SAP is buying cloud-based e-commerce vendor Ariba for US$4.3 billion, the companies announced yesterday. Ariba’s platform focuses on business-to-business commerce …
Avaya lays out roadmap for unified software management
As Avaya continues its transition from a hardware company into a communications and collaboration software provider, it is going through some growing …
Desktop-as-a-Service
Desktop-as-a-Service is an interesting way for IT execs to provide cloud-based Windows desktop sessions, as well as shared resources such as storage.
A tour of Microsoft's So.cl
Microsoft’s social networking experiment, So.cl, a site designed around sharing Web content pulled from Bing searches, is now available for all users.
CIO BYOD challenge: Don't fall down the rabbit hole
When Alice fell down the rabbit hole, she emerged into a Wonderland of oddities: trapped in a shrinking body with …
Avaya lays out roadmap for unified software management
As Avaya continues its transition from a hardware company into a communications and collaboration software provider, it is going through some growing …
Chrome trumps IE as world's top browser
Google’s Chrome edged past Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) last week to become the world’s most widely-used browser, according to data …
Alcatel-Lucent offers managed service to improve mobile network performance
Mobile operators that want help keeping their subscribers happy can get it through a new managed service from Alcatel-Lucent, the …
BYOD is driving IT 'crazy,' says Gartner
IT managers grappling with bring-your-own-device policies can expect to see an explosion in the number of smartphones and tablets used …
Yahoo's Genome highlights hosted big data analytics trend
Yahoo has joined a growing list of ompanies offering big data analytics as a service with its Genome offering this …
Microsoft's social networking site So.cl opens to all users
So.cl, an experimental research project from Microsoft, that combines social networking and search to promote learning, is now accepting all …
Yahoo sells back partial stake to Alibaba
Yahoo has agreed to sell off about half of its stake in Alibaba Group back to the Chinese e-commerce giant …
Renewable sources will power Apple's data centre by 2013
Apple has announced that its North Carolina data centre will be powered entirely by renewable energy sources by the end …
Big data equals big business opportunities: survey
Organisations are viewing big data predominantly as a business prospect rather than an IT challenge and are moving fast to …