If you've been using a personal computer for long enough, you've probably made a habit of interchangeably referring to the applications on your hard drive as programs or software. Both terms have been ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I track enterprise software application development & data management. Back at the early dawn of prehistory, we used to reserve ...

Last week, my ZDNet buddy Adrian Kingsley-Hughes wrote an interesting article providing his perspective about why the desktop PC is far from dead. For some reason, the idea that a guy with a British ...

A 'consumer' is primarily a label for any individuals or households that use goods generated within the economy. (The 13th century early origins of the word are derived from 'squanderer' and in more ...

When we think of the major forces shaping our civilization, what most often comes to mind are big governments and corporations or breakthroughs in science and technology. I usually consider these ...