Application Service Provider News

Microsoft said today that its upcoming Windows Azure cloud computing platform will come with marketplaces for both online apps built to run on Azure as well as datasets that companies can use to build their own apps.

Convio, Inc. today announced its fifth annual client conference, Convio Summit 2010, will be held October 25-28, 2010 in Baltimore, MD at the Marriott Baltimore Inner Harbor Hotel and Conference Center.

Microsoft's Ray Ozzie significantly blew past the basic Exchange, SharePoint and SQL database hosting services with the Azure announcements at PDC 2009 yesterday.

HASH HASH , the Smart Incentives Company and leader in on-demand sales performance management , today announced Xactly Incent Express , a powerful sales compensation solution for small-to-medium businesses that use Salesforce CRM.

There are multiple factors that led to the evolution of Cloud Computing. One of the key factors is the way Internet Service Providers matured over a period of time.

It seems that even Microsofta TMs annual Professional Developers Conference cana TMt escape significant cloud computing news.

Salesforce.com Inc. on Tuesday posted a sharp gain in fiscal third-quarter profit, while sales rose 20% as the provider of Internet-hosted business software continued to accumulate subscribers.

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IBM is starting a new cloud computing service to compete with Google Inc. and others, news reports said Monday.

Convio, Inc. and Heller Consulting today announced at the Convio Summit the availability of two free best practices guides exclusively for nonprofits using the Convio Common Ground CRM system.

Rainmaker Systems, Inc., , a leading provider of sales and marketing solutions offering hosted application software and execution services, today announced it will exhibit at Dreamforce 2009, Salesforce.com's user and developer conference taking place November 17-20, 2009 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco .

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Worldwide mobile phone sales totalled 308.9 million units in the third quarter of 2009, a 0.1 per cent increase from the third quarter of 2008, according to Gartner.

Olivia Hu, Hsinchu; Meiling Chen, DIGITIMES [Thursday 12 November 2009] The niche memory IC market has bottomed out with improving order volume as well as average selling prices , said Etron Technology chairman Nicky Lu.

Senior VP and CEO Kintera Div of Blackbaud Inc. Richard Labarbera sells 1,030 shares of BLKB on 11/10/2009 at an average price of $22.32 a share.

Cetrom Information Technology has joined the Member 2 Member Discount Program for the Frederick County Chamber of Commerce.

By default, applications launched with Java Web Start are run in a restricted environment where they have access to local computing resources at the user's discretion, such as storage devices and the local network.

Businesses thinking of switching to cloud computing should expect a bumpy probation period, if the experience of The Telegraph Media Group is anything to go by.

BroadWorks 17 is the next version in the pipeline and we can expect it to have enhanced reporting and ACD functions.

Garmin Ltd. reported third quarter earnings that beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 32 cents.