Ever since veteran software entrepreneur Dave Duffield launched his new startup, Workday, a year and a half ago, public have wondered whether it could become the next Salesforce.com. Marc Benioff, Salesforce.com’s chief executive, had shaken up the customer-relationship management software world and…

The Buzz is now opening up. Yahoo announced that its Buzz ratings service, at buzz.yahoo.com, will be open to the public as of Tuesday evening.

Buzz had been first introduced in February as an alpha experiment of Yahoo’s community news-rating service. At the instance, Yahoo’s Tapan Bhat, vice presi…

The Federal Communications Commission is intensifying its nationwide push to increase public awareness about next year’s transition to digital television (DTV) on Feb. 17. As part of the initiative, FCC commissioners will crisscross the nation to hold public events within TV markets in which more th…

MobileMe. It could go down in Apple’s history as “Woe is me.”

MobileMe is a subscriber service that delivers push e-mail, push contacts and push calendars into the “cloud” of native applications for the iPhone, iPod touch, Macs and PCs. The goal is to keep them all synchronized, but MobileMe saw ma…

A new beta software development kit is out for Android, the open-source mobile operating system backed by Google. Version 0.9 of the SDK was announced Monday on the Android Developers Blog.

An early version was released in November and, although some developers praised it, many said they found it b…

After lots of complaints about iPhone 3G connection issues, Apple released a firmware update Monday with hopes it would fix the issues. But early reports propose it didn’t work as planned.

Complaints have included dropped calls, abrupt network switches, poor reception, and service interruptions.

T…

Much has been made about the readiness of the iPhone for the enterprise. Now that Gartner has declared that it is, organizations that issue that new iPhone to employees should be aware of an old IRS rule that has forced others to pay huge back taxes, according to NPR on Thursday.

The often overlook…