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Microsoft exec outlines Windows 7 security

Mobile-device security, two factor log-ins, and AppLocker, a code-signing feature for applications, are just a few of the security advancements Microsoft is rolling out with its Windows 7 operating system. Scott Charney, corporate vice president of Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing division, explains at the RSA Conference in San Francisco how it...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Microsoft, Windows 7, security, applications, mobile devices, code signing, two-factor login, RSA

Videos 2009-04-21

Google demos prototype of mobile Gmail app

At the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Google VP of Engineering Vic Gundrota showed off the prototype of a new Web-based Gmail app that could one day be used on any smartphone. By using HTML 5 standards, he predicts, developers will no longer have to choose just one platform...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Gmail, Mobile, E-mail Providers, Web 2.0, Smart Phones, Cloud Computing, Channel Management, Internet, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Web 2.0 Expo, smartphone, iPhone, HTML, developers, applications, app, Google, platform

Videos 2009-04-03

Adobe announces Flash Catalyst, Facebook connection

At the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Adobe Chief Technology Officer Kevin Lynch demos a beta version of Flash Catalyst, a Web development program that allows developers to import pictures and make each shape into a Web element. Flash Catalyst also creates Flex code of these elements, letting...

Tags: Adobe, Adobe Systems Inc., applications, Channel Management, code, Developer, Facebook, Flash, Internet, Marketing, Web, Web 2.0, Web 2.0 Expo, web development

Videos 2009-04-02

Palm announces WebOS platform, Mojo messaging service

At the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Palm Senior Vice President of Applications and Services Michael Abbott announced an early access program of the company's new developing platform, WebOS. The new platform will run apps natively on the device and enables greater integration with cloud applications like Google and...

Tags: Palm Inc., Messaging, Messaging Service, Web 2.0, Instant Messaging, Groupware, Internet, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Palm, WebOS, Mojo, applications, platform, mobile computing, developers, Facebook, Google, Web 2.0 Expo

Videos 2009-04-02

Microsoft's Web 2.0 vision for business

At the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Stephen Elop, president of Microsoft's business division, explains how Microsoft plans to apply Web 2.0 technology, such as self-service and groups of people contributing to applications, to the enterprise. In an interview with Tim O'Reilly, founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media,...

Tags: Web, Vision, Microsoft Corp., Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, web 2.0, microsoft, platforms, enterprise, O'Reilly, applications, mobile

Videos 2009-04-02

Image Gallery: Pinger Phone for the Apple iPhone

Pinger Phone is a new application for the Apple iPhone that lets you view status updates and interact with your friends on popular social networks (Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace). You can use it to replace your Phone utility because you can also quickly access your Contacts and now have one...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Phone, Apple Inc., Pinger Phone, Instant Messaging, Keyboards, Social Networking, Telecom & Utilities, Internet, Online Communications, Hardware, Peripherals, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, screenshots, pinger, iphone, applications, apple, Matthew Miller

Image galleries 2008-12-22

Salesforce to partner with Facebook

At the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO of Salesforce.com, and Steve Fisher, senior vice president of the platform division at Salesforce, demonstrate a recruiting program made possible by making Force.com's platform compatible with Facebook. When it comes to things like job recommendations, social networks are...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Facebook, Sales Force Management, Sales, software, platforms, SaaS, cloud, computing, compatible, applications, Dreamforce

Videos 2008-11-04

Gallery: Top 10 free iPhone applications

A Gallery of my top 10 free iPhone applications. by Jason O'Grady

Tags: Apple iPhone, Jason O'Grady, iPhone, 2G, 3G, App Store, applications, software

Image galleries 2008-07-18

Gallery: 10 most annoying programs on the Internet

The Internet allows what may have seemed like bright ideas at the time to turn into a stinking pit of misery. by Andy Smith

Tags: Misery, Pit, Internet, Andy Smith, applications

Image galleries 2008-05-22

Technology strategies and applications

Over the course of the next few weeks I'd like to sketch out three sets of business requirements and then ask which technologies, and correspondingly what kind of IT organization, would be best for each.This week I'd like to start that process with an imaginary research engineering company - the...

Tags: Productivity, Development, Database Management, Applications

Blog posts 2007-08-02

How real are the 451 findings?

Dan Farber is featuring news of another 451 Group study showing that open source is "just about" to take over the system management business.As Yogi Berra once said, "it's deja vu all over again."I have been giving, and getting, this prediction since I first joined ZDNet almost three years ago....

Tags: support, Security, Network Administration, middleware, Infrastructure, General, Enterprise Policy, Applications

Blog posts 2007-08-01

Microsoft Project to get open source competition

Projity, which has been selling its project management software in the form of Software as a Service SaaS, will launch an open source version at LinuxWorld next week, under the name OpenProj.CEO Marc O'Brien said download and community sites should be ready in time for the show, but that the company...

Tags: Strategy, Microsoft, marketing, Implementations, General, Events, Distributions, Applications

Blog posts 2007-07-27

WHurley spins BMC into open source

William Hurley, who goes by WHurley, has been an open source advocate and organizer for many years.When he left Qlusters recently for BMC Software, the Houston-based company which began with accounting software and grew like a snip of oilpatch,  I wondered how far he could spin that company toward open source.The...

Tags: Strategy, management, Enterprise Policy, business models, BSD, Applications

Blog posts 2007-07-27

Whose is the most popular open source database?

Well, mySQL of course, why?Well, because PostgreSQL has sent out its take on the recent Alfresco survey which shows that it's where the action is.Here are the key numbers: Community usage: 62% MySQL; 9% PostgreSQL Evaluation usage: 50% MySQL; 23% PostgreSQL Deployment usage: 40% MySQL; 28% PostgreSQLThe PostgreSQL take on this is people...

Tags: Infrastructure, Enterprise Policy, Database Management, Applications

Blog posts 2007-07-26

Sugar sweet for GPLv3

The big news today is that SugarCRM has bowed to community pressure and will release the next version of its CRM software under an OSI-approved license.The bigger news may be the identity of the license, GPLv3.Currently Sugar uses a version of the Mozilla Public License, adding a non-standard "attribution" requirement...

Tags: Strategy, Software Licensing, resellers, Legal, General, Enterprise Policy, Applications, GPL

Blog posts 2007-07-26

Dear Zonbu, think server

Zonbu is billing itself as a cheap client, a PC replacement, the true $100 laptop.But what if you called it a server?Its $12.95/month service charge is designed to pay for online updates, including security updates and backup services. If you have a home network, two kids each with a PC,...

Tags: Database Management, business models, Applications, General, Hardware, Implementations, LANs and WANs, Linux, Linux Desktop OS, Linux Server OS, management, marketing, mass market, Network Administration, Software as a Service, Strategy, support, wireless

Blog posts 2007-07-25

Can open source make Mike Lawrie a winner?

Mike Lawrie right, the one-time IBM executive who tried and failed to turn around Siebel Systems now part of Oracle is back in management with a British outfit, Misys, and betting on open source for a turnaround.The company is dumping some of its product businesses and concentrating on online services....

Tags: Applications, General, mergers &, acquisitions, marketing, management, Strategy

Blog posts 2007-07-24

Psst. Want to know everything on your network?

Having divested their proprietary wireless security tool, the folks at Network Chemistry are using the open source process to develop a universal network scanning and reporting system.What CTO Chris Waters calls Project Wishbone is based on RogueScanner, a scanning tool originally created to find viruses and other rogue programs.Now the GPL...

Tags: support, Strategy, Software as a Service, Infrastructure, Hardware, GPL, General, business models, Applications

Blog posts 2007-07-23

Does Everex benefit open source market?

Everex has released a $298 back to school desktop system built around Open Office and Windows Vista.While the company's press release emphasizes energy efficiency and productivity, the big news here is it's being sold at Wal-Mart.The marketing screams open source, but the PC itself runs Windows Vista, replacing only Microsoft...

Tags: Strategy, Not Linux, Microsoft, mass market, marketing, Hardware, General, education, business models, Applications

Blog posts 2007-07-20

Optaros EOS will take the licensing question seriously

Optaros has launched its Enterprise Open Source Directory.It is a very good thing, better than a plate of Martha Stewart bran muffins. That is partly because it has listing criteria, including only those projects which are truly enterprise class.But in doing this it also includes projects like SugarCRM whose open...

Tags: support, Standards, Software Licensing, Legal, General, Enterprise Policy, content, Applications

Blog posts 2007-07-19