eWEEK EDITORS

EMC Corp.s hiring last week of Mark Lewis, former head of Compaq Computer Corp.s storage division, is the latest step in the companys push into software. Lewis took over as executive vice president of new ventures and chief technology officer at the Hopkinton, Mass., company. He had been vice president and general manager of enterprise […]

Seeking to lift sagging sales, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. last week released its fastest mobile chip yet and began production shipments of a new type of flash memory that it claims doubles the density of standard flash memory devices without compromising performance or reliability. The worlds second-largest PC chip maker and biggest seller of flash […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. is on a storage mission to convince customers its products and services are a better option than those of main rival EMC Corp. To do it, HP, with its fresh stable of storage products culled from its acquisition of Compaq Computer Corp., is pushing one-stop shopping and readying enhancements to its storage systems. […]

The product a company offers does not necessarily define its customers need. Railroads are the canonical example. As new technologies entered the market, trucking and air freight companies ate the railroads lunch as railroads discovered—surprise!—they were in the transportation, not the railroad, business. Intels Itanium 2 is headed down the same dead-end track, and Dell […]

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CEOs: Dont Stifle Innovation Much of the debate about anti-piracy has centered on the entertainment industrys attempts to quell the technology that allows users to record music and movies. Now the technology industry is pushing back. In a sharply worded letter to some of the largest entertainment conglomerates—including Disney, Viacom and AOL Time Warner— 10 […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. will release beefier blade servers with dual Intel Corp. processors “shortly,” according to a company executive, adding that unit sales of its relatively new ultradense systems are already surpassing those of earlier thin-chassis designs. Aiming to fuel wider adoption of its blades, HP, based in Palo Alto, Calif., will soon introduce the Proliant […]

Intel Corp., which recently reported low quarterly revenues and announced plans to lay off 4,000 workers, has decided to move up price cuts originally set for late October to Sept. 1 in a bid to boost sagging sales, according to a market analyst. Jonathan Joseph, of Salomon Smith Barney Inc., in San Francisco, said the […]

Chief security officers and other security professionals will get their own employment Web site this fall when an affiliate of the Center for Social & Legal Research launches a dedicated privacy-related job board. Privacy and American Business, the publishing arm of the not-for-profit think tank, said its job board for privacy professionals will go live […]

In this period of intense bottom-line scrutiny, we hear a lot about IT decision makers deferring all new IT investments save those that present the most rock-solid return-on-investment case. Indeed, unless a project can promise to pay for itself practically before its deployed, IT managers at most companies might as well save their PowerPoint slides. […]

Advanced Micro Devices Inc., the worlds second largest PC chipmaker, posted a quarterly loss of $184.9 million on Wednesday, even worse than analysts already dour expectations, as the company continues to suffer losses amid a downturn in computer sales and aggressive price competition from its much larger rival Intel Corp. The chipmakers loss of 54 […]

For the second financial quarter, storage specialist EMC Corp. inched forward its revenue to $1.39 billion, with $.01 per share loss, compared with last quarters $1.3 billion and $.04 per share loss, officials said Thursday. Net income for the second quarter last year was $2.02 billion, though EMC spent $200 million in this years second […]