Applications

Fri, February 10, 2012 - Google replaced the big drop-down menu it launched as part of its Google+ redesign with a static menu bar

Fri, February 10, 2012 - Much buzz around the next major release of Windows has centered around the controversial ribbon interface for Windows Explorer. However, no ribbon appeared in a sneak preview of Office 15--World, Excel, PowerPoint--that Microsoft gave this week in a video about developing Windows On ARM (WOA).

Fri, February 10, 2012 - Ten years ago Apple posted revenue of $5.3 billion, a mere gnat compared to the IBM elephant which topped all tech companies with sales of $85.8 billion.

Fri, February 10, 2012 - A new security tool lets enterprise IT groups set access and share policies for employees, including mobile users, who are working with the online Google Apps suite.

Fri, February 10, 2012 - The big game is on -- and by that, we don't mean football, basketball, baseball or Angry Birds. We're talking about the biggest pastime in the U.S.: Watching (and taking part in) the current Republican primaries and the upcoming presidential elections.

Fri, February 10, 2012 - Warren East shares his knowledge

Thu, February 09, 2012 - Windows 8 on ARM, dubbed WOA by Microsoft, could offer a big "Whoa!" moment for workers wanting to run Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and other Office apps on a touchscreen tablet.

Thu, February 09, 2012 - But do we still need supercomputers when we have Hadoop?

Thu, February 09, 2012 - Depending on your taste in music and tolerance for others' tastes, President Barack Obama's latest social media move a sharing his 2012 campaign playlist via streaming music website Spotify a might be a case of over-sharing: Ricky Martin, REO Speedwagon and James Taylor all made the cut.

Thu, February 09, 2012 - If you're like most enterprises, you have data everywhere. It's in line-of-business applications. It's in directories. It's in various departmental servers. It's in your e-commerce platform. To manage all this, most shops use databases of all sizes running on a variety of operating systems and database applications, often from different vendors and editions. Chances are, they're not consistent.