November 7, 2009 Always-on Internet connectivity is keeping malware concerns alive and well. We examine whether antivirus software is up to the task, or whether it's a security solution of the past.
November 6, 2009 As thousands of Sun employees face layoffs, the EU ninnies focus on conjuring up an outcome that will make them seem less pathetic than they truly are.
November 5, 2009 Rational Software Delivery Services offers software development and testing tools for public and private cloud computing environments.
November 5, 2009 Hewlett-Packard has fired back at Cisco in the increasingly contentious race to field an overarching data-center strategy, which will enable enterprises to rein in the complexity of sprawling networks and rampant virtualization.
November 5, 2009 The Linux vendor announces Enterprise Virtualization Manager for Servers, or a centralized management system for KVM virtual machines.
November 5, 2009 In a rare and exclusive interview, the man who transformed IBM speaks out on business analytics, cloud computing, and the emerging Smarter Planet.
November 4, 2009 The social network support can analyze tweets to automatically set up conference calls, as well as adjust a user's presence, status, and device availability.
November 4, 2009 After two months as IBM's first company-wide CIO, Pat Toole talks about battling 80/20, a massive data-center consolidation, cloud initiatives, and cutting 11,500 apps.
November 3, 2009 The offer for six free months of Dynamics CRM Online came a day after Microsoft dropped prices for cloud versions of Exchange and SharePoint.
November 3, 2009 Software providers must look beyond lists of features and address business needs. And they must deliver on the promise of the next-generation customer experience.
November 2, 2009 As Microsoft waits for Windows 7 sales to hasten the transition to Internet Explorer 8, the company's overall browser share continues to decline.
November 2, 2009 The company is bringing enterprise unified communications features like instant messaging, presence, and office-line calling to Android, iPhone, and BlackBerry smartphones.
November 2, 2009 Our columnist ponders the demise of virtual private networks (VPNs), examines virtual hard disks (VHDs), and chats with Gavriella Schuster, Microsoft's Windows client general manager, and Ward Ralston, Windows Server product manager.
October 30, 2009 A new government framework is aimed at tax and revenue management, safety, social services, transportation, and urban infrastructures.
October 30, 2009 In a striking move, SAP is extending to 580 very large customers a plan allowing them to spread payment across multiple years instead of making one big capital-expense payment up front.
October 29, 2009 Canonical's Linux operating system includes built-in means of accessing Amazon's EC2 with a compatible set of APIs from the Eucalyptus open source project.
October 29, 2009 The latest version of Google's mobile operating system makes it easier for users to get corporate e-mail, calendar, and contact information on their handsets.
October 29, 2009 Hurd offers a startling observation about how the roots of bad IT almost always reside in the corner office, and he explains how HP attempts to address the needs of both the CEO and the CIO.
October 28, 2009 The City of Los Angeles plans to replace its Novell GroupWise e-mail system with Google Apps, partly using anti-trust settlement money paid by Microsoft.
October 28, 2009 Deputy CIO David Wennergren points to reliability, security, and lower TCO as among the potential benefits of using open source in the U.S. military.
October 27, 2009 Developers in the Horizon program will be able to more efficiently distribute applications for Symbian, the most widely used mobile OS.
October 27, 2009 With the joint venture's technology, prescription drugs, software, and other goods could be tagged with smart barcodes to protect them from counterfeiting.
October 27, 2009 Mark Hurd, Larry Ellison, and Steve Ballmer have all recently taken some fairly empty shots at IBM. But if Big Blue is such a loser, why do those three CEOs keep talking about it?
October 26, 2009 The Whitehouse.gov site now runs the open source Drupal content management system, which includes social networking tools that can be used for communications and participatory government.
October 26, 2009 Salesforce.com and Adobe Systems are teaming up to put interactive, rich user interface applications in the cloud ahead of Microsoft's Azure launch.
October 23, 2009 Informatica CEO Sohaib Abbasi says cloud computing presents an enormous opportunity for the data-integration specialist, whose latest financial results topped all analysts' predictions.
October 22, 2009 Paul Otellini sees businesses moving to replace their aging hardware and promise in moving to a more distributed approach to healthcare.
October 22, 2009 Systems management supplier BMC Software is buying the data center infrastructure mapping software supplier. Terms were not disclosed.
October 21, 2009 The U.S. will release a preliminary definition of "meaningful use"-- a key criterion for healthcare IT providers seeking federal stimulus funding -- in December.
October 21, 2009 Software-as-a-service lets CIOs pay only for what they need, but CIOs need to make sure they get the system performance they've paid for.
October 21, 2009 Version 3.0 of the automated Java programmer platform and a Developer Edition of Spring tc Server are the latest offerings from Springsource.
October 21, 2009 Want to know the real cost of the drawn-out dithering of the EU and its fawning groupies? Sun has to lay off 3,000 employees because its acquisition by Oracle is still under review.