Larry Barrett

Salesforce.com easily hurdled analysts’ estimates in its second quarter Wednesday, posting a profit of $3.7 million, or 3 cents a share, on sales of $176.5 million. It also boosted its fiscal 2008 sales and earnings-per-share estimates to between $727 million and $732 million and 8 cents to 10 cents a share, respectively. Analysts surveyed by […]

Nokia on Tuesday warned consumers that as many as 46 million cell phone batteries could overheat and dislodge themselves from their chargers. So far, according to the Nokia  release, there have been about 100 reported incidents of the BL-5C batteries overheating as a result of a short circuit that occurs while charging. The defective batteries […]

The latest version of IBM’s WebSphere RFID Information Center software includes a new ePedigree feature that lets pharmaceutical companies create an electronic certificate of authenticity for every bottle, vial and package that wends its way through their supply chains. While the Food and Drug Administration thus far has only encouraged drug companies to incorporate an […]

Can the company that gave the world something as rigid and monolithic as R/3 transform itself into a Web 2.0-savvy alternative for small and mid-sized businesses? The answer could come as early as the end of this year when SAP  finally launches A1S, it’s much-hyped and long-awaited software-as-a-service offering(SaaS)  geared for small and mid-sized companies. […]

IT managers scrambling to find new ways to appease the corporate bean-counters should take a long, hard look at all the software residing in their budget-munching datacenters. Fortune 1000 companies routinely spend 30 percent more on datacenter software than necessary—or roughly six percent of the total cost of operating the datacenter—according to a new report […]

Former Brocade Communications Systems CEO Gregory L. Reyes was convicted Tuesday of defrauding investors by improperly disclosing the backdating of stock options and filing false financial statements during his seven-year rein atop the storage networking firm. A San Francisco jury found Reyes guilty on all 10 felony counts brought against him, including securities fraud, conspiracy […]

Salesforce.com COO Phill Robinson bid adieu to the on-demand business software firm Monday to become CEO at CacheLogic, a UK-based online content delivery network  company. Robinson, a 20-year software industry veteran, joined Salesforce.com in 2003 and served in a variety of executive management roles, including senior vice president of marketing, chief marketing officer and COO […]

Larry Roberts built it. They came. Now he’s back to make it even better. A decade before any of the YouTube co-founders were even born, long before the advent of the Web browser or even the VCR, Larry Roberts made his mark as the leader of a small team of visionaries that designed and developed […]

Autonomy today unveiled the latest version of its etalk Intelligent Contact Center software, incorporating speech analysis and trend-identification features to its core call-recording and storage functionality. As companies continue to mine unstructured data from blogs, customer e-mails, chat rooms and garden-variety calls to their customer service lines for feedback, they face the daunting challenge of […]

Discerning what’s obvious and what isn’t when it comes to technology patents became a bit less gray last week when a federal judge in San Francisco reversed himself and abruptly dismissed a case brought against RealNetworks. Attorneys as well as U.S. patent examiners say Judge William Schwarzer’s surprising about-face is just the first of what […]

Monster Worldwide   disappointed investors Monday with a lackluster second-quarter earning report. The jobs giant reduced its revenue estimates for the rest of the year and announced a restructuring program that will force about 800 employees to spruce up their own resumes and hit the online job boards. While second-quarter sales improved to $331 million […]

*UPDATED: Thanks to the popularity of YouTube and other video-content creation and distribution sites, corporations now create tens of thousands of hours of video content each year. And now IT managers at Fortune 500 companies and federal, state and industry agencies are desperate to find a way to store, distribute and archive all this information […]