2010
RSS 2010Salesforce.com makes more friends in the cloud
News BMC Software and CA have both teamed up with Salesforce.com to produce applications that are built and run on the latter's Force.com platform. The tie-ups were announced at Salesforce.com's annual Dreamforce user conference in San... [20 Nov 2009]
How to squeeze the last drops of savings from an outsourcing contract
News How does a business pay less for its IT services when it's already getting them at rock bottom prices? It takes a long hard look at whether it needs to be gobbling up so many services in the first place. [20 Nov 2009]
Salesforce.com plans social networking for business
News Salesforce.com has unveiled a technology that it says will bring the functionality of consumer technologies such as Facebook and Twitter to the business world. Salesforce Chatter, pencilled in for a launch in the second quarter of... [19 Nov 2009]
Office 2010: Beta launched
News Office 2010 beta is now publicly available for download, Microsoft announced yesterday. New features include a social networking connector that allows users to incorporate social networking feeds into Outlook. [19 Nov 2009]
Salesforce to launch social networking for businesses
Salesforce.com on Wednesday announced a social-networking service called Salesforce Chatter for its customers' in-house operations, giving a corporate flavour to a technology that has largely been for personal use. [19 Nov 2009]
Office 2010 beta released to the public
Microsoft announced on Wednesday that the beta of Office 2010 is now publicly available from the company's website. Among the features new to the beta is a social networking connector that allows users to bring in... [19 Nov 2009]
Unified comms: What it needs to succeed
Comment Unified comms holds plenty of promise but businesses hoping to use it must first consider why uptake has been so slow, says Jim Mortleman. Vendors may be making a lot of noise about unified communications and collaboration (UCC) but the... [17 Nov 2009]
Google's Eric Schmidt on search, Android and all things Wave
News Last week saw silicon.com sister site CNET News.com sit down with Google CEO Eric Schmidt to talk Google Wave, Android and all things search. We're certainly not done [with search]… We're using a lot more about you; where you are, if... [16 Nov 2009]
Audit Readiness for PCI (Payment Card Industry) Data Security Standard Compliance
White Paper Retailers that fail Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) audits can be fined up to $500,000. Additional penalties can range from increased audit requirements to retraction of credit card processing privileges. [13 Nov 2009]
Shortening Mobile Device Testing Cycles: Best Practices for Testing Leadership in the Next Wave of Global Growth
White Paper Before wireless devices hit the market, it is imperative that manufacturers test their applications and localize their products to appeal to the global market. This paper addresses the best practices for mobile device testing. [12 Nov 2009]
HIPAA and Beyond: An Update on Healthcare Security Regulations for Email
White Paper Judging from both the HITECH Act included in the stimulus bill and the FTC's multi-million dollar penalty against CVS, this much is clear: the U.S.federal government has gotten serious about enforcing HIPAA security regulations. [12 Nov 2009]
Future mobiles, Windows 7, iPhone apps and the latest gadgets
Photo October saw silicon.com cast its eye over the top iPhone apps for business. Shown above is the Skype app which allows users to make calls and send instant messages to anyone else with a Skype account for free. [12 Nov 2009]
No more tax breaks for offshoring?
Comment Soon offshoring will no longer offer the considerable tax incentive it has to date. Lawyers Belinda Doshi and Nick Beecham explain how financial firms can protect their business. Banks, insurance companies and other financial services... [11 Nov 2009]
Photos: Firefox through the ages
Photo Mozilla is celebrating the fifth anniversary of Firefox 1.0, released 9 November, 2004. The project began as a fresh start intended to be leaner and faster. While the official Mozilla effort still was working on the unified browser and... [10 Nov 2009]
Revealed: Your favourite Windows operating system
News A multitude of Microsoft operating systems have been launched into the world since the first versions of Windows appeared back in the early 1980s. But after all these years of development, which operating system software do silicon.com... [09 Nov 2009]
