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Microsoft wants to host your software
News During the past several years, Microsoft has been testing out the idea that it can host and run business software cheaper and more effectively than individual enterprises can do on their own. For perhaps the first time... [18 Nov 2008]
Business tech born in Cern's Big Bang lab
News Cutting edge particle physics is being used to hone new technology that will eventually make its way into enterprises. The Cern nuclear physics laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland is helping the tech industry refine the... [17 Oct 2008]
Enterprise web 2.0 costs set to plunge
News Wikis, too, will see a price drop - from last year's average deployment cost of $16,000 to $7,400 by 2013, with new open source and software as a service entrants into the wiki market helping to drive down the average cost, despite an... [13 Oct 2008]
Hasta la Vista baby, we're just not interested
News Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system is still playing second fiddle to XP with business users, with more enterprises confessing to checking out the unreleased Windows 7 OS than its predecessor. More than half (58... [01 Oct 2008]
Sony Ericsson: Microsoft said no, no, no
News Sony Ericsson has high hopes for the Xperia - not just that it will appeal to 'prosumers' but could even tempt enterprises away from the wares of BlackBerry-maker RIM, which has also been adding in a multimedia... [26 Sep 2008]
Global IT spending growth slumps
News Technology analyst with Datamonitor Daniel Okubo said in a statement: "For the past couple of years enterprises have been cutting back IT budget increases as they adopt a more cautious viewpoint of the global economy. [18 Sep 2008]
Windows Mobile v BlackBerry in server showdown
News Cripps added that enterprises would also have to consider other factors, such as the overall reliability of the mobile hardware it chooses to deploy and the ongoing cost of supporting those devices. Ditching BlackBerrys... [04 Sep 2008]
Cloud - not ready for mission-critical business
News The pace of execution for both business and IT has accelerated at an amazing rate and CIOs with their enterprises must keep up. Software-as-a-service (SaaS) is "several years away" from being enterprise-ready but... [03 Sep 2008]
UK crime fighters grapple with iPhone wipe threat
News The head of the Serious Fraud Office digital forensics unit Keith Foggon cautioned that the ability to remotely wipe the iPhone and other smart phones used by enterprises could be exploited by lawbreakers.iPhone take... [02 Sep 2008]
Tech spend to top $3.4tr
News Many of these factors are impacting market growth as enterprises replace assets with per-use services. Despite a shaky global economic market, worldwide IT spending will pass the $3.4tr mark this year, up eight per cent... [19 Aug 2008]
Credit crunch prompts open source adoption
News For instance, a Forrester Research survey earlier this month found the market for open-source databases to be booming due to new workloads, such as RFID projects, rich web applications and small portals, despite the unwillingness of... [29 Jul 2008]
Web 2.0 prompts love for open source
News The market for open-source databases is booming due to new workloads such as RFID projects, rich web applications and small portals, despite the unwillingness of enterprises to replace their Oracle, DB2 or SQL Server... [24 Jul 2008]
Does open source pose a security risk?
News The security practices of open-source IT developers should lead enterprises to think twice before using open-source software, according to a new study. The study, carried out by application security consultant Larry Suto... [22 Jul 2008]
Security heading for the cloud
News Gartner predicts that cloud-based security will enable enterprises to use technologies and techniques that are not otherwise cost-effective. Cloud-based malware and spam detection in email and instant messaging will grow... [17 Jul 2008]
Coming soon - malware threats to iPhone 2.0?
News They can also tap on secure proxy services or software-as-a-service providers but this option is usually geared at enterprises. Expect malware targeted at iPhone 3G users over the next six months, according to security... [14 Jul 2008]
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