Software

How does one identify high-impact technologies of the future? That's the million dollar question. In fact, the "right" answer can be worth far more than a million bucks. The challenge is finding it.

Should Microsoft profit from closing the very security holes it could be blamed for creating? Critics worry that key vulnerabilities could be left in Windows longer to boost the company's revenue streams.

According to a recent survey from Symantec Corp, business application slowdowns affect business productivity, customer loyalty, and employee morale. Common impacts of such slowdowns include sluggish response to user commands, long delays in business transactions or processes, and slow loading Web pages.

One of the biggest challenges managers face is figuring out what the competition is up to, according to Leonard Fuld, a consultant on competitive intelligence. In his new book, The Secret Language of Competitive Intelligence, Fuld explains how to analyze information about the competition to obtain insight and advantage over rivals.

It may not be taking the world by storm, but open source still has a growing and determined group of adherents. Technology executives at two Canadian users of the technology, Pioneer Petroleum and Vancouver Community College, talk about why they chose it, what it was like to implement, and some of the advantages of moving to an open platform.

Quest Software earlier this month released management tools to help corporate users bring order to their Microsoft SharePoint roll-outs.

Microsoft earlier this month unveiled its official Atlas technology branding for AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) programming on ASP.Net, and will make the software available earlier than planned. The company hopes to ship its Atlas technologies around the year-end, as opposed to next year.

One day after patching a widely exploited flaw in its Internet Explorer browser, Microsoft Corp. has a new bug to worry about, this time in PowerPoint.