Chris Preimesberger

A year ago, LinkedIn had what could generously be described as a modest mobile presence. Most smartphone users using LinkedIn had to squint into their small screens at the Website if they wanted to use the service while in transit. This obviously wasn’t going to work long term. That’s why the popular social and business […]

Diversified IT products and services giant EMC reported quarterly financial results Oct. 22 that showed modest 5 percent year-over-year revenue growth, but the report also indicated that its revenue and profit streams are slowing down. The storage, virtualization and cloud software and security conglomerate missed Wall Street analyst consensus forecast on both revenue and profit. […]

iPad Air Headlines Apple Launch Event for Tablets, Notebooks, Desktops by Chris Preimesberger Cooking Once Again As one might imagine, Apple CEO Tim Cook was in a jovial mood Oct. 22 for the product launch. Introducing the iPad Air Deciding not to continue convention by naming the tablet the iPad 5, Apple introduced the iPad […]

VMware has turned around some previously worrisome financial numbers in a big way. Following its quarterly earnings report Oct. 21, the world’s largest virtualization software maker saw its stock price jet up 11.3 percent to $92 in after-hours trading after it closed at $82.65 and reported third-quarter 2013 earnings that topped analysts’ expectations. The company’s […]

SAP, empowered by growing interest in its HANA in-memory database and a sharp increase in its cloud software business, beat Wall Street estimates in its quarterly earnings report Oct. 21, and the stock price zoomed as a result. HANA, the creation of SAP co-founder Hasso Plattner, brought $204 million to the revenue line in the […]

Fighting Shadow IT: 10 Best Practices to Prevent Enterprise Data Leaks by Chris Preimesberger Protect All Data, Everywhere Data fragmentation, or data outside IT-managed systems stored on personal computers, devices and cloud services, is a real risk to corporate security. Shadow IT fragments business data and creates conflicting versions of information, increasing the chance of […]

SAN FRANCISCO–Twitter, which has selected the New York Stock Exchange to host the TWTR account for its initial public offering of stock on Nov. 15, has been in business since March 21, 2006, but has yet to make a dime to put into the bank. The San Francisco-based social network is planning to raise about […]

DEMO Fall 2013: 11 Innovative Startups That Caught eWEEK’s Eye by Chris Preimesberger Contatta Streamlines Contact Management Businesses struggle with inaccessible silos of information, communication chaos and collaboration overload. Contatta aims to simplify and streamline business by bringing together social, workrooms, contacts, task management, newsfeeds and email into one modern digital platform that works across […]

Oracle, citing public IT industry earnings reports, on Oct. 17 declared itself to be the second-largest software company in the world behind Microsoft. “Given IBM’s recently announced quarterly results, we would like to take this opportunity to point out that Oracle’s software business has been growing faster than IBM’s software business, and now Oracle has […]

AMD was able to report Oct. 17 that it finally has made the long climb back to profitability. CEO Rory Read correctly predicted three months ago that the chip maker would return to black numbers in the third quarter after three years in the red as AMD pursued new growth areas, and that’s exactly what […]

Little do we know how popular cloud services such as Google, Yahoo, Bing, Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Google+ and Web-based email have not only improved the way people interconnect, socialize and do business, they also help improve our search for information on the Web. But they have, and significantly so. Because computers and networks remember […]

Hewlett-Packard has learned a lot of things in its 74 years of existence, one of them being the realization that a single company simply cannot provide solutions for all enterprise IT problems or requirements. As widespread their resources are and as hard as first-tier companies such as IBM, Microsoft, Apple and HP themselves try, they […]