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SAP unveils 'consumer-friendly' Fiori app suite
SAP's software is known for its role running many of the world's largest companies, but not necessarily for its user-friendliness. As part of an ongoing effort to change this perception, SAP unveiled Fiori, a set of 25 lightweight "consumer-friendly" applications that can run on desktops, tablets and mobile devices, on Wednesday at the Sapphire conference in Orlando.
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Salesforce.com to ship Communities app next month
Salesforce.com next month will begin shipping its Communities application, designed to let companies build external-facing social sites for interacting with their customers and partners.
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Startup aims SDN technology at Cisco WANs
SDNs aren't just for data center networks, despite the best-use-case-scenario arguments for network virtualization and flow management pervading the industry.
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Salesforce.com debuts Social Key, Chatter communities, Marketing Cloud
Salesforce.com has unveiled a series of products for mobile computing, social collaboration, social analytics and marketing during the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco.
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Microsoft equips Windows Server for cloud duty
Microsoft is giving hosting providers and other organizations some tools for setting up their own Windows-based cloud systems using Microsoft Windows Server.
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Windows 8 RT tablets well suited for businesses
Low-power Windows 8 tablets will have features consumers want, and with a little effort can be adapted to use in corporate networks, too, IT pros were told at a TechEd 2012 educational session.
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GameReplays invites white-hat hackers to probe site after data breach
The owner of GameReplays.org has invited ethical hackers to probe the website for vulnerabilities after a recent compromise that resulted in 10,000 member accounts being exposed.
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UK government faces IE6 barriers to social media
Some central government departments are still using the 11-year-old browser Internet Explorer 6 (IE6), which is preventing staff from using social media networks to engage with citizens.
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VMware to offer enterprise application portal for BYOD
VMware will offer enterprise software that allows employees to access all their desktop Windows applications and online services from a single portal, the company announced today.
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Internet voting systems too insecure for US elections, says researcher
David Jefferson, a computer scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories and chairman of the election watchdog group Verified Voting, called on election officials around the country to drop plans to allow an estimated 3.5 million voters to cast their ballots over the Internet in this year's general elections.
