Juan Carlos Perez

BrainShare attendees will be the first ones to get access to the social-networking and collaboration suite from Novell next week. It joins IBM, Microsoft, Socialtext, NewsGator, Jive Software and others in this space

One year after it added Signals, a Twitter-like microblogging component, to its eponymous enterprise social networking and collaboration suite, Socialtext is giving users features to manage that stream of posts. Version 4.0 also offers the ability to create collaborative groups.

Called Jive Ideation, now part of the SBS collaboration suite, workers can capture, develop and discuss ideas that could become projects

PayPal will open an applications store this year where developers can offer their wares, the latest step in the company's multi-pronged strategy to deepen its relationship with external programmers.

The programming language, unveiled four months ago, aims to combine the speed of Python with the robustness of C++. Developers are happy with fast code improvements and communication lines but caution against some areas still being immature

Google will tweak its Gmail offering to allow users to post status updates, but can they make a serious impact on Facebook and Twitter?

Consumers have very little patience for online stores, e-banks and travel sites that slow down, act erratically or crash during busy transaction seasons, according to a new study from Gomez, a provider of Web performance optimization tools and services.

A new report suggests that the search giant could launch an online store to sell business software. Google already has a portal for third-party business apps, but it lacks e-commerce features