Larry Barrett

Photo: Apple It’s here: The much-anticipated Apple iPhone 4 hit store shelves today. Not surprisingly, massive crowds were on-hand to pounce on the new device, which sold out its available preorder units earlier this month. That’s in spite of some elements of the launch — and the iPhone 4’s initial unveiling — that may not […]

All eyes are on database and enterprise software giant Oracle today, as the company is poised to release its quarterly report that shareholders and industry experts expect to show some indications of a boost from the server business of Sun Microsystems, the acquisition of which Oracle wrapped up early this year. Specifically, analysts are betting […]

Traders live and die by information, and the faster they get it and sift through it the better. IBM knows this as well as any IT provider, and it’s bringing a new software platform geared at traders who need business analytics to make instant trading decisions. Datamation highlights what this software promises to do. IBM […]

Motorola Droid X. Click to enlarge. Source: Verizon Wireless Big news for Verizon Wireless customers: A new Motorola Droid is slated to make its debut next month. The new Droid X will be a follow-up to the popular Motorola Droid, already thought to be the bestselling Android device to date. But with the new Droid X, Motorola and […]

Cloud computing services, championed by companies as diverse as Google, Salesforce and IBM, are generating big time revenues today with even rosier forecasts for future growth. What’s driving the interest in the cloud and where are the strongest areas of growth and experimentation? CIO Update reports on the latest research and forecast by Gartner and […]

The Software and Information Industry Association has battled long and hard to stamp the trafficking of counterfeit and stolen software applications on the streets and online, a illicit business that costs legitimate vendors billions of dollars each year. Now, as eSecurity Planet discovered, the trade association has set its sights on Europe, filing three separate […]

Small and midsized businesses trounced by the years-long economic malaise are finally starting to invest in basic security applications such as antivirus and antispyware and devoting a good portion of their IT staff’s time to protecting their networks. As Small Business Computing reports, this change of heart when it comes to data security is mostly […]

New, relatively unmanaged and untamed technologies always draw the same analogy: the wild, wild west. That’s what was said about the Internet 15 years ago and several subsets of computing technology, which tend to be unregulated when they first emerge. So is the same situation with the cloud. As firms move from hosted, dedicated servers […]

What are the next enterprise technology breakthroughs? Companies like IBM continue to invest to make just such discoveries. Datamation reports on IBM’s new software development facility and the areas or research it’s targeting which include cloud computing and mobile. While these areas aren’t new, IBM will be looking to develop the next generation of breakthrough […]

Companies spending their marketing budgets using traditional online, search or social media often need a helping hand when it comes to optimizing their spending. That’s where firms like Coremetrics come into play, improving online ad effectiveness by tracking online and offline customer behavior and tailoring marketing efforts around the data it gathers. That’s an enticing […]

Many of the firms that tried to secure your PC are now moving into the cloud, because that’s where so many people are storing their important data these days as a hedge against a PC failure. After watching its competitors make big cloud backup acquisitions, Trend Micro decided it was time to get in on […]

Consumers, patients, the media and even some of the hospitals responsible for major data breaches have become accustomed to reporting security lapses that expose patients’ or physicians’ personal data. Whether it’s a missing USB drive or a stolen laptop or an innocent—albeit unsecured—internal Web site, hospitals are perhaps the largest sieves of personal information these […]