Stuart J. Johnston

A year after Microsoft launched its Kinect 3D game controller for Xbox 360  — and less than five months after it began beta testing a software developers kit (SDK) to enable programmers to create Windows applications to work with Kinect —  the company said this week it will release an SDK for writing commercial applications […]

Virtualization and cloud systems purveyor Citrix Systems posted revenues of $565 million for the third quarter of fiscal 2011 on Thursday, a jump of 20 percent from $472 million for the same quarter last year. Citrix (NASDAQ: CTXS) reported non-GAAP net income of $121 million, equal to diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.64 for […]

IBM’s long-time chief said Tuesday he is giving up day-to-day management of the computer giant and consultancy after nearly 10 years at the helm. The company’s board, in somewhat of a surprise, appointed Big Blue’s first ever woman CEO to fill the posts he is relinquishing. Effective Jan. 1, Samuel J. Palmisano has resigned from […]

If Microsoft has been looking to its new partner Nokia to save its bacon in the Windows Phone market — such as it is — this holiday season, it’s increasingly looking like the software giant may be let down. Nokia is scheduled to debut its first Windows Phone Wednesday in London at the company’s Nokia […]

Microsoft kicked off its first quarter of fiscal 2012, which ended Sept. 30, by once again breaking previous revenue records. For the quarter, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) posted revenues of $17.37 billion, a gain of 7 percent over the first quarter of fiscal 2010. Diluted earnings per share (EPS) came in at $0.68, up 10 percent […]

Global spending on enterprise IT is predicted to reach $2.7 trillion in calendar year 2012, a 3.9 percent increase from $2.6 trillion in the current calendar year, according to analyst firm Gartner. Although spending growth has slowed from earlier projections of 5.9 percent growth in 2011, at this point enterprises have little choice but to […]

IBM kicked the day off with a bang Wednesday when it announced 55 new and expanded products for data center infrastructure, with products in the areas of business analytics, storage management, and virtualization, as well as in cloud computing. In business analytics, IBM (NYSE: IBM) launched its DB2 Analytics Accelerator, which integrates IBM’s Netezza data […]

IBM (NYSE: IBM) Monday reported revenues of $26.2 billion for its third fiscal quarter of 2011 — adjusting for currency exchange rates, a gain of three percent from the same period a year ago. Meanwhile, non-GAAP diluted earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter came in at $3.28, up from $2.85 in 2010’s third quarter, […]

Search giant Google broke revenue and earnings records in the third quarter of 2011, following up on last quarter’s records — and it’s little surprise that Wall Street wasn’t disappointed. Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) reported record revenues for the quarter ended Sept. 30 of $9.72 billion — up 33 percent from last year’s third quarter. Using […]

Use of online services to let customers build applications without investing in all the hardware and software necessary to build it in their own data centers is clearly on the rise — proof that saving money can be a strong motivator. However, while more visible categories of services get the limelight today, that may be […]