Chris Preimesberger

Sorry, took a few days off there. But now we have lots of items stockpiled on which to report. –The discussion from smartphone users about their early takes on the new Apple iPhone 3G S and its AT&T telco plan is taking a life of its own. Go here to read that often crusty conversation. […]

It’s not a scientific survey by any means, but a collection of comments from eWEEK readers who also are smartphone owners indicates that it’s a mixed bag as to how many of them will buy a new Apple iPhone 3G S when they arrive in stores on June 19.The consensus is that the technology itself […]

Hewlett-Packard on June 10 launched a new line of ProLiant servers, called the ProLiant SL Extreme Scale-Out portfolio, engineered specifically for the growing Web 2.0, financial services and high-performance computing markets.“Scale-out” is a relatively recent data center industry buzzword referring to architectures for systems running thousands of servers that are required to scale nearly ad […]

Starting at 12:01 a.m. EDT on Saturday, June 13, social networking giant Facebook will begin allowing its users to identify themselves through a user name in addition to their real names on their profile pages.At that time, users will be able to choose a user name on a first-come, first-served basis for their profiles and […]

NetApp had a few things to say about EMC’s June 9 open letter to Data Domain employees, a letter that extolled Data Domain’s virtues and compared it to-you’ve guessed it-EMC itself.NetApp and EMC are in the middle of a bidding war of sorts in pursuit of fast-growing midrange storage system provider Data Domain.“Make no mistake: […]

EMC on June 9 made its first move since tendering an unsolicited bid June 1 for storage system maker Data Domain by sending an “open letter” to the company’s employees-as well as the rest of the world-extolling the virtues of an EMC ownership.On June 3, Data Domain’s board of directors voted unanimously to accept NetApp’s […]

SAN FRANCISCO-The biggest question about what might happen June 8 at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference was whether Apple CEO and co-founder Steve Jobs, a cancer survivor suffering from a lengthy illness involving a hormonal imbalance, would make his first public appearance since October 2008.Well, he did not, ostensibly electing to work from his Palo Alto, […]

2009 WWDC: New iPhone, MacBook Pros Steal Show While Jobs a No-Show by Chris Preimesberger No Title Apple Senior Vice President of Worldwide Product Marketing Phil Schiller introduces the 2-hour keynote session on June 8, giving an overview of upgrading to the new Apple iPhones, notebook computers and the Snow Leopard operating system. No Title […]

Imagine 3D Video Without Those Annoying Red-Blue Glasses Imagine 3-D Video Without Those Annoying Red-Blue Glasses No Title A 42-inch LED display screen in the window of an unoccupied retail store on Seventh Avenue and 50th Street in Manhattan causes groups of people to stop, look and wonder. The display shows looped videos of a […]

Diskeeper, the company from which Microsoft licenses its defrag utility used in Windows systems, has been known and respected as an expert on enterprise hard-drive defragmentation. In simple terms, defragmentation is a process that reduces the amount of fragmentation in file systems. It does this by physically organizing the bits of each file closer together […]