John Hazard

Oracle and Salesforce.com might be your ticket to a free iPhone? How? Make your boss pay for it. Oracle, the enterprise application giant, and Salesforce.com, the CRM hotshot, are among the first to build apps for the 3G iPhone due July 11. Oracle’s Business Indicators applications on the iPhone will deliver the metrics from a […]

A former Hewlett-Packard vice president who had previously worked at IBM was charged June 27 with trade-secret theft for spiriting away IBM pricing info and distributing to his HP superiors. Atul Malhotra, a vice president in HP’s Imaging and Printing Group, was charged in U.S. District Court in San Jose, Calif. He was fired in […]

Leopard-iPhone.jpg Leopard rumors refuse to ride in iPhone’s side car. Against all possible odds, the talk leading up to Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference, to be held June 12 in San Francisco, is NOT about the iPhone. If the Apple rumor mill is to be trusted, the company will debut the latest version of Apple’s Mac […]

Think twice before you click on that .info or .hk URL. I can’t recall the last time I came across either, but clicking on one or the other increases the risk you’re visiting a no-no site. McAfee’s “Mapping the Mal Web Revisited,” published June 4, details the most dangerous domains.

Bin_laden.jpg YouTube won’t be the good soldier Sen. Joe Lieberman (ID-Conn) would like it to be. Lieberman, chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, has been on Google’s case to remove videos from YouTube that are produced by terrorist groups such as al-Qaida. Lieberman claims the videos depict violence and disseminate […]

Journalists salivate over courtroom discovery. The raw evidence often lays bare all of the wheelings, dealings, buried bodies and canaries corporate lawyers and PR swallow before the public sees it. case%20files.jpg It can also drown you in paper and bore you to tears. AMD v. Intel, an antitrust claim brought by AMD against Intel and […]

You don’t need to be a fancy industry analyst to understand why Hewlett-Packard’s acquisition of EDS makes sense. Third grade math is enough. A timely report by Gartner on the revenue raked in by IT service providers in 2007 makes it oh so clear. IBM remains king. Big Blue garnered 7.2 percent of the market […]

Yet another project — Philadelphia Wi-Fi — has shriveled and is about to die, as beleaguered EarthLink alerted customers it would terminate service June 12. Wireless%20Philadelphia.jpg EarthLink, which had entered into an agreement to finance, build and manage the wireless network and share revenue with the city’s Wireless Philadelphia initiative, failed to reach an agreement […]