Alex Goldman

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced WebSphere Sensor Events, software that will help organizations track the movement of RFID tags (define) through the supply chain and out to the market. “The software is unique in that it spans the entire spectrum of clients’ solution requirements, from capturing information from sensing devices to connecting with systems for […]

Today brought more bad news to those who fear that the U.S. is falling behind in broadband. According to a new report by broadband, media and entertainment analyst firm Leichtman Research Group (LRG), the U.S. added a net 634,000 broadband subscribers during the second quarter of 2009. That’s the worst quarterly performance in the eight […]

Software companies need to have a global presence to be where the action is — and can’t shy away from making “bold” moves even in the recession — Accenture said in two reports released today. “As Western markets slow and their workforces age, software manufacturing — and hence capital — are migrating toward Asia and […]

The owners of at least one botnet are now using Twitter to control it, according to a report from traffic management specialist Arbor Networks. Because the control messages come from a trusted site, this sort of traffic could pierce the enterprise security firewall, the firm warned. “This appears as legitimate traffic to a legitimate Web […]

SAP claimed the lead in a specific enterprise software vertical, enterprise performance management (EPM) based on data from a report by IDC with a market share of 20.3 percent. “We are pleased to see IDC, one of the leading industry analyst firms, validating our leadership in the combined performance management and analytic applications market and […]

Malware authors continue showing their creativity, with new viruses making the rounds by targeting Craigslist fans and AutoCAD users. One of the new attacks is being spread by malicious links in spam purporting to be a message from Craiglist about a car sale, Mary Mizrahi, product marketing manager at antivirus firm Red Condor, told InternetNews.com. […]

UPDATED: The recession has forced software vendors to focus on one metric, return on investment (ROI), Matthew Calkins, CEO of Appian, told InternetNews.com. He added that business process management (BPM) is designed to deliver on that metric. BPM software is designed to give employees access to data in order to help them make decisions, Calkins […]

A federal court on Tuesday sentenced a Washington man to 39 months in prison for using P2P file-sharing service LimeWire to obtain personal information from unsuspecting users’ tax returns and other documents stored on their PCs. Frederick Wood also sold illicitly obtained PCs on Craigslist and sometimes sold boxes that he said contained PCs but […]

As major players prepare public cloud offerings, enterprise software provider CA banking on private clouds — touting their benefits to security, scalability and better cost controls. “Even companies that may not have an overall could strategy are deploying projects that enable a dynamic and scalable business response and improve business/IT alignment,” CA’s (NASDAQ: CA) Stephen […]

ProPay is telling small businesses to encrypt credit card numbers and to avoid storing the critical data themselves. “PCI requires that if you possess the PAN, the primary account number, you must encrypt it,” Mark Johnson, ProPay CIO, told InternetNews.com. “If it’s in the merchant’s possession, it must be encrypted.” So why keep it? ProPay […]

A U.S. court yesterday slapped Microsoft with a $290 million fine and ordered it to cease selling versions of Microsoft Office Word, marking the latest fallout from a patent dispute with a smaller firm. The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Tyler Division, ordered Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) to pay a $200 million […]

CA (NASDAQ:CA) today announced that a broad range of its management software now can monitor and automate the use of Amazon’s (NASDAQ:AMZN) Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). CA’s Business-Driven Automation, Service Management, Application Performance Management, and Database Management solutions now support the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). “CA has been working with Amazon for over […]