Jim Louderback

Printing and imaging drive the lions share of revenue and profit at Hewlett-Packard, and the technology has kept HP in the forefront of computing. Vyomesh Joshi has been running the printer business at HP for the last 22 years. This interview is a composite, culled from both a conversation between Mark Anderson and Vyomesh Joshi, […]

The browser wars are heating up, as the first beta of Firefox 2.0 is due on Tuesday July 11th, and Internet Explorer version 7.0 is now on its third beta release. Firefox fans, and browser junkies have an opportunity to get a jump on Tuesdays beta, as a public “release candidate” has been posted on […]

SAN DIEGO—The annual Future in Review conference is an anomaly. Other executive-level conferences seem to be as much about the socializing outside the sessions as the sessions themselves. FIRE, on the other hand, is all about the content. Instead of a cocktail party at the end of the day, for example, this group boarded buses […]

KARLSRUHE, Germany—International Web hosting provider 1&1, based here, plans significant expansion over the next 18 months in both the United States and around the world. In less than two years, 1&1 has vaulted into the top 10 of Web hosting and domain registrars in the United States. But according to CEO Andreas Gauger, in a […]

PARIS—Apple Expo Paris is not a huge show. Substantially smaller than the January Macworld in San Francisco, still, it holds a strong place in the Apple and iPod world—even more so now that Macworld Boston has been canceled. The show is an interesting mix of digital music, Macintosh-based business software, iPod accessories and other digital […]

FRANKFURT, Germany—If your car uses fuel injectors—as most modern vehicles do—you are already driving “by wire.” Instead of using mechanical pressure to control a carburetor, a digital brain turns the motion of your foot on the accelerator—via the throttle body—into electronic signals that control the fuel injectors. Until now, though, the braking system remained an […]

CORONADO, Calif.—According to the technologists parading through this weeks dueling futurist conferences, our near-term future will be influenced by advances in data mining, wireless integration, software services and especially the convergence of nano and biotechnologies. But the subject of security—a current and future problem—keeps raising its head. Ive spent the past four days literally being […]

CORONADO, Calif:—The future isnt really so far away, say the technology markets high-level thinkers at the Future in Review conference. And unlike at the pep rally going on at the competing D: All Things Digital conference nearby, the talk here Tuesday is for the serious expert. After departing the D conference and fighting morning traffic […]

Walt Mossberg provides very public technology advice to lieutenants and captains of industry through his columns in the Wall Street Journal. Mark Anderson provides more personal advice and insight to high-tech investors and CEOs through his highly regarded Strategic News Service. Both are keen observers of technology, with Mossberg stronger on its practical implementation today, […]