The points of change cited by the research firm include Web 2.0-style apps, SaaS, global-class computing, "consumerization" of IT and open source.
Google and IBM are providing resources to universities focusing on Internet-scale application studies.
HP is offering its Business Technology Optimization solutions as both an on-premises installed solution and as a hosted solution delivered via software-as-a-service (SaaS). The SaaS option is not well known, perhaps, but it's a growing part of HP's general software strategy.
Microsoft Corp. has added a digital party-invitation service to its suite of Windows Live Web services.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/12/2007
An e-mail warning consumers that cell phone numbers will soon be released to telemarketers is making the rounds again, and government officials have a key detail they'd like to add: it's totally bogus.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/12/2007
Police in central China have jailed a 50-year-old woman for posing as a teenage rape victim on the Internet, an official and state media said Wednesday.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/10/2007
An international media rights group called on China to loosen controls on news and personal expression on the Internet, saying the country's system of censorship is an insult to the spirit of online freedom.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/10/2007
Microsoft rolled out six security bulletins on its "Patch Tuesday" today, one fewer than expected.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 10/09/2007
Around the world, Internet users are conducting about 1.4 million searches every minute _ most of them through Google Inc., a new comScore study estimates.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/09/2007
Microsoft Corp. launched a Web site Thursday for managing personal health and medical information, jumping into an industry whose digital future is clouded by privacy worries.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/04/2007
Sample addresses in nearly a dozen languages will be added to the Internet's central directories as early as next week, paving the way for Web surfers around the world to get online without knowing any English.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/04/2007
Google Inc. is sprucing up its corporate e-mail service by adding new security tools and more than doubling the storage capacity of e-mailboxes, underscoring the online search leader's ambition to enlarge its role in the business software market.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/03/2007
Online videos aren't just for bloopers and rants -- some might also be conduits for malicious code that can infect your computer.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/02/2007
Yahoo Inc. has retooled its online search engine to make it more helpful and engaging, joining an industrywide wave of improvements that so far haven't dented Google Inc.'s dominance.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/02/2007
Despite the offering's rocky beginnings, Office Live may still turn out to be a pleasant surprise.
- By Mary Jo Foley
- 10/01/2007
Cavalancia thinks you need to accommodate Web 2.0 and Vista apps.
Microsoft today rolled out a new service for its Office suite that adds online collaboration features but still requires documents to be created and edited on the desktop.
There are important differences between consumer Web 2.0 applications and next-gen Web apps in the enterprise, said Oracle's Chief Architect Ted Farrell, and developers who want their applications to succeed in the latter environment need to appreciate those differences.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/28/2007
Senators expressed no outright opposition to Google's $3.1 billion purchase of online advertising firm DoubleClick at a hearing focused on the deal's potential threats to competition and consumer privacy.
- By The Associated Press
- 09/28/2007
Microsoft Corp. is testing a way to present video advertising that's less annoying to Web surfers.
- By The Associated Press
- 09/27/2007