Richard Adhikari

The recession and companies’ consequent belt-tightening will see worldwide demand for enterprise software grow more slowly than expected, by 6.6 percent next year to total $244.3 billion, research firm Gartner said. That is nearly one-third less than Gartner’s previous 2009 projection of $253.1 billion, or 9.5 percent growth from 2008’s expected figure of $229.2 billion. […]

Web 2.0. Mashups. Cloud computing. User-generated content. Those buzzwords represent some of the hottest technology trends today on the Web. But just as experts see enterprises and consumers making more use of those tools in 2009, they’re also warning that spammers and malware distributors will be doing the same. Worse, those technologies may give spammers […]

As corporations brace for a year of living dangerously thanks to the present recession, they will need to leverage technology wisely in order to survive. That’s the lesson that Verizon’s (NYSE: VZ) Business unit is urging U.S. enterprises to follow. In particular, the telecom carrier identified several trends it sees with the potential to help […]

You know the old joke about IT, that support staff don’t know what a weekend is because they’re often in the office doing management or maintenance or backup or one of a thousand other tasks. Well, as the recession bites and enterprises further tighten their belts, things are getting even worse, and IT is being […]

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which works on developing standards for the Web, has updated its Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). WCAG 2.0, announced today, will help developers make Web sites and pages more perceivable, operable, understandable, and robust, the organization said. The W3C is aiming to make this an international standard to make […]

Some of the most-used applications on Windows today are also some of the most vulnerable to security flaws. And it’s often the user’s fault. A list compiled by enterprise application whitelisting vendor Bit9 found that 12 of the most popular consumer applications are being used despite having vulnerabilities that could make for compromised systems or […]

As interest in software as a service (SaaS) grows, fueled by the recession, Business Objects has beefed up its on-demand business intelligence (BI) offering, BI OnDemand. Business Objects, owned by SAP (NYSE: SAP), is pitching an on-demand development environment for customers, designed to save them the cost of creating a copy of their database for […]

Although Microsoft’s server and tools division has chalked up more than 18 percent in year-over-year growth, has a revenue of $13.2 billion and would be the fifth largest software company on the planet if it were an independent firm, Microsoft thinks the division has tremendous room for growth. The division offers database, security, identity, IT […]

With the recession and scarce resources driving enterprises into virtualization, Hewlett-Packard (HP) is looking to capitalize on the trend with a slew of announcements around virtual and physical IT management from the desktop to the datacenter. Today, HP (NYSE: HPQ) and VMware (NASDAQ: VMW) jointly unveiled plans to develop management solutions for both physical and […]

Microsoft is aiming to further strengthen its push into the enterprise with the public beta release of BizTalk Server 2009. Announced together with the general availability of two RFID add-ons — BizTalk RFID Mobile and the BizTalk RFID Standards Pack — BizTalk Server 2009 offers integration with back-end systems such as the latest versions of […]

Just months after saying it would target illegal software sellers on sites other than eBay, its perennial target, the Software Information and Industry Association (SIIA) today filed suit against eight illegal software sellers on Amazon.com, eBay and iOffer.com. The lawsuits were filed on behalf of Adobe Systems (NASDAQ: ADBE) in the United States District Court, […]

Next year could be a very good year for online crime if the economy gets any worse, security vendor McAfee warned. Governments will be too busy grappling with economic issues, while desperate job seekers will become easy targets for cybercriminals, according to its annual cybersecurity survey, the McAfee Virtual Criminology Report. Law enforcement is another […]