Blogs
Google Layoff Debate Misses the Point
By John Hazard | Posted: 2008-11-24
There is a debate brewing today about Google's employment figures, and it misses the point.
Do you call the situation threatening the jobs of 10,000 employees at Google "layoffs"? To the men and
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SAP Scores Coup with Wookey Hire
By John Pallatto | Posted: 2008-11-12
John Wookey, the former head of application development for Oracle's Fusion applications, started work on Nov. 10 with Oracle's archrival SAP as senior vice president of Large Enterprise On Demand
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Spencer Katt Caught on Camera
By John Hazard | Posted: 2008-10-03
It's amazing what stir crazy cubicle dwellers will find in the closet on a slow Friday in October at Ziff Davis Enterprise. Spencer Katt ... in some sort of superhero costume? I won't ask. Apparently, he used to make the rounds in this superhero costume at Comdex parties in
Oracle Database Administrators Fear the 'Super User'
By John Hazard | Posted: 2008-09-25
What keeps Oracle database administrators up at night? Cranky servers? Hackers? Pushy vendor reps? It's their colleagues. Specifically managers, administrators, consultants and
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So Long, Transmeta
By Jeff Burt | Posted: 2008-09-25
So Transmeta is up for sale, a move reported by eWEEK's Scott Ferguson and one that will mark the end of an innovative processor company that turned its attention to battery life and energy consumption several years
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Microsoft, HP Thin the Shareholder Herd to Raise Shares
By John Hazard | Posted: 2008-09-22
How does a Fortune 500 company caught in the lack of confidence hammering the stock markets put a rocket under its share price? Thin the herd. Like conservationists killing off portions of a wildlife population to avoid famine or disease, Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard have killed off a number of their
IBM Is Banking on Academics to Win the Services War with HP-EDS
By John Hazard | Posted: 2008-09-17
IBM researchers, the Ph.D.s and technologists by vocation, not profession, the lab-coat academics who toil years in the bowels of Big Blue on theoretical projects two
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Twittering Hurricane Ike
By John Hazard | Posted: 2008-09-12
CNN's Rick Sanchez is using Twitter as a tool to report the news. It flips the Me-to-Many Twitter model I had imagined. Twitter's real power is Many-to-Me.
The Planet Prepares Data Center 'Bunkers' for Hurricane Ike
By John Hazard | Posted: 2008-09-12
Catastrophic events such as storms, wars, financial meltdowns and disasters offer a unique opportunity for captivating observation (blow by blow news coverage) during the event
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Large Hadron Collider Smashes Particles and Crunches Numbers on a Massive Scale
By John Hazard | Posted: 2008-09-10
It's been called the search for the God Particle, the very origins of the universe and the beginning of time. The effort is massive, akin to early days of the space program that put men on the moon in less than two decades. It involves extreme equipment - the Large
New Life for Old Tennis Stats
By John Hazard | Posted: 2008-09-06
The U.S. Tennis Association and IBM are using video mashups to give scores and statistics a longer shelf life. Any business swimming in data points should consider it a lesson in business intelligence and visibility.
VMworld Timing Makes Latest VMware Resignation Sting
By John Hazard | Posted: 2008-09-02
Richard Sarwal, VMware's executive vice president of research and development, resigned his VMware post Sept. 2 and announced he is headed back to Oracle, from whence he came just nine months
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Palo Alto, Calif., Meet Flint, Mich.
By John Hazard | Posted: 2008-08-29
Silicon Valley could be the next Flint, Mich. Imagine it, once-manicured corporate campuses overgrown; corporate cafeterias where gourmet meals were once served to throngs of the well paid now
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McCain VP: Smart Money, and Crowd Sourcing, Is on Tim Pawlenty
By John Hazard | Posted: 2008-08-28
UPDATE 2: Sarah Palin's reps were full of it. Palin, the 44-year-old, first-term governor of the Kodiak state is and presumably always was McCain's VP pick after all. I'll blog on this later to see when Palin's prospects first popped on InTrade and how it progressed. UPDATE:So much for Crowd
FAA Networks, Like Bridges, Collapse Far Too Often
By John Hazard | Posted: 2008-08-27
The fumble that fouled the FAA Aug. 26 was merely the most recent and most visible for an infrastructure that was installed during the Reagan Administration and purchased by a company that went out of business 20 years ago.
