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Earlier this month SugarCRM announced that it had secured US$20 million in a new financing round, bringing its total funding so far to $46 million -- a significant accomplishment for several reasons If SugarCRM is not familiar to you, it's not a new Caribbean restaurant in SoHo. I never bothered to find out exactly where they got the name, but Suga...

What is virtualization anyway? This five-part series on a trend that is reaching into every corner of the technology landscape addresses that fundamental question, along with many of the complex issues that flow from it The short answer is, virtualization is separating the physical layer (the servers or PCs or whatever box you're running your opera...

Microsoft on Monday announced a new student program Monday dubbed "DreamSpark." The new program will give college and high school students around the world access to the software giant's development applications at no charge DreamSpark is now available to millions of college students in Belgium, China, Finland, France, Germany, Spain, Sweden, Switz...

A Swiss bank has succeeded in at least temporarily shutting down the U.S. version of a Web site where a former bank employee posted internal documents he claims showed the bank was being used to hide and launder money. Earlier, a judge approved an order taking down the Web site The U.S. arm of whistle-blower Web site Wikileaks.org, a site designed ...

Confusion is swirling around Microsoft's bid for Yahoo. After having been twice rebuffed, Microsoft reportedly is planning to authorize a proxy fight this week Meanwhile, institutional shareholders are about to lock horns over whether Microsoft should up its bid of US$31 a share for Yahoo....

High-definition video enthusiasts are going to be looking at a Blu-ray world That outlook was assured Tuesday when Toshiba officially backed away from the HD DVD format against Sony's heavily fortified Blu-ray technology....

It could only be a matter of time before someone found a formula for taking the immediacy of YouTube and the entrepreneurship of eBay and wrapping them around an original Internet mainstay -- the conversation of the Bulletin Board System (BBS). That time has arrived with the debut of BigThink.com BigThink, the brainchild of cofounder Peter Hopkins,...

RightNow has enhanced its retail industry-specific app with chat and feedback functionality -- changes that give users more outreach options to customers using self-service channels ...

In the world of information technology, businesses turn to servers to manage the storage, flow and backup of just about every bit of important data. What about the family home? Many households around the world have broadband wireless networks, multiple PCs and everything from priceless vacation photos to bank account information stored on individual PC hard drives. Their networks are already in place with PCs in multiple rooms, but where's the central home server to connect and protect them all?...

Kace announced Monday what it called the first virtual systems management appliances to run natively within the VMware infrastructure The Virtual Kbox appliances offer users a software product that runs on the user's existing computer hardware. Earlier versions of the Kbox appliance required the installation of separate hardware to deploy and manag...

With significant recent defections threatening to make what was expected to be a close and ongoing battle for next-generation DVD supremacy a rout in favor of Sony's Blu-ray format, Toshiba is reportedly close to pulling the plug on HD DVD Toshiba has already made the decision to stop pushing the HD DVD technology and will soon make that decision p...

Last week continued the excitement with Yahoo as it worked to get Microsoft to increase its offer by trying out alternatives but not really finding any good ones At the huge phone conference in Spain -- where Apple wasn't -- companies from Microsoft to Google announced acquisitions and plans that seem to focus on taking on the iPhone. Finally, we a...

Mozilla has been working diligently toward the upcoming final launch of Firefox Version 3.0. With the recent release of the browser's third beta edition, the company's engineers have wrapped up the major challenges and are focused on incremental changes. Now they're working at tweaking the browser in response to feedback from testers Part 1 of this...

Mozilla is up to its elbows in code as it works toward the final release of the third iteration of its Firefox Web browser With the launch last week of the browser's third beta version, the open source developer has given some 500,000 developers and testers the go-ahead to put the application through its paces....

The Wii once again took the top spot in console sales, according to January figures released by NPD Thursday The Nintendo console sold some 274,000 units in the U.S. last month. Sony's PlayStation 3 (PS3) had another month of strong sales, ringing up 269,000 units to beat out Microsoft's Xbox 360, which sold 230,000....

The International Olympic Committee reportedly has ruled that competing athletes will be allowed to blog from the Beijing Olympic Games this summer. This is certainly a positive step, but not enough, according to experts who insist that blogging has a rightful place at any major political or sporting event The IOC's blessing on blogging does come w...

In a move that further crowds an already over-served market, four newspaper giants -- New York Times, Hearst, Gannett and Tribune -- have created a new online advertising partnership. Their new venture, QuadrantOne, will be headquartered in Chicago Its interim CEO is Dana Hayes, Jr., who was named senior vice president of sales at Tribune Interacti...

IBM on Thursday unveiled a multiplayer 3-D virtual world and companion classroom materials designed to promote science and engineering education in high schools "PowerUp" -- which asks players to try to save a planet in near ecological ruin -- gets its public release Feb. 16 at the start of Engineer's Week, an annual event designed to promote scien...

Microsoft has announced one of its most sweeping executive reorganizations in years, promoting 14 and announcing the departure of three. Many of the changes are aimed at the online and mobile units, where the overlap with potential acquisition target Yahoo is the greatest Some of the changes had been rumored earlier in the week and the first shoe t...

The SCO Group, a software technology and mobile services firm that focuses on Unix-based solutions -- but is perhaps best for its high-profile lawsuits against Novell and IBM -- has announced a US$100 million cash infusion from Stephen Norris Capital Partners (SNCP) that promises to yank the small Utah-based company out of bankruptcy In addition to...