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Open source CMSes prove well worth the price When last surveying open source Web CMSes (content management systems) I provided some common-sense advice. For example, it's important to look for not just functionality but also frequent updates, a healthy user community, and the availability of professional support. Some points are still true today, but new offerings may get you rethinking the role of these products in your enterprise. Best of open source applications A hunger for lighter-weight and lower-cost sales and CRM applications has brought great success to SaaS vendors such as Salesforce.com, and also lifted the fortunes of open source offerings in the space. Open source ERP has had a harder time breaking out, but here too there are several impressive offerings to choose from. And if you're looking to open source for an enterprise portal, CMS, or Microsoft Exchange substitute, you will not be disappointed.  September 10, 3:00 a.m. PDT The great Office Server smorgasbord Part 3: forms and flexibility with Forms Server 2007 The great Office Server smorgasbord is back and ready to tackle forms processing, possibly the most powerful use case for SharePoint and Office we’ve seen until now. To get through this one, we’ll need to start with a discussion of InfoPath 2007, then look at the basic Forms Services included with Office SharePoint Server and finally check out what else you get once you spring for the full-on form power of Forms Server 2007. August 27, 3:00 a.m. PDT Open-source Plone content management app gets major upgrade The Plone Foundation launched a new version of its open-source content management software on Tuesday, emphasizing improvements in ease of use and the addition of automatic versioning throughout the Plone 3.0 product. August 22, 9:42 a.m. PDT Google's Associated Press licensing deal short on results One year after Google acknowledged signing a licensing deal with The Associated Press to launch new Google features and services, the promised offerings haven't been delivered. August 2, 7:01 a.m. PDT Review: Tridion R5 Web content management shines Not long ago, there was a general perception that enterprises needed one central system to manage all their business content -- the philosophy behind enterprise CMSes (content management systems) from Open Text, EMC Documentum, and others. For some businesses this strategy still has merit. But the complexity of melding records management, Web content management, digital asset management, and document management has many organizations questioning this one-size-fits-all approach. July 26, 3:00 a.m. PDT Alfresco rolls Web 2.0 features into CMS upgrade Alfresco Software is taking cues from the so-called Web 2.0 craze with the release of the latest version of its open-source CMS (content management software). July 5, 9:39 a.m. PDT Microsoft launches Windows Live file sharing beta Microsoft on Wednesday started limited beta offerings of Windows Live file and photo sharing services. June 27, 4:32 a.m. PDT Mediasurface to buy CMS vendor Immediacy Mediasurface, a maker of content management software (CMS), will buy Immediacy, also a content management vendor, for £5.6 million ($11.1 million) the companies announced on Tuesday. June 26, 8:16 a.m. PDT NextPage manages documents with a light touch “Compliance” is a word that can make a CIO cringe, especially when it comes to document retention and -- just as important -- destruction. June 21, 3:00 a.m. PDT Xythos keeps documents in compliance Xythos has always been a cost-effective alternative to traditional ECM (enterprise content management) systems. From its inception in 1999, Enterprise Document Management Suite has worked with ease and sophistication, including shared file folders combined with secure, offline access and other essential functions such as approval workflows. Moreover, Xythos' recent versions included enterprise features such as LDAP integration and robust APIs for custom development along with JSR 168 (portlets) and JSR 170 (document repository) support. While Xythos isn’t unique in offering these features, they still aren’t commonplace among document management products. June 21, 3:00 a.m. PDT Diagnosing health care IT A few weeks ago I stirred up a heap of contention with my column “RIP, electronic medical records?” about the battle at Kaiser Permanente over its pioneering health care digitization megaproject. The comments posted on the column by readers were like an instant replay of the finger pointing and armchair quarterbacking that’s apparently been going on inside that organization -- an interesting skirmish that showed the passion flaring on all sides of this issue. June 14, 3:00 a.m. PDT 2007 InfoWorld CTO 25: Satinath Sarkar When Satinath Sarkar, CTO of Orion Technology talked to his friends 10 years ago about his specialty -- geographic information systems, or GIS -- he was met with quizzical looks. June 7, 3:00 a.m. PDT Exclusive: Astoria On-Demand tames complex docs Most enterprises drive their Web sites and intranets using a CMS (content management system). That’s because CMSes offer consistent branding, easy editing, content reuse, and approval workflows. Unfortunately, publishing systems for producing structured technical manuals came late to the party in delivering these benefits. Sometimes you must learn older SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language) -- or deal with expensive and cumbersome XML editors. Astoria On-Demand sidesteps these problems with a highly usable and quickly deployed hosted system based on OASIS’ DITA (Darwin Information Typing Architecture) standard. May 23, 3:00 a.m. PDT Panther Express: CDNs for the little guy It's 1999; the dotcom bubble has inflated to a monstrous, menacing size; and tech firms all over the world are hungry for bandwidth. The reasons are simple: Accepted wisdom is that victory goes to those who can attract and keep the most eyeballs. That means that companies -- whether media outfits, B2B portals, or e-commerce sites -- have to keep their Web pages up and serving pages quickly. May 1, 3:00 a.m. PDT Oracle releases first ECM product since buying Stellent Less than two weeks after unveiling a road map for its enterprise content management (ECM) software, Oracle released the first of the revamped products laid out in that strategy. April 30, 5:15 a.m. PDT RIP, electronic medical records? And so the story of the largest, most visible attempt to digitize health care delivery in the U.S. has finally been told on page one of the Wall Street Journal. And it ain’t pretty. April 26, 3:00 a.m. PDT Red Hat to acquire MetaMatrix Red Hat said Tuesday it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the business of MetaMatrix, a provider of data management and integration software. April 24, 9:21 a.m. PDT Oracle nets more utilities expertise with Lodestar buy Oracle plans to purchase meter data management provider Lodestar as part of its ongoing strategy to build up skills in several vertical industries including the utilities sector. April 24, 7:55 a.m. PDT Content management vendors eye midmarket ECM (enterprise content management) software vendors, most recently IBM, are vying to increase their appeal to midsize businesses. While many large enterprises already have solutions provided by EMC, IBM, or FileNet (acquired by IBM last year), some midsize companies have steered away from ECM software as being too expensive and complicated to use. April 20, 11:08 a.m. PDT Enterprises seek social-network effect Social bookmarking and IRC (Internet relay chat) top the list of must-have tools for organizations that want to leverage Web 2.0 technologies within the enterprise, according to a Web 2.0 Expo panel moderated by Rob Rueckert of Intel Capital. April 19, 3:00 a.m. PDT Web 2.0 tools inspire data-sharing software Businesses that use ECM (enterprise content management) software to manage data could soon be giving employees more control over that data, as application providers are inspired by Web 2.0 tools like wikis, mashups and data tags. April 18, 9:43 a.m. PDT Oracle sets out content management road map Building on its December acquisition of Stellent, Oracle on Wednesday began to flesh out its content management software strategy. April 18, 7:42 a.m. PDT What the enterprise can learn from consumer technologies Today’s corporate end-users are far more tech-savvy than their productivity with IT tools indicates. After all, screen-deep in IMs, widgets, and elaborate consumer Web apps, they’re proving themselves well-versed in the production and distribution of content as facilitated by the consumer Web 2.0 craze. April 9, 3:00 a.m. PDT Altova DatabaseSpy makes DBs user-friendly When discussions of the enterprise-data explosion get under way, the focus tends toward topics such as how to manage large amounts of data, how to keep it secure, and how to make it highly available. One subject that often gets overlooked is how the data deluge has affected the everyday work habits of the non-IT worker, or even the non-DBA: It's forcing ordinary end-users to get up to speed on the complexities of DBs and working with data. April 9, 3:00 a.m. PDT Tech tops the pop charts Remember the adrenaline rush when you first saw MTV in 1981? When they played “She Blinded Me With Science” in ’83? Well, if you want a fresh, geeky, thought-provoking video experience that gets your heart pumping, check out “Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us,” one of the top-viewed videos on YouTube. It’ll appeal to the coder in you, as well as the futurist. March 15, 3:00 a.m. PST Slashdot to turn Firehose on Digg Slashdot.org plans to release on Thursday a new feature designed to give more participation in the selection of articles to its users, who submit links to stories and comments about them to the site. March 1, 3:30 p.m. PST IBM unveils latest content management moves Having previously made major product announcements around data and information management, IBM focused on the third leg of that strategy, content management, on Tuesday, including the vendor's first major release of its acquired FileNet technology. February 13, 1:36 p.m. PST Today’s end-user: Hardly working The U.S. workplace is the new dysfunctional family. I’ve reached that conclusion after stumbling on a string of statistics that make me wonder how American companies ever get anything done, much less show a profit. February 5, 3:00 a.m. PST People, not technology, now at center of emerging tech The DEMO 07 conference, the annual gathering of the haves and the have-nots -- venture capitalists with millions of dollars to invest and startups hungering for first-, second-, and third-round infusions of cash -- got off to a big start with 16 companies presenting in the first morning session. January 31, 1:29 p.m. PST Debating the merits of user-generated content Creativity is alive and well. Twenty-something years after the PC revolution, new ideas and innovation, huge successes and tremendous flops, are all still part of the excitement. January 30, 3:00 a.m. PST Adobe pushes full PDF spec to become ISO standard Adobe Systems is taking the first step towards having its entire Portable Document Format (PDF) specification recognized as a global standard by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). January 29, 6:28 a.m. PST Kill trees, roll tape Early advocates of a pervasive online culture cast the stereotype of mainstream media outlets as closed-minded, slow, dictatorial, William Randolph Hearst-style machines bent on shutting out differing viewpoints and smaller voices. More sober minds saw traditional media less as an enemy of free expression than a horse and buggy. However, advancing technology is only an enabler of societal evolution. By itself, technology does not spawn evolution on a societal level. That requires need and availability. January 24, 3:00 a.m. PST Will EMC's information gamble work? In June 2006, EMC announced that it would acquire RSA Security for $2.1 billion, only to be met with a healthy dose of analyst skepticism and a 3 percent drop in its stock price. Many on Wall Street considered the price tag too high in light of RSA’s 2005 revenues of $310 million. Moreover, industry observers were disquieted by EMC’s unrelenting buying spree: RSA was merely the most expensive purchase out of a whopping 23 acquisitions it had made since early 2003, which have crossed the spectrum from systems management to content management to BPO. January 22, 3:00 a.m. PST EMC demystified Reporters just love EMC. After all, there’s always something new to write about, given that the company has spent the past three years on a punch-drunk buying spree, acquiring shiny new companies at a rate of roughly one every other month. January 22, 3:00 a.m. PST Office SharePoint: The best reason to upgrade? Far more flexible and powerful than the InfoWorld Test Center anticipated when we first took it into the lab, MOSS (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server) 2007 oozes customization. With that name, you may be thinking basic Office extensions — some networked content, update control, and more advanced file sharing. Not so. January 22, 3:00 a.m. PST Learning to consume We tried. We really tried. We had every intention of sticking to our knitting — reporting on a slate of enterprise computing topics, from blade servers to SOA deployment strategies. January 15, 3:00 a.m. PST Microsoft boosts Virtual Earth's imagery To sharpen the quality of images in its Virtual Earth mapping application, Microsoft has signed a deal with DigitalGlobe's GlobeXplorer, a provider of aerial and satellite photos. January 10, 9:42 a.m. PST Capitalize on emerging collaboration options Messaging vendors have long been packing their wares with features in hopes of providing an all-encompassing platform that fulfills every enterprise’s collaboration needs. Rather than shell out far too much again this year for seldom or inefficiently used capabilities, why not consider emerging alternatives as a way to assemble a collaboration environment suited to your particular budget and needs? January 8, 3:00 a.m. PST Acrobat Reader plugin vulnerable to attacks Security researchers are poring over what one vendor has called a "breathtaking" weakness in the Web browser plugin for Adobe Systems Inc.'s Acrobat Reader program, used to open the popular ".pdf" file format. January 3, 9:33 a.m. PST Web 2.0: New technologies greet the enterprise However you define Web 2.0, most agree that it’s woven from a fabric of technologies designed to ease collaboration and break down information silos, whether they’re individual Web sites, portals, or business intelligence systems. Enterprise RSS gained significant ground in 2006 as a better way to aggregate and publish this information; social networking also made significant inroads within organizations. A third swatch, represented by enterprise search, transformed the way all this content is organized and categorized. January 1, 3:00 a.m. PST Good ideas take time Two years ago, I publicly floated the concept that IT should start thinking more like entrepreneurs. What a disaster! I was speaking at a meeting of CTOs, and I mentioned that I’d heard of a few IT departments that were focusing, at least in part, on creating saleable new products and services for their companies. I asked the group what they thought of the idea. December 4, 3:00 a.m. PST EMC to offer embedded version of Documentum EMC is looking to drum up more market share and revenue for its Documentum enterprise content management (ECM) software. The vendor will announce Monday plans to offer a version of the product specifically designed to meet the needs of application vendors so that they can embed Documentum into their software. November 20, 6:15 a.m. PST Open Text readies Livelink ECM 10 Amid the ongoing consolidation in the enterprise content management (ECM) software market, Canadian player Open Text hopes to remain both an independent entity and relevant by tightening its partnerships with vendors that provide more base-level ECM. November 13, 9:48 a.m. PST Google downplays video lawsuit Google downplayed a lawsuit against its video service, two days after the search giant revealed the legal action. November 10, 4:49 a.m. PST Microsoft closes Max photo sharing project Microsoft has closed a project to develop a tool, codenamed Max, for sharing photos with friends and reading RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds, among other functions. November 3, 6:22 a.m. PST Oracle to acquire Stellent for $440 million Oracle on Thursday continued its string of acquisitions, announcing it will buy content management software company Stellent for about $440 million. November 3, 5:13 a.m. PST Recommind searches for experts Recommind Inc. has developed an enterprise search system designed to improve how professional services and consulting firms find employees with a specific set of skills, experience and know-how. November 2, 2:12 p.m. PST IT by the book Can something that’s been kicking around for more than 15 years qualify as an overnight success? It certainly feels that way with ITIL, a collection of nine books that lays out a blueprint for IT service management. In the United States, at least, ITIL has recently catapulted itself from a respected, if somewhat obscure, treatise for governance geeks to a mainstream discipline. October 23, 3:00 a.m. PDT IBM's IICE heats up content federation It’s an undeniable problem. Many IT sites lack uniform access to unstructured data locked away in ECMSes (enterprise content management systems), workflow software, and other repositories. Data in these systems is frequently accessible only through the vendors’ proprietary interfaces, and so federating it is difficult. October 13, 3:00 a.m. PDT Second Life builds the social metaverse A well-known company issues a press release inviting reporters to witness its online debut. The year? Not 1994, but 2006. The company? Sun Microsystems. I had to pinch myself when I read the announcement: “Please join John Gage for a special event in Second Life.” It’s been a while since I got one of those. October 11, 3:00 a.m. PDT Update: EMC, Microsoft perform 'Duet' around ECM EMC Corp. and Microsoft Corp. are substantially stepping up their existing enterprise content management (ECM) relationship to provide tighter integration between EMC's Documentum ECM software and Microsoft's Office, Outlook and SharePoint products. October 3, 6:53 a.m. PDT Open-source firm enters Web content management Alfresco Software is readying the final piece of its open-source enterprise content management (ECM) software suite with the unveiling of a preview of its Web content management product. September 28, 9:55 a.m. PDT Oracle releases content management add-ons Oracle is making content and records management tools available to users of its database in a bid to gain share in the base-level content management software market. September 20, 8:15 a.m. PDT Mambo Foundation releases Mambo 4.6 The Mambo Foundation has released Mambo 4.6, the first major release of its open-source content management system (CMS) in almost two years, the group said Wednesday. September 20, 6:16 a.m. PDT Google upgrades enterprise search device Google has enhanced its enterprise search device, doubling its capacity and adding new query capabilities. September 19, 1:56 p.m. PDT EMC launches new data management software Network storage vendor EMC on Monday introduced a new data storage management product that is the fruit of three software acquisitions the company has made in recent years. September 18, 5:35 a.m. PDT Fast Search develops search app for enterprise desktops Fast Search & Transfer ASA has developed an enterprise desktop search tool that retrieves data from users' PCs, as well as from internal servers and the public Web. September 15, 1:41 p.m. PDT EMC plans new Web content management tool Storage giant EMC plans another foray into Web content management with the upcoming launch of a tool to handle content layout as well as management. September 12, 8:22 a.m. PDT Government: Unlocking data, locking down access The federal government is often seen as a laggard in IT, a bloated bureaucracy that runs well behind the innovations of private industry. But look closely and you’ll find programs that are truly groundbreaking. August 21, 3:00 a.m. PDT IBM continues spree with purchase of FileNet IBM last Thursday extended its run of major acquisitions, agreeing to buy business process and enterprise content management specialist FileNet for approximately $1.6 billion in cash. August 14, 3:00 a.m. PDT AOL to take on Flickr with photo site overhaul AOL has begun publicly testing an upgrade of its AOL Pictures photo site that incorporates tagging, management and sharing features made popular by Yahoo's Flickr. August 11, 8:29 a.m. PDT IBM's FileNet buy demonstrates ECM consolidation IBM's bid to buy FileNet on Thursday points to a major shift underway in the enterprise content management (ECM) software market as systems infrastructure companies encroach on pure-play ECM vendors' turf. August 10, 11:43 a.m. PDT Appian puts polish into BPM I look at four key elements when gauging the potential ROI and success of a BPM package: adaptability to existing platforms and applications, process insight and activity monitoring, usability, and the strength of the rules engine. On all counts, Appian Enterprise 5.1 fills the bill with its full-featured, people-centric, process-management suite. July 21, 3:00 a.m. PDT KnowNow gives RSS a business-savvy shine You'd have to have been living on Pluto to have not heard of RSS by now. You probably use it to keep up with your favorite blogs. You may have even wondered how you could use it in your business. July 6, 3:00 a.m. PDT PortAuthority, Tablus plug data leaks in enterprise communications Data leaks that lead to devastating identify theft -- and costly consequences for business -- have reached epidemic proportions. In addition to the financial burden to enterprises (which The Ponemon Institute estimates to be between $5 million and $14 million per incident), the U.S. government recently raised the stakes by forming an identity theft task force. June 22, 3:00 a.m. PDT Yahoo enters enterprise waters with partner X1 X1 Technologies will release an upgrade of its desktop search tool for enterprises that uses Yahoo technology, X1 plans to announce on Monday. June 19, 4:13 a.m. PDT US government agencies look to efficiently convert old data The future of U.S. government IT systems will include a big focus on converting old data into electronic form, two government IT leaders said Friday. June 16, 12:06 p.m. PDT Alfresco delivers an open CMS alternative Defining open source isn’t always easy. Some vendors offer limited-function “community” editions, and then push enterprises toward closed source, full-featured versions. June 15, 3:00 a.m. PDT Oracle unveils 'content management for the masses' Oracle has unveiled two tools to provide users of its database with content and records management capabilities. June 14, 2:07 p.m. PDT Building connection engines with metadata In “Scan This Book!” -- a May 14 manifesto published in The New York Times Magazine -- Wired’s Kevin Kelly explores the copyright battle provoked by Google’s ambition to digitize millions of library books. It’s ultimately a clash of business models, he concludes. In a networked world, where copying is implicit in every transfer of information, copies lose their direct economic value but gain indirect value as “discovery tools” that attract attention, sponsorship, and subscription. June 14, 3:00 a.m. PDT InfoWorld CTO 25: Keith McGarr Reed Elsevier -- with businesses including Harcourt and LexisNexis -- publishes more than 15,000 journals, books, and reference works, and boasts more than 500 online properties. As Global CTO, Keith McGarr focuses on the development of technology to manage and deliver superior online content and services. Last year, online revenue accounted for $3.3 billion of the company’s bottom line, up from $400 million when McGarr took over in 2000. June 5, 3:00 a.m. PDT InfoWorld CTO 25: Roland Whitehead When your IT department has successfully accommodated five M&As in the past four years, you must be doing something right. For Roland Whitehead, global director of IT for the elite auction house Bonhams, the secret lies in custom development, which he considers a key component of Bonhams’ dramatic growth. June 5, 3:00 a.m. PDT Hummingbird to be acquired for $465 million Enterprise software developer Hummingbird said on Friday that it agreed to be purchased by holding company Symphony Technology Group in a deal valued at $465 million. May 26, 6:25 a.m. PDT Alfresco open sources content management The enterprise edition of Alfresco Software's content management application is now completely open source, as part of its effort to compete with commercial vendors, the company announced Tuesday. May 17, 4:13 a.m. PDT Startup aims to empower Chinese consumers As Chinese consumers become more affluent, they also become more discerning and demanding than ever before. Two American entrepreneurs are looking to tap this trend with Web sites that give Chinese consumers independent product reviews and ratings. May 16, 6:23 a.m. PDT Zimbra's Web-based platform takes aim at conventional e-mail Managing a high-volume e-mail system using traditional tools can be a demanding and costly task. That’s why Zimbra wants to rewrite the book on enterprise messaging. “It’s a clean-slate view of the world,” says CEO Satish Dharmaraj. May 15, 3:00 a.m. PDT JSR 170: A standard content repository The databases underlying many applications aren't particularly suited for content management, due to special requirements specific to content management for handling objects such as documents and images. May 5, 3:00 a.m. PDT Accessing the web of databases I've just posted the fourth installment in my new series of Friday podcasts. It’s an interview with Kingsley Idehen, CEO of OpenLink Software. OpenLink’s flagship product is a universal database and application server, Virtuoso, which I last wrote about in 2003. May 3, 3:00 a.m. PDT Sleazy software company plays the extortion game Sometimes you bring disaster on yourself. Other times, the horror comes out of nowhere, and by the time you realize you’re in trouble, there’s nothing you can do about it. My year of the living dead began midmorning on Dec. 7, 2003, a day that will certainly live in infamy in my small company. That was the date we fell victim to a fraudulent patent infringement lawsuit. May 2, 3:00 a.m. PDT EMC banking billions on ILM EMC Corp. is investing US$1.2 billion this year to develop and acquire technologies geared to help businesses share, protect, manage and secure data, said Chief Executive Officer and President Joe Tucci in his keynote address at the EMC World conference in Boston Monday. April 24, 10:12 a.m. PDT Workshare keeps sensitive information out of e-mail Dig beneath the headlines of recent data security breaches and you’ll discover many are the result of hidden metadata left in documents, such as tracked changes or authors’ names. Most data-leak products will catch these problems, but they are costly, complex systems that can hinder worker productivity. April 20, 3:00 a.m. PDT Google upgrades enterprise search Google plans to revamp its enterprise search devices on Wednesday when it announces a new version of its Google Mini for small and medium-size businesses and an upgrade to its Search Appliance for larger organizations. April 19, 4:05 a.m. PDT New screencasts and podcasts from Jon Udell One of my New Year's resolutions for 2006 was to produce more regular screencasts and podcasts. On the screencast front, I’ve launched a monthly series called The Screening Room. The first three installments are interviews about, and demonstrations of, IBM’s UIMA (Unstructured Information Management Architecture), Adobe’s (formerly Macromedia’s) Flex 2.0, and Microsoft’s Atlas. These screencasts, which run from 20 to 25 minutes, are edited down from as much as two hours of demonstration and discussion. April 19, 3:00 a.m. PDT Amdocs buys content billing company Amdocs, a maker of billing software for telecoms and other service providers, will buy Qpass for $275 million, the companies announced Tuesday. April 18, 5:43 a.m. PDT NEC, EMC to jointly develop storage products NEC and EMC will work together to jointly develop storage products and enterprise content management systems, they announced Wednesday. April 5, 4:03 a.m. PDT Reinventing the intranet In an interview long ago, Marc Andreessen told me about the moment he knew Netscape’s business plan would succeed. That plan, as you may recall, was modeled on Gillette’s: give away razors (browsers and mail/news clients) and sell blades (enterprise servers). For Andreessen, the magical moment came when, shortly after the word “intranet” was coined, he heard it echoing all around him in a restaurant. April 5, 3:00 a.m. PDT Christian Science Monitor seeks closer technology relationships The Christian Science Monitor for the past nine years has been saddled with an inflexible content management system that makes it difficult to modify the newspaper’s Web site or deliver content to new devices, such as smartphones. That tool is emblematic of what Curt Edge sees as a larger issue at the First Church of Christ, Scientist, which publishes the Monitor in newspaper and online editions. April 3, 3:00 a.m. PDT Metered Web services Amazon’s new simple storage service, S3, burst on the scene a few hours before I had to hop on a plane. There was enough time to sign up for an account, download and run some sample programs, snag the documentation, and take the pulse of the blogosphere. But now, Wi-Fi-less at 35,000 feet, I can’t connect my laptop to the S3 data cloud in order to try out some of the ideas it has sparked. Frustrating! March 22, 3:00 a.m. PST SRS releases new document-cleaning software SRS Technologies, an IT vendor focused largely on government intelligence agencies, released on Monday a new version of document-cleaning software designed to remove sensitive or potentially embarrassing content hidden in electronic documents. March 20, 9:15 a.m. PST VeriSign buys mobile content company for $250M VeriSign has agreed to buy m-Qube, which sells software and services for delivering digital content to mobile phones, for about $250 million, VeriSign announced Monday. March 20, 4:12 a.m. PST Vodafone, Yahoo eye content exchange deal A content supply link between Vodafone Group and Yahoo could be one result of the agreement reached Friday under which Vodafone is selling its Japanese unit to Softbank. March 17, 8:44 a.m. PST Iran nurtures contacts for growing IT industry As Iran squares off with the world over its nuclear program, a handful of software companies from there at Cebit say the backdrop of international tension hasn't affected them. March 13, 5:08 a.m. PST Update: Google shrinks further the Mini search device Google Inc. has introduced its lowest-priced Google Mini search device to date, in an attempt to capture the most price-sensitive segment of the small-business market. March 3, 8:29 a.m. PST Sidestepping the analog hole On an episode of “The West Wing,” deputy national security adviser Kate Harper (Mary McCormack) reprimands presidential assistant Debbie Fiderer (Lily Tomlin) for displaying the president’s schedule on her computer screen. As Harper correctly points out, anybody could walk into the office and find out something they shouldn’t know. March 1, 3:00 a.m. PST Wikipedia founder expects block to be lifted in China Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, expects Chinese censors to eventually end their effort to block access to the online encyclopedia, according to the Wikipedia Signpost, an online newspaper put together by the Wikipedia community. February 22, 6:07 a.m. PST Disputed Google PC search feature reaches enterprise Google has released a new beta version of its enterprise desktop search application that contains a controversial feature for searching across multiple computers. February 21, 2:44 p.m. PST Worm targets Mambo CMS F-Secure is warning of a network worm that targets vulnerabilities in the Mambo Content Management System (CMS) and PHP XML-RPC, a library of code for PHP programmers that allows procedures to run between computers with different operating systems. February 21, 5:23 a.m. PST Can Google gain a foothold in the enterprise? Google's got its eyes on your corporate data, and if its ability to parlay its whip-smart Web search technology into a vast empire of consumer services is any indication, you may be Googling enterprise apps and data sooner than you think. February 17, 4:15 p.m. PST PartnerWorld: IBM to unveil Tivoli Express mid-March IBM Corp.'s Tivoli Software unit will unveil its Express family of systems management products aimed at small and midsize businesses (SMBs) in mid-March. February 17, 1:46 p.m. PST > Applications > Data management |
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