Macworld Expo 2009
InfoWorld covers all the latest news and announcements of interest to business IT at the 2009 Macworld Conference and Expo, taking place in San Francisco.
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IBM gives Lotus Notes for Mac a makeover IBM has introduced at Macworld Expo Lotus Notes 8.5, now featuring integration with social calendaring Web sites. The company also released a beta version of Lotus Symphony, a free productivity software suite that includes document, presentation, and spreadsheet capabilities. 11:35 am PT
First Look: Apple's Numbers ’09 In August 2007, Apple's iWork productivity suite gained a new stablemate--Numbers, a new take on the traditional spreadsheet application. In our review of Numbers '08, we found it to be easy to use with an elegant interface, but suffering from some limited graphing options, slow speed with large spreadsheets, and lack of AppleScript support. 9:54 am PT
SAP wants Oracle to reveal software, support profit margins SAP wants Oracle to reveal profit-margin information for JD Edwards and PeopleSoft software and support, according to a joint discovery statement filed this week in connection with Oracle's lawsuit against SAP. 9:44 am PT
Borland CEO leaves, joins VMware Borland Software's CEO has resigned, taking a position at EMC's VMware subsidiary. Tod Nielsen, who had served as Borland CEO since November 2005, has become the chief operating officer of VMware, a newly created position, VMware said Tuesday.
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How to benchmark datacenter energy costs In the spring of 2007, UPS's Ben Swanson and Joe Parrino attended a conference on the growing problem of datacenter power consumption. One suggested remedy was to benchmark and analyze the power flowing through the datacenter. So after the conference, Swanson, the facilities department manager, and Parrino, a datacenter facilities manager, profiled their two main datacenters to learn what they could do to increase their energy efficiency and, ultimately, save money. More on CIO.com Five Ways to Find Data Center Energy Savings Good Incentives Boost Data-Center Energy Efficiency Signposts on the Road to Data Center Energy Savings 9:26 am PT
REAL Server 2009 due in February REAL Software, creator of the REALbasic cross-platform software development environment, announced Tuesday at Macworld Expo that REAL Server 2009 will ship in February. REAL Server is a cross-platform, multi-user database server. 9:22 am PT
Is iWork '09 an Office competitor? I work across platforms, but I've never bothered with productivity software beyond Microsoft Office. It always seems like it does a good enough job, plus everyone else uses it, facilitating easy file sharing. Although I'm embarrassed having typed that out; can't I pick productivity software that I actually... like? 9:04 am PT
Recession be damned! IT security spending up for some The economy may be in tatters, along with legions of IT security budgets. But a new report from Forrester Research suggests security spending is actually on the rise in some enterprises. 8:39 am PT
Gartner: Economy means CIO introspection in 2009 Technology advisory firm Gartner has come out with four strategic themes for CIOs to help them excel and deliver better personal and team outcomes beyond their core IT agenda. 8:37 am PT
Weak demand causes Intel to cut Q4 forecast Intel expects fourth-quarter revenue for fiscal 2008 to fall 23 percent compared to a year prior due to weaker demand for computer processors, the company said Wednesday. 6:57 am PT
10 must-have free BlackBerry apps Your BlackBerry might be plenty powerful out of the box, but there are hundreds of third-party applications out there that can make the device even more useful. 6:52 am PT
CheckFree warns 5 million customers after hack CheckFree and some of the banks that use its electronic bill payment service are notifying more than 5 million customers after criminals took control of several of the company's Internet domains and redirected customer traffic to a malicious Web site hosted in the Ukraine. 6:11 am PT
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