Web developers, meet WebGazer: software that turns webcams into eye-trackers
Eye-tracking technology has long been the domain of high-end research, but this week new software brings it within reach for anyone with a website.
Stories by Katherine Noyes
Oracle: We're going to sue that whistleblower cloud employee
Oracle plans to sue whistleblower Svetlana Blackburn for malicious prosecution, the company said Thursday.
Microsoft rolls out SQL Server 2016 with a special deal to woo Oracle customers
The next version of Microsoft's SQL Server relational database management system is now available, and along with it comes a special offer designed specifically to woo Oracle customers.
IBM buys EZSource to help transform your mainframe apps for the digital world
The digital transformation train may have already left the station, but for companies with legacy mainframe applications, it's not always clear how to get on board. On Wednesday, IBM announced an acquisition that could help.
Dell's private buyout shortchanged shareholders, court rules
Michael Dell and Silver Lake Partners paid about 22 percent too little for Dell when they took the company private in 2013 and will have to pay millions of dollars more to shareholders who opposed the deal, a Delaware court ruled on Tuesday.
Marketo gets scooped up into the private world for US$1.79 billion
Marketing-software maker Marketo has agreed to be acquired by private equity firm Vista Equity Partners for US$1.79 billion, the company announced Tuesday.
How Russia's oldest bank found itself on the leading edge of in-memory computing
It's not your average company that can trace its origins back to a nineteenth-century Russian tsar, but then, Sberbank is no average financial institution.
Shoot an atom into silicon, and you may have the beginnings of a quantum computer
Take one atom of the element antimony, use an ion beam to shoot it into a silicon substrate, and you just may be on your way to building a working quantum computer.
'Black box' no more: This system can spot the bias in those algorithms
Between recent controversies over Facebook's Trending Topics feature and the U.S. legal system's "risk assessment" scores in dealing with criminal defendants, there's probably never been broader interest in the mysterious algorithms that are making decisions about our lives.
What's old is new again with MIT's latest bug finder
Debugging code is a perennial challenge in the software-development world, and on Wednesday scientists announced a new technique that promises to make significant strides.
Salesforce brings cross-channel service a step closer with new 'Snap-ins'
You can't always bring customers to your best customer-service tools, but now you can bring those tools to them thanks to a new addition for Salesforce's Service Cloud.
Datameer gets an overhaul to make big-data analytics easier
The rise of the citizen data scientist has placed a new premium on easy-to-use analytics tools, and on Tuesday Datameer announced a fresh version of its namesake platform designed with that imperative in mind.
Need more analytics speed? Cray wants to light a fire under your big data
It's no secret that analytics is eating the enterprise world, but if there's anything in perpetually short supply, it's speed.
This site aims to be the Yelp of the SaaS world
Online reviews have already transformed the way people choose everything from restaurants to respiratory therapists, and now SaasGenius wants to do the same for enterprise software in the cloud.
Microsoft updates Dynamics CRM with a new IoT twist
Microsoft's Dynamics CRM 2016 software has been updated for spring, and the new release brings with it a brand-new tool to help companies tap the Internet of Things for their customer-service efforts.