Chris Preimesberger

In advance of the 2014 Mobile World Congress, set for Feb. 24-27 in Barcelona, telecom infrastructure provider Ericsson on Feb. 12 made some announcements that confirm that it is expanding corporate strategy to the enterprise IT service provider market. Amid a score of new products and services, Ericsson introduced a new unified management system for […]

CIO Action Plan: 10 Takeaways From Wall Street Journal CIO Conference by Chris Preimesberger CIOs Need to Start Emulating CFOs CIOs need to start thinking more like CFOs, or else they will slowly forfeit their power to other colleagues. This year, CIOs will be required to better convey their value in pure financial terms because […]

On Wednesday, Feb. 12, at 11 a.m. PST/2 p.m. EST/7 p.m. GMT, @eWEEKnews will host its 15th eWEEKChat event. The topic will be “Sizing Up Wearable Computing.” It will be moderated by Chris Preimesberger, who serves as eWEEK’s editor of features and analysis.Some quick facts:Topic: “Sizing Up Wearable Computing.”Date/time: Feb. 12, 2014 @11a.m. PST/2 p.m. […]

SAN FRANCISCO—In a competition not unlike the globally popular “American Idol,” IBM on Feb. 6 named Coriell Life Sciences as the 2013 winner of its fourth annual Entrepreneur of the Year award. Like the popular singing-competition television show, which has been adapted in 46 countries, Coriell had to survive the challenge of thousands of contestants […]

Twitter on Feb. 5 posted its first earnings report since it went public Nov. 7, 2013, and the results were mixed, to say the least. While the financials are improving, growth in the company’s user base has slowed, to the consternation of investors. While it is still operating in the red overall, in the fourth […]

Defining the Third IT Platform: Key 2014 Trends Identified by IDC by Chris Preimesberger Worldwide IT Growth Will Be Up, Modestly Worldwide IT spending will reach $2.14 trillion, up 5.1 percent from 2013 levels, almost one point higher than 2013’s growth rate. Smartphones and tablets (13 percent) will lead 2014 growth, accounting for more than […]

Facebook came out Feb. 3 with a strategic new app that it hopes will fire up new interest in the world’s largest social network that some people believe is losing a bit of steam after its first 10 years. Facebook Paper, as it is called, is a second-generation news aggregator for iPhones that will become […]

NoSQL and Big Data Analytics: 10 Things Every CIO Should Know by Chris Preimesberger Identify the Right Database The big data landscape includes many different buckets. Hadoop and MapReduce programming applies to offline data, where everything is processed in a batch. The NoSQL category is rather coarse and includes several types of data models: column […]

There are a few ways to anticipate the result of a sporting event: 1) by emotion, which is pulling for a favorite team to be victorious, whether or not it’s actually the better team; 2) by educated guess, which is using one’s own knowledge and intuitiveness to project a winner; and c) by data science, […]

Google, with all of its acquisition moves, robot R&D, moonshot ideas and edgy Earthbound projects, above all knows how to run a successful business. This is a company that went public in August 2004 at $85 per share and plainly knows how to make money in the new economy. The stock closed Jan. 30 up […]

Yes, the phenomenon of so-called “big data” has clearly made it to the buzzword level. Sometimes truly important technology trends, in fact, do become buzzwords. To begin to qualify this, we can look at the projected numbers from the analysts—which, of course, are themselves computed by using big data sets. Big data storage (and the […]

It’s hard to figure what moves Wall Street investors sometimes. For example, earlier this week, Apple announced positive earnings results plus the fact that it sold 51 million iPhones, a quarterly record. The stock spiraled downhill and hadn’t leveled off by late Jan. 29. Then, Facebook on Jan. 29 released a similarly positive earnings report, […]