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VMworld Timing Makes Latest VMware Resignation Sting

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,...

Palo Alto, Calif., Meet Flint, Mich.

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...

McCain VP: Smart Money, and Crowd Sourcing, Is on Tim Pawlenty

"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...

FAA Networks, Like Bridges, Collapse Far Too Often

very_old_computer.jpg It is little wonder that the Federal Aviation Administration's flight plan IT network crashed shortly after lunch Aug. 26, shutting down takeoffs at more...

Microsoft Photosynth 3-D Photo Service Hits the Web

Microsoft Photosynth, the company's three-dimensional photo reconstruction software, went public Aug. 20, letting users render in 3-D photos from Yahoo's Flickr, Facebook or Google...

California Budget Battle Highlights IBM’s Mainframe Work

There's little doubt that the budget standoff in California between Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and State Controller John Chiang comes down to politics. But it...

Riverbed Makes It Official with Microsoft

The folks at Riverbed Technology had a problem. The company, which makes WAN optimization solutions and shipped its first product in 2004, has always...

Google About to Buy Digg?

Google reportedly is poised to grab another chunk of the Internet, and once again it would be at Microsoft's expense.Michael Arrington at TechCrunch, citing...

A Compromise, but No Solution

Yahoo executives and outspoken activist investor Carl Icahn may have reached a https://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search/Yahoo-and-Icahn-Settle-Microsoft-Deal-Adrift/compromise that will help them avoid what promised to be an ugly...

Bad News from the Online Ad Giants. Is IT in Trouble?

IT Report Cards yesterday and this week were a mixed bag.The big names of enterprise IT showed little sign of an economic slowdown or...