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These days it's all about making your free web site "go viral" right? Maybe that was the all-too-common business plan in recent years - but many people were uncomfortable with

Security vendor Palo Alto Networks has released its latest Application Usage and Risk Report. Palo Alto offers a "next generation" firewall that gives administrators the option to block specific

In a closing word to developers at the Build 2011 conference in Anaheim late this morning, a noticeably slimmer Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer expressed a more subdued level of

The memo has already gone out to the various book editors, news editors and technology analysts: The proper phrase is not "tablet PC" any more. A tablet and a PC

When a corporation stakes its reputation on the competitive value of its patent portfolio, it can't afford to watch that portfolio go down in flames. Although the novelty of most

The small business market is seeing a new crop of customer relationship management and intranet applications designed to provide a basic set of features without overwhelming the user. GlassCubes is

It's called a spoiler tactic. You take your competitor's biggest cash cow and offer a free alternative. Everybody from Linux to Google has used the tactic against Microsoft. So who

In the read/write era, enterprise technology has been playing catchup with the consumer sector, integrating social networking, wikis and activities streams into business-grade applications. But that hasn't always been

The latest global mobile workforce survey from economic trends analysis firm iPass reveals a trend that we probably noticed but tucked away in our Outlook agendas or Google calendars for

Gartner released a report today that highlights the different ways that companies are adopting Twitter for business use. Although Twitter was originally intended for communication among individuals, a number of

We asked last summer what RIM needs to do to stay relevant in the enterprise. Since then, the trends undermining RIM's dominance have only accelerated. iPhones, iPads and Android

We'd like to extend a big thank you to our loyal readers and community at ReadWriteWeb. As part of that, we've partnered with ThinkGeek to give away a few geeky

We've written before about how some companies like to keep IEv6 browsers around, whether it is to frustrate them intentionally so they can't really surf or because they have real

Forrester released a report today about the 'community platforms' market. They evaluated nine vendors, concluding that Jive Software and Telligent Systems "lead the pack because of their strong administrative and

In a savvy sashay of marketing brilliance, Twitter was able to attract more journalists' eyeballs to its platform than anything short of an overwhelming disaster could garner. And it was

United States law enforcement officials have been utilizing data provided by global positioning satellite systems to track down individual suspects, without having to demonstrate probable cause before a judge first

This year enterprise 2.0 went from being a fringe idea to being mainstream as CIOs started asking "how?" instead of "why?" Big name vendors entered the marketplace with new

Yesterday, the U.S. Senate passed the House's version of the latest patent reform bill, H.R. 1249, the America Invents Act, by a vote of 89 to 9. During a speech

There were two big expectations from this morning's release of the initial draft of data protection regulations from the European Commission, both of which were built up through quite a

The U.S. International Trade Commission would be the court of first instance for disputes brought by parties claiming that a Web site hosted offshore is trafficking in its intellectual property,

Back in the 1980s, one of my first publishers asked me for a quick biography paragraph to place at the end of a story. "Tell your readers about yourself," an

We have looked at Calendaring many times (such as in our round-up of 10 players). In our own work, we have started working with both Tungle and Doodle. To understand

Every good company does backups. (But not all -- see Are Your Files Backed Up? March 31 is World Backup Day.) This is where online backup comes in handy.

When I started professionally covering the enterprise 2.0/social business space just over a year ago it was all very exciting. I had personally witnessed how valuable a workplace microblog/activity

The end of Google Wave and rumors that the company is building a Facebook competitor has a lot of people talking about Google's need to get better at social.