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Customers Report Major Salesforce.com Outage

Salesforce.com, which has had several high-profile system outages over the past couple of months, is apparently still having issues. Salesforce.coms servers were down for several...

Consumers Resist Retail Biometrics

As assistant director of information systems for the $700 million Piggly Wiggly grocery chain, Rachel Bolt has been one of the most vocal proponents...

SOA Governance Gets Real

Service-oriented architecture development can be successful to a fault if service developers are empowered to create and publish services more quickly than service consumers...

German Court Rules for RIM

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion on Jan. 30 announced that a German court has ruled in RIMs favor in a lawsuit brought by InPro...

E-Trade VP Talks Open-Source

To say that E-Trade Financial has embraced open source is putting it mildly. The financial services firms open-source journey began in 2001, when it...

HP Hires Vignette CEO to Head Software Business

Hewlett-Packard is tapping Thomas Hogan, the CEO of Vignette, to head its software business, the latest move by the computer giant to bolster its...

BlackBerry Backup: Surviving a Blackout

The Research In Motion and NTP patent dispute provided a few more twists and turns this week as the Supreme Court refused to hear...

Allchin Discusses Possible Changes at Microsoft

A shake-up in the management and responsibilities of some of Microsoft Corp.s key Windows client and server team executives could be in the cards...

Vistas Transparency Is Good News

I will start by stating flatly that I like Jim Allchin, who runs Microsoft Windows development. A lot. When he retires at the end...

Pixar Promises Change for Disneys Media

Is it just me does the idea of Steve Jobs being the largest shareholder in Walt Disney seem a little odd? Do you suppose...