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Wireless software firms : 'Show us the money'
News In most cases, the software companies plan to continue targeting consumers, but primarily through more lucrative partnerships with wireless service providers. Visto, for example, is creating a beefed-up version of its free software that it plans to...
[February 23, 2001, 14:09]
Comdex 2001: Gates billing MSN Money Professional
News Advent Software is the first company to embrace the new service, which will be available to about 6,500 clients. Microsoft has been championing its .Net software-as-a-service strategy as the best way to move beyond the challenges the company faces...
[November 12, 2001, 15:23]
Anti-spam tool brings MSN under fire
News Microsoft added a widely-used spam filter to its MSN Internet service this week in a belated decision that underscores the ongoing difficulties of striking out against unsolicited bulk email. Microsoft admitted that it was concerned that the filter...
[April 9, 2001, 11:54]
Microsoft: No SP5 for Windows 2000
News Because Microsoft believes the Update Rollup will meet the needs of customers better than a new service pack, there will be no Service Pack 5 (SP5) for Windows 2000," the software maker said. Microsoft has decided to make its final update to...
[November 30, 2004, 7:45]
Morpheus looks to Gnutella for help
News Beginning early Tuesday, a message on Morpheus -- a file-trading service from StreamCast Networks -- told visitors to upgrade their software to connect to the network. Hoping to launch a subscription service authorised by the major music labels.
[February 28, 2002, 9:34]
Microsoft: ready for open source threat?
News The plan is a software-as-a-service initiative similar to plans from competitors including Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Sun Microsystems. One of the cornerstones of .Net is HailStorm, which is built around the company's Passport authentication service.
[June 19, 2001, 11:29]
Microsoft makes OneCare free, for some
News As Microsoft prepares to roll out its Windows Live OneCare security product, it is offering some people the $49.95-a-year (£30 per year) service for free. These people get to use the service at no cost and will have early access to new features...
[April 26, 2006, 9:25]
Salesforce adds customisation option
News But Salesforce is facing an increasing number of competitors in the software-as-online-service field, including NetSuite, RightNow Technologies and Siebel Systems. The San Francisco-based applications service provider said the new release...
[November 3, 2004, 8:43]
BMC Atrium Discovery and Dependency Mapping Explained
White Papers A configuration item can be physical (such as a computer system), logical (such as an installed instance of a software program), or conceptual (such as a business service). It is impractical and costly to conduct manual audits and maintain IT...
[August 30, 2009, 1:22]
Antivirus firm to attack junk email
News The company will announce on Monday that it has partnered with anti-spam services company Postini to release its Spam Prevention Service (SPS), network-level software designed to fight junk email. Trend Micro said its SPS service acts much like its...
[March 3, 2003, 14:36]
Hit list dwindles in new Napster software
News Napster aims to comply with a court order banning the trade of most copyrighted works over its service. By further reducing the music available through the current service, Napster has provided another nail in the coffin of the service consumers...
[June 28, 2001, 14:26]
Microsoft beams video to mobiles
News TWI will offer service infrastructure, integration capabilities, and content management and billing software. It will also be sold as a hosted service. The companies estimate that MobileVision will enable service providers to create and introduce...
[March 12, 2004, 10:25]
Salesforce customers hit by service disruption
News Salesforce has been a forerunner in a movement to make software cheaper and easier to use by delivering it as a "service" over the Web. A Salesforce.com outage lasting nearly a day cut off access to critical business data for many of the company's...
[December 22, 2005, 8:40]
HP and Salesforce could be made for each other
Blog One of the themes that emerged from the day was that HP is focused on software-as-a-service (SaaS) and the executives outlined, in great detail, their company's presence in that market, its ambitions and its prospects.
[December 10, 2008, 16:08]
Salesforce moves into web content management
News Salesforce.com also intends to release the content management and collaboration software as a standalone service called Apex Content, company executives said. The company on Tuesday expects to detail new products and the acquisition of start-up...
[April 10, 2007, 7:23]
Microsoft jumps into CRM market
News The software is intended to streamline customer service, give sales staff the customer information they need to close deals faster, simplify marketing and sales efforts, and help companies find new customers and generate more revenue from existing...
[July 12, 2002, 9:13]
Microsoft takes wraps off CRM software
News The applications are also available as a hosted service through ManagedOps, a Microsoft reseller partner in the US. Microsoft CRM should also help service reps track and resolve customer service cases, according to Microsoft.
[January 22, 2003, 8:11]
Startup Spotlight: Netstore
News Simply put, they take an application that would otherwise run on your desktop and make it available over the Internet -- whether it's a word processor, an email service or corporate software. They might not seem very exciting at first glance, but...
[March 29, 2000, 15:35]
Corporate IT 'will follow the consumer market'
News Holway predicted that 'software as a service' would be an important theme in the future, and that companies would be prepared to deploy such services even if they were funded by advertising rather than a licence fee.
[February 21, 2006, 14:45]
Cyberstamps get a delivery date
News Although the software is provided free, businesses subscribe to the service for £4.99 a month, or £49.99 a year, and credit their account for postage -- as companies currently do with franking machines.
[January 15, 2004, 14:10]
