The optical industry is pondering whether recent stumbles by giants Lucent Technologies and Nortel Networks signal a permanent tilt in favor of younger vendors...
Dave House, the man who coined the term "Intel Inside," is jumping back into the game after a 15-month car-racing-and-helicopter-skiing sabbatical. San Jose-based start-up...
Like their monopolistic counterparts in the Regional Bell Operating Companies, local exchange carriers are concerned about encroaching services from wireless carriers and other telecom...
In todays high-pressure business environment, companies want to get new products and services to market quickly. A systems integrator—a specialist—is often called to install...
Californias electricity shortage has wreaked havoc, but a looming natural gas shortage may be even more calamitous.If current rates of withdrawal continue, Pacific Gas...
David Lord, former chief executive and founder of Toysmart.com, is now chief executive and founder of Expound, a Bedford, Mass., company that provides solutions...
This month, Sun Microsystems Inc., in introducing Sun ONE, became the latest company to outline a Web services strategy, joining others such as Microsoft...
In computings mainstream, middleware, along with client/server computing, has always been fundamentally about small boxes working vertically with bigger boxes, or servers. Historically, there...
Customer experience (CX) became the top brand differentiator in 2018, outpacing price, product quality and everything else. Businesses that offer a superior and differentiated...
The trickle-down effect of enterprise IT is as old as business technology. Vendors have long aimed new innovations at enterprises whose deep pockets and...