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  Quickbooks Online outage leaves some customers in sour mood

  Intuit's Quickbooks Online service suffered an outage this week that left "a small subset" of customers unable to access their data, but the company says the problems with the on-demand accounting software have now been fixed.

  By Chris Kanaracus | 25 May, 2012 17:12

  Tags: Internet-based applications and services, cloud computing, internet, Financial / tax, applications, software, Intuit

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  Coding contest shows how big data can improve health care

  A recent coding competition in the Boston area brought together IT professionals, medical workers and others with an interest in health IT to show how data analytics can improve health care.

  By Fred O'Connor | 25 May, 2012 15:03

  Tags: health care, industry verticals, business intelligence, applications, software, internet

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  Untethered jailbreak for iOS 5.1.1 available for download

  Absinthe 2.0, the jailbreak for iOS 5.1.1, is ready and available for download, the Jailbreak Dream Team announced at the Hack in the Box conference in Amsterdam.

  By Loek Essers | 25 May, 2012 14:56

  Tags: Telecommunication, smartphones, security, mobile security, Mobile OSes, mobile, iPhone, iOS, Hack In The Box, Exploits / vulnerabilities, consumer electronics, applications, Apple

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  Unthethered jailbreak for iOS 5.1.1 available for download

  Absinthe 2.0, the jailbreak for iOS 5.1.1, is ready and available for download, the Jailbreak Dream Team announced at the Hack in the Box conference in Amsterdam on Friday.

  By Loek Essers | 25 May, 2012 13:53

  Tags: Hack In The Box, iOS, Mobile OSes, mobile, applications, Telecommunication, iPhone, smartphones, consumer electronics, mobile security, Exploits / vulnerabilities, security, Apple

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  Yahoo Axis may be game changer for search and the troubled company

  With Axis, Yahoo is trying to change the search game, while also trying to change its image as a troubled company.

  By Sharon Gaudin | 24 May, 2012 20:08

  Tags: Yahoo, software, search engines, Microsoft, IT industry, Internet Search, internet, Google, browsers, applications

• Internet Explorer 9: A getting started guide

  Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 officially launched late Monday and is ready for download here.

  By Ian Paul | 16 March, 2011 01:32

  Tags: applications, browsers, Google, Microsoft, microsoft internet explorer, software

• Enable iTunes Home Sharing in iOS 4.3

  The next major iOS update is slated to be released this Friday, March 11, alongside the ultra-hyped iPad 2. One of the key features is a little something called iTunes Home Sharing, which allows users to stream music, podcasts, movies and more from PC to iOS device.

  By Mike Keller | 09 March, 2011 04:54

  Tags: Apple, applications, iTunes, software

• Digitize your movies

  Analog movies can be the easiest--or the hardest--medium to digitize, depending on the format you're working with. While older camcorder and video formats such as 8mm and Hi8 or VHS and Betamax tapes are easy to transfer, digitizing film can be difficult at best.

  By Jon L. Jacobi | 03 March, 2011 02:00

  Tags: applications, media, software, video, video capture

• Stop Facebook from cluttering your inbox

  There's a fine line between awesome and annoying. Take Facebook: Most of the time, it's great, but a few things about the service drive me crazy.

  By Rick Broida | 02 February, 2011 04:02

  Tags: applications, e-mail, Facebook, internet, Internet-based applications and services, social media, social networks, software

• Upload and view videos in Google Docs

  Google Docs is becoming a more robust cloud-based productivity suite, and the addition of uploading, storing and viewing videos is a boon for sharing corporate presentations and the like. It's also a slick way to skirt your company's firewall on streaming video sites such as YouTube.

  By Brennon Slattery | 12 January, 2011 09:06

  Tags: applications, document management, Google, google docs, Productivity Apps, software, video

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  In depth: Unified communications still fragmented

  Unified communications (UC) technology has garnered a fair amount of attention, much of it due to vendors touting their UC offerings as the answer to problems workers have keeping in touch with colleagues, business partners and customers in a highly frenetic, increasingly mobile business world.

  By Bob Violino | 16 May, 2012 21:07

  Tags: software, roi, networking, it strategy, it management, applications

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  Open for business: It's the year of the corporate app store

  With more employees using smartphones and tablets for business, enterprises are setting up their own app stores for application distribution, leveraging a consumer model for mobile application access that is tuned to the workplace. Instead of saddling already overburdened IT personnel with getting applications to individual devices, these app stores provide a central distribution mechanism for employees to download applications themselves.

  By Paul Krill | 16 April, 2012 20:11

  Tags: Apple, applications, consumerization of IT, Google, mobile apps, mobile technology, software

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  Microsoft: Don't hate IE 10

  Microsoft says its latest version of Internet Explorer clears out a lot of clutter and creates a more immersive browser experience when paired with Windows 8's touch environment, and that it can be navigated by mouse and keyboard as well, although from the sounds of it not as elegantly.

  By Tim Greene | 15 March, 2012 06:03

  Tags: applications, browsers, Microsoft, software

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  The big promise of big data

  For Twitter, making sense of its mountains of user data was big enough of a problem that it purchased another company just to help get the job done.

  By Joab Jackson | 14 March, 2012 04:04

  Tags: applications, cloudera, data management, data mining, MapR, oracle, software

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  Mobile apps: The IT pro's new power tools

  Think the mobile revolution is all about word games and social networking apps? Think again. Heavy-duty apps for IT pros have arrived on mobile platforms and they're quickly changing the face of IT systems management.

  By Robert L. Scheier | 12 March, 2012 21:07

  Tags: Android, applications, Blackberry, Data Center, hardware systems, iOS, iPad, iPhone, it management, it strategy, mobile, mobile apps, Mobile OSes, mobile technology, Mobile Tools, smartphones, software, tablets, tech support, Telecommunication

Whitepapers about applications

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  Virtual Certainty - Best Practices for Gaining Monitoring Clarity in VMware Environments

  The benefits of virtualisation are unassailable: increased agility, scale, and cost savings to name but a few. However, so too are the monitoring challenges posed by these environments—including complexity, lack of visibility and control, and inefficiency. This white paper reveals the best monitoring practices to employ in virtualized environments—best practices that are essential in enabling organizations to overcome their monitoring challenges so they can get the most business value from their virtualisation investments.

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  Unified Monitoring™ A Business Perspective

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  Get the Whole Picture Why Most Organizations Miss User Response Monitoring—and What to Do About It

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  Consolidating Applications with Oracle Solaris Containers