Robert J. Mullins

SAN FRANCISCO €” Dell is upgrading its line of mobile workstations for graphics-intensive computing environments, such as video production, with improved specifications that it thinks will differentiate its offerings from those of Hewlett-Packard and Lenovo. Introduced at a news media preview in San Francisco July 18, the three new Dell models will be available as […]

Microsoft admits that it failed to meet a European Commission requirement that it offer a Browser Choice Screen on Windows 7 computers sold in the European Union as required by a 2009 agreement between the software maker and the EC. Microsoft said in a July 17 statement that €œWe have fallen short in our responsibility […]

SAP introduced new features to its business analytics software products that it says give users richer insights into how to make smarter business decisions based on an analysis of the mountain of €œbig data€ their business operations generate. The company unveiled new capabilities in feature pack 3 of the SAP Business Objects Business Intelligence 4.0 […]

Microsoft Office Preview Event Technology reporters and editors gathered in San Francisco July 16 to hear Microsoft executives, including CEO Steve Ballmer, reveal the consumer preview version of the Office 2013 suite of productivity software. Ballmer spoke of the new suite as “Office as a service” underscoring the point that many of its programs can […]

SAN FRANCISCO€”Microsoft introduced the customer preview release of its Office 2013 productivity suite that introduces the concept of €œOffice as a service,€ noting that all of its features can be accessed via SkyDrive, its cloud storage service. €œThis is the first round of Office that was designed from the get-go for Office to be a […]

The environmental group Greenpeace has issued a report raising questions about Apple€™s commitment to using 100 percent renewable energy sources to power its facilities, particularly a new data center Apple opened in Maiden, N.C. Greenpeace rescored Apple€™s performance, updating an April analysis of the clean energy performance of Apple and several other companies, all of […]

Scores of companies have been promoting themselves as players in the enterprise social networking space of late, but they are not all created equal, with varying business models, approaches to the market and in some cases, a bit of a €œme-too€ eagerness. But amid the pretenders are serious contenders that bring a well-thought-out approach to […]

Microsoft is seeking to nurture startups with the creation of the Bing Fund, an angel investment fund targeted at companies developing online or mobile innovations. The Bing Fund will also serve as an incubator, giving fledgling companies support in a numbers of ways, including providing subsidized access to Bing application programming interfaces (APIs), advice from […]

Microsoft has issued a security advisory urging users to install an update that disables the Sidebar and Gadgets features on Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems due to a potential security vulnerability. The security advisory warns that a hacker could get into a user€™s system through an insecure Gadget running in Sidebar, execute arbitrary […]

Enterprise software vendor SAP announced pre-released second-quarter financial numbers July 12, showing a 7 percent profit increase, to $1.12 billion, on an 18 percent jump in revenue, to $4.8 billion, compared with the year-ago quarter. Company officials based the solid numbers in part on a strong showing for its HANA in-memory data analytics software. The […]