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For some Linux adopters, exchanging Microsoft Office in Windows for the OpenOffice suite is a radical change in computing behavior. Swapping out OpenOffice for the LibreOffice suite may be a lot less traumatic ...

I was all set to turn my life over to Google when I started hearing rumors that Yahoo was planning to shut down Delicious I realize that sentence might require some explanation, so give me a minute to sort it out for you. ...

Caregivers of people with epilepsy and related disorders harbor a major fear: that a seizure could occur without their knowledge ...

AOL cofounder Steve Case is teaming up with the Obama White House and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation to launch Startup America, a partnership announced Monday to "foster innovative high-growth firms in the United States," Kauffman representative Benjamin Branham told the E-Commerce Times The partnership "is designed to marshal more resources ...

In his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama frequently mentioned the benefits of information technology, touting the contribution of the Internet to economic growth, and the achievement of innovative enterprises such as Google and Facebook. He pledged to submit a budget to Congress designed to spur innovation "We'll invest in biomedic...

Consumers are spending more time and money online today than ever before. They start and end their day checking email and popping onto social gaming and shopping sites. This often comes at the expense of other entertainment options like traditional television, film or even spending an evening out. What is it that's so appealing about sitting at home in front of a computer monitor?...

Several new and ongoing phenomenons, all intertwined, will mark the next phase of application development There will likely be more emphasis on mobile apps. Tablets, particularly the iPad, are already cannibalizing netbook sales, and as mobile devices get multicore processors with more power and capabilities, they'll increasingly be useful in the e...

Google's Android is now the global leader of the smartphone operating system pack. In the fourth quarter of 2010, shipments of Android-powered smartphones outnumbered all competitors, including the longstanding leader Nokia, according to a report from Canalys released Monday Shipments of Android-powered smartphones reached 32.9 million last qu...

Google on Monday disclosed more details about Android 3.0, nicknamed "Honeycomb," prior to the operating system's official unveiling, scheduled for Wednesday Honeycomb is designed from the ground up for tablets and has a new holographic user interface. It includes a so-called Action Bar to let users control their apps, offers five customizable home...

Governments are at it again, trying to stifle online communication with a major disconnect in Egypt and a reintroduced Internet "Kill Switch" bill in the U.S. Fax machines, ham radios, and dial-up modems are riding to the rescue as Egyptian citizens revolt against the government of Hosni Mubarak. An old-school march to keep people connected is try...

Businesses are signing on to cloud-based Software as a Service (SaaS) Web apps to cut costs, but that can give rise to another problem -- employees may have to sign on to multiple Web apps, and that could lead to security issues Employees may forget the passwords for some apps, for instance; or someone could hack into a Web application user's accou...

This story was originally published on Oct. 28, 2010, and is brought to you today as part of our Best of ECT News series. When it comes to the broad topic of "CRM failure," you often hear the same tales: a too-complicated integration, an incompetent integrator or inflexible technology.

As State of the Union addresses go, Obama's last week really wasn't bad -- with two exceptions. He kind of missed the Steve Jobs' lesson that if you are going to imply magical, what you say should be amazing. Having our "Sputnik moment" be faster trains, more electric cars, and faster Internet was hardly magic, though had it replaced this one in 1...

Platform Computing last week released Platform ISF 2.1, which improves ease of use and automation for building and managing enterprise private clouds Platform's cloud management software helps enterprises transition from internal IT to more productive and efficient private cloud infrastructure services that support multitier applications....

IT service companies rely heavily on software engineering processes and methods to deliver services that enable business to achieve their goals. As a discipline, product lifecycle management (PLM) has matured and has delivered major benefits, such as reuse, increased market share, reduced time-to-market and global brand image. IT services focused...

"Dear UK government," the ominous letter begins. "It has come to our attention that you deemed it necessary to arrest five of our fellow anons for their participation in the DDoS [Distributed Denial of Service] attacks against PayPal, Mastercard, and others, that have been carried out in our name in retaliation for those organizations' actions against WikiLeaks ... we take this as a serious declaration of war ... "...

The classic newspaper may finally gets its 21st-century update. News Corp.'s iPad-exclusive newspaper, The Daily, is set to launch on Feb. 2. A weekly subscription will reportedly cost 99 US cents. Issues of The Daily will be delivered automatically through Apple once users sign up. News Corp. told the E-Commerce Times the company cannot offer mor...

As anti-government protesters take over the streets in Egypt, the country's government has reportedly cut off most Internet and cellphone service Cairo has labeled its crackdowns on the protests as a response to restore public order....

The move to adopt cloud technologies by federal agencies has opened up IT opportunities for many vendors. As momentum builds within these agencies to explore the cloud, support is coming from other quarters Last week, for example, by Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) said that "Cloud computing offers the federal government several potential benefits, inc...

Call it "Clash of the Titan," emphasis on the singular: a courtroom victory for software giant Microsoft over Matt Miszewski that restrains the former employee from joining CRM rival Salesforce.com Miszewski, a Microsoft government services division manager until last December, violated non-compete and confidentiality agreements he "signed upon beg...