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Adobe showed the IT world, on Wednesday, that it's important to be a big player with big bucks. The software company said that it is buying web analytics firm Omniture for $1.8 billion, a move to Read more...

A German software company detected a 30 percent drop in the number of unique malware signatures between May and June, a development that it attributes to the economic downturn. G Data argues that Read more...

It had to happen sooner or later: The Human Resources departments at many companies have stumbled upon a new kind of mathematical formula to evaluate an employee's worth in this time of downsizing. Read more...

The shaky economy may even be affecting Microsoft, which is now reviewing its hiring plans for the coming year. The world's largest software company, however, denied reports it had instituted a Read more...

Software as a service (SaaS) is gaining momentum as whispers of recession grow louder and the need to save money grows more important. "There is less upfront and ongoing capital investment, less Read more...

A new Forrester study says there will soon be a proliferation of "technology populism." That means that IT professionals will be rethinking how they currently evaluate, provide and support collective Read more...

Should federal, state and local governments get tough on individuals and companies responsible for the loss of a person's personal data online? That is an extremely difficult issue to resolve and Read more...

Oracle wants to buy BEA for $6.7 Billion, but does BEA really want to sell at that price, just to be gobbled up by the third largest software company in the world? It's unclear, even though offering Read more...

Patty Azzarello writes in CIOUpdate that the CIO position is often a thankless one, and there are several credibility challenges that CIOs must address--challenges that other C-level execs don't Read more...

During his speech this week at the Worldwide Partner Conference in Denver, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said that the company is opening up a bit. "What's ours is yours," he said. Microsoft pledged Read more...