January 9, 2009
Over the past year, there's been a lot of lip service in the mobile-phone industry about making our wireless networks "open." The idea, consumer and open network ...
January 5, 2009
PCs are so 2008. Computer users are warming to personal computer alternatives, including netbooks, handheld mobile devices—and in a growing number of cases, ...
December 31, 2008
Last year, Bechtel Chief Information Officer Geir Ramleth fulfilled what's only a pipe dream for most IT executives: He rebuilt Bechtel Group's corporate data network ...
December 19, 2008
During the tech industry's last big slump, software and hardware vendors were slow to cut costs as falling demand pummeled profits. This time around, Oracle (ORCL) ...
December 18, 2008
Expectations ran high almost two years ago, when John Riccitiello took the helm of video game maker Electronic Arts (ERTS). Formerly operations chief for EA, ...
December 17, 2008
Microsoft is no longer interested in buying Yahoo! but remains open to acquiring the company's search business, according to press reports and statements from ...
December 15, 2008
India's tech industry has emerged on the global scene with an aggressive deployment of highly trained, low-cost labor to serve Western clients. Now HCL Technologies is...
December 11, 2008
In September, Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer spent a week traipsing across Europe and parts of the U.S. schmoozing 17 of the world's largest handset makers ...
December 10, 2008
It was mid-2008, and Americans were struggling to make mortgage payments and credit-card minimums. To top it off, gas prices were surging. No wonder many would-be ...
December 9, 2008
As cloud computing moves beyond startups and attracts enterprise users, major software vendors are being forced to reckon with a new challenge to their pricing models....
December 8, 2008
Two years ago, Microsoft rankled computer-security software vendors by jumping into their market (BusinessWeek.com, 6/1/06). Now the company is again creating waves by...
December 1, 2008
For anyone who hasn't been paying attention to the software industry lately, I have some bad news. The open-source business model is broken. Companies have long hoped ...
December 1, 2008
As the recession puts pressure on tech spending, many companies are turning to open-source software to handle more IT tasks.
November 30, 2008
The economy may be a shambles, but Brian Gentile's software company, JasperSoft, is doing better than ever. JasperSoft posted record revenue for the quarter that ended...
November 21, 2008
Corporate America is increasingly leaving computing to the experts. Why go to the trouble and expense of building and managing complex systems to handle your spiraling...
November 18, 2008
As Brian Pelowski shopped for a new computer for his wife, who's working on her doctorate in developmental psychology, he wanted a machine that was lightweight and ...
November 16, 2008
It's the end of instant messaging as we know it. Those chat boxes once commonplace on a computer desktop amid documents, Web browsers, and spreadsheets are giving way ...
November 13, 2008
As the No. 3 executive at Microsoft, Paul Maritz presided over the company's Windows juggernaut, turned aside threats from Netscape and Sun Microsystems (JAVA), and ...
November 11, 2008
Information Age innovators need not apply. At least that's the implied message being stretched like police tape across the door of the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office ...
November 10, 2008
Editor's note: This is the second in an eight-part series (BusinessWeek.com, 11/3/08) of Viewpoints by author Don Tapscott, who draws on the $4 million research ...
November 7, 2008
O.K., so the market crashed, and we're in a recession. There's also some good news to go around. Warren Buffett's buying. The elections are finally over. The Phillies ...
November 4, 2008
I didn't expect much from games on the iPhone. I had visions of casual games, perhaps a fancy take on solitaire or a version of poker that takes advantage of the ...
November 3, 2008
Salesforce.com Chief Executive Officer Marc Benioff strides into San Francisco brunch spot Ella's, clad in workout clothes, replete with baggy shorts and a baseball ...
November 3, 2008
Microsoft (MSFT) is working hard to ensure that Windows is the operating system of choice on the growing number of refurbished personal computers being used by ...
October 28, 2008
After years of efforts by Google (GOOG) and Amazon.com (AMZN) to spin visions of a future where the Web supplants Windows, Microsoft (MSFT) struck back on Oct. 27. The...