Tuesday, January 25, 2011 1:46 PM/EST
By Andrew Garcia
While RIM promises that BlackBerry administrators will soon be able to separately manage personal and corporate data on BlackBerry smartphones through BlackBerry Bridge, I suspect a lack of supported devices will greatly hamper the ability to roll out the feature once it launches later this year.
Tuesday, October 12, 2010 1:43 PM/EST
By Andrew Garcia
In September, Unified Communications headset and accessory maker Plantronics released a study called “How We Work: Communication Trends of Business Professionals” looking at the ways business users’ communications habits have changed over the last five years. I agree with the...
Monday, October 04, 2010 5:31 PM/EST
By Jason Brooks
From an IT columnist perspective, Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems is a gift that keeps on giving. As the enterprise software giant works its way through digesting Sun's many hardware platforms, software products, intellectual property holdings, and open source...
Monday, September 20, 2010 5:57 PM/EST
By P. J. Connolly
Novell's rumored plans to sell VMware its SUSE Linux business leads to the question: what do you do with the rest of the company? It's been a consistently poor performer for years, but it holds a substantial patent portfolio that could prove enticing to a buyer.
Monday, August 30, 2010 10:26 PM/EST
By P. J. Connolly
For the first time in 18 years, Autodesk will release a version of AutoCAD built for native operation on Apple systems, including a free application for iOS devices that will allow viewing and editing of AutoCAD files while in the field.
Wednesday, August 04, 2010 1:36 PM/EST
By Deb Donston
Writing a review is pretty painless. (Or, it should be, anyway--let me know if it's not!)
Monday, August 02, 2010 12:22 PM/EST
By P. J. Connolly
Microsoft announced on Monday that Office for Mac 2011 will ship in late October; from the perspective of one heavy-duty user of the Mac platform, and of Office on both Windows and Mac, this bag couldn't be more mixed.
Thursday, July 29, 2010 9:25 AM/EST
By Deb Donston
Today marks the 40th anniversary of the publication of Future Shock, the book by Alvin Toffler about rapidly accelerating change and how it affects us.
Friday, July 23, 2010 3:55 PM/EST
By Deb Donston
When I first started working in this industry, lo those many years ago, product releases came very slowly and pointedly. You usually had plenty of warning that a new product or product release was on its way, and the path to the products you cared enough about to test was pretty well-trod. If a vendor had Build 134942 of a product, you may have known about it, but you sure didn't test it. There were lots of products out there, but it seemed like it was a lot easier to keep abreast of what was important.
Thursday, July 22, 2010 5:39 PM/EST
By Jason Brooks
Over the past year or so, there's been a lot of discussion in open source software circles around so-called open core software business models, in which the "core" of a product is freely available under an open source license,...