Thor Olavsrud

As economists debate the future of the global economy, microprocessor sales and revenue are seeing a significant upturn. Are they are harbinger of overall economic growth? The PC microprocessor market got a shot in the arm in the second quarter of this year, according to a study released Thursday by IDCthat suggested system makers bought […]

The Android is one of the most powerful smartphones around, and it gains new functionality every day as more apps are added to the Android Marketplace. Unlike the rigidly controlled Apple App Store, the Android Marketplace is a bit freewheeling. It can be hard to tell the gold from the dross. To help you find […]

Despite predictions to the contrary, IT outsourcing has contracted rather than expanded in the years since we entered the Great Recession, according to industry watchers. That shows signs of changing in 2010, but analysts forecast that IT outsourcing growth will remain slow for some time to come. “Most companies in most of the categories we […]

ALSO SEE: Ten Cloud Computing Leaders • Cloud Computing: News and Additional Resources Cloud computingis a method of provisioning computing resources, including both hardware and software, that relies on sharing those resources rather than using local servers or personal devices to handle applications. In theory, cloud computing is a way for IT departmentsto increase capacity […]

The Business Intelligence software market is shaping up as a David vs. Goliath struggle. Behemoths like Microsoft, Oracle and IBM offer feature-rich BI suites along with their many other enterprise software products. Meanwhile, pure-play business intelligence software vendors — such as MicroStrategy and Tableau — have avid followers and are known for innovating around new […]

ALSO SEE: Business Intelligence Software and Predictive Analytics • Ten Leading Business Intelligence Software Solutions Business Intelligence software, or BI software, is used to find and analyze business data to better understand a firm’s internal and external strengths and weaknesses. Business intelligence software enables managers to better see the relationship between different data for better […]

ALSO SEE: IT Outsourcing and the “Unemployable” US Tech Professional AND: IT Outsourcing Trends: Slow Growth, Cloud Computing IT outsourcing is the practice of subcontracting responsibilityfor all or part of an IT function to a third-party service provider that manages the work. Businesses use IT outsourcing for functions ranging from infrastructure to software development, maintenance […]

Microsoft Wednesday launched the first of its new line of Office Solution Accelerators, geared to providing packages that will help customers take existing Microsoft applications and systems and use them to streamline organizational tasks. The software titan used the HR Technology Conference & Exposition in Philadelphia as a platform to unveil the product: the Office […]

Microsoft and Sun Microsystems will announce Tuesday that the Windows operating system will support the Java programming language for nine months longer than originally planned. “We’re very pleased to announce that Sun and Microsoft have agreed on a maintenance license for the MS JVM ,” Sun spokesperson Laura Ramsey told internetnews.com. The deal should give […]

Hewlett-Packard Wednesday said it will indemnify its Linux customers should SCO Group bring a copyright infringement suit against them. The hardware giant’s bold move is a reaction to SCO’s decision to demand that enterprises that utilize Linux buy a license, because it claims that Linux is an unauthorized derivative of its UNIX intellectual property. HP […]