John Pallatto

Google is smart to play coy about whether its online business application bundle is aimed at cutting into Microsoft Offices dominance on the enterprise desktop. It has a lot of work to do yet before an online suite like the newly introduced Google Apps Premier Edition can seriously challenge the solid position of Microsoft Office […]

After months of testing, Google is ready to see whether businesses large and small are ready to pay to use its online suite of basic business applications, including spreadsheets, e-mail, word processing, calendars and instant messaging. Google, which has steadily transformed itself from a search engine pioneer into a data access, Internet advertising and business […]

Seeking to bolster the performance management capabilities of its analytic applications, SAP on Feb. 20 announced that it has acquired privately held Pilot Software of Mountain View, Calif. Pilot Software has a 20-year history in the development of business analytics and online analytical processing. It specializes in developing applications that enable C-level executives to set […]

NetSuite introduced new e-commerce management features to its on-demand business application suite that company officials said provide all the tools midsize companies need to manage their Web sales and marketing. One of the key features lets the Web marketers integrate the NetSuite e-commerce features with eBays online auction site, enabling them to sell their wares […]

For years the software industry, with the support of the United States government, has been calling on countries around the world to crack down on software piracy to demonstrate their commitment to free trade and the rule of international law. However, software piracy remains rampant in developing nations, and especially in China and Russia, despite […]

For some people who ran Microsofts January 2007 security and products updates, including me, clicking on the familiar gold shield icon was not much different from getting suckered into opening an e-mail message infected with a virus or a worm Trojan. Thats because unless you checked before you clicked, you were unwittingly giving permission for […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Salesforce.com is promoting its new Apex application development platform as a business incubator that will free startup software companies from the financial and management burden of having to first build up its own data center infrastructure. The company claims that the Apex on-demand programming platform and language will give entrepreneurs and developers an opportunity […]

Its time for bloggers to decide exactly what kind of role they want to play in the free market of information and opinion. The blogging community has often given the impression that they are totally separate from professional journalists and in some sense not subject to their ethical standards. Fiercely independent, often unpaid, answering to […]

IBM and Yahoo are partnering on a free, entry-level search engine that will allow small and midsize companies as well as departments within large enterprises to access data hidden away on corporate file servers and available on the public Web. Called IBM OmniFind Yahoo Edition, the search package, unveiled Dec. 13, is designed for organizations […]

IBM and Yahoo are partnering on a free, entry-level search engine that will allow small and midsize companies as well as departments within large enterprises to access data hidden away on corporate file servers and available on the public Web. Called IBM OmniFind Yahoo Edition, the free search package is designed for organizations that want […]

The United States government is assigning a terror “risk assessment” score to every person, citizen or foreign national who crosses the border. The Department of Homeland Security plans to retain that score and information about your comings and goings for up to 40 years. But you have no way of learning what the score is. […]

Microsoft has taken pains to demonstrate that Windows Vista will have ample application support, particularly in the fields of anti-virus and security, so as to give businesses more incentive to upgrade to the latest version of Windows. The Vista development team made a special effort to get the anti-virus vendors involved early in the design […]