software
eBay's Skype sale gets green light
News The settlement restructures the deal with an investor group led by Silver Lake and puts an end to a dispute with software maker Joltid over the licensing of software that underlies Skype's internet... [06 Nov 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 06.11.09
Round-Up Furthermore, better tax incentives for investment, corporate venturing, R&D support and so on could all help young software companies flourish in the UK. A recent report from analyst firm TechMarketView found that the UK... [06 Nov 2009]
Windows 7: Over 200 per cent more popular than Vista
News If the prediction is correct, it would mean Windows 7 would have been adopted by business more quickly than any other Microsoft OS, according to the software giant. That Windows 7 is more popular than Vista is no... [06 Nov 2009]
Telegraph CIO on the rocky road to going Google
News Subsequently, overall use of Microsoft software at TMG has dropped by two-thirds. TMG has also recently struck a new deal with another cloud computing firm, Salesforce.com, to carry out payment processing for its online... [04 Nov 2009]
Why the UK will never create a Google, Microsoft or Oracle
News The UK will never create a software giant to rival the likes of Microsoft, Google or Oracle. That's the sobering conclusion of the silicon.com CIO Jury which voted 10 to two against, when asked whether the UK could... [03 Nov 2009]
Magic Mouse - Apple's best ever?
Comment Eventually, Apple software supported contextual clicking in late versions of OS 8 and the company eventually released a couple of multi-button mouses. A mouse to complement its rather splendid computers and even finer... [03 Nov 2009]
Maemo and Android: Symbian's open source rivals up the pressure
News While Nokia has favoured Symbian software - now in the process of being unified into a single open source OS platform under the guidance of the Symbian Foundation - for its high end smartphones, such as the N Series, one... [02 Nov 2009]
Photos: Google Waves hello to a new way of doing business
Photo At the recent TechEd conference in Vienna, ERP software specialist SAP showed an application called Gravity it has designed for Google Wave that allows staff to draw flow charts to model business processes, as seen here. [02 Nov 2009]
Microsoft to Office Accounting: Your number's up
News The software giant has called time on accounting software Microsoft announced on Friday it is to kill off its Office Accounting product line. Microsoft's Redmond campus. Photo credit: Microsoft) The... [02 Nov 2009]
Photos: Salesforce.com rides the Google wave with CRM app
Photo Tech companies are already creating custom apps for Google Wave, with software-as-a-service provider Salesforce.com showing off its Wave app this week at SAP's TechEd conference in Vienna. Earlier this year, Google... [30 Oct 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 30.09.09
Round-Up The tech industry has always had a soft spot for the paranormal, what with its mailer-daemons, software wizards, trolls and the like. No, the Round-Up doesn't mean consultants doing the annual software... [30 Oct 2009]
Photos: Ubuntu unleashes the Karmic Koala
Photo Gone is the "Add/Remove Applications" menu entry and in its place is the Ubuntu Software Center. Overall, this is an improvement on the previous Synaptic experience, especially in finding software... [29 Oct 2009]
Why CIOs are saying yes to open source software
News While some CIOs are enthusiastic about the potential savings that can be made, others still warn of the hidden costs that can lie in wait for the unwary.silicon.com's latest CIO Jury came down strongly against the uptake of open source... [28 Oct 2009]
How will you use Google Wave? Recruiting, decision-making, dealing with complaints
News Lars Rasmussen, Google's software engineering manager and co-creator of Wave, said unlike typical Google services, Wave has stoked early interest among both consumers and enterprises. ERP software maker... [28 Oct 2009]
Photos: Top iPhone apps for business
Photo This app allows users to access sensitive networked information which is protected by RSA SecurID by using their iPhone as a software authenticator.iPhone users can import a software token that will... [27 Oct 2009]