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iPhone Users Switching to Verizon in Droves By Larry Barrett | Article Published February 8, 2011 iPhone owners, hoping for better coverage, are enthusiastically migrating from AT&T to Verizon. Hackers Use Facebook Access as Bait By Larry Barrett | Article Published February 4, 2011 With more than a half billion users, Facebook is a tempting target for Web miscreants. Yahoo Squeaks Past Estimates; Announces More Layoffs By Larry Barrett | Article Published January 25, 2011 The wobbling Internet search and advertising company managed to squeeze past analysts' estimates in the fourth quarter. America: A Global Leader in Spam By Larry Barrett | Article Published January 13, 2011 Stats from the fourth quarter of 2010 show that the U.S. hasn't lost its touch, at least not when it comes hacked PCs. Hackers Target Android Phones By Larry Barrett | Article Published January 10, 2011 The Android mobile OS is suffering seeing a sharp rise in security attacks, enabled in part by user complacency. RIM in the Enterprise: Mobile Market Tightening By Larry Barrett | Article Published November 12, 2010 Longtime top dog in enterprise smartphone market, Research In Motion faces a tougher market in the next several years. USB Devices Aiding Malware Attacks By Larry Barrett | Article Published November 10, 2010 Security experts say that USB devices play a role in as many as 1 in 8 malware attacks. VC Spending Slumps in 3Q But Software Still On Top By Larry Barrett | Article Published November 5, 2010 Latest venture capital spending figures show the U.S. economy is still in a significant malaise but software firms did manage to garner the lion's share of seed money. Email Scammers Aim at Military Families By Larry Barrett | Article Published November 3, 2010 Phishers use unsolicited emails pretending to be from USAA, a financial services firm, to obtain sensitive data. Big Blue Storms Past 3Q Estimates By Larry Barrett | Article Published October 18, 2010 IBM hurdles estimates, raises outlook on strong software, hardware sales. Intel Tops Revised Estimates in 3Q By Larry Barrett | Article Published October 12, 2010 Chipmaker managed to hurdle its own watered down estimates and provides a better-than-expected outlook for fourth quarter. Americans Love Social Nets; Europeans Text Happy: Survey By Larry Barrett | Article Published October 11, 2010 New mobile usage survey finds that Europeans love to text, Americans can't get enough of Facebook and Japanese access the most apps with their smartphones. IBM Buys Compliance Vendor OpenPages By Larry Barrett | Article Published September 16, 2010 The security firm will added to IBM's business analytics division. Enterprise IT Suffering from 'Here You Have' Virus By Larry Barrett | Article Published September 14, 2010 The email-borne virus has proven to be one of the worst security attacks in recent times. Hackers Galore: 57,000 New Malware Sites Weekly By Larry Barrett | Article Published September 13, 2010 No one can accuse hackers of being lazy. A new report indicates that tens of thousands of malware sites spring up each week. Smartphone Sales Will Surge 55 Percent: IDC By Larry Barrett | Article Published September 9, 2010 IT research firm predicts vendors will ship almost 270 million smartphones this year, up 10 percent from its prior forecast, and Android-based device makers will be the biggest beneficiaries. Apple Touts Refreshed iPods, iPhone iOS 4.1 By Larry Barrett | Article Published September 2, 2010 Apple's iOS 4.1 release for the iPhone will be available for free on iTunes and from its Web site beginning next week. Healthcare IT Make Security, EMRs a Priority By Larry Barrett | Article Published August 25, 2010 A new survey of North American hospital IT admins finds that security remains their top concern but the quest to comply with federal regulations is distracting them from their goals. Inside Intel's McAfee Acquisition By Larry Barrett | Article Published August 23, 2010 Like other tech titans, Intel realizes it must step outside its original area of expertise if it is to keep up with its large enterprise brethren. Survey: Staffers Would Purloin Company IP By Larry Barrett | Article Published August 18, 2010 A survey indicates that about half of employees would purloin enterprise data on their way to a new job. VeriSign Launches Cloud-Based DNS Management Service By Larry Barrett | Article Published August 11, 2010 VeriSign Managed DNS service will ensure the availability of enterprise websites, email and Web systems. Skype Files for $100 Million IPO By Larry Barrett | Article Published August 9, 2010 The VoIP service provider is going public after it filed an S-1 report with the SEC Commission declaring its intention to offer shares worth as much as $100 million. DoJ Sues Oracle Alleging Software Contract Fraud By Larry Barrett | Article Published July 29, 2010 Justice Department claims the company defrauded the federal government on a software contract worth hundreds of millions of dollars over an eight-year span. Oracle Targets Big Pharma With Serialization App By Larry Barrett | Article Published July 27, 2010 Pedigree and Serialization Manager release promises to improve supply chain management and facilitate regulatory compliance for the pharmaceutical industry. SaaS Market Growing by Leaps and Bounds: Gartner By Larry Barrett | Article Published July 27, 2010 Gartner's latest report confirms what the market and top enterprise software vendors have been saying for the past three years: SaaS and cloud computing are the future and the future is now. CA Unveils Virtualization Management Tools By Larry Barrett | Article Published July 21, 2010 The software company has been investing heavily in the virtualization management sector. Among its current releases is a solution that governs access and privileges. IBM Tops 2Q Profit Targets, Points to Signs of IT Recovery By Larry Barrett | Article Published July 19, 2010 Big Blue managed to rake in another $3.4 billion in profits last quarter, thanks to strong demand for software, services and new hardware products. Oracle Blasts Past 4Q Estimates, Raises Outlook By Larry Barrett | Article Published June 24, 2010 The software giant took in a quarterly profit of $3 billion, thanks to Sun Exadata sales and a strong showing in software and product support. Will Sun Shine Through in Oracle's 4Q? By Larry Barrett | Article Published June 24, 2010 Oracle is expected to post impressive sales and earnings for the fourth quarter after the bell Thursday, but analysts are most curious to see how much the Sun Microsystems acquisition contributed to its success. IBM Rolls Out Business Intelligence Platform for Traders By Larry Barrett | Article Published June 23, 2010 Pre-integrated software package is all about speed, allowing financial services providers to draw from more than 100 different data feeds to find trading triggers. SIIA Extends Piracy Dragnet to Europe By Larry Barrett | Article Published June 22, 2010 The trade association filed its first software piracy lawsuits in Europe in its latest effort to protect member companies from being ripped off on eBay. IBM Opens New Lab to Focus on Social, Cloud Tech By Larry Barrett | Article Published June 16, 2010 Big Blue's new IBM Mass Lab is the company's largest software development facility in North America with more than 3,400 staffers working on next-generation applications. IBM Buys Web Analytics Provider Coremetrics By Larry Barrett | Article Published June 15, 2010 IBM bolstered its on-demand analytics portfolio this week with the acquisition of Coremetrics, a provider of on-demand Web analytics applications used to analyze customer interactions and develop social media-based marketing campaigns. HP To Cut 9,000 Services Jobs, Ramp Up Data Center Automation By Larry Barrett | Article Published June 1, 2010 HP said it will begin restructuring its enterprise services unit this quarter as it modernizes its data center strategy with the same sorts of technologies it's been recommending to customers. IBM, Ariba Get Social in the Cloud By Larry Barrett | Article Published May 26, 2010 Ariba will integrate its Commerce Cloud offering with Big Blue's LotusLive to make it possible for buyers and sellers to talk to either other directly using social networking tools. Xerox's ACS Rolls Out Public, Private Cloud Service By Larry Barrett | Article Published May 24, 2010 New enterprise cloud service lets companies pick and choose from public and private cloud computing options to speed application deployment and reduce overall IT costs. Symantec Gobbles Up VeriSign's Checkmark Unit By Larry Barrett | Article Published May 19, 2010 The $1.28 billion purchase brings VeriSign's Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption certification services unit under the security software vendor's ever-broadening umbrella. CDC Makes Cloud Computing Play With TradeBeam Deal By Larry Barrett | Article Published May 18, 2010 CDC became the latest on-premises software vendor to expand its Software-as-a-Service portfolio, acquiring TradeBeam, a cloud computing-based supply chain monitoring software maker. SAP Acquires Sybase for $5.8 Billion By Larry Barrett | Article Published May 12, 2010 The German software giant makes a huge play in the database software arena with the $5.8 billion acquisition of Sybase. IBM's SPSS Update Blends Social, Business Data By Larry Barrett | Article Published May 11, 2010 Big Blue's new data mining and text analytics software culls information from Facebook and blogs to give companies a faster and more detailed understanding of their customers' needs. IBM Tackles Cloud Integration With Cast Iron Systems Buy By Larry Barrett | Article Published May 3, 2010 Big Blue made its latest cloud computing play, snagging the privately held maker of software that helps companies integrate public and private clouds with on-premise applications. Optimism Returns to Software Sector By Larry Barrett | Article Published April 30, 2010 Almost half of the U.S. software companies say their business has returned to pre-recession levels or will by the middle of 2010, according to a survey by the Sand Hill Group. VMware Impresses But Is the Best Yet to Come? By Larry Barrett | Article Published April 21, 2010 The virtualization software vendor posted an upside surprise in its first quarter, but industry-watchers are even more interested in what's next for this sector leader. SAP Picks Up TechniData for Health, Safety Enterprise Apps By Larry Barrett | Article Published April 21, 2010 After years of mostly sitting on the sidelines watching archrival Oracle shop away, SAP steps up and acquires the maker of product and environmental safety enterprise applications. Oracle Delivers New Java Virtualization Tools By Larry Barrett | Article Published April 20, 2010 Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder and Oracle WebLogic Suite Virtualizaton Option are designed to help customers deploy multiple Java apps in virtualized environments. Oracle Adds Healthcare Software Maker Phase Forward By Larry Barrett | Article Published April 19, 2010 The software giant improved makes yet another key purchase, snapping up Phase Forward, a leading developer of drug data management applications. IBM Gives Tax Man a Helping Hand By Larry Barrett | Article Published April 12, 2010 New Tax Collections Optimizer analytics software aims to help governments calculate and collect taxes from delinquent debtors. Service has already one support in New York, where state officials have recouped more than $1 billion in unpaid taxes. Oracle's EPM Suite Update Includes New Management Apps By Larry Barrett | Article Published April 7, 2010 The Enterprise Performance Management update includes a trio of new applications designed to make life easier for companies gathering data for their quarterly and year-end financial reports. CA to Lop Off 1,000 Jobs By Larry Barrett | Article Published April 6, 2010 The software developer will lay off 1,000 workers, or roughly 8 percent of its workforce, and shutter some facilities in a cost-cutting move. IBM Extends Helping Hand to Software Startups By Larry Barrett | Article Published April 1, 2010 Big Blue announces it will give away free access to its software and technologists to startups as part of its Smarter Planet marketing strategy -- and build its brand in the process. SAP Debuts Cloud-Based Collaboration Apps By Larry Barrett | Article Published March 30, 2010 StreamWork is designed to help businesses share, access and manage their content online from the cloud. Rimini Street Fires Back at Oracle By Larry Barrett | Article Published March 29, 2010 Third-party software support provider's countersuit accuses Oracle of copyright misuse, defamation, disparagement and unfair competition. Oracle Delivers Strong 3Q Earnings, Sales (Update) By Larry Barrett | Article Published March 26, 2010 The software giant produces yet another solid quarter and says the Sun Microsystems acquisition is already paying dividends. IBM Partners Warming to LotusLive in the Cloud By Larry Barrett | Article Published March 19, 2010 IBM this week announced that more than 200 of its partners are now planning to sell LotusLive cloud services, validating its ever-expanding cloud strategy. IBM Takes Top Honors in Data Protection By Larry Barrett | Article Published March 16, 2010 A nationwide survey finds that, among large tech companies, IBM is considered the best at protecting personal information. Google made the list this year after failing to earn a spot last year. Scareware Most Costly Online Scam: McAfee By Larry Barrett | Article Published March 12, 2010 The security software vendor warns consumers that scareware, or fake antivirus software, will be the most costly online consumer scam in 2010. SAP Shakes Up Board Following CEO's Ouster By Larry Barrett | Article Published February 11, 2010 Less than a week after replacing CEO Leo Apotheker with a pair of co-CEOs, the German software company announces a number of changes to its supervisory board and names a new COO. IBM Launches Academic Cloud By Larry Barrett | Article Published February 10, 2010 By making some of its information management and business analytics applications available through the cloud, IBM spreads it brand and universities get free access to new tools. Oracle Snaps Up SOA Specialist AmberPoint By Larry Barrett | Article Published February 8, 2010 The acquisition-happy software juggernaut adds another piece to its ever-expanding software portfolio, picking up the privately held maker of service-oriented architecture (SOA) management applications. IBM Lands Air Force Cloud Computing Contract By Larry Barrett | Article Published February 4, 2010 Ten-month project will feature advanced cyber security and analytics applications as Big Blue helps build a secure cloud-computing infrastructure for the Air Force. IBM Acquires Initiate Systems By Larry Barrett | Article Published February 3, 2010 Big Blue adds to its arsenal with purchase of privately held data integrity software developer. IT Security Threat: Social Networking By Larry Barrett | Article Published February 3, 2010 A malware epidemic plaguing social networking sites threatens far more than users' systems – the entire enterprise infrastructure may be at risk. Phishing Ploy Forces Twitter to Reset Passwords By Larry Barrett | Article Published February 2, 2010 The microblogging site has reset some Twitter users' passwords after a phishing attack attempted to steal their login information. More Acquisitions Ahead for VMware? By Larry Barrett | Article Published January 29, 2010 Technology investment researcher 451 Group predicts the virtualization software maker will pick and choose from a number of potential takeover candidates in 2010. IT Managers Gird for Cyber Attacks By Larry Barrett | Article Published January 29, 2010 Sophisticated cyber attacks are becoming a nearly routine event, causing IT managers a never-ending series of security headaches. A new report details the threats. Oracle Takes a Page From IBM By Larry Barrett | Article Published January 27, 2010 With the $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems finally completed, Oracle details its ambitious plan to bring completely integrated and engineered systems to the enterprise much the way IBM did in the 1960s. SIIA Pays Out Record Rewards to Piracy Whistleblowers By Larry Barrett | Article Published January 26, 2010 The principal trade association for the software and digital content industry paid a record amount of cash to sources who dropped a dime on software pirates. Microsoft, Intuit Merge Cloud Platforms By Larry Barrett | Article Published January 21, 2010 Microsoft finds another place for its cloud-based productivity apps and developers will have more options to develop applications for its Quickbooks software. BMC Brings Remedy Management Software to the Cloud By Larry Barrett | Article Published January 19, 2010 IT management and automation software developer gives customers more flexibility with its latest Software-as-a-Service offering. McAfee: Explorer Flaw Led to Attacks on Google By Larry Barrett | Article Published January 14, 2010 The security software firm's researchers say Operation Aurora used a previously undiscovered zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft's browser software to penetrate the search giant's networks. Dubious Honors: Top 25 Names in Spam Titles, 2009 By Larry Barrett | Article Published January 12, 2010 To snare unsuspecting users, spam senders used a glittering list of celebrities in the message line. Who were the top draws? CA Acquires Oblicore By Larry Barrett | Article Published January 11, 2010 Looking to enhance its portfolio of cloud-based applications, CA picks up the privately held developer of service level management (SLM) software. Qualcomm Eyes NextGen Mobile Internet Devices By Larry Barrett | Article Published January 8, 2010 CEO Paul Jacobs says his Snapdragon chipsets will power the next generation of consumer electronics devices geared for the mobile Internet. CES 2010: Enterprises Tweet Their Way to Marketing Gold, Grief By Larry Barrett | Article Published January 7, 2010 Twitter has changed the game for enterprise marketing and public relations teams, forcing companies to take control of their online image before everyone else does. CES 2010: Ford Promises a Smarter Digital Dashboard By Larry Barrett | Article Published January 7, 2010 Ford CEO Alan Mulally says future generations of his company's cars will include new mobile applications and the ability to easy access Facebook, Twitter and podcasts. |
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