Stories by Ephraim Schwartz

Salesforce.com unveils user interface as a service

This week Salesforce.com will, in the words of one industry analyst, "extend the value proposition of software as a service" when it introduces Visualforce at its Dreamforce Conference in San Francisco.

FaceTime to launch unified communications appliance

FaceTime Communications, a maker of network security appliances, announced the USG (Unified Security Gateway), one of the first devices directed at the full gamut of UC (unified communications) services, this week.

CommuniGate launches Flash-based Pronto

Unified communications (UC) vendors continue to pile on new products as UC begins to include more high-tech categories in its feature set.

Omniture Web analytics moves to AppExchange

In a deal that makes both companies look good, Salesforce.com announced that Omniture, one of the leaders in online Web marketing analytics, will be the newest service to join AppExchange.

Coghead launches low-cost SAAS apps

Coghead, an early pioneer in the creation of a Web 2.0 application development platform, announced a deal on Thursday with British Telecom (BT) that will give Coghead developers access to BT's telephony services and, by extension, its 1 million custo...

E-mail's future, pumped look

With IBMs launch earlier this month of Lotus Notes 8 and this week's unveiling of Lotus SameTime Version 8, industry analysts say we are beginning to see the evolution of the e-mail client from a communications tool into a coordination channel. And w...

After two-year wait, IBM unveils Lotus Notes 8

Two years in the making, IBM's Lotus division has finally unveiled version 8 of Lotus Notes and Domino.

LINUXWORLD - Dell to offer Inspirons with Linux in Europe

Following up on its Spring 07 announcement that <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/05/21/Dell-Linux-machines-to-debut-Thursday_1.html">it will ship Inspiron notebook and desktops with the Linux OS</a>, Dell chose the <a href="http://www.inf...

LINUXWORLD - Dell, Red Hat mix and match OS and app stack

Red Hat and Linux continued its move up and down the enterprise operating stack with the announcement this week by Dell that it would offer its customers the Red Hat middleware stack on Dell PowerEdge servers.

BSA offers $1 million reward for software pirates

Earlier this month the Business Software Alliance (BSA) upped the ante from US$200,000 to $1 million for anyone who turns in a company that is illegally circumventing software licensing agreements.

Leopard and Vista: Last gasp of the big OS?

Twenty yeas from now a new generation of computer users will look back on the operating systems of today with the same bemused smile we look back at the cars of the late 1950s and early 60s. They had huge fins, were the size of a small yacht and burn...

Leopard and Vista: Last gasp of the big OS?

Twenty yeas from now a new generation of computer users will look back on the operating systems of today with the same bemused smile we look back at the cars of the <a href="http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=1959+cadillac&btnG=Search+Images&gbv...

Cisco jumps into wireless sensor market

At Interop, the high tech industry's major networking conference, a little-noticed partnership announcement between WhereNet, designers of active RFID location systems, and Cisco may be far more significant than anyone realizes.

SocialDragon: Advertisers get a piece of Average Joe

At first, socialDragon looks like any other online social network site that brings together ordinary consumers who get a thrill out of putting their personal lives on display for friends, family, and strangers. Users upload vacation pictures, videos,...

ITXPO - Gartner analyst warns of IT irrelevance

At the Gartner Symposium ITXPO 2007, Peter Sondergaard, senior vice president of global research, gave a keynote address on emerging IT trends and how they will affect IT on a personal and professional level.