SAP AG, a Germany-based business-software giant, announced that it has agreed to acquire Khimetrics Inc., an Arizona-based provider of software for retailers, for an undisclosed sum. Khimetrics makes...

While reviewing my technorati search feed, an interesting post came to my notice titled "What is a Chief Information Officer?". "The CIO assures we have the information we need to run...

One of the key road blocks for wider Open Source acceptance is the lack of / the need for better understanding of licenses. Here is a link to Greg Vetters paper on open source licenses, titled...

Murgan Pal, The CTO of spike source has an entry in the Oriely Blog on an suggested apporach for Software vendors to migrate to the open source model. Some interesting excerpts from the article: As...

Companies are increasingly looking to tie traditional CRM systems to analytical tools to retain and boost the value of customers, according to users at SAS Institute Inc.'s BetterManagement Live...

The global mobile workforce is expected to grow by more than 20% in the next four years, with 878 million mobile workers toiling away on laptops, handhelds and cell phones by 2009, according to a...

HCL Technologies Ltd. (HCL) announced Thursday that it has signed a five-year agreement with Autodesk to provide offshore application and datacenter services. The deal is worth about $50 million,...

Computer World has a special report on Outsourcing, Here are some data points specificall on ASPs. Almost 1/3rd of US Companies currently use an ASP, And further 22% indicated that they will in the in...

In March, ETrade Financial Corp. became the first major financial services company in the country to launch a two-factor authentication service to protect customers from online fraud and identity...

IT Analysis has an interesting article titled "Will IBM buy BI". The article highlight how IBM has been quietly building up its portfolio of capabilities within the business intelligence...

TCS SummIT 2005 Survey Asserts Value of IT Services Beyond Traditional Cost Savings, according to a recent survey of North American-based senior IT executives conducted by Tata Consultancy Services,...

Was just reviewing this Forrester Report available here, Which is a scorecard for Indian SAP Service providers: Some interesting Excerpts: Wipro, a tier one Indian vendor, is a strong choice for...

"Approximately 65% of Sleepycat's revenue is from licensing, with the remaining 35% from services (support, training and consulting), which is similar to many proprietary software companies,...

Windows live's progress needs to be tracked closely given the now very famous Bill Gates email and Ray Ozzie Memo, Available here. HTML Format of Bill Gates Email Word Document of the...

Microsoft opened up the beta for Office Live, where they hope to tackle the market of the 1-10 employees segment, a very interesting move. I registered for the beta here, and can't wait to try...

Microsoft is getting really serious with security for consumers. They released yesterday the beta for their Windows Live Safety Center service, an offering that will compete with with the big players...

Criterias to select the engine technologyThe antivirus world is littered with preconceptions, misinterpretations and marketing fluff which can make it hard when navigating this product segment. There...