iPhone, BlackBerry Storm to Square Off in 2009 [December 23, 2008] New survey says Apple faces market challenge from Research in Motion's touchscreen smartphone. Who will emerge the victor?
Online Shoppers Have Fewer Last Minutes [December 22, 2008] With fewer days from Thanksgiving to Christmas, shortened holiday season sees total spending down from last year despite last-minute shopping surge.
2009: The Year Microsoft 'Gets' Users? By Christopher Saunders [January 5, 2009] If it's going to fight Google and Apple on their own turf while figuring out cloud computing, Microsoft will have to 'think different.'
Work Ethic 2.0: Attention Control By Mike Elgan [December 29, 2008] Commentary: A person who works with total focus has an enormous advantage over a workaholic who's "multi-tasking" all day, answering every phone call, constantly checking Facebook and Twitter, and indulging every interruption.
EMC, Apple and Customer Loyalty Approaches By Rob Enderle [December 19, 2008] Commentary: A tech vendor's success has as much to do with customer perception as actual product quality, making the vendor-customer relationship of paramount importance.
Apple to Macworld: Drop Dead By David Needle [December 17, 2008] The decision to drop out of Macworld Expo doesn't bode well for the Mac community.
Sun's Financial Failings Greatly Exaggerated By Paul Shread [December 9, 2008] If you're expecting Sun Microsystems to be rescued by a white knight, you'll be disappointed: The company doesn't need to be saved.
Who's Breaking Moore's Law? By Mike Elgan [December 5, 2008] The computer industry needs to stop padding products with ever longer lists of features and "improvements," and start focusing on raw performance.
What Will Become of Sun Microsystems? By Paul Rubens [December 4, 2008] Whether Sun rises on its own or another OEM comes to its rescue, the future isn't looking so bright for the former Silicon Valley giant.
Tips on Storage Architecture for E-Discovery By Henry Newman [December 1, 2008] E-Discovery systems pose unique challenges for storage architects if they want to keep up with data growth, performance and backup and recovery demands.
Why a Sun/EMC Match Might Work By Andy Patrizio [November 28, 2008] Opinion: Some things just can't be allowed to fade into the sunset. A Silicon Valley original like Sun is one of them. Here's why EMC might be its best suitor.
McColo and the Difficulty of Fighting Spam By Ray Everett-Church [November 20, 2008] In a world full of spamming, phishing and other fraudulent behavior, even the most battle-tested spam investigators are hard-pressed to assess who’s to blame and who’s been framed.
Why You'll Buy a Netbook On Black Friday By Mike Elgan [November 13, 2008] Ten tips for scoring a sweet netbook. Because you can never be too rich, too thin or have too many netbooks.
Apple Unfashionably Late to the Cloud Party By Paul Rubens [November 11, 2008] Apple may be hip to the mobile and digital music scenes, but when it comes to the enterprise server room, it still doesn't get it.
How Facebook Is Destroying the 'Nuclear Family' By Mike Elgan [October 27, 2008] Just as technological and cultural changes ushered in the nuclear family 60 years ago, new changes are showing it the door. The biggest of these is the rise of social networking.
Why Exploitability is Key to Risk By Sean Michael Kerner [October 17, 2008] Commentary: Even if it's not perfect, there's a lot to like about Microsoft's Exploitability Index.
AMD, HP, and Innovation in Financial Crisis By Rob Enderle [October 10, 2008] The parallels between how AMD, HP and the presidential candidates handle challenges reveal that crisis can be an opportunity to move forward.
Three Ways SMBs Can Survive the Downturn By Mike Elgan [October 9, 2008] You've heard most of these ideas before, but economic meltdowns have a funny way of making once-unthinkable changes suddenly appealing.
No/Low/High-Tech Hacking: It All Matters By Sean Michael Kerner [October 9, 2008] Don't point the finger at hackers for all security woes. Point hacker
tools at yourself to see what's wrong with your stuff, instead.
Big IT Decisions for the Small-Minded By Steve Andriole [October 7, 2008] The tech world is distracted with petty squabbling – like PCs vs. Macs – when larger issues need attention.
Build a Solid Virtual Foundation By Amy Newman [September 17, 2008] Virtually Speaking: Good hardware is a fundamental component of an effective virtualization deployment. Quantifying ROI and other benefits is often critical to getting the hardware.
VMware's Show Goes On -- and Goes Big By Amy Newman [September 12, 2008] Despite a recent management shakeup and competitive pressure Microsoft, VMware's VMworld clearly remains a trade show force to be reckoned with.
How the Blogosphere Killed the Press Conference By Mike Elgan [September 9, 2008] The Internet – including the Twitosphere – has made announcing information to groups of reporters gathered in a room an obsolete process.
Google Chrome Won't Kill IE By Sean Michael Kerner [September 4, 2008] Google's browser debut won't kill Microsoft's IE, but it might kill local search and mortally wound Mozilla.
Social Networking: What Are 'Friends' For? By Mike Elgan [September 3, 2008] Consider dropping your resistance to "open" social networking and embrace it with a vengeance. It's the best thing to happen to our species since language.
Big Green Takes Center Court at U.S. Open By Christopher Saunders [August 29, 2008] Tennis may be the game at this year's U.S. Open, but IBM and the USTA aren't playing around when it comes to promoting energy-efficient operations.
The Microsoft-Novell Deal and Trust in Princes By Bruce Byfield [August 29, 2008] Forced to choose, the average Free and open sourced-based (FOSS) business is going to choose business interests over FOSS every time.
Three iPhone Killers: Netbooks, MID, Android By Rob Enderle [August 25, 2008] The top three iPhone competitors pose a threat to Apple, but may need a product generation or two to realize their full potential.
Is Ubuntu Really the Most User-Friendly Distribution? By Bruce Byfield [August 25, 2008] What exactly are the characteristics of user-friendliness? And does stressing user-friendliness mean ignoring other values -- perhaps equally important ones?
'Green' Gadgets? Or Greenwashing By Mike Elgan [August 22, 2008] If you actually want to help the environment, then buy consumer electronics that are super high-end and built to last.
How To Get Your E-mail Past Clients' Spam Filter By Ray Everett-Church [August 21, 2008] Achieving 'deliverability,' otherwise known as getting e-mail delivered to a user's inbox in a timely and fully-functional fashion, is both an art and a science. Here are some tips.
Why 'Cloud Computing' Is for the Birds By Mike Elgan [August 18, 2008] The "cloud computing" buzzword has got to go. It's simply too confusing, misleading, redundant and dangerous.
Debian: 15 Years Old and at the Crossroads By Bruce Byfield [August 18, 2008] Big challenges face the grand old distro. Debian's non-commercial values continue to earn it followers, while those preferring user-friendliness gravitate toward Ubuntu.
The Great Industry Standard Conspiracy By Drew Robb [August 15, 2008] As x86 becomes the ever-pervasive server "standard," RISC and other long-standing and capable architectures are being pushed further into the cold. Natural market forces or deliberate positioning on the part of the OEMs?
Canonical's Power Play By Paul Rubens [August 15, 2008] Ubuntu, coming soon to an enterprise near you -- if Canonical has its way. And Ubuntu's not the only distro with an eye on large organizations.
The Future of VMware By Jeff Vance [August 12, 2008] In the future, no one will care about the OS. That’s good news for VMware.
Did Dan Kaminsky Save the Internet? By Sean Michael Kerner [August 11, 2008] The DNS flaw is one of the most-discussed vulnerabilities in the history of computing. Is the man who discovered it to be praised as a savior or despised as a fear-monger and self-promoter?
Has Vista Been Unfairly Savaged by the Media? By Ronald Barrett [August 11, 2008] Given Vista's many steps forward, it seems that it's been treated inordinately roughly. This may be because its parts are perhaps better than the whole.
What If China's Orwellian Olympics Succeeds? By Mike Elgan [August 8, 2008] China is employing an unprecedented level of state-of-the-art digital technology to suppress media freedom. For the sake of humanity, let's hope Beijing's Orwellian IT experiment fails.
The View Beyond Vista By Paul Rubens [August 8, 2008] Has Microsoft written off Vista? The 18-month-old desktop OS has yet to gain significant traction, and rumblings of the next generation are starting to be heard.
The 'Anti-Java' Professor and the Jobless Programmers By James Maguire [August 7, 2008] Actually, this top computer science professor isn’t exactly ‘anti-Java’ – but he deplores its effect on CS studies. And he sees dark clouds ahead if something doesn’t change.
How to Prevent a Coffee Shop Wi-Fi Attack By Kenneth van Wyk [August 7, 2008] Logging on using your mobile device allows hackers to steal your password unless you take basic precautions.
What's Wrong With Microsoft's 'Mojave Experiment'? By Mike Elgan [August 1, 2008] To prove that people really do like Vista, Microsoft held a series of videotaped focus groups, and told attendees -- all non-Vista users -- they would be shown a future version of Windows called "Mojave."
Apple: Out of Touch With Server Room Needs By Paul Rubens [July 31, 2008] Apple's products are mostly fun and games these days. Still, it continues to court businesses. Is basing a datacenter infrastructure on it akin to playing Tumblin' Monkeys?
Why Apple and China Are Simply Incompatible By Mike Elgan [July 25, 2008] The pristine new Apple store in Beijing masks the very messy reality of a company like Apple trying to do business in a country like China.
Has Apple Lost Its Mojo? By Mike Elgan [July 17, 2008] The handful of recent stumbles by Cupertino is just a temporary rough patch, right?
The Impact of Google's Virtual World By Mike Elgan [July 10, 2008] Google's just-debuted virtual world is clunky right now, but expect it to grow into a monster success – and play a leading role in business as well a social networking.
Who Needs IPv6? By Sean Michael Kerner [June 27, 2008] With no killer app and little in the way of ROI, IPv6 is a tough sell for American enterprises.
Making Good on a Promise By Brian Proffitt [June 20, 2008] When IBM began shipping machines with Linux, people thought it, or AIX, would suffer in the end. Years later, neither has, and one very positive outcome has resulted.
Why Are IT Security Pros So Bad? By Kenneth van Wyk [June 6, 2008] Have you heard about the security conference where the organizers inadvertently distributed a virus-infected USB stick to the attendees?
Here Comes the Asus 'Freee PC' By Mike Elgan [June 4, 2008] Still saving your pennies to buy a computer? Forget about it -- they're about to be free. It's a wonderful time to be a nerdy cheapskate.
What's Wrong With IT? By Steve Andriole [June 2, 2008] Sorting through mismanagement of projects and budgets in information technology.
Linux File Systems: Ready for the Future? By Henry Newman [June 2, 2008] Despite the outcry, Linux file systems will require changes to handle the 100TB environments that will become commonplace in the not-too-distant future.
