur videos to media organizations.
November 17, 2009
The move will allow channel partners to provide cloud-computing services to their customers, company says.
November 17, 2009
Mobile support is near, and support for hardware decoding as well as touch screens is here.
November 17, 2009
New beta releases of HPC Server 2008 and Office Excel make it easier to exploit parallel computing technology, company says
November 17, 2009
'Unfriend' beats out other techie terms like 'sexting' and 'hashtag.'
November 17, 2009
Microsoft executives love talking about the Sharepoint moneymaking machine, but partners say there are areas that Microsoft needs to address if the engine is to continue running smoothly.
November 16, 2009
Xobni fills the gaps in Microsoft Outlook with more efficient organization of contact information, building profiles that allow users to quickly find the people with whom they're trying to connect.
November 16, 2009
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said the micro-blogging site is responding to critics who claim that its suggested user list has unfair biases toward certain celebrities and politicians.
November 16, 2009
Software offers channel partners opportunities to provide implementation and consulting services, company says.
November 16, 2009
IBM will offer customers the "Smart Analytics Cloud" system based on its Blue Insight architecture.
November 16, 2009
Apple won a key victory in its lawsuit against Mac clone company Psystar after a judge reaffirmed Apple's copyright protection of its OS X operating system.
November 16, 2009
ICANN begins accepting requests for non-Latin domain names, Egypt is first to apply
November 16, 2009
The hubbub over whether Microsoft 'borrowed' elements from OS X in the development of Windows 7 is not only pointless, it also shows that Microsoft is willing to deny the obvious, according to solution providers.
November 13, 2009
Engine Yard provides application deployment and management services for solution providers who develop Ruby on Rails-based cloud applications for customers.
November 13, 2009
The blogosphere is abuzz with rumors that Google is set to launch its new open source Chrome OS, which the search engine giant says will be targeted mainly at the netbook market.
November 13, 2009
Microsoft Chairman believes executive pay has reached an excessive extreme, but he says U.S. government regulation is one of the main reasons why things have reached this point.
November 12, 2009
Bing and Wolfram Alpha's pairing is interesting but too late to pose significant challenge to Google.
November 12, 2009
The youth was exonerated from armed robbery charges after it was proven that he updated his Facebook status from his father's Harlem apartment one minute before the crime occurred.
November 12, 2009
Bing's adoption has been slow, but incrementally steady.
November 12, 2009
Microsoft denies comments by its own channel manager that Windows 7 design was inspired by Apple's Mac OS X look and feel.
November 12, 2009
Microsoft has been beaten up for allowing Windows Mobile to fall behind in the mobile market, but it may allow device makers to start testing Windows Mobile 7 early next year.
November 11, 2009
New computational capabilities from Wolfram/Alpha provide information on nutrition.
November 11, 2009
Firefox 3.6 beta 2 looks to be the fastest, most streamlined version of the Firefox Web browser to date.
November 11, 2009
Birst promises easy-to-use cloud-based business intelligence software that bridges the gap between cumbersome spreadsheets and expensive high-end BI packages.
November 11, 2009
The Microsoft vs. Google competition of late has really gone to new levels. Each company is fighting for dominance on some very specific turf. Take, for instance, the unabashed threat Google has imposed on that long-held Microsoft mainstay, the productivity suite. It's no secret that most of the world's businesses use Microsoft Office as the preferred office productivity software. Yet, Google's cloud-based productivity offerings, Google Docs and the more business-oriented Google Apps, have been gaining at an adoption rate that must be somewhat troubling to Microsoft.
November 11, 2009
Mention "Business Intelligence" and you may receive a wide array of definitions, differing opinions about what makes a platform a business intelligence (BI) one, as well as some grumblings about BI as yet another useless technology buzzword.
November 11, 2009
Google Latitude, the location-based social network, supports two new features designed to track and learn the habits of users.
November 11, 2009
While holiday travelers will benefit from Google plan to offe free wireless service in airports during the holiday season, the Internet search giant stands to gain in consumer mindshare and political goodwill.
November 11, 2009
Software maker embarks on second big wave of layoffs in a year, while Sun also downsizes at its Colorado campus.
November 10, 2009
Netbook owners who have hacked their machines to run Snow Leopard in violation of Apple's rules would be well advised to avoid downloading the new OS X 10.6.2 update.
November 10, 2009
ThinLaunch offers what could be the easiest way to help customers lock down their PCs so they perform only a single company-specified task.
November 10, 2009
Informatica 9 data integration software promises more timely, relevant, and trustworthy data
November 10, 2009
VMware has unveiled a faster, more scalable version of its VMware View desktop virtualization software.
November 10, 2009
Users can now share tweets and status updates between the two popular social networking Web sites
November 10, 2009
Apple's second update for OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard includes a fix for the guest account issue as well as several security fixes.
November 09, 2009
J.D. Kleinke, medical economist and author, said that the 'consumerization' of health care would drive the industry to be more competitive, which would improve quality of care and compel more health plans to offer EMRs to their patients.
November 09, 2009
But Oracle remains defiant, calling the EC move "a profound misunderstanding of both database competition and open source dynamics."
November 09, 2009
At its TechEd Europe conference in Berlin, Microsoft launched Exchange 2010 and talked about its plans for updating its cloud-based version of the ubiquitous enterprise e-mail application.
November 09, 2009
RIM's announcement comes just a few days after rival Apple announced that there are now 100,000 applications available for its iPhone through Apple's App Store.
November 09, 2009
Fishbowl is looking for some proven solution providers to bring its inventory control software for Intuit's QuickBooks into the midmarket.
November 09, 2009
Mozilla's Firefox turns 1 today. Its initial release caused competitors like Microsoft's Explorer to take notice -- and make improvements.
November 09, 2009
Microsoft's move to add SourceGear's Teamprise application development technology to Visual Studio will make it easier for developers to build cross-platform applications that bridge the .Net and Java worlds.
November 09, 2009
Microsoft reports solid double-digit growth in Windows 7 sales in India and China.
November 09, 2009
Google CEO Eric Schmidt made comments this week that could amount to a can of gasoline tossed onto a smoldering fire, and now the industry awaits Microsoft's inevitable response.
November 06, 2009
The open source e-mail client, Thunderbird 3, has gotten an overhaul and is just about ready for final Release Candidate. There are scores of new features, as well as easier e-mail account setup with Thunderbird 3, now available in beta release version 4. Here's a look at some feature highlights.
November 06, 2009
Mozilla's e-mail client, Thunderbird 3, is due out in RC version sometime this month. We took a look at the pre-RC, final beta release of Thunderbird 3 and found some features we liked, and others that could stand some improvement.
November 06, 2009
Unit sales of Windows 7 were 234 percent higher than Vista during the first few days of release for both operating systems, according to The NPD Group.
November 06, 2009
Microsoft has provided the usual basic details about the security vulnerabilities it plans to address in next week's Patch Tuesday release, and this month is much lighter than last month's record release.
November 05, 2009
Microsoft executives and partners say Windows 7 has had a level of interest and uptake that meets their expectations, and their attitude thus far is: "So far, so good."
November 05, 2009
Microsoft is previewing a major refresh of its MSN portal with less clutter and better organized content, but with less of an emphasis on social networking than might be expected.
November 04, 2009
The Windows 7 upgrade dustup between Microsoft and some of its biggest proponents is a classic case of an issue that could have been avoided, or at least mitigated, through better communication.
November 04, 2009
Microsoft laid off additional staff this week as it continues to grapple with the effects the economic downturn has had on its business. Wednesday's layoffs go beyond Microsoft's original forecast.
November 04, 2009
Canonical is bringing Linux to the mass market by way of its partnerships with major OEMs and via word of mouth within the Ubuntu Server user community.
November 04, 2009
To date, more than 2 billion applications have been downloaded since the App Store opened last year, the company said.
November 04, 2009
Microsoft is getting ready to launch a preview of SQL Server 2008 R2 and this week is also talking about two new planned versions of the software designed for large enterprises.
November 03, 2009
Microsoft this week is launching an all-out price slashing offensive aimed at grabbing customers from SaaS rivals such as Google, Salesforce.com and Oracle.
November 03, 2009
From some of the histrionics on the blogosphere, one would almost surmise that an upgrade to Windows 7 was nothing short of a painful, abysmal failure.
November 03, 2009
Microsoft fires a new salvo in the battle for cloud computing supremacy.
November 03, 2009
Jesubi positions its eponymous sales force automation applications as more effective and simpler to use than such competitors as Salesforce.com and Sage SalesLogix.
November 03, 2009
Currently, Chorus is only available for Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch, but the company plans to release the app for other mobile devices.
November 03, 2009
A Microsoft executive who last week appeared to refer to bloggers advocating illegal Windows 7 upgrades as 'hacks' now says his comments were misunderstood.
November 02, 2009
Apple is resorting to good old fashioned cloak-and-dagger tactics this week in an attempt to steer Web surfers away from Windows 7 and toward Snow Leopard, according to published reports.
November 02, 2009
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer doesn't expect IT spending to bounce back to pre-recession levels anytime soon. While growth may happen, Ballmer says recovery is a long way off.
November 02, 2009
Latest version of free, open-source Web browser promises better video support, security and startup time.
November 02, 2009
Kace says its new lineup of KBox appliances eases the jump from Microsoft Windows XP to Windows 7.
November 02, 2009
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