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Jan 05. 09
by K.C. Jones
http://www.informationweek.com —
U.S. President-elect Barack Obama could name a CTO as early as Wednesday, but some people in the technology sector have complained about how long that has taken.
In an industry driven by creators of ... more
Jan 02. 09
by Nathan Eddy
http://www.eweek.com —
Small businesses face tightening IT budgets this year, but here are five technology trends all midmarket companies should be keeping an eye on.
With IT budgets expected to be tight this year, small b... more
Dec 31. 08
by Nathan Eddy
http://www.eweek.com —
As small business owners look to the new year, a report from SurePayroll suggests Main Street is doing better than many may have thought. Survival, however, will come at a price.
A December survey by... more
Dec 30. 08
by Galen Gruman
http://www.infoworld.com —
We all knew it was coming, but now it feels real. With its debut to select developers in November, Windows 7 is no longer just a label but a real OS. And the public beta is expected this spring.
Thos... more
Dec 30. 08
by Dawn Kawamoto
http://news.cnet.com —
Look beyond the tumultuous economic storm and you'll see something else forming--cloud computing, a term and concept that took off in 2008.
"If you look at Google Trends, 'cloud computing' came out o... more
Dec 29. 08
by Patrick Thibodeau
http://www.infoworld.com —
The outlook for IT jobs in 2009 may not be as bad as some observers suggest. While some indicators and surveys are showing some declines in tech jobs, none predict a precipitous drop. In fact, a feder... more
Dec 24. 08
by Erica Naone
http://www.technologyreview.com —
The business of social networking, cloud computing, and a flaw in the fabric of the Internet top the most notable stories of 2008.
Our collective obsession with social-networking sites continued in 2... more
Dec 23. 08
by Preston Gralla
http://www.infoworld.com —
Microsoft has long been worried about Linux competition in the server market. When it came to ordinary PCs and laptops, however, it knew it had little to fear.
But that was then. Now Microsoft may fe... more
Dec 18. 08
by Reuters
http://www.informationweek.com —
Chances are the mobile phone tucked in your pocket, the lightweight laptop in your backpack, or the navigation system in your car are under a cloud.
That means much of your vital data is not just at ... more
Dec 17. 08
by BEN WORTHEN
http://online.wsj.com —
Adobe Systems Inc. is facing increasing pressure from Microsoft Corp., which is using its deep pockets to challenge Adobe's dominance of Web design software.
Adobe's Flash software, which adds video ... more
Dec 17. 08
by HostSearch.com
http://www.hostsearch.com —
Web host 1&1 has launched dedicated servers with Windows Web Server 2008, it was reported recently. The company, recognized as "the world's largest host by known servers", announced that all its d... more
Dec 17. 08
by eMarketer
http://www.emarketer.com —
Anyone still questioning the efficacy of social network marketing needs to look only as far as the 2008 presidential election. Barack Obama rode a wave of social media support to the White House-using... more
Dec 16. 08
by John Fontana
http://www.networkworld.com —
It has been a year of transition for Microsoft in 2008, with the biggest being co-founder and company icon Bill Gates stepping aside and Ray Ozzie assuming the role of chief software architect. On the... more
Dec 15. 08
by Nancy Weil
http://www.infoworld.com —
This year's list of 10 prognostications is overshadowed by the economy, but there's good news predicted for '09 as well.
Well, we blew it a year ago on the prediction that last month's U.S. president... more
Dec 12. 08
by eWeek Staff
http://www.eweek.com —
The biggest technology industry story of 2008 had nothing to do with the latest microprocessors, search engines or Microsoft Windows. It was the sharp decline of the global economy, which has forced e... more
Dec 11. 08
by Carol Ko
http://www.thestandard.com —
Virtualisation will hold the No 1 spot on CIOs' lists in the Asia Pacific in 2009, said research firm Gartner.
The top 10 strategic technology areas below will affect, run, grow and transform the bus... more
Dec 11. 08
by HostSearch.com
http://www.hostsearch.com —
Microsoft Corporation and HP today announced a joint initiative that will enable value-added resellers (VARs) to benefit from a software-plus-services business model by providing new revenue streams a... more
Dec 10. 08
by Elizabeth Montalbano
http://www.infoworld.com —
When Microsoft completed its acquisition of San Francisco-based startup Powerset in July, it acquired more than just search-engine technology. In the HBase component of Powerset's product, Microsoft a... more
Dec 09. 08
by David Hamilton
http://www.thewhir.com —
Trying to break into a content management space dominated by WordPress and Google's Blogger, Microsoft (www.microsoft.com) has posted the preliminary code for its new open-source blogging platform Oxi... more
Dec 08. 08
by Ritsuko Ando
http://www.reuters.com —
Microsoft Corp will soon launch a full range of online versions of its software products, including the Office suite, and expects the weak economy to accelerate growth of the nascent Web-based softwar... more
Dec 05. 08
by Emil Protalinski
http://arstechnica.com —
Ori Amiga, principal group program manager of Live Mesh, made some modifications to his 12-year-old Porsche that don't exactly qualify for an episode of Pimp my Ride, but for the geek in us, they're p... more
Dec 05. 08
by Liam Eagle
http://www.thewhir.com —
While it was not a new development by any means, the most notable thread in this week's news was the reporting, in several instances, of notable security breaches at very well known and widely used we... more
Dec 04. 08
by Dean Takahashi
http://venturebeat.com —
Microsoft’s Massive announced today that it has won multi-year contracts to provide in-game advertising to Activision Blizzard. In doing so, it has landed the big kahuna of the video game busine... more
Dec 02. 08
by Elizabeth Montalbano
http://www.computerworld.com —
Microsoft Corp. today released a new wave of Windows Live services that adds more social-networking qualities to its set of online services.
The company unveiled last month a plan to add Facebook-lik... more
Dec 02. 08
by K.C. Jones
http://www.informationweek.com —
Many large online retailers suffered from traffic overloads as the online holiday shopping season kicked off with sales and promotions on Cyber Monday, according to a company that measures Web perform... more
Dec 02. 08
by John Timmer
http://arstechnica.com —
One of the persistent fears regarding Internet content is that the nature of web popularity will create a "rich get richer" situation, in which a limited number of sites wind up attracting the vast ma... more
Dec 01. 08
by MG Siegler
http://www.thestandard.com —
When I was growing up, if you heard the term “movie rental,” Blockbuster immediately sprung in your head. That’s not the case anymore. Thanks to Netflix, video on demand from the cab... more
Nov 26. 08
by David Needle
http://www.internetnews.com —
Social networks like Facebook and MySpace have become enormously popular among consumers. But are businesses really prepared to embrace them?
Many businesses aren't ready to throw open their networks... more
Nov 20. 08
by Avigdor Luttinger
http://web2.sys-con.com —
We are using software applications more than ever before. As the demand for new capabilities and functions grows, companies strive to provide an adequate response to business needs. The rate of applic... more
Nov 20. 08
by Paul Krill
http://www.computerworld.com —
Marking the two-year anniversary of their controversial interoperability agreement, Microsoft and Novell this week are announcing upcoming availability of both the beta version of Moonlight, which put... more
Nov 19. 08
by Mike Sachoff
http://www.webpronews.com —
Following in the footsteps of other publishers, Ziff Davis said today it will drop the print edition of its popular PCMag and will focus on its online property PCMag.com.
Ziff Davis says the final pr... more
Nov 18. 08
by Marianne Kolbasuk McGee
http://www.informationweek.com —
Often, patients have a difficult time envisioning the complicated medical procedures doctors are trying to explain. A large Texas health care provider is hoping that Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT)'s tabletop ... more
Nov 17. 08
by Clint Boulton
http://www.eweek.com —
Microsoft's Stephen Elop will be joined by customers and partners to unveil Microsoft Exchange Online and SharePoint Online at an event in San Francisco today. These suites are SAAS versions of Micros... more
Nov 17. 08
by Kelly Fiveash
http://www.theregister.co.uk —
Microsoft has sealed a virtualisation deal with Hewlett-Packard that will see the computer maker deploy systems loaded with Hyper-V.
Under the agreement, Microsoft has buddied up with HP to sell and ... more
Nov 14. 08
by Michele Masterson
http://www.crn.com —
Amid the souring economy, Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT) Thursday opened its first online store in the U.S., selling all of its products at a one-stop-shop.
Customers will be able to buy and download products... more
Nov 11. 08
by Thomas Wailgum
http://www.thestandard.com —
David Placek, founder and president of Lexicon Branding, has worked with numerous high-tech vendors during the past 26 years--Microsoft, Intel, Nokia, Apple and RIM, to name a few. Product names that ... more
Nov 07. 08
by Darryl K. Taft
http://www.eweek.com —
Sam Ramji, Microsoft’s open source point man, promotes the company’s efforts in the areas of interoperability and open source software at the Apache Software Foundation’s ApacheCon c... more
Nov 06. 08
by Lora Bentley
http://www.itbusinessedge.com —
Microsoft’s BizSpark program is designed to help startups get on their feet — and familiar with Microsoft technology and software. BizSpark is open to privately-funded ventures that have b... more
Oct 28. 08
by Eric Knorr
http://www.infoworld.com —
Will they? Won't they? Ever since Google Apps arrived on the scene, Microsoft has been dogged by the question of when it might release browser-based versions of its Office apps. At the PDC (Profession... more
Oct 09. 08
by Pam Baker
http://www.cioupdate.com —
October 9, 2008: MS is betting heavily that cloud computing’s day is about to dawn.
Although some folks are chatting about Software Plus Service (S+S), few have heard it mentioned around the wa... more
Oct 07. 08
by Matt McGee
http://searchengineland.com —
Extending a partnership that dates back to 2006, Facebook today added Microsoft's Live Search to its offerings, giving users in the U.S. a way to search the web without leaving Facebook.com. An announ... more
Oct 06. 08
http://www.webhosting.info —
The company's new hosted Microsoft Exchange plans gives SMBs access to hosted e-mail and calendar as well as support for mobile devices.
The company says that its new e-mail plans includes Personal O... more
Jan 05. 09
by K.C. Jones
http://www.informationweek.com —
U.S. President-elect Barack Obama could name a CTO as early as Wednesday, but some people in the technology sector have complained about how long that has taken.
In an industry driven by creators of the technology that allows millions of Americans to access information about eve...
Jan 02. 09
by Nathan Eddy
http://www.eweek.com —
Small businesses face tightening IT budgets this year, but here are five technology trends all midmarket companies should be keeping an eye on.
With IT budgets expected to be tight this year, small business owners must make wise investments in order to stay competitive. While mo...
Dec 31. 08
by Nathan Eddy
http://www.eweek.com —
As small business owners look to the new year, a report from SurePayroll suggests Main Street is doing better than many may have thought. Survival, however, will come at a price.
A December survey by online payroll service SurePayroll, based in Glenview, Ill., suggests small to ...
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