It’s all mobile phones all the time in the tech press these days, what with T-Mobile’s G1 debuting, Google opening the Android source code, Symbian cozying up to open source developers and RIM announcing its BlackBerry app store. In the mainstream news, of course, the big story is the economy.
Blogger Dave Rosenberg is looking at […]

Microsoft has released an emergency patch for a security problem which could result in a remote code execution and subsequent compromise of Windows computers.  It is all the more serious because no user interaction is required in order for a vulnerable machine to succumb.
Closely related to this is the greater worry that hackers will write […]

InformationWeek reported Friday that Linux will be on more PCs next year than Windows will.  Pointing to a blog post by Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin, writer Antone Gonsalves notes, however, that Linux won’t necessarily be the primary operating system on these computers. He explains:
“PC makers are developing computers that can give people access […]

Just as next Tuesday is a very important day for Americans, there is little doubt in my mind that this week is a defining one for the IT software industry. Earlier this week, Microsoft unveiled a bold, sweeping plan to roll out a cloud-based computing platform called Windows Azure. In addition, developers were for the […]

You gotta hand it to Sun – it doesn’t sit still for very long.
The company has made another stab at the storage market this weed but known formally as the Sun Storage 7000 line. The devick, unveiling a new open storage appliance nicknamed Amber Roae is built on the Open Solaris platform and ranges in […]

So just how bad will things get for hardware manufacturers? Pretty bad, according to the latest research, but not quite as bad as the tech bust in 2001. And by 2012, things should be approaching normal again.
It’s always difficult to predict future trends in technology buying. But it is pretty clear that the IT industry […]

For those of you who never got too jazzed about concepts like Enterprise Information Integration (EII) and Virtual Data Federation (VDF), it looks like those ideas are being repackaged into an all-new data center initiative. And with IT vendors always looking to make the most out of a successful trend, get ready to hear a […]