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Summary Box: Investors lining up to buy Salesforce

SALESFORCE FERVOR: Wall Street has fallen in love with Salesforce.com Inc. as a concept known as "cloud computing" has taken off. The term refers to subscribing to software programs hosted over Internet connections instead of installed on individual machines. Salesforce has been building its business around clouding computing for 11 years. FLYING HIGH: Salesforce shares soared more than 18 percent Friday to reach a new high as investors reacted to a strong third- ...

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Salesforce shares soaring on cloud computing craze

SAN FRANCISCO – A hot high-tech concept known as "cloud computing" is lifting Salesforce.com Inc.'s stock to lofty heights. The shares rocketed more than 18 percent Friday after Salesforce issued a strong third-quarter earnings report and an optimistic management forecast that persuaded several analysts that the stock is bound to climb even higher. As it is, Salesforce in nearly 6 1/2 year as a public company is proving to be more fruitful than high-tech da ...

Kin Phones Have New OS but No Studio

After an unsuccessful first outing, Microsoft's second-effort Kin phones are available from Verizon, this time with a different operating system, slightly different pricing options and without their most popular feature. After launching the Kin phones on Verizon's network in April, Microsoft announced just two months later that it would stop developing the platform to focus on Windows Phone 7 instead. The Kin phones were designed to attract young consume ...

LibreOffice Is Taking Shape With Third Beta

It's been less than two months since the Document Foundation announced that it was launching its own "fork" of the OpenOffice.org productivity software suite, but already its new LibreOffice alternative is beginning to take shape. On Thursday the third beta version of LibreOffice 3.3 was released, and it's available for download for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. While not intended for production use, the current version of the free, fully ...

Splashtop Releases Remote Desktop for iPhone

Splashtop, formerly known as DeviceVM, has expanded its Splashtop Remote software to the Apple iPhone and the iPod touch. Splashtop announced the Splashtop Remote software for the iPad in July. The software allows Apple users to remotely control a Windows PC - ideal for a user who uses a PC, and then an Apple device as a supplementary methodd to reach the Internet. The software requires iOS 3.2 and above. It currently costs jist 99 cents fr ...

Valve survey: Most Mac gamers use laptops

Every month, Valve updates its Hardware & Software Survey that compiles and sort information gathered from various users of Valve’s Steam game service. While it’s supremely useful for analyzing the preferences and behavior of PC gamers, the data on Mac users hasn’t always been available. However, with the inclusion of Steam For Mac in Valve’s distribution service, Mac user data is now available. The October 2010 edition of the Steam Hardware & Software ...

Windows at 25: Where It's Been, Where It's Going

Tomorrow (November 20) marks 25 years since the formal introduction of Microsoft Windows. With that in mind, it's instructive to look back at where Windows has come from and where it may be going. Five years ago, I wrote an in-depth history of Windows to mark its 20th anniversary. What's interesting to note is how long it took for Windows to really become successful. Even when it was launched in 1985, it was considered late. I had first seen and written a ...

Yahoo! Connected TV store to start selling widgets

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – Yahoo! on Thursday said it will let software makers sell programs known as widgets at a Connected TV store for televisions embedded with the firm's Internet technology. "We are adding a very tangible monetization element to the Connected TV platform that didn't exist before by giving developers and publishers the opportunity to create paid widgets," said Yahoo! marketing executive Russ Schafer. Appli ...

Apple updates Boot Camp, MacBook firmware

Apple on Thursday released several patches for its Boot Camp software as well as firmware updates for its MacBook and 13-inch MacBook Pro. The 3.2 Boot Camp software—available in two different flavors for users of 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows, respectively—adds support in Windows for the ATI-Radeon HD 5870 graphics card, Apple USB Ethernet Adapter, and MacBook Air SuperDrive, and addresses a variety of unnamed critical bug fixes. Apple recommends all ...

Call of Duty: Black Ops Smashes Entertainment Records

The video-game industry may be suffering, but Microsoft is on a roll, just in time for the holiday shopping season. After selling more than a million Kinect units in its first 10 days on the market, the software giant is now reporting the largest entertainment launch in history with Call of Duty: Black Ops. Activision's Call of Duty: Black Ops has shattered theatrical box-office, book and video-game sales records for a five-day worldwide sell-through of m ...

Adobe Acrobat Shouldn't Be So Buggy

Another day, another Adobe Acrobat vulnerability. I don't know about you, but Adobe's Update tool is a cheery presence on my computer, and I welcome its seemingly daily intrusion into my life to update software that I only use now and again. In case you can't tell, I'm being sarcastic. </Homer> But this is actually a serious issue. McAfee reckons that, by the end of 2010, Adobe Acrobat will represent the number one ...

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