John Taschek

The most interesting part of Intels recent mobile day in San Francisco had nothing to do with processing power and performance and everything to do with the fact that Intel shared the stage in part with Ideo, a design company. My first thought was that Intel finally has realized that PCs in their current stage […]

For a few moments, I thought I had gone to the wrong show. Instead of LinuxWorld, recently held in San Francisco, I thought I had stumbled into a Sun show. First, Sun CEO Scott McNealy was giving the keynote, which filled the hall beyond capacity. Then there was the obligatory press Q&A. I noticed that […]

Since I reviewed Toshibas MAGNIA SG10 appliance server about 18 months ago (see www.eweek.com/links), Toshiba has made several changes, all for the better. The system, now called the SG20, which shipped in late June, is more powerful. It also has new business-class functionality, such as an integrated VPN, and an optional wireless server. Although the […]

A recent Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory study on electrical consumption as it relates to corporate technology generated some interesting results and piqued eWeek Labs interest enough to revisit the LCD energy consumption issue. Berkeley Labs Environmental Energy Technologies Division proved that networking and computer gear consumed only 3 percent of the nations power. This contrasted […]

If one thing is clear, judging from the responses to eWeek Labs recent Tech Analysis comparing LCD and CRT monitor technologies, its that LCDs are a hot item. Er, we mean a cool item, since the vast majority of respondents raved about how LCDs reduce energy costs further than we stated. (See a sampling of […]

Sybase chairman John Chen said that if his company isnt perceived as the top integration platform provider, he has failed. The irony is that most, if not all, the vendors in the application integration space are failing themselves. If integration is so important, then why are the companies specializing in it dropping off, being scooped […]

Its coincidental that Anonymizer—one of the two mainstream privacy proxies in business—released a new version the same week that two senators released a statement that Americans need more privacy assurances. The senators—Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., and John Edwards, D-N.C., are not only concerned about Internet spying and unchecked camera surveillance, but theyre also concerned that if […]

The popularity of the Liberty Alliance and Microsofts Passport has as much to do with IT demand as it does with vendor neediness. Vendors need Web and enterprise identity management to succeed in creating the market and driving demand for a new set of products that sit at the core of the application stack. If […]

It figures. just two weeks after I wrote about the benefits of Transmetas Crusoe architecture, the company announced terrible earnings and a plan to slash its work force by 40 percent. Tumbling earnings and work force slashing are par for the course for chip companies in these times, so Id like to think that the […]

This is an interesting time—workers are purchasing “consumer-oriented” equipment for their offices that is superior to the dregs issued to them by their employers. This is especially true when it comes to monitors, where consumers are gobbling up LCDs while enterprises often are stuck with curved-screen CRTs that are hard on the eyes in more […]

Pinnacles Edition is a sweet, nonlinear video editing product plagued by inconsistent performance. On the plus side, Edition is loaded with features, including semi-integrated DVD editing and publishing and just about everything a corporate video producer would ever want. It has unbeatable performance and support for multiprocessor systems and is a bargain, to boot, at […]

To no ones surprise, Microsoft is getting into the CRM space. Many may find it amusing that Microsoft is even thinking of offering customer relationship management software, since “customer relationship” and “Microsoft” rarely evoke positive responses when included in the same sentence. Microsofts rapid inroads into the CRM space have been systematic and scary (at […]