Todd R. Weiss

Salesforce.com applications have been used by mobile workers for a long time to conduct their business on the road. But a new “mobile-first” approach by the company will now likely make it easier for developers to build Salesforce apps with a mobile focus. That’s the idea behind the company’s recently released Summer ’12 Salesforce application […]

Google+ may not yet have the audience size of Facebook or Twitter, but today’s announcement that the site is partnering with social media news reader Flipboard could certainly help Google+ begin to accelerate its user base. In a report on BusinessInsider.com today, Bradley Horowitz, a Google+ vice president of product management, unveiled the partnership plans […]

The number of requests that Google receives from governments around the world to remove what they argue is “offensive” content posted by users continues to increase, according to the search company’s “Google Transparency Report.” The June 18 report details the number of information requests that Google has received and describes whether the search company complied […]

A week after tentatively dismissing the ongoing patent-infringement case between Apple and Motorola involving the design of their mobile devices, a U.S. District Court judge has ordered a new hearing in the case for June 20, according to reports. The order, from Judge Richard Posner from the U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois, reverses his […]

Microsoft is apparently making efforts to acquire enterprise social networking vendor Yammer, according to a report by Bloomberg.com, but several industry analysts say the potential move won’t do anything to help give Microsoft new opportunities for vibrant market growth. Microsoft may pay more than $1 billion, and a deal may be reached as soon as […]