Ask a software industry analyst-someone who is supposed to know everything about the software business-about shareware, and the response probably will be either a shrug or a curt dismissal. None of ...

With Apple’s introduction of an iPhone Software Development Kit (SDK) last week, it seems everyone and their brother is hopping on the iPhone bandwagon or considering the jump. There are still some ...

Nobody likes to buy sight unseen. That's the compelling feature of shareware: software that computer users can test out for a certain time without a fee. Payment follows voluntarily after the end of ...

I had no idea how important shareware was, and arguably still is, to the gaming industry until today. To me, shareware represented the few games I managed to play for free throughout the '90s. In ...

Capiche is a secret society for SaaS power users, building a new community of people who care about software to make the SaaS industry more transparent, together. Matthew Guay is Capiche‘s founding ...

Back before YouTube and Twitch and always online DRM, developers needed more effective ways of marketing than just relying on word of mouth. This resulted in shareware, demos and demo discs, free ...

More of China's programmers are writing shareware--home-brewed, low-cost software--for fun and small profit, according to the official Xinhua news agency. Unlike commercial software from behemoths ...

Fully searchable and easy to navigate--thanks to a layout that takes advantage of new Sun and Netscape design tools--shareware.com does for software what Yahoo! did for finding Web sites.