Chris Preimesberger

NBC may have all the cameras, cables, on-air talent and back-scene technicians over in Beijing for the 29th Summer Olympiad, but Cisco Systems and Omneon are the IT companies serving up all that sports video to the outside world.By the time the Games end on Aug. 24, somewhere between 2,900 and 3,600 hours of high-definition […]

Nice to see that my colleague Jason Brooks of eWEEK’s esteemed Labs is paying attention. He took immediate issue with my post from earlier today about open source wireless projects Symbian (owned by by Nokia) and Android (an as-yet-unreleased Linux-based mobile operating system owned by Google), and that they might one day merge into a […]

Come on, for gosh sakes. Big-time IT folks like those in power at Yahoo are supposed to know how to add and subtract. They’re also supposed to be able to tell the truth, for legal and moral reasons, if nothing else. Some key investors smelled a rat on Monday after the company revealed the results […]

SAN FRANCISCO — We’re having breakfast this morning at the Intercontinental Hotel here south of Market, just down the block from the Moscone Center, where the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo is being staged. Handheld device manufacturer Nokia is hosting a panel discussion about mobile development trends, and it only took a few minutes for a […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Congratulations to Pivot3, a startup that makes something called “High-Definition Storage.” It won this year’s LinuxWorld Conference & Expo Best Virtualization Software award today, over a lot of more well-known companies. Pivot3 now is touting a strategy called “serverless computing,” which enables users to “absorb” compute-intensive workloads that normally run on stand-alone […]

SAN FRANCISCO-IBM’s front-line Linux and open-source troops were out in full force at Linux World Conference & Expo Aug. 5 in their continuing effort to remind the community at large that the company is serious about becoming more open-source-minded in enterprise product development.IBM revealed a couple of news items at the Moscone Center conference, the […]

Symantec has a new take on the virtualized desktop that should catch some attention from enterprise and mid-range companies, although it really doesn’t yet have a specific product name.Describing it only as a “virtualized workspace,” Symantec officials Aug. 5 announced that they will soon make available a new endpoint virtualization software platform that allows enterprise […]

So, apparently some people are wondering if last Friday’s relatively strong shareholder vote (about 80 percent favorable, in the face of diminishing returns and increasing internal unrest) to retain Yahoo’s board of directors and CEO was counted correctly. Colleague Kara Swisher reported yesterday in her AllThingsD blog that one of Yahoo’s largest and most influential […]

Now that the annual shareholders meeting is over, the attendees have been “Yanged” and headed back home, and the corporate propaganda machine is taking a vacation, what’s next for Yahoo and its embattled leadership?CEO and co-founder Jerry Yang–who is adept at calming investor nerves and charming analysts and media types alike, thus the “Yanged” observation–will […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Here’s another update to our live blog coverage of the meeting, which might have been a media circus had billionaire investor Carl Icahn attended but which in fact took place in a very controlled environment: 12:46 p.m. Pacific time: We’re Done Here. Generally, shareholders seemed frustrated that not even a partial […]

SAN JOSE, Calif.-What could have been a nasty Yahoo shareholder uprising if activist billionaire shareholder Carl Icahn had been present actually turned out to be a rather docile gathering of business folks Aug. 1 at the company’s annual conference at the Fairmont Hotel. At least that’s the way I judged it from the press section. […]