Larry Barrett

EMC will announce next week that it has acquired Berkeley Data Systems, an American Fork, Utah-based online provider of inexpensive online storage space. EMC and Berkeley Data Systems’ officials refused to comment on the pending acquisition, which was first reported by TechCrunch. But sources familiar with the terms of the deal said EMC will pay […]

It’s panic time for iPhone users who either hacked or purchased so-called “unlocked” iPhones reconfigured for use with wireless networks other than AT&T, the iPhone’s exclusive wireless provider. On Monday, Apple fired off a press release warning that “unauthorized iPhone-unlocking programs available on the Internet cause irreparable damage to the iPhone’s software, which will likely […]

Dell, the Godfather of the direct-sales model, on Monday announced things will be done a bit more indirectly in China after inking a partnership agreement with Gome, China’s largest retail electronics chain. Company officials said about 50 of Gome’s 500-plus retail stores will begin stocking its notebook and desktop PCs by October, a key cog […]

Count Trilog Group among the first of what’s sure to be a deluge of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)  providers emerging from relative obscurity to capitalize on the application-delivery model popularized by Salesforce.com. Trilog Group, a privately held company based in Woburn, Mass., this week launched ProjExec Online, an on-demand project management and real-time collaboration service geared for […]

Oracle easily hurdled even the most optimistic analysts’ estimates in its first quarter, posting a profit of $840 million, or 16 cents a share, on sales of $4.53 billion. More important to investors—and disturbing to competitors like SAP—was the 35 percent increase in new software license sales, which CFO Safra Catz called “the strongest growth […]

A day removed from the debut of its first software-as-a-service (SaaS)  offering, Business By Design, SAP on Thursday got immediate and what can only be called less-than-enthusiastic feedback from the very people it most hoped to please. SAP CEO Henning Kagermann on Wednesday called Business By Design “the most important announcement I’ve made in my […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif.–Executives from seven of the disk-drive industry’s most prominent manufacturers looked into their crystal balls Wednesday at the DISKCON USA conference and offered up a mostly optimistic near-term forecast for the rejuvenated storage device market. No longer solely dependant on the PC market for its drives, demand for mobile devices, DVRs and digital […]

SAP  on Wednesday put a name to the buzz when it introduced Business ByDesign, the company’s first software-as-a-service (SaaS)  offering geared for small and mid-sized businesses. CEO Henning Kagermann told press and analysts

SAP on Wednesday will finally show the world its first on-demand business application service. Dubbed A1S by SAP executives, the much-hyped and long-awaited software-as-a-service (SaaS)  offering geared for small and mid-sized businesses will be showcased during an SAP product event in New York. Analysts say A1S represents a bold foray into uncharted territory for SAP. […]

Intel CEO Paul Otellini gave investors, developers and its competitors plenty to digest during his keynote address at the Intel Developer Forum Tuesday when he laid out the chipmaker’s faster, lighter and more energy-efficient vision for what he called the “next mainstream.” But before delving into Intel’s  ambitious future plans to reduce the idling power […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Saleforce.com CEO Marc Benioff kicked off the Dreamforce 2007 conference Monday by unveiling the particulars of Force.com, the on-demand application development platform the company believes will forever change the way companies develop, design and access business software applications. During his presentation to most of the 7,000 attendees expected at the fifth iteration of his […]

Call it the VMware effect. Venture capitalists looking for the next big score invested more than $1.5 billion in fledgling software companies in the second quarter, according to the latest figures from The MoneyTree Report by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association. Total venture capital spending rose to $7.1 billion in the quarter, the […]