Larry Barrett

McAfee Labs on Monday unveiled its rankings of the Top 25 men and women listed in the subject lines of spam e-mails in 2009 with President Obama coming in atop the less-than-desirable list. Spammers and phishers have and always will use celebrities and breaking news events to promulgate their annoying and increasingly destructive malware. President […]

CA on Monday announced it has acquired Oblicore, a privately held developer of service-level management software used to help businesses handle IT services contracts. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. CA (NASDAQ: CA) officials said the newly acquired company and application suite will improve its ability to set, measure and optimize service levels […]

Las Vegas—Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs believes that as much as wireless technology has already dramatically changed the way people live and communicate with each other, the consumer electronics industry has only begun to scratch the surface. During his keynote address here Friday, Jacobs laid out his vision for a world of devices—including smartphones, smartbooks and […]

LAS VEGAS — Social media has changed the way people look for jobs, share pictures of their kids and find new love interests, but thus far the vast majority of large companies still aren’t taking advantage of these sites and services to evangelize — and protect — their brands, according to a panel of social […]

Las Vegas — During his keynote address here Thursday morning, Ford CEO Alan Mulally sounded more like the chief of a software company than an automaker, telling attendees at the Consumer Electronics Show that Ford will continue to drive innovation through embedded applications running on its Microsoft-powered Sync software. “Last year at this show, we […]

Oracle on Monday announced it will acquire Silver Creek Systems, a Westminister, Colo.-based developer of data quality and automated data mastering software. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Silver Creek Systems’ semantic technology enables automation of complex data services for reliable product data integration across supply chains connecting enterprise systems, customers, suppliers and […]

HP this week rolled out three new on-demand applications designed to make it easier and more cost-effective for telecommunications providers and ISPs to offer cloud-based services to their customers. In this moribund economy, more and more enterprise customers are embracing the cloud model to shave costs, reduce the time and complexity of bringing new services […]

IBM on Wednesday added another piece to its business process management (BPM) portfolio when it acquired Lombardi, a privately held software developer based in Austin, Texas. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. IBM (NYSE: IBM) officials said Lombardi’s department-level approach to delivering process management will complement the enterprise-wide process management features found in […]

Amazon Web Services on Wednesday said it is now offering audio and video streaming media support from its CloudFront content delivery network, giving companies a fast and cheap way to share their multimedia content. The addition of the streaming media support adds more functionality and appeal to AWS’s portfolio as it continues to challenge established […]

IBM on Tuesday said it will build and operate the first private sector cloud-computing environment in Korea by virtue of its exclusive contract with SK Telecom, South Korea’s largest telecommunications provider. Big Blue, which topped rivals including Microsoft, HP, Sun Microsystems and Oracle for the deal, will provide software and hardware infrastructure that will allow […]