The new president of Microsoft’s server and tools business Satya Nadella recently claimed that cloud computing represents a big opportunity for Microsoft rather than a threat. Is that just empty bravado, or does Nadella have a clear picture of the future? In a discussion with Eric Savitz of Forbes at...

BMC Software said Friday it has acquired a range of IMS (information management system) database software and related customers from Neon Enterprise Software, which recently lost a legal battle with IBM over a mainframe-related product called zPrime. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Neon’s IMS...

I appear to have unsettled reader William Dunn when discussing the inability for Lion to run applications that rely on the Rosetta technology. He writes: Earlier this week you wrote about some older applications not working with Lion. This came as a surprise to me as I depend on programs like Quicken 2007...

A futuristic augmented reality tie-in for the movie Super 8 turns your smartphone into its own science fiction story. With just your iPhone and its camera, the movie’s new app can turn any Super 8 poster in the United States into a video clip from the film. The technology behind this comes from...

DUI checkpoint apps may be DOA on the iOS platform, after Apple quietly updated its App Store Review Guidelines to effectively ban apps that warn drivers of nearby police checkpoints. The move comes after members of Congress had put pressure on both Apple and Google to remove such offerings from their...