Debra Donston

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 […]

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 […]