Hosted applications — renting the use of business software that runs in an outside service provider’s data center — can sound very good to small businesses. Businesses can be up and running fast with ...

Hosted systems such as salesforce.com and UpShot have seen staggering growth. Salesforce.com made it into AMR Research’s Customer Management Application Spending Report, debuting at number 29 in the ...

Nsite, a hosted-applications company, is expected on Tuesday to introduce tools to customize its online sales application, and it's relying heavily on AJAX, a Web development technique. The company is ...

With new FOSS applications and self-hosted utilities popping up at a breakneck pace, now’s the best time to deploy useful services on your own hardware. From a privacy standpoint, locally-hosted apps ...

FoneMine’s ready-to-use software uses existing cellular services to allow companies to reach out to cell phone users with a range of mobile content. A start-up mobile content vendor is offering ...

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You probably run Office and other software directly from a PC hard drive. But server-side tools can put any Windows application into the cloud, keeping virtual ...

As part of its shift in business model, Microsoft is rewriting many of its applications to make them support multitenancy so that they may be offered in a hosted fashion Microsoft is rewriting many of ...