Information Week Latest on Software

A new online gaming service founded by a veteran of Apple and WebTV promises high-end gaming without the hassle of game installation and maintenance.

The multi-year, $243 million project is part of a larger IT transformation effort, and could spark military-wide e-mail consolidation.

The FTC complaint alleged that the firm's identity theft protection and data security claims were false.

The Spotfire Statistics Services option exposes S+ and R models within a layman's data analysis and data visualization environment.

Sony has selected the the open source PostgreSQL system to support Free Realm, a data-intense multiplayer online game.

Column about a conversation between a CEO and a CIO about the power of cloud computing to reduce IT costs, accelerate processes and product development, and create opportunities to increase revenue.

The Google Apps Marketplace will let third-party developers sell their Web apps to Google Apps customers.

The administration is addressing a bug that caused its VistAWeb e-health records system to return incomplete data.

A light Patch Tuesday brings word of a new zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer 6 and 7.

The phone was bought by an employee of Panda Security, who spotted the malware.

Combining data synchronization with process-support and mashup capabilities, OmniConnect addresses on-premise-to-cloud and cloud-to-cloud integration.

Ten-year veteran Simon Phipps leaves the company on the heels of Oracle merger.

The Cloud Connect conference March 15-18 will feature leaders of the NoSQL movement speaking on how to handle large data sets in the cloud.

Column about Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's speech at the University of Washington in which he declared his company's full and unconditional commitment to cloud computing.

Chief Operating Officer Sanju Bansal talks about smartphone capabilities, analytics, dashboards, and the dirty secret in business intelligence: slow query response times.

The company's latest visualization experiment lets users create their own charts and graphs using public data.

Lockheed Martin and Northrup Grumman will build a shipboard and onshore IP network to replace legacy and outdated software and hardware.

The company says that it is working with U.S.-CERT to determine how the software on its servers became infected.