eWEEK EDITORS

Thanks to the U.S. Department of Justice antitrust case against Microsoft, bundling has been relegated to four-letter-word status in Microsoft land. Execs with the software giant are careful to avoid speaking of Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player or Internet Information Server as separate technologies that just so happen to be “bundled” into Windows. Nope. They […]

Hardware JNI Releases Host Bus Adapters for Windows SMBs JNI Corp. this week said it had completed a new line of speedy host bus adapters that run at 2Gbps and are easier to install and configure. Aimed at small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), JNIs new ZStar series of HBAs are interoperable with Windows servers and […]

On Tuesday and Wednesday, Microsofts embedded devices group is hosting a private event for chip makers and a few key integration partners aimed at providing them with an update on Redmonds Windows CE 4.2-based technologies. At its second annual ARM summit, Microsoft and its chip partners will provide roadmaps and demonstrations of its Smartphone, Pocket […]

Where do the security of U.S. seaports and your supply chain intersect? What are the risks to your bottom line if your incoming product inventory is sitting on the docks of an insecure, easily targeted port? And just how easy would it be to send explosives and destructive weapons into a major port city in […]

Read this weeks Spencer column.

At the Intel Developer Forum this week, the PCI Special Interest Group (PCI SIG) will debut a low-power version of the PCI Express specification, a signal the technology will eventually arrive in notebooks. PCI Express represents a fundmental reworking of the PCI architecture, which provides the peripheral data channel connecting the PCs CPU and chipset […]

Oracle Corp. chairman and CEO Larry Ellison centered last weeks OracleWorld customer conference on grid computing and, in particular, on Oracles 10g grid system, which is designed to be as expansive, or restricted, as a companys computing infrastructure requires at any given time. Immediately following his keynote speech, which championed the flexibility and low cost […]

I would like to join other major stakeholders in the dialogue on offshore outsourcing invited by Harris Miller in Free Spectrum, July 14. Too often, we hear only one side; I would like to recap the pros and cons of offshore outsourcing. Pro: Enterprise executives and our nations leaders appear ignorant when it comes to […]

Sun co-founder Bill Joy is leaving the company after 21 years. Joy, the companys chief scientist, helped start Sun in 1982. The reason for Joys departure is not immediately known. “For 21 years Ive enjoyed the opportunities for innovation provided to me at Sun, but I have decided the time is now right for me […]

The digital generation— the largest in history—is just starting to step into the workplace, bringing with it dramatically new demands, ideas and attitudes. Are you ready for the revolution? Just as the post-World war II Baby Boomers of the TV generation dictated the economic, political and business agenda of its time, todays Net generation—the first […]

Enterprises should expect more services from Hewlett-Packards printer and imaging business to help them manage the printers, faxes and copiers in their operations. During his keynote speech at a Seybold Seminar in San Francisco last week, Vyomesh Joshi, executive vice president of HPs Imaging and Printing Group, said HP will make a more aggressive push […]

Cisco is extending the reach of its IP products with a new high-end phone and more powerful features for its lower-end phones. The Cisco IP Phone 7970G has a high-resolution, color touch-screen and support for XML, allowing the device to operate as a minibrowser for some vertical applications. Pricing has not been set, but the […]