Will virtualisation bend or break licensing rules?
Comment Implementing virtualisation without studying your licences call lead to some unpleasant surprises, says Stewart Buchanan [26 Jun 2009]
Microsoft aims to double Russian sales
News The software maker has said it plans to double Russian sales in the next three years as the country's IT market has yet to catch up with more developed peers [17 Jun 2009]
Centrix fine-tunes WorkSpace tracking
News An update to Centrix's browser-based application integration tool promises to help IT departments improve accuracy in charging business units for usage [16 Jun 2009]
Adobe launches competitor to Google Docs
News Acrobat.com, an online collaboration tool designed to rival Google Docs, provides meetings and PDF creation at different levels of pricing [15 Jun 2009]
Business intelligence defies economic gloom
News Analyst house Gartner says worldwide revenue for technology related to BI, analytics applications and performance management grew by 22 percent last year [15 Jun 2009]
SAP in SaaS strategy shift
News The business software maker, which has struggled to adapt to software-as-a-service, says it will allow customers to mix traditional applications with its online services [12 Jun 2009]
Novell to ship Linux-monitoring tool for Microsoft
News Novell is to release a product allowing Microsoft management tools to monitor Novell's Suse Linux, as part of the companies' interoperability alliance [12 Jun 2009]
EC responds to Microsoft's browser move
News The European Commission has said that while the move to strip IE from Windows is bad for retail software buyers, it could have some positive effects in the new PC market [12 Jun 2009]
Europe to get Windows 7 without browser
News Aiming to appease regulators, Microsoft plans to ship Windows 7 in Europe without Internet Explorer, though computer makers will have the option to add it back in [12 Jun 2009]
Microsoft spins out software-protection tech
News The software maker, which already licenses out its product-activation and licensing technology to other firms, is now creating a separate company to handle the task [10 Jun 2009]
Microsoft, Internet Pirates and Web 2.0+
Blog Microsoft needs to do something truly pro-active to rid the Internet of Windows zombies. The programming design of Windows from the beginning has been flawed. Consider the resulting bot-net zombies... [10 Jun 2009]
Apple moves to expand corporate market
News Apple is ensuring its OS X Snow Leopard operating system can gain smooth access to enterprise email, just as Outlook can [09 Jun 2009]
Leaving Windows behind
Blog I have spent a happy morning installing Windows XP on the computers at the Youth Centre. Windows XP is really showing its age, in terms of speed of installation and hardware support. The... [05 Jun 2009]
Russia embarks on Microsoft antitrust probe
News An anti-monopoly investigation has been launched into cutbacks in supplies of Windows XP in Russia [05 Jun 2009]
- Interesting angle - conz
Phorm serves up 'recommendation engine'
News The behavioural ad-serving technology company has announced a content-serving product [03 Jun 2009]
SugarCRM adds mobile, collaboration tools
News A new beta-test version of the popular open-source CRM software promises to work better with other web services, and it adds mobile and collaboration features [02 Jun 2009]
Google's Brin: Time to speed up the web
News Even though the web is becoming the dominant development environment for applications, online performance still has a way to go, says Google co-founder Sergey Brin [01 Jun 2009]
Sun adds enterprise features to OpenSolaris
News A new support contract, processor support, and networking and storage technology are designed to put the open-source OS on an footing alongside Solaris [01 Jun 2009]
Fedora 11 Release Slips Another Week
Blog The release of Fedora 11 (Leonidas) has been delayed by another week, until 9 June. The reason for the delay is, of course, the discovery of another potentially serious bug. It's good to see that... [01 Jun 2009]
Scrabbling with Scribus
Blog I'm trying to get to grips with the Free publishing software Scribus, as I want to update the artwork for the OpenDisc DVD. But I have hit what appears to be a brick wall, although I'm sure it's... [31 May 2009]
Adobe introduces online presentation tech
News Adobe Systems will offer Acrobat.com Presentations, a technology to help users collaborate on producing and sharing presentations online [28 May 2009]
Adobe adopts 'Patch Tuesday' security updates
News After recently fixing a critical vulnerability in Adobe Reader 9 and Acrobat 9, the company plans to use Microsoft's security update strategy to protect its products [21 May 2009]
Microsoft, Linux Foundation unite against proposal
News The two parties may disagree on many issues, but have found common group in opposition to a law group's effort to add an implied warranty to the software industry [19 May 2009]
- Paid for only - Andrew Meredith
- Implied warranty - 1000294497
Microsoft backs document-format test tool
News The online tool is intended to ensure that different vendors' implementations of OOXML produce compatible results [18 May 2009]
GNU Windows 7?
Blog I found something in Windows 7 that seems to have been around awhile, Unix Application Services. Please ignore the white space between the front part and back parts of that sentence. It... [09 Apr 2009]
ERP suppliers are slow to adopt SaaS, says Gartner
Blog Just about everybody is agreed that software-as-a-service (SaaS) is being adopted quickly but, according to the analysts Gartner, some are decidedly quicker than others. In a survey conducted... [31 Mar 2009]
Microsoft opens SaaS to others
Blog On Sunday, Microsoft said it was moving towards the idea of opening up its online business applications so that its partners can directly bill their customers. Up to now, Microsoft has sought to... [09 Mar 2009]
xG, xG, xG - silence is not good in a phone company
Blog The curious business of xG Technology is getting curiouser and curiouser. The Floridian miracle VoIP company's been silent since the new year, despite having promised that all sorts of things would... [05 Mar 2009]
Windows 7 variants revealed
Blog According to Paul Thurrott, Microsoft is just about to tell all on how many different sorts of Windows 7 it'll ship. There'll be five variants: Starter, Home Premium, Professional, Enterprise and... [03 Feb 2009]
Unified login, CRM 2.0 take small steps forward
Blog Important announcements this week to help OpenID catch Facebook Connect; and to help bring Facebook and Salesforce.com closer to delivering CRM 2.0. I wrote at the end of last year about how... [31 Jan 2009]
