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Stem the tide of on-demand software?
News There is still a place for packaged software, even as on-demand vendors bask in the limelight of delivering their goods online.
Tags: Software, Business applications, Customer resource management (CRM), Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Sales force automation, Web services
Asia to firmly embrace mobile commerce
News Mobile users in the Asia-Pacific region will help boost m-commerce to an 18.4 percent growth this year, driven largely by applications such as mobile payments.
Tags: E-commerce
Eight Asian ICT predictions for 2008
News Linux will gain more ground as an enterprise platform while mobile-commerce will see better adoption across the region, says research house XMG.
Tags: Operating systems, Mobile commerce, Outsourcing
Adobe buys Web word processor Buzzword
News Adobe Systems steps up plans to offer online collaboration with Web word processor and file-sharing service.
Tags: Groupware, work flow software, Office suites, Web services
Salesforce: On-demand CRM to flourish in Asia
News The hosted customer relationship management software provider sees its growth in the region fueled by widespread mobile and wireless networks.
Free MP3.com technology takes cue from open-source movement
News MP3.com on Tuesday said it would make its extensive online music database and streaming technology available for free to developers, letting rivals tap into its hard-won music locker service.
Compuware lawsuit targets IBM
News The software developer's suit charges Big Blue with stealing and using parts of its copyrighted software code and with anti-competitive practices.
Sun and Google shake hands
News Multiyear partnership will develop and distribute Google Toolbar, Java, OpenOffice and OpenSolaris--and Google will buy lots more Sun servers.
Tags: Linux desktop OS, Linux server OS, Java, Web browsers
Software's SOA buzz yielding dividends
News Some analysts expect that in the coming years, investments in service-oriented architecture projects will be the primary fuel for business software vendors' revenues.
Tags: Business applications, Web services, Financial
Business: IM is getting out of control
News It's one of the dirty little secrets of corporate communications: Executives and other employees routinely chat via notoriously insecure instant messages.
The next wave of instant messaging
News Who needs email, or even the phone? New tech plans to take IM far beyond the simple text message.
Pushing the envelope on IM
News As its competitors Microsoft and Yahoo scramble to add scribbling, speech and video to instant messaging, industry leader AOL insists consumers want text-based chat, not bells and whistles.
Industry shift to services fuels IBM spree
News IBM uses its fat checkbook to cash in on services-oriented architecture--and run from downward price pressure.
Tags: Acquisitions, Services
IBM adds to mainframe's Java flavor
News Big Blue will port more WebSphere apps to the mainframe--part of investments to keep 42-year-old server up-to-date.
Tags: Mainframes, Java
CMGI, Akamai team to speed Net services
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