As uncertainty continues to loom over software patents around the world, is the utility model the way to go in the fast-moving industry?

Dan Farber: Once, HP Utility Data Center was proof of the company's leadership in the emerging on-demand, adaptive computing, pay-as-you-go world. Today, the hardware and software combo is history.

IBM will release software at month's end to let customers start sampling some of the promised benefits of Big Blue's utility computing vision. IBM has begun showing off the new product, called ...

Utility software-as-a-service company Aptumo, which bills 15 million households in the U.K. and Australia, is launching in the U.S., the latest example of a government technology firm expanding ...