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Dilbert Dabbles With Google Logo When the popular web search site Google last week began redesigning its logo—again—it received a little extra help. Throughout the week, the cartoon character Dilbert, the cubicle-dwelling malcontent; his pointy-haired boss; and a co-worker, Alice, appeared on the search sites home page in comic strips detailing their work in trying […]

Recently in this space I questioned why so many enterprises continue to cite a supposed lack of available IT skills as a reason for not filling thousands of vacant jobs. This, I said, makes no sense since the recession has thrown hundreds of thousands of experienced IT professionals out of work. The flood of responses—most […]

In the aftermath of Hewlett-Packards hard-won takeover fight for Compaq, Carly Fiorina and her team have done many of the right things. While theres certainly room to quibble with specific product decisions—picking Compaqs more popular iPaq handheld over HPs more durable Jornada, for example—the new HP leadership has at least told IT managers quickly and […]

When Hewlett-Packard Co. first announced last September it was going to buy Compaq Computer Corp., critics said HP would be saddled with a larger, unprofitable PC business in a part of the industry that was economically crashing through the floor. But dont tell that to Duane Zitzner. In an interview with eWeek two weeks ago, […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. hit the ground running this month to shore up its customer base and aggressively pursue new business following the buyout of Compaq Computer Corp. But, while HP appears to be executing well early, it may be years before it can be determined whether its $19 billion gamble pays off. Meanwhile, since the launching […]

Immediately after absorbing Compaq Computer Corp. this month, Hewlett-Packard Co. began leveraging its newly acquired strength in enterprise computing to win big contracts. On May 16, HP, which became the worlds top server vendor following the merger, secured a deal with Reuters Ltd. to replace more than 110,000 servers from Sun Microsystems Inc. with Linux-based […]

After a lengthy sabbatical, EMC Corp. is developing updates for its Symmetrix enterprise storage systems that will employ Fibre Channel internal designs for the first time. The company is also revamping one of its Clariion storage systems for the midrange market with added capacity. The Symmetrix moves, seen largely as necessities, should bring the EMC […]

Fifty years ago this month, IBM and 3M Corp. unveiled the first magnetic data tape, which used a 12-inch movie reel and stored about 1.4MB, the equal of a 3.5-inch floppy disk. With the advent of disks, many have written about the inevitable demise of tape storage. But today, when high-end tape holds about 100GB, […]

Dell Computer Corp. is looking at getting into the printer business, according to a Wall Street analyst who discussed the possibility with company founder Michael Dell. “He wants to capture the recurring revenue from ink cartridges in some fashion,” said Andrew Neff, a market analysts Bear Stearns & Co. in New York, following a meeting […]

IBM has initiated what is expected to be its biggest round of layoffs since the early 90s, with sources inside the company saying the computer maker plans to let go of about 8,000 employees out of 320,000 worldwide. While sources have previously told eWEEK that IBMs semiconductor manufacturing facilities are expected to take the hardest […]

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