Software Development

IBM buys LAS for name recognition analytics

LAS specializes in applying business rules to data to determine the origin, cultural variations and meanings around personal and business names

Ballmer talks up business tools

Microsoft's new $500-million marketing campaign centers around what it calls the "people-ready" business vision

Microsoft goes public with Blue Hat hacker conference

Microsoft promises to publish details on secretive, invitation-only security event

First Day of my Tour…At the SOA Executive Forum

First day of the tour today, and I'm in San Francisco at the InfoWorld SOA Executive Forum. I'm doing a SOA and ROI talk at 10:45 this morning. That's going to be an interesting topic for me, just wondering about the interest from the

In Brief: iTKO releases LISA 3 for complete SOA testing

RIM competitor defends U.S. patent office

BlackBerry maker placed ads in newspapers saying the patent system is in need of change

Lawson’s ERP upgrade adds SOA capabilities

Lawson Release 9 includes improved BI capabilities and BPM tools

Motorola makes three new China investments

Motorola's venture capital arm investing in Chinese 'high-potential' technology companies

NTT DoCoMo expects Asia to lead investment next year

NTT trying to enter Asian markets to expand its I-mode service

Modern strategies for managing Microsoft Exchange

A range of tools and services help admins make the most of enterprise messaging