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• No big-bang Apps news at I/O, but some announcements merit attention

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 17 May, 2013 23:57

  Apps, Google's flagship product for enterprise IT, had a minor presence at this week's I/O developer conference, but some announcements at the show and in prior weeks deserve attention from customers of the cloud email and collaboration suite.

• Wall Street Beat: Market stokes tech IPOs, as Tableau and Marketo debut

  By Marc Ferranti and Joab Jackson | 17 May, 2013 21:17

  A strong stock market could open the floodgates for more tech IPOs in the wake of Friday's solid debut of Marketo and Tableau, but not all segments of IT may be able to ride the wave.

• Google I/O After Hours: Robot bartenders, augmented reality and Billy Idol

  By Jon Gold | 17 May, 2013 14:32

  Despite being generally great people with scintillating social skills and lots of interesting things to say, technology reporters unaccountably don't get invited to a lot of parties. I can't understand why.

• Forrester: Windows 8 faces uphill battle as corporate desktop

  By Tim Greene | 17 May, 2013 12:34

  Windows 8 faces an uphill battle to become a standard corporate operating system because many businesses are in the midst of or have recently completed the move from Windows XP to Windows 7 and don't have the stomach for another transition anytime soon.

• New Mac spyware found on Angolan activist's computer

  By Lucian Constantin | 17 May, 2013 12:04

  Previously unknown Mac OS X spyware, signed with a valid Apple Developer ID, has turned up on the laptop of an activist from Angola at a human rights conference in Norway.

• EXCLUSIVE: Cyan lays out Australian expansion plan

  By Hafizah Osman | 17 May, 2013 11:45

  US-based software defined networking (SDN) vendor, Cyan, has laid out its A/NZ expansion plans.

• EXCLUSIVE: Channel training integral to Intel smartphone/tablet growth

  By Nermin Bajric | 17 May, 2013 10:58

  Intel worldwide reseller channel organisation general manager and sales and marketing group vice-president, Steve Dallman, has acknowledged the company is "behind and playing catch-up" in the tablet and smartphone space, and said it must crank up its activity across the product segment to become more competitive.

• Mozilla postpones default blocking of third-party cookies in Firefox

  By John Ribeiro | 17 May, 2013 05:35

  Mozilla has postponed blocking third-party cookies by default in the Beta version of Firefox 22, "to collect and analyze data on the effect of blocking some third-party cookies."

• Interview: Dell software chief talks transformation

  By James Niccolai | 25 April, 2013 17:01

  John Swainson has one of the more challenging jobs in the tech industry right now. As president of Dell's software division, he's charged with sorting through all the software Dell has acquired and organizing it into coherent offerings that can further its effort to become a more profitable, software- and services-driven company.

• Oracle's Mark Hurd talks Fusion Applications, customer satisfaction and SAP's HANA

  By Chris Kanaracus | 12 April, 2013 20:47

  As co-president of Oracle, Mark Hurd is tasked with selling an ever-increasing array of new software and hardware products, such as the Exadata database machine and Fusion Applications, while figuring out how to keep the company's vast installed base happy and fending off competition from the likes of SAP.

• UEFI president: We need more key providers

  By Joab Jackson | 28 February, 2013 20:51

  Since its introduction, the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface has created a fair amount of controversy. UEFI was created through an industry consortium as an evolutionary step up from BIOS, the simple firmware long used when starting a computer to initialize all the components and load the operating system. Among its advanced features, UEFI includes an option called Secure Boot, which requires that any software used before the operating system starts, or after it shuts down, has been signed by a certificate authority.

• NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson talks growth, strategy and life with Oracle

  By Chris Kanaracus | 09 January, 2013 20:59

  NetSuite is one of the SaaS (software as a service) market's pioneers, having sold its growing family of ERP (enterprise resource planning), e-commerce and other applications since 1998. The vendor's results have been beating Wall Street's predictions, and may yet again in a few weeks, when NetSuite is expected to announce its fourth-quarter and year-end results.

• INDUSTRY PROFILE: Doug Hibberd - where SolarWinds blows next

  By Hafizah Osman | 11 August, 2011 12:57

  IT management software vendor, SolarWinds, is about to introduce its latest Synthetic End User Monitor (SEUM) which supports Real User Monitors (RUM) to monitor networks. The company also most recently opened up a new head office, based in Brisbane. SolarWinds senior vice-president and general manager of the Asia-Pacific, Doug Hibberd, spoke to ARN about the company’s achievements, latest product release and future plans.

• PROFILE: Moving back to the channel

  By Patrick Budmar | 21 July, 2011 17:33

  TrackITOnline's Phil Lancaster, talks about running a niche distribution company and its future plans

• IBM's Steve Mills talks Oracle, Watson's future

  By Chris Kanaracus | 23 June, 2011 02:28

  IBM's Steve Mills has long been known for his leadership of the company's software division, but last year he added hardware and systems to his responsibilities as well. That move put Mills in charge of 100,000 employees and products that generate US$40 billion in revenue for IBM, according to its website.

• Google woos developers as software becomes more important

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 17 May, 2013 15:43

  Google did its best to court developers at this year's I/O conference with a much-needed integrated developer environment, API for better games and the ability to more easily translate apps. Their allegiance will become increasingly important as smartphone and tablet hardware sees fewer dramatic improvements.

• Windows 8 is an enterprise 'non-starter' because IT sees no value in changes

  By Gregg Keizer | 17 May, 2013 14:43

  Windows 8 faces a number of hurdles in the enterprise, but the biggest reason it won't replace the current corporate champion, Windows 7, is simple: IT shops don't think it's worth the upgrade hassle.

• Google weaves Larry Page's social strategy into Maps, Search

  By Sharon Gaudin | 16 May, 2013 17:12

  It became clear at Google I/O this week that Google is quietly but assuredly implementing CEO Larry Page's strategy to use Google+ to transform the entire Google experience.

• Google dives headfirst into streaming music pool

  By Sharon Gaudin | 16 May, 2013 10:06

  At Google I/O on Wednesday, Google unveiled a streaming music service that will compete directly with the likes of Pandora and Spotify -- in what is said to be a growing market, however.

• Is Windows 8 really killing the PC market?

  By Ian Paul | 14 May, 2013 00:12

  Computers just aren't selling like they used to, and many critics, analysts, and longtime Windows users point the blame finger at one culprit in particular: Windows 8. Nobody's using Windows 8, they say. It's worse than New Coke, they say. PC shipments are cratering and it's all Windows 8's fault, they say.

• Microsoft's counter-attack against Windows 8 coverage makes it 'look weak'

  By Gregg Keizer | 13 May, 2013 18:49

  Microsoft on Friday called some media coverage of its plans to update Windows 8 sensationalist and an effort to drive website page views.

• Five pioneering paths for software development's new frontier

  By Serdar Yegulalp | 13 May, 2013 14:34

  Size (and mobility) matters. As desktop PCs lose ground to tablets and smartphones, and the Cloud becomes a more mainstream means for software deployment, desktop applications are being elbowed aside by mobile apps and Web services, resulting in a significant shift in the way software is created.

• How Big Data can improve marketing and customer service

  By Allen Bernard | 13 May, 2013 13:28

  Big Data is poised to help marketers reach and engage customers and prospects in ways that businesses are only now starting to understand. Enterprises that don't embrace analytics may soon see embattled customers voting with their wallets.