GLG News by Business Intelligence Software Market Experts

• Given the pent-up demand for Vista due to its continual slippage, no one should be surprised that it helped Microsoft's financial numbers this past quarter.• We are just seeing the beginning of the Vista cycle as many business organizations will hold off its adoption until...

Google, Microsoft and Yahoo have all trained their sights on cellphones, which they see as the next great battleground in the Internet search wars.Search services that pinpoint a phone’s location using the Global Positioning System or that accept voice commands are coming out of the labs.

Yahoo seems to be fading in the rear-view mirror of Google, yet has some features that loyal users still favor.Google's got its sights on the corporate desktop, so how does Microsoft intend to maintain its dominance.Can this combination squeeze Google out of its explosive growth path?  I don't...

Google's growing interest in the wireless industry and the rising stakes in the battle for a crucial chunk of airwaves.Goggle is working with EarthLink to provide a free Wi-Fi wireless broadband network in San Francisco. Google is going to spread its mobile search application far...

Video conferencing has always been a nice idea.  Early experiments prior to 2000 were interesting novelties, but really not very practical.  Over the past several years, only the largest global corporations have had some success using video conferencing in limited scenarios.Is video conferencing...

Tech spending for enterprise hardware and software remains very soft and doesn't yet appear to be improvingOracle has blamed the lower-than-expected results on a slowdown in AsiaThe company's sales in Asia fell 22 percent year over year, compared to 20 percent in the Americas.

Google announced that it would pay 3.1 billion for the ad outfit DoubleClick.This is less of a function of the value but more about what it can provide Google (and what is could have done for Microsoft).DoubleClick has something that Google doesn't have; a vibrant advertising business for banners/display...

• Software AG is acquiring unprofitable webMethods as part of its goal to double its revenues over the next five years. • As Software AG still derives a significant portion of its revenue from maintenance fees on its legacy Adabas database system, it is seeking ways to diversity...

Environmental concerns are starting to become a bigger issue for data centers.Today this impacts only the big users, but soon everyone will be affected.Data Center Power consumption is on the rise.

Dell said its board’s audit committee had “identified a number of accounting errors, evidence of misconduct, and deficiencies in the financial control environment.”Dell also said it was working with its independent auditors to determine whether it would have to revise financial statements.Dell did not...