Larry Barrett

Intuit on Monday said it will pay $170 million in cash for Mint.com, a healthy price to get its hands on more than half a million online personal finance software customers less than two years after launching its own Web-based Quicken Online service. Mint.com’s technology, which attracted more than 550,000 users tracking their personal finances […]

CA (NYSE: CA) today announced it will shell out $200 million in cash to acquire privately held NetQoS, an Austin, Texas-based provider of network performance management and service delivery software. CA officials said the purchase will give its customers more options for monitoring and delivering applications and services within the enterprise. “With the addition of […]

Hacker Albert Gonzalez on Friday pleaded guilty to 20 federal charges accusing him of masterminding the largest identity theft ring in U.S. history. The Miami resident, a 28-year-old hacker known by the screen name “segvec”, faces up to 25 years in prison after admitting to his role in illegally obtaining and using unsuspecting victims’ credit […]

Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) shares rallied up $2.54 a share, or 5 percent, to within a dollar of a new 52-week high Friday after Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Nemeroff upgraded the on-demand software provider’s stock from an “underperform” rating to “neutral.”   Nemeroff, in a research note Friday morning, said he finally has come around and […]

IBM said on Thursday that the latest version of Lotus Symphony now includes support for a variety of popular widgets that let users access Google Gadgets, Lotus Sametime, a wide range of wikis and Microsoft’s Sharepoint and MSN from within Symphony. When IBM (NYSE: IBM) released Lotus Symphony 1.3 in June, it included support for […]

Symantec promises Norton Internet Security 2010 and Norton Antivirus 2010 will turn the tables on would-be spammers and hackers by using technology that evaluates the reputations of the files and applications running on your PC on the fly. The security software suite, released this week, features what Symantec (NASDAQ: SYMC) is calling “a new model […]

A new Cutwail botnet spam campaign discovered Wednesday by McAfee’s MX Logic security software group is relying on the three most dreaded letters in the alphabet to prey on naïve e-mail recipients: IRS. Wednesday morning the MX Logic threat operations center, which is constantly monitoring the Internet and corporate e-mail accounts for new malware, noticed […]

Worldwide storage software spending declined almost 10 percent in the second quarter this year, taking a bite out of the expected annual revenue haul for leading vendors such as IBM, EMC, Symantec and CA.   Total storage software sales for the second quarter fell to $2.84 billion, down from $3.15 billion in the same three-month period […]

EMC said today it will invest at least $1.5 billion in India over the next five years to ramp up its research and development program and consolidate its customer service operations. The data storage equipment and software maker said the cash infusion, which augments the $500 million it has already spent in the past five […]

Whether you’re the CIO of a Fortune 500 conglomerate or a one-man band running a boutique brokerage firm, the days of simply downloading and installing the latest antivirus software to your PC are over. With the proliferation of mobile devices, social networking sites and the growing dependence on user-generated content for business purposes, analysts say […]

A new worm capable of posting malware and spam as well as altering or deleting posts on WordPress blogs has the company imploring users to update immediately to the latest version of its popular open source blogging software. The attack serves as just the latest example of how hackers are targeting social networking and user-generated […]

VMware today unveiled a quartet of new virtualization management software applications that it says will help companies easily orchestrate the increasingly complex movement of corporate data between physical and virtual servers in the datacenter. VMware, the leading vendor of virtualization software for x86 servers, announced the products’ debut ahead of Tuesday’s inaugural VMworld Europe 2008 […]