John Pallatto

For years the software industry, with the support of the United States government, has been calling on countries around the world to crack down on software piracy to demonstrate their commitment to free trade and the rule of international law. However, software piracy remains rampant in developing nations, and especially in China and Russia, despite […]

For some people who ran Microsofts January 2007 security and products updates, including me, clicking on the familiar gold shield icon was not much different from getting suckered into opening an e-mail message infected with a virus or a worm Trojan. Thats because unless you checked before you clicked, you were unwittingly giving permission for […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Salesforce.com is promoting its new Apex application development platform as a business incubator that will free startup software companies from the financial and management burden of having to first build up its own data center infrastructure. The company claims that the Apex on-demand programming platform and language will give entrepreneurs and developers an opportunity […]

Its time for bloggers to decide exactly what kind of role they want to play in the free market of information and opinion. The blogging community has often given the impression that they are totally separate from professional journalists and in some sense not subject to their ethical standards. Fiercely independent, often unpaid, answering to […]

IBM and Yahoo are partnering on a free, entry-level search engine that will allow small and midsize companies as well as departments within large enterprises to access data hidden away on corporate file servers and available on the public Web. Called IBM OmniFind Yahoo Edition, the search package, unveiled Dec. 13, is designed for organizations […]

IBM and Yahoo are partnering on a free, entry-level search engine that will allow small and midsize companies as well as departments within large enterprises to access data hidden away on corporate file servers and available on the public Web. Called IBM OmniFind Yahoo Edition, the free search package is designed for organizations that want […]

The United States government is assigning a terror “risk assessment” score to every person, citizen or foreign national who crosses the border. The Department of Homeland Security plans to retain that score and information about your comings and goings for up to 40 years. But you have no way of learning what the score is. […]

Microsoft has taken pains to demonstrate that Windows Vista will have ample application support, particularly in the fields of anti-virus and security, so as to give businesses more incentive to upgrade to the latest version of Windows. The Vista development team made a special effort to get the anti-virus vendors involved early in the design […]

American Express Business Travel and Rearden Commerce, the startup creator of a Web-based travel management service, have announced an investment and joint development deal aimed at expanding the market for the service. As part of the deal, American Express has invested $22.5 million in Rearden Commerce, which has taken a seat on the startup companys […]

Google Apps for Your Domain is getting an update that allows organizations to create customized start pages that combine their own corporate branding and specialized content with the Google search, e-mail, calendars and instant messaging. Google wants large corporations, SMBs (small and midsize businesses), nonprofit organizations, colleges and universities to deploy their own Google apps […]