Debra Donston

Over the years, the pace of technology evolution has been increasing exponentially. Every day, I get several dozen pitches (at the very least), extolling the virtues of this new product or that updated service, or some combination thereof. Its a challenge to keep up—but Im keeping up in terms of what to cover, not what […]

For the first time in the history of the eWEEK Excellence Awards program, we decided to name one product the overall winner. We knew that we couldnt say any one product was “the best” and, with more than 800 products categorized almost 20 ways, we were right. (We might as well have been comparing apples […]

In any given year, thousands of enterprise IT products and services are released. Determining those that are most compelling for evaluation—let alone for purchase—is a huge challenge among eWEEK readers, and its one that we hope the Excellence Awards program helps mitigate. In some small but, we hope, meaningful way, the program also is designed […]

I recently read a New Yorker article about Gordon Bell, an industry stalwart now at Microsoft who has amassed one of the largest personal electronic archives in the world, including scanned e-mails, photographs, recordings, phone calls, IM exchanges, health and other records, various collections, and so on. One could, in theory, reconstruct any day in […]

When I first started working at Ziff Davis, “working remotely” was a term that hadnt entered the common vernacular. It may have been possible at that time—1990—but it would have been very difficult. The first time I worked remotely was after my first child was born. I was set up with a laptop (and, given […]

Not too long ago, a friend told me that she had been having trouble concentrating on her work because of the incredibly bad pan flute music emanating from the cube of her companys IT manager. It wasnt that the IT manager has bad taste in music. No, the music was hold music, and the IT […]

Weve been hearing about IPv6 for a while now. So whats tipping the next-generation Internet protocol into top-of-mind territory now? As Senior Editor Lisa Vaas reports starting on Page 22, several forces are combining that will set the protocol into widespread motion in the next year, not the least of which is the U.S. Office […]

People worried that we wont be able to get this global warming thing under control were no doubt pleased to hear that European scientists have discovered a planet much like Earth. If we ever need to cut bait and run, all we have to do is travel 20.5 light-years, or about 120.5 trillion miles, and […]

A colleague recently showed me a purchase he made for his office—a French press. Now, I love coffee to “Gilmore Girls” proportions, but it wasnt the thought of scoffing a nice cup of joe that had me paying attention; it was the name on the bag the French press came in—Marshalls. I have always loved […]

Give a man a fish and he eats for a day; teach a man to fish and he eats for the rest of his life. My read on Senior Editor Darryl K. Tafts story about Microsoft courting new developers is that the company may be putting a new spin on an old proverb: Give a […]

By now youve noticed the striking photograph on the cover of this weeks issue. But the new Hearst Tower is distinctive not just because of its design—its also the first skyscraper to be designed from the ground up (literally) with wireless convergence in mind. As Senior Writer Wayne Rash explains in the Road Map that […]

Google, Google, Google. You had me at hello—or search—and you became a common verb in the process. But you continue to ply me with your enticing offerings. Now, youre doing the same for the enterprise, with Google Apps Premier. First, it was Google Mail, or Gmail. It all began with an invitation from someone I […]