Bill Gates, chairman, co-founder, and former head of Microsoft, has predicted that continual expansion of Internet services will provoke a revolution in software development.
Sun Microsystems on Thursday is releasing source code for the Java ME-based (Micro Edition) Lightweight UI Toolkit (LWUIT), a move intended to address fragmentation in the mobile development space.
A study by the boutique consultancy Voke finds corporate software development in a state of dysfunction marked by budget woes, protracted project lengths, and dissatisfied end users.
A recent report from Gartner throws a big bucket of cold water on software-as-a-service ERP hype, especially for larger enterprises. Gartner analyst Denise Ganly writes in the "SaaS Impact on ERP" report that enterprises' dire need for a suite of
SAP attorneys have filed a counterclaim to the lawsuit Waste Management filed in March over dissatisfaction with an enterprise resource planning implementation, asserting the vendor's innocence and charging in turn that the trash-disposal company violated the deal's contract.
Microsoft Wednesday re-issued a July fix for a bug that had prevented some network administrators from using the company's primary business patch management tool to deploy security updates.
A recent phishing scam targeting users of Apple Inc.'s .Mac and MobileMe online services has successfully duped hundreds into divulging credit card and other personal information, a security company said Thursday.
Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel, says he's fed up with what he sees as a "security circus" surrounding software vulnerabilities and how they're hyped by security people.
Microsoft has been fairly reticent about the development of the next client version of its Windows OS, code-named Windows 7. But in a blog entry Thursday, Microsoft said it will finally give developers their first in-depth look at the OS
The botnet created by a teenager who was arrested by Dutch police in a sting operation is most notable for its total reliance on social engineering to spread, computer security experts said Thursday.
The Securities and Exchange Commission said on Thursday that it had reached a settlement with Nancy Heinen, former general counsel of Apple. The settlement ends the SEC investigation into Apple's stock options backdating scandal.
