For example, customers are demanding simpler user experiences and faster service delivery and response times. Employees, especially new-generation workers, have …
Data center 10G whets switching companies appetites
Announcements from four vendors this week highlight a growing trend in data center networking: the rapid uptake of 10 Gigabit …
OpenOffice.org 3.1: The next generation
The latest version of the open-source office suite OpenOffice.org 3.1 has just arrived, and it's a good one. While some …
SAP expands business-intelligence strategy
SAP AG unveiled software for business intelligence and analytics, areas that are becoming integral to the strategy of the German …
Oracle cuts some support prices — temporarily
Just a week after rival SAP AG revised its plan to raise support costs, Oracle Corp. announced plans to offer …
Google adds app link to BlackBerry
Looking to increase corporate use of its hosted Google Apps offerings, Google Inc. last week unveiled a tool that's designed …
Sun shareholders file suit to block sale to Oracle
Sun Microsystems Inc. shareholders filed three separate lawsuits last month in an effort to halt the company's pending sale to …
Android UI changes look with femtocell app
A new application for phones based on the Android platform automatically adjusts the device's user interface when it's in range …
Save money with alternative software licenses
One of your biggest per-employee infrastructure costs comes from money tied up in software licenses. If you add new people, …
IBM, Microsoft quibble over Office 2007’s new ODF support
In the latest bout of sniping in the long-running feud over document format standards, IBM this week claimed that Microsoft …
Striving for synergy
Citrix Synergy, which brings together virtualization, networking and application delivery together, got underway here in Las Vegas on Tuesday. MGM …
Citrix moves on cloud
In order to bring the economics and flexibilities of the cloud to the data centre, Citrix at its user show …
Adobe promises patch for zero-day PDF bug by next Tuesday
Adobe has promised to patch the newest zero-day vulnerability in its popular Adobe Reader software no later than next Tuesday, …
SAP-IBM’s Alloy application pushed to BlackBerry
BlackBerry users will one day be able to use Alloy, the application jointly developed by SAP and IBM that allows …
Microsoft delivers XP Mode add-on beta
As promised, Microsoft Corp. today launched the beta of “XP Mode,” the Windows 7 compatibility add-on that runs Windows XP …
NYSE to implement 100Gbps network
NYSE Euronext, the company that operates the New York Stock Exchange, will soon implement a 100Gbps data network with help …
RIM to bind BlackBerry to Cisco phones
Research In Motion Ltd. and Cisco Systems Inc. are teaming up to let enterprises integrate their BlackBerries with Cisco IP …
Microsoft: We’re not ditching Vista until at least 2011
Microsoft Corp. will not dump Vista when Windows 7 launches and plans to keep selling it to computer makers, system …
Google to push Gmail to BlackBerrys
Google has unveiled a new service that will push Gmail and calendar items to the native client software on BlackBerry …
HP allies with RIM for mobile business on Blackberry
Hewlett-Packard Co. and Research In Motion Ltd. plan to design and sell business software together for RIM's popular BlackBerry smartphones. …