December 12, 2011
Mark Pincus's prowess helped set the course for a $1 billion initial public offering. His challenge now is keeping up the same intensity at a publicly held company
December 5, 2011
Software enabling IBM to find patterns in crime data is one of thousands of so-called smart-city projects aimed at improving urban services around the world
October 31, 2011
A top research and development spender is vowing not to cut back as it focuses on innovative delivery for its software
October 18, 2011
Apple's Siri personal assistant app on the iPhone 4S can do even more than Google's Voice Actions and provides intelligence that Android doesn't yet match
September 26, 2011
Co-President Mark Hurd says acquisitions could help Oracle intensify its focus on such vertical markets as financial services, banking, and telecommunications
September 12, 2011
September 7, 2011
The flood of information from social media and elsewhere is propelling companies' use of free and customizable software called Hadoop to manage it
August 15, 2011
Google's $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility underscores the shift in the mobile market toward Apple's vertically integrated business model
August 1, 2011
The tech boom is fueling a surge in jobs and creative recruiting
July 6, 2011
Thanks to patent licensing deals with Android phone manufacturers, Microsoft is on its way to making big money with Google's mobile operating system
July 6, 2011
Companies and advocacy groups are stepping up efforts to provide jobs for the rising number of unemployed people with disabilities
July 5, 2011
On the intellectual-property front, Google's loss at the Nortel patent auction may lead to more setbacks for Android in the mobile patent wars
June 24, 2011
(Bloomberg) Oracle Corp. dropped in late trading yesterday after reporting a decline in hardware sales, fueling concern the top maker of database software may ...
June 8, 2011
Ever since the iPhone and iPad arrived, publishers have spent millions building dedicated software to try to cash in on the app boom. Everyone who was ...
June 7, 2011
Linda Smith walked on stage at the Spring 2011 Demo Conference in Palm Desert, Calif., on Feb. 28 and tried on clothes. Looking at herself in an interactive mirror, ...
June 7, 2011
(This story was corrected to show that the developer kit will be available at a later date.)Matt Bell moves about an elevated podium in a conference room overlooking ...
May 27, 2011
Magazine apps appear to be enjoying quite the bump, thanks to the introduction of in-app subscriptions to select titles. Wired, for example, is the fifth top-grossing ...
May 2, 2011
Inside a white metal fence laced with barbed wire on the outskirts of Quincy, in central Washington state, a construction crew maneuvers excavators that scoop up giant...
April 19, 2011
Apple (AAPL) and other electronics makers will generate $49 billion in sales of tablet computers by 2015, amid booming demand for devices that bridge the gap between ...
April 12, 2011
(Bloomberg) The Facebook application High School Memories lets people share recollections of their teenage years. It might surprise some users to learn that ...
March 31, 2011
Microsoft (MSFT) has delivered 1.5 million downloads of a tool kit to make applications for Windows Phone 7, a sign the operating system may be winning over developers...
March 24, 2011
In the great mobile-device wars, Google (GOOG) has portrayed itself as the open-source crusader doing battle against the leaders in proprietary software—Apple ...
March 15, 2011
(Bloomberg) Hewlett-Packard Co. Chief Executive Officer Léo Apotheker, announcing his strategy for the first time since taking the helm, plans a deeper push ...
March 3, 2011
Software engineers skilled in making applications for Google's (GOOG) Android mobile-operating system this week became more sought-after than developers for Apple's ...
February 25, 2011
Now that the Motorola (MMI) Xoom is available, the first of many Google (GOOG) Honeycomb tablets is poised to battle Apple's (AAPL) iPad for consumer dollars and ...