Daniel Dern

Laptops, Portable Storage Drives, Phones and Gadgets for Early Holiday Shoppers Pepcom Holiday Spectacular, New York, Sept, 16-19 Pepcom’s annual “Holiday Spectacular” New York event, coinciding with the Interop/Mobile Business Expo/Web 2.0 shows, showcased a panoply of notebooks, digital cameras and other professional/consumer devices for holiday and IT consumption. Laptops, Portable Storage Drives, Phones and […]

Web 2.0 in Pictures: Scenes from the Web 2.0 Expo New York 2008 By Daniel P. Dern The Web 2.0 Expo, co-produced by TechWeb and O’Reilly Media, is a conference and tradeshow for the rapidly growing ranks of designers and developers, product managers, entrepreneurs, VCs, marketers and business strategists who are building the next-generation Web. […]

When it comes to saving IT time, power and space, every bit helps, even the choice of print servers. One print server, the ISD300 Intelligent Spooling Device from Germany-based SEH Technology, is a .5-by-19-inch Linux-based box, running at a modest 12 watts, rather than the over 100 watts of typical print servers, suitable for small, […]

Until recently, you could get a notebook for as little as $500-if you didn’t mind it weighing at least 5 pounds. Or you could get one that weighed less than 4 pounds-if you didn’t mind it costing between $1,000 and $3,000. New devices such as the Asus Eee and Everex Cloudbook tweaked this equation, with […]

External notebook batteries like American Power Conversion’s new UPB90 and mFuel’s Universal Power Bank offer all-in-one solutions that can help provide enough supplemental energy to last a full day away from an AC power source and work for both a notebook computer and various accessories and mobile devices. Typical notebook batteries are good for 2 […]

If the business cards you collect at meetings, conferences, trade shows and other events are piling up in your desk drawers-or you’ve managed to file them in a Rolodex, but can’t find the ones you want when you need to-it’s time to consider getting a business card scanner. I’ve been trying out Cardscan’s Executive (MSRP […]

BOSTON-Any company could have wireless networks nobody knows about-along with the network security holes those networks bring. That was one point raised by Amit Sinha, chief technology officer of wireless security vendor AirDefense, in his March 26 presentation, “War of the Airwaves: Next-Generation Risks and Defenses-What Hackers Know That You Don’t” at the SecureWorld Expo […]

BOSTON-The worst enemy of security on endpoints-including desktop and notebook computers and mobile devices both on and off the network-is the user. That was the conclusion of a March 26 panel on the subject that was moderated by Dave Martin, Director of Information Security at EMC’s Global Security Organization, here at the Boston SecureWorld Expo. […]

From old printers that are always on but in use only a few minutes a day to unnecessary print jobs, a fleet of printers, copiers and multifunction printers are probably more wasteful of energy than the server farm everyone wants to turn green. Xerox customers are getting some idea of just how wasteful print is […]

Vendors are jumping over themselves to prove there are printer- and MFP-related ways to reduce energy use and be kind to the environment. Samsung Electronics America announced March 12 at the spring Press and Reseller Summit the launch of its PrintCycle program as part of the company’s newly redesigned PrintCentives campaign. According to Samsung, PrintCycle […]