Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff says as social enterprise trend diversifies company's sales, he's hiring aggressively to keep up with customer demand.

Google renewed its pitch to embrace cloud IT at its Atmosphere roadshow. But its count of companies going Google Apps doesn't add up.

SAP forges closer ties with Intel, IBM, analytics vendors, and systems integrators to jump start its in-memory database.

IBM expands private, public, and hybrid cloud options for customers with its SmartCloud offerings, including IaaS in IBM data centers with dedicated servers.

What does Google's new search technique mean for you? Augmenting search results with sets of associated facts could please users but decrease traffic to other sites.

Prototype system helps Applied Materials organize approvals on complex custom product specs, but not without tradeoffs.

SuccessFactors founder Dalgaard, now leading SAP cloud strategy, wants to move toward "independent but super-integrated" apps.

Talent Maps puts social media analytics behind recognizing the staffers doing the most to drive a company's economic value.

250,000 students and faculty at Los Angeles community colleges will move to Microsoft Live@edu online communication and collaboration services after school system rejects Google Apps.

Mule iON SaaS edition provides tools, workflow to relieve the pain of trying to integrate software-as-a-service applications.

SAP Visual Intelligence, debuting Wednesday, taps into two hot trends in BI and analytics.

Apple security update for older OS 10.5 Leopard nukes Flashback variants and disables outdated Java and Flash functionality.

Microsoft's Windows 8 Family Safety tool generates reports that keep parents informed about their children's online activities.

SAP doesn't think it needs to beat the likes of Jive Software to win in social collaboration.

Software pirates typically are young and male and live in emerging economies, where obtaining legal copies of software isn't always easy, finds Business Software Alliance study.

Hiring demand, high salaries, and some lesser-known perks make software engineering the most enviable profession, CareerCast.com survey finds.

Know the danger zones as you select cloud management tool platforms.

Social media monitoring and sentiment analysis can now feed into customer response through SAP CRM, with MediaFunnel and HootSuite integrations to follow.

Dell announces second startup partnership in the desktop virtualization market in less than a week. Here's a look at Unidesk's secret sauce.

Apple looks prepared to sever its long-standing ties to Google Maps with a brand new mapping application in the next version of iOS.

Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Release 3.4 increases storage options and enhances security for virtual desktops.

In an effort to outdo Google's social search integration, Microsoft has tagged Facebook. Here's what the move means.

IT departments need to reset their attitudes about the variety of personal mobile devices showing up in the workplace, panel tells Interop 2012 audience.

Last year Citrix bought cloud file sharing service ShareFile, taking on YouSendIt, Box, and Dropbox. Now Citrix will turn that service into a product you can also install as enterprise software.

Web-based tools speed setup of Oracle BI apps tied to E-Business Suite and JD Edwards ERP systems.