Chris Preimesberger

Cool New Devices Debut at Mobile World Congress Americas On the eve of the first-ever Mobile World Congress Americas conference at the Moscone Center in San Francisco this week, Pepcom offered a preview of some of the new devices being debuted at the event, including new smartwatches that will work with both Android and iOS […]

Apttus, the Salesforce.com-based provider of automated quote-to-cash business services, revealed Sept. 13 that it has raised a $55 million in a Series E funding round. Participants include a new investor, Premji, and existing investors Salesforce, K1 and Iconiq. Premji Invest is the private equity arm of Wipro Limited chairman Azim Premji. Apttus’ total funding to-date […]

SAN FRANCISCO—It’s not like the mobile IT business sector needs a lot of public awareness. We already know we depend on mobile devices. You can go anywhere and see people crouched over their phones—in their cars, on park benches, in restaurants, in lines at the market–even in church pews. Look at the sheer numbers of […]

On Wednesday, Sept. 13, at 11 a.m. PDT/2 p.m. EDT/7 p.m. GMT, @eWEEKNews will host its 59th monthly #eWEEKChat. The topic will be, “Memory-Based Computing: Future of the Data Center.” It will be moderated by Chris Preimesberger, eWEEK’s editor of features and analysis. Some quick facts: Topic: “Memory-Based Computing: Future of the Data Center” Date/time: […]

SAN FRANCISCO—For the first time in its 30-year history, an international Mobile World Congress event is being held in North America, as opposed to locations in Spain or Shanghai. This event has engulfed the Moscone Center for the next week, and, thanks to the fast-moving nature of the business, there’s plenty of news emanating from […]

How Voicebots Are Making Businesses More Efficient Voice control of IT is the future. We’re seeing this everywhere in the consumer world: in mobile and home apps (Siri, Google, Cortana), connected cars, television remotes—you name it, voice is going there. This is because in the last few years voice recognition and cognitive learning have joined […]

Natural disasters such as hurricanes Sandy, Harvey and Irma are often the destroyers of family heirlooms, such as furniture, clothing and photographs. Of those three, photographs are generally considered the hardest to replace. Often, they are simply not replaceable. With the natural events of the last three weeks hitting the south and southeast of the […]

Cloud infrastructure provider Rackspace revealed Sept. 11 that it will acquire Datapipe, a provider of managed services across public and private clouds, managed hosting and colocation. Terms of the acquisition were not released. The acquisition, largest in Rackspace’s 19-year history, brings important new capabilities and will enable the company to better serve customers of all […]

Why CIOs Play a Critical Role in Providing a Great Customer Experience It’s hardly a secret anymore: Customer experience is now officially a key business differentiator. CX, as it’s commonly called, is quickly becoming a priority. Companies are now championing slogans such as “We treat you like you’d treat you,” “It’s everywhere you want to […]

Exactly 12 months into the consolidation of Dell EMC, the headache-inducing reality of the costs of such a mega-merger continue to send executives at the Round Rock, Texas-based conglomerate to the medicine cabinet for more Advil. Dell Technologies announced its second quarter fiscal results Sept. 7, and they weren’t exemplary. For Q2 2018, consolidated revenue […]

Facebook is becoming legendary for building new appdev tools and setting them free into the open source community. New developers coming into the business could do much worse than to check out Facebook’s Github contributions. The social network, which releases new software tools every few weeks, on Sept. 7 announced the v1.0 release of Yarn, […]

U.S. enterprises are moving to Windows 10 desktop deployments even faster than market experts had originally anticipated, a new survey of IT professionals revealed. Adaptiva, which specializes in new-generation systems management, said in its 2017 Windows 10 Enterprise Impact Survey that businesses are moving to Windows 10 faster than they had estimated in the 2016 […]