Tech Comics: "The User and the Geek"
By Oliver Widder | News Article Published November 20, 2009
As hard as they try to bridge the gap, users and geeks simply do not speak the same language.

Apple to Open 40-50 Stores in 2010
By Reuters | News Article Published November 13, 2009
The computer maker plans to capitalize on its growing popularity in the PC and handheld markets.

Tech Comics: "Automatic Email Completion (and Love)"
By Oliver Widder | News Article Published November 13, 2009
Email clients automatically fill in an address after you type in a few letters, which can lead to problems.

Tech Rebound: Chip Sales Up Sharply in Q3
By Andy Patrizio | News Article Published November 10, 2009
PC microprocessor zoomed to all-time record levels in Q3, suggesting rosier times for the tech sector.

Tech Comics: "Enterprise Architecture Made Easy"
By Oliver Widder | News Article Published November 6, 2009
Sometimes an obscure-looking flowchart is easy to understand than it first appears.

Intel Faces Antitrust Lawsuit, Kickbacks Alleged
By Reuters | News Article Published November 5, 2009
Chip giant Intel was sued by the New York Attorney General, who claimed the company paid billions of dollars in kickbacks to maintain its market dominance.

Microsoft Axes 800 Staffers, Finishes Layoffs
By | News Article Published November 5, 2009
The job reductions were part of Microsoft's plan to cut 5 percent of its workforce by June 2010.

Salesforce, Oracle Targeted by Microsoft
By | News Article Published November 4, 2009
Microsoft has rolled out aggressive new pricing for its on-demand offering in an effort to undercut SaaS rivals.

Cloud Storage Allies: EMC, Intel
By Andy Patrizio | News Article Published November 3, 2009
The alliance between EMC and Intel will improve the energy efficiency of EMC's Atmos cloud storage system.

Tech Comics: "If Microsoft Had Developed Twitter"
By Oliver Widder | News Article Published October 30, 2009
Clearly, the microblogging service would be far different than it is today.

RIM's Debuts its Crown Jewel: BlackBerry Storm2
By Michelle Megna | News Article Published October 29, 2009
The Storm2 Blackberry smartphone offers improved e-mail management and remote file access.

Cisco to Acquire SaaS Security Firm ScanSafe
By Reuters | News Article Published October 27, 2009
ScanSafe offers a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model where applications are licensed to companies for on-demand use.

Why iPhone and Kindle Will Continue to Rule
By Mike Elgan | News Article Published October 21, 2009
Tech prognosticators are making faulty predictions based on an over-estimation of a link between product "quality" and unit sales, and an underestimation of the power of human nature on the decision-making process.

Intel CEO Forecasts Big Second Half
By David Needle | News Article Published October 23, 2009
PC sales will be up this year over last, with a greater boost coming in 2010, says Intel CEO Paul Otellini.

Apple Sued by Nokia
By Reuters | News Article Published October 23, 2009
Claiming patent infringement, Nokia accused the iPhone maker of trying to hitch a "free-ride" on its technology investments.

Tech Comics: "Twitter and Short Things"
By Oliver Widder | News Article Published October 23, 2009
Twitter users are necessarily fond of short things.

Microsoft Unveils Windows 7
By Reuters | News Article Published October 22, 2009
The new OS is cheaper and faster than Vista -- and shoulders great expectations for the Windows brand.

Cisco ISR Routers Get Big Refresh
By Sean Michael Kerner | News Article Published October 21, 2009
The ISR facelift includes the latest iteration of routing, processing, video and scalability features.

RIM Unveils Upscale Blackberry Bold
By Reuters | News Article Published October 21, 2009
The new BlackBerry Bold smartphone is designed for professional users and affluent retail consumers.

Dell Predicts Windows 7 Boost by Mid 2010
By Reuters | News Article Published October 21, 2009
Demand for PC's will likely pick up by the middle of next year in response to this week's Windows 7 release.

Apple Blows Past Expectations
By Reuters | News Article Published October 20, 2009
Apple profits and sales zoomed past Wall Street forecasts as iPhone and Mac sales hit quarterly records.

Marvell Takes on Intel, nVidia
By Andy Patrizio | News Article Published October 19, 2009
Marvell's release of four new ARM-based designs -- for everything from smartphones to HDTVs -- competes directly with the better known chipmakers.

Apple Looks Rosy, But iPhone Questions Linger
By Reuters | News Article Published October 19, 2009
Even with optimistic earnings expectations, Apple must generate some robust iPhone sales figures.

Gartner: Chip Sales Growth Will Return (Slowly)
By Andy Patrizio | News Article Published October 16, 2009
While growth in chip sector is clearly on the way, the number won't be dramatic.

Tech Comics: "Stallman and Windows 7"
By | News Article Published October 16, 2009
There's at least one way to make a Windows 7 launch party quite a bit more fun.

Cloud Storage Industry Sets Standards
By Larry Barrett | News Article Published October 15, 2009
The newly formed Cloud Storage Initiative (CSI) will work to create consensus on technical specifications for the emerging cloud storage industry.

Google to Open Online E-Book Store
By Reuters | News Article Published October 15, 2009
Google expects to have approximately a half million e-books available by early in 2010.

RIM to Release New Blackberry Storm
By Reuters | News Article Published October 15, 2009
The move is an effort by RIM to challenge the the iPhone as Apple offers the device to a larger number of wireless carriers.

Salesforce Not Shy at Oracle OpenWorld
By David Needle | News Article Published October 14, 2009
Oracle is apparently quite fond of Salesforce -- even though they compete in some sectors.

Cisco to Buy Wireless Maker Starent for $2.9 Billion
By Reuters | News Article Published October 14, 2009
The acquisition will Cisco's product line as phone carriers build out next-generation networks.

IT Spending to Jump, Dell CEO Says
By Reuters | News Article Published October 14, 2009
A major hardware refresh will begin next year, Dell CEO Michael Dell opines.

Acer Sees Tech Rebound
By Reuters | News Article Published October 12, 2009
The PC maker's expectations reflects optimism about greater consumer demand for tech.

Dell to Push Salesforce Apps to PC Buyers
By Reuters | News Article Published October 12, 2009
The alliance enables Salesforce.com to reach Dell's sizable SMB audience.

India to be World Tech Leader, Forbes Says
By Reuters | News Article Published October 12, 2009
As software companies move up in the value chain, India's strength in the service sector will emerge strongly, opines Forbes CEO Steve Forbes.

Tech Comics: "Real Time Internet"
By Oliver Widder | News Article Published October 9, 2009
Communicating over the Internet may not be as interesting as originally hoped.

IBM Unveils Storage Cloud for Enterprises
By Larry Barrett | News Article Published October 7, 2009
IBM launched a private cloud-based storage and archiving application for enterprise customers.

Microsoft Debuts New Cell Phone Software
By Reuters | News Article Published October 6, 2009
The new software takes aim at the Blackberry and the iPhone.

MSFT: More Search Buys Unlikely
By Reuters | News Article Published October 5, 2009
Having partnered wtih Yahoo, Microsoft's Steve Ballmer says that should do it for now.

Tech Comics: "The Longest Tail"
By Oliver Widder | News Article Published October 2, 2009
The popular tech theory of "The Long Tail" has an additional, little know meaning.

Facebook Connect Links to Other Sites
By David Needle | News Article Published October 1, 2009
The new Facebook Connect Wizard aids the process of implementing Facebook Connect, which lets users display photos and links to friends from Facebook to other sites.

nVidia's New 'Fermi': 'Supercomputing in a GPU'
By Andy Patrizio | News Article Published October 1, 2009
nVidia is touting its next generation in graphics architecture, codenamed "Fermi," calling it "the soul of a supercomputer in the body of a GPU."

Steve Ballmer Describes Tech's "New Normal"
By Stuart J. Johnston | News Article Published October 1, 2009
The economic calamity has created a lowered sense of expectations, opines the Microsoft CEO.

Cisco's $3 Billion Tandberg Buy is Big Video Bet
By Reuters | News Article Published October 1, 2009
Cisco's acquisition of Norwegian videoconferencing company Tandberg for $3 billion in cash illustrates that the company sees bright horizons for video.

Steve Ballmer Takes Salary Cut
By Reuters | News Article Published September 30, 2009
But the Microsoft CEO still owns approximately $10 billion worth of company stock.

HP: IT Spending Bounce Back in 2010
By Reuters | News Article Published September 25, 2009
Hewlett-Packard forecast that IT spending will bounce back in 2010, yet its own 2010 revenue forecast was just below Wall Street's expectations.

Tech Comics: "Programmers are Artists"
By | News Article Published September 25, 2009
Software developers can use code to accomplish more than the building of great applications.

IBM Tweaks Lotus Connections for Web 2.0
By Larry Barrett | News Article Published September 23, 2009
Lotus Connections will now have customized community pages, a new wiki service and microblogging.

Intel Looks Beyond PCs As Market Shifts
By Reuters | News Article Published September 23, 2009
Intel will boost efforts in consumer electronics and other markets beyond the aging personal computer business.

Indian IT Firms Hire Paramilitary for Protection
By Reuters | News Article Published September 21, 2009
At first observers thought the move was an overreaction, yet in the wake of international terror attacks it may be reasonable protection.

Dell to Acquire Perot Systems for $3.9 billion
By Reuters | News Article Published September 21, 2009
Some analysts called the acquisition too pricey for comfort.

Google CEO Doubts Murdoch's 'Pay for Content'
By Reuters | News Article Published September 18, 2009
Publishers won't succeed at charging for online content because too much free material is already available.

Tech Comics: "Love on Twitter"
By | News Article Published September 18, 2009
Twitter's communication protocols make expressing affection that much easier.

Oracle Q1 Results: Profit OK, Revenue Not
By Larry Barrett | News Article Published September 17, 2009
The database giant's financial results in Q1 were on target, though investors weren't thrilled.

eBay Sued by Skype Founders
By Reuters | News Article Published September 17, 2009
The plaintiff believes damages are piling up at a rate of more than $75 million a day. eBay denies the allegations.

Oracle Ends PC Alliance with HP
By Reuters | News Article Published September 16, 2009
Oracle is about to acquire Sun Microsystems, a rival of HP, hence the end of an alliance.

Big Changes at Intel
By Reuters | News Article Published September 14, 2009
The dominant chip maker is restructuring its business in the wake of a major departure.

Tech Comics: "Smartphones vs. Humans"
By Oliver Widder | News Article Published September 11, 2009
If smartphones get any smarter, we humans may be in trouble.

Dell Unveils Servers for SMBs
By Andy Patrizio | News Article Published September 9, 2009
Dell claims the servers offers lower management costs.

Palm's New Pixi Phone Faces Tough Market
By Reuters | News Article Published September 9, 2009
Palm's new lower cost cell phone faces tough competition from Apple and Motorola.

Intel Unveils Core i5 Processors: High End Desktop
By Andy Patrizio | News Article Published September 8, 2009
The new processors will also serve the low end server market.

Cisco Lands Big Datacenter Contract
By Andy Patrizio | News Article Published September 4, 2009
Cisco's Unified Computing System (USC) scored a big win with a construction company that will use it to consolidate five facilities into one.

Tech Comics: "Silent Unfriending"
By Oliver Widder | News Article Published September 4, 2009
It's easier to end a relationship than previously believed.

Q2 Server Sales: Glum and Gloomy
By Andy Patrizio | News Article Published September 3, 2009
Despite the bad news, a research firm sees some sunlight between the clouds.

Intel, AMD Prep Six-Core PC Chips
By Andy Patrizio | News Article Published September 3, 2009
By the end of this year both major chipmakers are expected to releases six-core chips for desktop computers.

Oracle 11g New Release: Frugality
By Alex Goldman | News Article Published September 2, 2009
While the 2007 release of Oracle's database solution focused on innovation, this year's is all about keeping costs low.

Apple to host Big Event September 9
By Reuters | News Article Published September 1, 2009
Apple watchers speculate that Apple's so-called iPad will be unveiled at a high profile confab on September 9. Yet that appears unlikely.

eBay to Sell Most of Skype
By Reuters | News Article Published September 1, 2009
EBay will sell off a 65 percent stake in Skype for $2.75 billion.

Virtualization Market: MSFT Gaining on VMware?
By Stuart J. Johnston | News Article Published August 28, 2009
A new report indicates that while VMware maintains a solid lead in the virtualization market, Microsoft is gaining ground in at least one area.

Tech Comics: "Why Geeks Love Gadgets"
By Oliver Widder | News Article Published August 28, 2009
Sometimes gadgets are easier to love than humans.

IBM, Indian IT Firms Split Deal with BP
By | News Article Published August 26, 2009
IBM and Indian firms, Tata, Infosys and Wipro each won five-year IT services contract from oil and gas major BP.

McAfee: 'Jessica Biel' Search is Most Risky
By Reuters | News Article Published August 25, 2009
Actress Jessica Biel has overtaken Brad Pitt as the most dangerous celebrity to search in cyberspace, according to Internet security company McAfee.

Yahoo to Challenge Bing Despite MSFT Deal
By Reuters | News Article Published August 25, 2009
Yahoo has revamped its search to compete against Microsoft's Bing search engine, even as it relies on the software giant to power its queries.

Salesforce Quarterly Results: Big Upside
By Alex Goldman | News Article Published August 21, 2009
The SaaS and cloud computing pioneer Salesforce.com demonstrates that its Service Cloud is a revenue generator even in gloomy times.

Tech Comics: "Twitter Users' Favorite Pets"
By Oliver Widder | News Article Published August 21, 2009
Given how fond Twitter users are of retweeting, their choice for favorite pet is no surprise.

Downloaders Grab Windows 7 RC
By | News Article Published August 20, 2009
Users who want to test Windows 7 before it's released publicly in October can still download the final pre-release version until the end Thursday, August 20.

HP: Services Hot, Software-Hardware Not
By Alex Goldman | News Article Published August 19, 2009
The tech giant's financial results reflected larger trends throughout the technology industry.

MSFT Hopes to Stay Word Injunction
By Reuters | News Article Published August 19, 2009
The software giant has filed a motion to continue to allow it sell all of its version of Word.

Tech Comics: "Einstein and Twitter"
By | News Article Published August 14, 2009
How would the great genius's work have been received if he had lived in the Age of Twitter?

Tech Investors: Social Media, Mobile
By David Needle | News Article Published July 31, 2009
Silicon Valley VC's say Green IT is overhyped, while the real money is in social media and mobile.

Tech Comics: "The Art of Programming"
By Oliver Widder | News Article Published July 31, 2009
Logic is only one of the elements in really beautiful code.

Love at Last: MSFT Inks Yahoo Search Deal
By Reuters | News Article Published July 29, 2009
Microsoft and Yahoo, after the longest courtship in recent memory, will collaborate in search.

Apple Tablet to Debut With New Album Format?
By Reuters | News Article Published July 29, 2009
The major labels will launch a new digital album format about the same time that Apple debuts its tablet this fall, according to sources.

Tech Comics: "Twitter in the History of Communication"
By Oliver Widder | News Article Published July 24, 2009
Once upon a time, humankind dreamed that it would be able to send 140 characters at a time.

MSFT Miss Prompts Recovery Fears
By Reuters | News Article Published July 24, 2009
The software giant's earnings shortfall calls into a question a near term economic recovery.

VMware, Citirx Top Investors' Estimates
By Christopher Saunders | News Article Published July 23, 2009
Both players in the virtualization sector demonstrate the health of this emerging trend.

SMBs Hurt by Lack of IT Budget
By Stuart J. Johnston | News Article Published July 22, 2009
Budget cuts are particularly tough on the IT capabilities of small businesses.

IBM Tightens Juniper Alliance, Downplays Cisco Rivalry
By Reuters | News Article Published July 22, 2009
Big Blue is boosting its partnership with Juniper while downplaying suggestions it was aiming to keep an increasingly competitive Cisco at bay.

Tech Looks to India for R&D
By Reuters | News Article Published July 21, 2009
Prompted by cost cutting fever, more tech companies are looking toward India.

CIOs See Better IT Spending Picture
By Reuters | News Article Published July 20, 2009
IT spending levels are still expected to fall, but not as much as previously forecast.

MSFT Investors Looking for Silver Lining
By Reuters | News Article Published July 20, 2009
Despite expectations of a report of the company's first annual sales decline, investors are buoyed by positive Windows 7 reviews and talk of a Yahoo deal.

IBM: A Tight Ship in Rough Seas
By Andy Patrizio | News Article Published July 17, 2009
The company's recent financial result demonstrate that running a lean operation can produce a profit even against a headwind.

Tech Comics: "Social Networking in the Recession"
By Oliver Widder | News Article Published July 17, 2009
Using social networking sites is time consuming, a problem that the recession provides all too much help with.

PC Sales Plunge
By Andy Patrizio | News Article Published July 16, 2009
The desktop market suffered a jaw-dropping 18 percent year-over-year fall .

MSFT to Launch Stores Near Apple's
By Reuters | News Article Published July 16, 2009
The move appears designed to draw a distinction based on price.

TechCrunch Reveals Twitter Confidential Info
By Reuters | News Article Published July 16, 2009
The sensitive documents include financial projections. Twitter may take legal action.

Windows 7 Volume Discounts: 15-35 Percent
By Stuart J. Johnston | News Article Published July 14, 2009
Microsoft will offer significant volume licensing discounts for Windows 7.

Patent Licensing Firm Sues IBM over ASIC
By Reuters | News Article Published July 14, 2009
The suit concerns the fabrication and sales of a chip and application in the ASIC products.

Hotmail Adds Bing
By Stuart J. Johnston | News Article Published July 11, 2009
Hotmail users can use Microsoft's Bing search engine as they check email.