Chris Gonsalves

Introducing SOA is normally touted as a way for businesses to speed processes and improve the customer experience. It turns out a service-oriented architecture can be pretty useful for streamlining transactions even when the users arent in all that much of a hurry to complete the deal. Corrections Corporation of America specializes in just such […]

TAMPA, Fla.—Steve Wozniak is proud of his Apple accomplishments, but that doesnt mean he loves everything about the company, or about old friend Steve Jobs. In an interview following his keynote at the ConnectWise annual partner summit here Sept. 22, Wozniak had harsh words for todays Apple engineers, who he said often “give up too […]

TAMPA, Fla.—Its clear very quickly that Steve Wozniak is the biggest dreamer in the room. Any room. “The more computers resemble real people,” the Apple co-founder said with uncharacteristic gravitas, “the more attractive they are to people that want to learn and spend time with them doing something that is a bit of a drag. […]

CA is rolling out a new Partner Enablement Program offering improved support, better response times, sales help, and access to training and documentation for CAs most productive midmarket resellers. The program, announced Sept. 18, is among the first fruits of the Islandia, N.Y., vendors 5-month-old Mid-Market Business Unit and is focused largely on partners who […]

A pair of investor lawsuits is muddying the water around Acers proposed buyout of rival PC maker Gateway, according to the latest amendments to the deal filed with the federal Securities and Exchange Commission. According to the amended SEC filings submitted by Gateway officials in the last two days, the suits take issue with the […]

Xerox is bringing its document management expertise into the famously convoluted mortgage industry, an area in dire need of technology solutions to wring out archaic processes and Byzantine layers of complexity. The Rochester, N.Y.-based Xerox Sept. 12 said it would buy Advectis, maker of BlitzDocs, one of the few comprehensive electronic document collaboration tools purpose […]

Gateway dropped its Professional Services unit in a sale to system builder MPC as the PC maker prepares to be assumed by new owners, Taiwanese PC maker Acer. The Irvine, Calif.-based Gateway said the sale of its mostly profitable professional business unit makes good on its promise to simplify its organization and divest ancillary businesses. […]

Tech distributor Avnet is bolstering its storage lineup with the addition this week of iSCSI storage area network products from LeftHand Networks, of Boulder, Colo. The agreement calls for Avnet to distribute LeftHands full line of products—including its own appliance as well as its SAN/iQ storage clustering software—as part of Avnets growing storage practice. The […]

Erwin Kersten led his company through a revolution. As lead IT architect for Univé Verzekeringen, Kersten helped the Zwolle, Netherlands, insurance company adopt the very first pieces of what would become an organization-wide SOA. But even as the project blossomed, Kersten recognized a problem. Five services became 10. Ten be­­came 15. And soon management of […]

Hewlett-Packard is testing an innovative, new Web-based service that will allow mobile users to print documents virtually anywhere. Currently in beta, Cloudprint is a free service aimed at “anyone who needs to share, store and print their documents using a cell phone at any time no matter where they are,” according to HP spokesperson Christina […]