John Hazard

eWEEK’s reporters, editors and analysts try hard to keep the “e” in eWEEK, which, in case you didn’t know, stands for “enterprise.” There happens to be a pretty huge audience out there anxious to read about advances in megapixels and new apps for MySpace, but our advertisers don’t see the value in trying to sell […]

There is a debate brewing today about Google’s employment figures, and it misses the point. Do you call the situation threatening the jobs of 10,000 employees at Google “layoffs”? To the men and women whose jobs are affected, the nomenclature really doesn’t matter much — it’s a termination and it sucks. Daya Baran, president of […]

The anemic U.S. job market is now bleeding out. Challenger, Gray & Christmas, the outsourcing consultant company, alerted reporters and analysts today, Nov. 24, that its November jobs report, due Dec. 3, put the number of jobs lost “even closer to the 172,373 job cuts per month averaged during the last recession.” The October report […]

The Motorola Krave ZN4 mobile smart phone adds flip functionality with the features of a touch screen, even when the flip is closed. Motorola also adds an accelerometer, QWERTY keyboard and visual voice mail. Motorola Krave ZN4 Facts Weight 130g Dimensions 51x105x19 mm Battery 500 hours of standby time; 250 minutes talk time (950.00 mAh) […]

The downturn in the financial markets, a pending recession and tight credit have done little to impede the appetite of security vendors to acquire companies and consolidate the market. Security vendors Symantec, McAfee, Trend Micro, Secure Computing, CA and Sophos made no fewer than 11 significant acquisitions in 2008, consolidating the security market amid a […]

It’s amazing what stir crazy cubicle dwellers will find in the closet on a slow Friday in October at Ziff Davis Enterprise. Spencer Katt … in some sort of superhero costume? I won’t ask. Apparently, he used to make the rounds in this superhero costume at Comdex parties in the late 1990s. Spencer wouldn’t talk […]

We wrote this nearly a year ago, but on the eve of the first debate (albeit one on foreign policy and unlikely to touch on business policy), it’s worth reminding tech advocates what we need to hear from John McCain and Barack Obama. Launch a massive retraining program for IT workers Create incentives to hire […]

What keeps Oracle database administrators up at night? Cranky servers? Hackers? Pushy vendor reps? It’s their colleagues. Specifically managers, administrators, consultants and partners, dubbed “Super Users,” who have heightened access privileges. Such users could either maliciously or unintentionally compromise enterprise data and that worries Oracle DBAs more than any other threat, according to a recent […]

How does a Fortune 500 company caught in the lack of confidence hammering the stock markets put a rocket under its share price? Thin the herd. Like conservationists killing off portions of a wildlife population to avoid famine or disease, Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard have killed off a number of their public shares, a run at […]

IBM researchers, the Ph.D.s and technologists by vocation, not profession, the lab-coat academics who toil years in the bowels of Big Blue on theoretical projects two decades in production, are now tinkering on customer problems to beat a service contract deadline. It’s a major shift in IBM Research’s role in the organization and could be […]