Stuart J. Johnston

IBM’s (NYSE: IBM) “Watson” supercomputer is on a roll. After beating a pair of previous Jeopardy champions handily this week, Watson is taking on the world of medicine, IBM announced Thursday. Big Blue officials said that the company will work with voice recognition firm Nuance Communications (NASDAQ: NUAN) to integrate the smaller company’s voice technologies […]

For more on cloud computing and the enterprise, visit Internet.com’s new cloud computing site. Moving beyond its own cloud, Microsoft announced it’s now making versions of its Dynamics CRM 2011 Online package available for customers to run on premise or via third-party managed service provider. Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) released Dynamics CRM 2011 Online in mid-January, […]

In the complex and ever-evolving landscape of security threats, vendors are increasingly looking to deploy integrated solutions that handle a variety attack scenarios. Indeed, that sort of comprehensive approach to security has been a theme of this year’s RSA conference, which has already seen multiple announcements and discussions stressing the importance of integrated security. In […]

Despite fierce rhetoric when it was launched little more than a day ago, Nokia’s fledgling shareholder insurrection opposing the company’s pact with Microsoft seems to have fizzled almost as quickly as it initially caught fire. As of today, the site, put up by nine former-Nokia employees who published an “open letter” to Nokia shareholders and […]

Ask Scott Charney about effective cybersecurity, and he’ll tell you that it takes a village. Charney, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing division, outlined a vision of a “global Internet health model” at this year’s RSA security conference, calling for all stakeholders, from governments to businesses to consumers, to work together to address cybercrime […]

HP has been steadily collecting pieces to build out a vigorous security portfolio for enterprise IT. The computing giant has made a number of acquisitions in the space, and this week at the RSA security conference, it’s planning to take the wraps off of the latest component of its “Instant-On” portfolio, what it’s calling HP […]

Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 is the newest mobile platform out there, but there are already plenty of changes in the works. In his keynote address at this week’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer described several key updates coming to the mobile platform. The software giant has to be ready […]

Watch out iPhone and Android, here come Nokia. Granted such fighting words probably aren’t causing anyone in Silicon Valley to lose any sleep, but mobile phone giant Nokia, to date an also-ran in the U.S. market, is talking boldly about its new alliance with Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT). “Nokia and Microsoft will combine our strengths to […]

The next big announcement from mobile giant Nokia won’t necessarily be based on homegrown technology. Numerous reports say Nokia CEO Stephen Elop’s financial and strategy briefing in London Friday is likely to include the announcement of an alliance with his old company, Microsoft (NASDAQ MSFT). Such an alliance would include the Finnish company’s smartphones running […]

In the cycle of Microsoft’s releases, the initial service pack is a major milestone in the maturation of a product. Now, Microsoft is putting its Windows 7 through that rite of passage, releasing service pack 1 (SP1) to PC OEMs. Microsoft’s release, which also encompasses Windows Server Release 2 (R2), will be available to corporate […]

Just a month after Microsoft announced the pending departure of 23-year veteran Bob Muglia, president of the company’s Server and Tools Business, the company has already named a replacement to run the $15 billion business. In an all-employee email on Wednesday, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer announced that Satya Nadella, a senior vice president […]

When Nokia poached Stephen Elop from Microsoft to take the reins of the Finnish handset giant, he knew he was being asked to lead a turnaround mission. And now, it appears he is poised to roll out some sweeping changes. In an internal memo that leaked to the press, Elop likened Nokia’s position to a […]