Software

Salesforce.com and CODA (via its parent Unit 4 Agresso) are hooking up to create FinancialForce.com. While financial details of the arrangement were not revealed, Salesforce.com is a minority stakeholder in the new company. From the blurbs:The CODA 2go team and products have transferred to FinancialForce.com,...

Here’s an unusual characterization of I.B.M.: a shrinking violet among technology giants. That’s Steve Ballmer’s take. During an interview last week, Mr. Ballmer, Microsoft’s chief executive, was critical of I.B.M.’s decisions over the last decade to dispose of its networking equipment, hard disk and PC businesses....

Adobe's Flash technology has long played a major role in delivering compelling graphics online, but a shadow hangs over its future. Three powerful technology companies -- Apple, Google, and Microsoft -- and open-source companies like Mozilla are working to make Flash unnecessary. At least that's the...

It was a bad idea from the start, but even as bad ideas go, this one went horribly wrong. A 38-year-old Avon Lake, Ohio, man is set to plead guilty to federal charges after spyware he allegedly meant to install on the computer of a woman...

Business intelligence software may have been around for several decades, but it remains an esoteric niche in most companies, according to an analyst. Unfriendly corporate cultures, not the BI tools or apps themselves, are preventing BI from becoming pervasive. "The technology has been around for a long...

The Obama Administration committed itself Tuesday to reducing federal computing costs by pursuing cloud computing, but its first steps appear tentative. The administration launched Apps.gov as a storefront where federal agencies may go to purchase on-demand applications from private vendors. In its first iteration, federal computing...

Since Microsoft launched Bing, the company has been trying to position it as a 'decision engine' and not just as another search engine. Today, Microsoft is taking another step in this direction with the launch of Visual Search in Bing. For a growing number of...

In the mobile world, it's been long established that applications are the key selling point for Apple's iPhone. At the end of June the company reported a record 5.2 million iPhones sold in its third quarter - a 600% increase over the same time frame...

MOUNT PLEASANT, WI - Police Officer Jon Cvengros has cut the amount of time he spends conducting traffic stops in half. The Mount Pleasant officer said he can finish a single-citation traffic stop in about five or six minutes and spends even less time writing municipal...