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Following China’s approval of the deal, Google is set to acquire smartphone maker Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion as soon as this coming week.

Verdict deliberations in Oracle v. Google have been mixed up as the jury looks like it might be stuck on the question of infringement once again.

Companies are now crawling with Apple sales representatives — not paid representatives, but end-users.

I’m taking a couple weeks off before the busiest part of Microsoft’s 2012 kicks into full gear. But never fear: The Microsoft watching will go on while I’m gone. I’ve asked a few illustrious members of the worldwide Microsoft community to share their insights via guest posts on a variety of topics — from Windows [...]

The evidence is piling up: Hardware systems will increasingly work in tandem with the cloud.

Twitter was quick to act when it was accused of recording its users across the Web amid an announcement that it will allow users to opt-out of online activity tracking.

Wireless carriers’ never-ending effort to preserve ARPU (average revenue per user) may begin to hurt. Will there be a pushback as consumers and business have to offset less profitable M2M connections.

The Oracle v. Google jury is facing some tough times over highly technical terminology and even personal illness.

Intuit’s tax business could have been better, but the company’s SMB business is healthy and QuickBooks Online is going global.

The results seem to indicate that Salesforce’s cloud efforts are paying off and large enterprises are on the bandwagon.

Anomalies, and design strategies for avoiding them, are among the many reasons that programming-language design is harder than it looks.

Anomalies, and design strategies for avoiding them, are among the many reasons that programming-language design is harder than it looks.

HP will need to lay off workers to boost its profitability, but then reinvest the savings in more lucrative markets.

Ralph de la Vega, CEO of AT&T Mobility, sees a possible Windows 8-Windows Phone juggernaut.

There’s a received wisdom that SaaS adoption is taking place among a subset of companies that face substantial change. SaaS makes sense if you need to move fast, grow quickly, adapt to rapidly changing markets or, in some cases, foreshorten the disruption of consolidation or downsizing.

In the ERP space, the latest expression of this trend is seen in the adoption of SaaS in subsidiaries of large companies that want to quickly accelerate their business in emerging markets or get better real-time information from regional operations running outdated legacy systems. Both SAP Business ByDesign and NetSuite OneWorld are targetting this opportunity. I’m at NetSuite’s annual conference this week (disclosure: travel and accommodation funded by NetSuite), where the company has been celebrating its penetration of Fortune 100 accounts with this strategy, including global brands such as Johnson & Johnson, Proctor & Gamble, MetLife and others.

The corollary of this line of thinking is that the rest of the market will remain with the conventional software vendors — SAP, Oracle, Infor, even Microsoft who, bless their hearts, believe Dynamics AX is going to pick up business from their on-premise rivals. So here’s the rub. Exactly how many organisations are there today who don’t face substantial change? Exactly how large is the market for new software among companies that are happy to move and grow slowly, whose markets aren’t changing so much or who have plenty of time to consolidate and downsize? How many multinational subsidiaries are going to be upgrading their ERP because they’re in slow-growing markets and don’t mind waiting another year before they bring real-time information streams online?

The fact is, the nature of business today is such that no one has time any more to wait and plan for a conventional multi-month or multi-year on-premise implementation. The market for the old way of doing things is dying and SaaS is capturing more and more of all the businesses that will thrive in the future.

HP and Dell have seen their target price lowered after Windows 8 was dubbed “a disappointment” in an analysts note.

Ben Hanley, Senior Project Manager at Evans Data Corporation gives you a structural overview of HTML5 adoption.

Ben Hanley, Senior Project Manager at Evans Data Corporation gives you a structural overview of HTML5 adoption.

Ben Hanley, Senior Project Manager at Evans Data Corporation gives you a structural overview of HTML5 adoption.

Using the metaprogramming capabilities of C++ and generic programming, it's possible to create an elegant parser of parameter types. Command-line interpreters, parsers, and syntax checkers are among the many applications.