Chris Preimesberger

Facebook, which after its May 2012 IPO said it would focus on growing its mobile audience to give its site and services more value, has done exactly that—and it’s beginning to pay off. The billion-member social network revealed its fiscal Q4 2012 earnings Jan. 30, reporting revenue of $1.59 billion and non-Generally Accepted Accounting Principles […]

Samsung celebrated a hard-fought legal victory Jan. 29 when a federal judge declared that the South Korean device maker’s infringement of Apple iPhone design and utility patents was not a willful scheme. Nonetheless, the world’s largest device maker will still have to pay a hefty fine for violating some Apple intellectual property. In a seven-page […]

Storage and IT systems software provider EMC on Jan. 29 reported another highly profitable fourth quarter and fiscal year, bringing in record amounts for both periods. EMC’s fourth-quarter revenue totaled $6 billion, up 8 percent from the year-ago quarter. Net income in the latest quarter was $1.2 billion, an increase of 12 percent from the […]

Apple, Google and now VMware — three of the most successful and profitable companies of any market in the world — have something new in common: Even as they continue to rake in record revenue and profits, Wall Street punishes them where it hurts — in the stock price, and thus, their capital value. A […]

Storage hardware maker Seagate Technology and NAND flash memory specialist Virident announced Jan. 28 that they have hooked up in a co-op deal to jointly produce new-generation storage for the burgeoning solid-state enterprise storage market. That’s not all. For good measure, Seagate, one of the two largest hard-drive makers in the world (WD is the […]

SGI, which has a longtime niche in the scientific and government IT sectors for its extreme-scale high-performance data center products, is moving into the new-gen storage world and literally scaling out its storage capabilities to larger markets. Earlier this week the Fremont, Calif.-based company announced a strategic OEM agreement with software-defined storage provider Scality to […]

Partnerships Will Take Lead Roles Traditionally, the corporation’s outside counsel made all of the technology and staffing decisions for e-discovery. Then, with amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) in 2006, combined with increasing cost awareness, the shift began for corporations to take a more team-oriented approach. Going forward, e-discovery management will be […]

For the Field Service Professional: Mobile Worker Starter Package The ClickSoftware Mobile Worker Package is a full-featured app for mobile workers who manage their own schedules. The package enables employees such as service staff to keep track of meetings and working hours, view maps and travel directions, and access company resources from the field. The […]

If you’re a company selling 3.5 million iPhones and 1.7 million iPads per week, it’s safe to say you’ll have good news for your stockholders come quarterly report time. This was precisely the case Jan. 23, when Apple revealed its first-quarter 2013 financial results. The world’s most profitable company posted record quarterly revenue of $54.5 […]

It was surely a matter of time, but Google reported Jan. 22 that it has surpassed the $50 billion-per-year mark in its 17th year in business. The world’s busiest search engine and Web services company ended the fiscal and calendar year 2012 with a total of $50.175 billion in gross revenue and $10.7 billion in […]

Strong Project Leaders Sought, but Focus Is on Skills The training focus will remain on hard skills, even though many organizations will continue to assert that their project managers lack leadership skills such as communications, negotiations, organizational change management, and customer relationship management. The reason is simple: Most companies would prefer to send their project […]

Gap Widens Between Legacy Storage and Virtualization Conventional storage systems installed by legacy vendors were designed more than 20 years ago to meet the demands of the physical infrastructure. As data centers become more virtualized, there is a growing gap due to the mismatch between how storage systems were designed and the demands of virtual […]