Computer Software

November 19, 2009

Salesforce's Chatter Joins a Growing Social Media Field

Salesforce.com (CRM) Chief Executive Marc Benioff has never been shy about trying to piggyback on other companies' momentum. On Nov. 18, he did it again through the ...

November 18, 2009

Game Console Makers at a Crossroads

Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony need a new game plan. Amid growing evidence old marketing strategies aren't working and concerns by some analysts that holiday sales may ...

November 10, 2009

EA-Playfish: Social Gaming Deals Gain Buzz

At home, Peter VanRysdam rocks out to Guitar Hero on Microsoft's (MSFT) Xbox 360. But while he's on break at work, the 31-year-old marketing executive from ...

November 8, 2009

Oracle's Sun Deal: Oracle May Need to Loosen Its Grip

When Oracle announced its $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems in April, the software behemoth was acting on a grand vision. The deal was part of Oracle's aim ...

November 3, 2009

Augmented Reality: Getting Beyond the Hype

As we look back on the year's technology milestones, 2009 may go down as the year of the rise of augmented reality. As recently as January, this meshing of digital ...

November 3, 2009

Augmented Reality Goes Mobile

It was the shake heard 'round the world. On Aug. 27, 2009, überblogger Robert Scoble uncovered a hidden software feature buried within an iPhone application that ...

November 3, 2009

Cisco's EMC Venture: Better Than a Buyout?

By forging a joint venture with EMC and building products with VMware, Cisco Systems (CSCO) hopes to reap many of the benefits of an acquisition of one or ...

November 1, 2009

Do-It-Yourself iPhone Apps

Tom Johnson is no engineer. But that didn't stop him from creating software that helps him market his wedding-video business. Johnson crafted an application, ...

November 1, 2009

Quicken 2010 Takes Cues from the Web

By Yardena Arar San Francisco - With so many Web sites offering capable—and free—personal finance management tools, why would you pay $30, or significantly...

October 29, 2009

Dell Exec: Straight Talk on Virtualization

Poor Balloon Boy. At first we took pity on him when we heard that he might be trapped in a hot air balloon thousands of feet above the Colorado skies. Then we became ...

October 29, 2009

Targets for Google's Merger Machine

When entrepreneur Mike Cassidy wanted a meeting with Google's top brass recently, he knew who to call. Cassidy was advising a startup that was in talks to be sold to ...

October 25, 2009

Flexible, Open-Source Telephony Resources

Sure, you're up on Android smartphones and perhaps other Linux-based phone platforms, but the freewheeling world of open source includes many hugely useful telephony ...

October 23, 2009

Can Windows 7 'Reset' Microsoft Shares Higher?

A well-received debut for its newest operating system and fresh signs that businesses again want to spend on computers gave Microsoft investors reason to hope a more ...

October 22, 2009

Microsoft: An Upbeat Launch for Windows 7

What a difference a debacle makes. Three years ago, Microsoft's introduction of the supposedly new, improved version of its flagship operating system was plagued by ...

October 20, 2009

Chile's Outsourcing Challenge

The list of challengers to U.S. tech supremacy may be getting longer. Many pundits say the greatest threats to the nation's status as a tech superpower are China and ...

October 19, 2009

MySQL's Founder Says Oracle Should Sell the Database

By Mikael Ricknäs Stockholm - Oracle should resolve antitrust concerns over its acquisition of Sun Microsystems by selling open-source database MySQL to a suitable ...

October 16, 2009

Investors See IBM Outside Tech's Recovery

Try as it might, IBM (IBM) couldn't make a convincing case to investors that it's reaping the benefits of the economic recovery that is lifting other tech companies. ...

October 15, 2009

Android's Spread Could Become a Problem

For the mobile-phone software Android, popularity may carry a high price tag. The operating system created by a Google-led consortium is being adopted by a growing ...

October 15, 2009

Oracle's Ellison: Fusion Will Dawn in 2010

After spending years and years gestating a significant new lineup of business software, Oracle (ORCL) Chief Executive Larry Ellison said on Oct. 14 that the company's ...

October 15, 2009

Green Building's Open-Source Push

Green building geeks now have a more powerful tool for developing next-gen building designs with minimal environmental impact. Software engineers at the Energy Dept.'s...

October 12, 2009

Apple: Finding Even More Uses for iTunes

As Apple closes in on the release of a device usually described as a tablet—most likely in early in 2010—my thoughts turn to the role of iTunes, the online...

October 8, 2009

It's All Android, All the Time

Mobile industry insiders are in San Diego this week attending the CTIA conference, and they have two things on their minds—that damn iPhone and how it has them ...

October 8, 2009

Adobe's Uphill Climb Off the Desktop

Adobe Systems Chief Technology Officer Kevin Lynch had good news on Oct. 5 for attendees of his company's annual conference in Los Angeles. The next version of Flash, ...

October 7, 2009

Windows 7 to Usher in Profitless Prosperity

Ultra-low prices on portable computers are nothing new, and in fact have increasingly become the norm since the debut of netbooks—small and light ultraportables ...

October 5, 2009

Vonage: Smartphone Apps for International Calls

Vonage (VG) hopes to tap new markets by putting its service onto mobile phones. On Oct. 5, the provider of Internet calling began selling software that lets users ...

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