Stan Gibson

John D. Rockefeller. Henry Ford. Andrew Carnegie. Bill Gates. Few today would dispute that Gates is on a par with the great business figures of history. His genius melds deep technical knowledge, strategic business thinking and the force of personality that only a few figures have ever commanded–and to which none of his peers has […]

One organization’s story tells in microcosm the multifaceted tale of mobile application development. For reasons that stem from its egalitarian academic culture, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has determined to support a number of different mobile devices for use by its students, faculty and staff. “We cannot force people to use one platform,” said Andrew […]

Enterprise workers of all ranks seldom leave the office these days without a mobile device in hand. But despite their ubiquity, mobile devices often are used to only a fraction of their capability, thanks to the absence of an industry-standard platform for application development. That state of affairs is leading many enterprises to settle for […]

Sharp spikes in data center energy use have shocked IT executives to attention, fueling the drive for green IT. And yet, as an exclusive eWEEK reader survey shows, green IT is still in its early stages and is colored by ambivalence, even among those who are going green. In an exclusive online survey of 337 […]

The place where business and personal life converge is bound to be fraught with tension. That’s certainly the case when it comes to mobile devices such as smart phones in the workplace. During the last decade and a half, cell phones, pagers, PDAs and handheld computers saw their fortunes rise and fall as one wave […]

Since the iPhone’s much-heralded debut in the summer of 2007, Apple has pitched the wildly popular product squarely at consumers. But the enthusiasm of some early users has put what some see as the handwriting on the wall: With a few tweaks-some major-the iPhone could be a very serious contender for corporate personal device of […]