Chris Preimesberger

SAN FRANCISCO-The world’s largest chip maker and a relatively little-known data storage company are teaming up to provide a major portion of the IT system for a space travel project that might one day turn into a commercial venture.Intel is providing its new “Tolapai” chip set, and Dot Hill Systems, a small, independent storage array […]

We’ve been getting a lot of phone calls and emails lately, more so than usual for summertime, and methinks the automatic out-of-office email response probably isn’t being seen by everyone. So here’s why there’s Web silence coming from this sector: The Station is on staycation this week in sunny Northern California, where lots of other […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Enterprise flash memory won’t be able to realize its true business potential-projected to be in the $60 billion market range by 2012-until after history repeats itself.The history we’re referencing here is that of the disk drive industry, which in the early 1980s went through the same spate of difficulties (lack of standards, an […]

A couple of late developments regarding NBC’s Olympics coverage have come to our attention. No. 1: Limelight Networks announced that it is providing live and on-demand video streaming services from NBCOlympics.com to MSN.com. Limelight Networks is the primary CDN (content delivery network) for all video content on the “NBCOlympics.com on MSN” Web site, which is […]

Wall Street, meet “cloud computing.” Rackspace Hosting on Aug. 7 became one of the first full-time cloud hosting and data storage companies to go public when it announced its IPO (initial public offering) of 15 million shares of its common stock at a price of $12.50 per share. Rackspace’s common stock began trading on the […]

LinuxWorld 2008: Enthusiasm Up, Attendance Down LinuxWorld 2008: Enthusiasm Up, Attendance Down – Welcome It was apparent early on that this was not going to be a sold-out LinuxWorld Conference & Expo at San Francisco’s Moscone Center. Malaise in the macroeconomy and general travel difficulties were generally thought to be the culprits. Only 7,500 people […]

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 […]