We noted that Excel turned 40 this year. That makes it seem old, and today, if you say “spreadsheet,” there’s a good chance ...

We now have the internet, worldwide social networks, an encyclopedia anyone can edit, smartphones and tablets that respond to our touch, search engines that talk to us, smartwatches, digital eyewear, ...

We list the best spreadsheet app, to make it simple and easy to customize your datasets with software alternatives to Microsoft Excel. Spreadsheets are extremely common in the business world, and used ...

The search for new software concepts often can lead researchers into computer labs or university classrooms. For Ron Reimann, founder of the Baler Software Corp., Rolling Meadows, that journey led ...

Computer spreadsheet programs have been around since 1979, when Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston created VisiCalc. The breakthrough program turned the Apple II into an electronic ledger, allowing users ...

In 1978, a Harvard Business School student named Dan Bricklin was sitting in a classroom, watching his accounting lecturer filling in rows and columns on the blackboard. Every time the lecturer ...

iPhone 2.0 only: Want to save that string of flirty text messages for posterity (or evidence)? While there's no super-easy way to get your SMS history off your iPhone, with some elbow grease it's ...

In recent years, the Federal Circuit has issued a number of decisions attempting to define the line between computer-implemented claims that are patent ineligible under 35 U.S.C. § 101 for being ...

This is a story about innovation, legacy, and a surprising thing most people don’t remember about Apple’s early days. And it comes just as Apple is embarking on yet another new strategy. The story ...