Debra Donston

Exclusive eWEEK research indicates that Microsoft’s desktop Windows operating system is a rousing success. Vista? No, XP. In a survey conducted by Ziff Davis Enterprise Editorial Research for eWEEK of enterprise IT professionals, just 2 percent of respondents said that Vista was the primary desktop operating system at their companies, while 92 percent indicated that […]

Why Vista? Good Question Why Vista? Good Question – Primary Desktop OS Vista? What Vista? One year after Vista- Why Vista? Good Question – Future OS And it seems that enterprises are planning on sticking with what they have for the foreseeable future: 72 percent of respondents said that the OS they- Why Vista? Good […]

Shaklee was green before green was cool. Now the company is applying that forward-thinking philosophy to SAAS. Shaklee, based in Pleasanton, Calif., has been around for more than 50 years. What started with a vitamin formulation developed by Dr. Forrest Shaklee has evolved into a broad spectrum of all-natural cleaning, nutritional and skin-care products that […]

eWEEK Technology in Film Awards eWEEK Technology in Film Awards – Best use of technology as a metaphor for chaos under bureaucratic control Best use of technology as a metaphor for chaos under bureaucratic control The award goes to Terry Gilliam??s 1985 classic “Brazil.” Both Orwellian in nature and a comedic satire, the perils of […]

IT Valentines 2008 By Debra Donston IT Valentines 2008 – Software as a Service The software as a service model- IT Valentines 2008 – Google Docs and Spreadsheets Speaking of SAAS, there’s hardly a day that goes by around here when someone doesn’t say, “I’ll build a Google spreadsheet/document/calendar for that.” Many a project management […]

Super Tech Ads Super Tech Ads – Apple Bashes Big Brother During Super Bowl XVIII, Apple ran what became an iconic ad for its Macintosh computers. A female runs through an Orwellian world with a sledgehammer, and throws the sledgehammer at a television image of Big Brother (meant to represent IBM). The voiceover: “On Jan. […]

Green IT: The Real Deal The buzz around green IT is growing increasingly louder, but what are companies really doing to go green? The results from a survey conducted by Ziff Davis Editorial Research for eWEEK show that recycling is currently hot (so to speak) while water-based cooling is not. The results shown below are […]

You think youve got waste management issues? As the director of environmental services at the 294-bed Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island, Dennis Owens is responsible for all waste handling—from regulated medical waste to retired IT assets. Memorial Hospital, in Pawtucket, R.I., is a teaching and research hospital affiliated with the Warren Alpert Medical School at […]

When I was a kid, it was common to see trash lining the highway, and before crossing the Nashua River in my hometown of Fitchburg, Mass., my sister and I would guess what color the water would be. (It changed depending on the color of the paper being manufactured in the factories lining its banks.) […]

“Just when I thought I was out, they pulled me back in.” It would be wrong to compare Microsoft to the family Michael Corleone was referring to in “Godfather Part III,” but theres at least one organization that tried to end its association with Microsoft Office, only to be pulled back in. In 2004, FN […]

Worst Data Breaches Ever The last few years have seen a slew of data breaches-all bad, but some worse than others. In the spirit of learning what not to do by example, eWEEK presents some of the worst data breaches ever. (Unfortunately, this list is likely to be cont Worst Data Breaches Ever – Monster.com […]

There are very few things Id be willing to stand in line for (especially if it involved camping out on the street): world peace, a cure for cancer, a guarantee that my kids will be happy or tickets to see U2 at Fenway Park, sure. But an iPhone? Not so much. By the time you […]