Christopher Saunders

My colleague Sean Michael Kerner touches on one heck of a shortcoming at Mozilla: Why doesn’t it do more to cross-promote its own projects? Mozilla’s rivals certainly don’t share the same reluctance to aggressively cross-promote their products. Look at Microsoft, which hasn’t been shy about the practice. And now, Apple is being widely chastised by […]

Wanted to say a bit more about datacenter energy costs and how little businesses understand about getting them in line. Yes, we all know datacenter costs are growing out of control — but businesses themselves are often to blame. How did this sad state of affairs come to pass? IBM’s Steve Sams (who runs Big […]

My colleague Pedro Hernandez, who blogs about Green IT over at Enterprise IT Planet, and I sat down today with IBM’s Steve Sams. Sams is VP of IBM’s Global Site and Facilities Services, and the go-to guy when it comes to IBM customers seeking to cut datacenter costs. And man, do businesses need to cut […]

IT management software maker BMC Software on Monday has struck a deal to buy datacenter automation player BladeLogic, for nearly $800 million. The acquisition — which will see BMC (NYSE: BMC) buying BladeLogic (NASDAQ: BLOG), for $28 per share in cash, above Friday’s $23.61 close — is designed to round out BMC’s product portfolio. BMC […]

I get a fair amount of email — on average between 1,000 to 2,500 emails a day. Most, as you might expect, are spam. (Not fan mail, alas.) As a result of this figure, and of years following the spam industry both as a journalist and as a vexed end user, I’ve become well-versed with […]

Time Warner Cable, my ISP at home, has elected to pursue a somewhat controversial route to better monetizing its users: Insinuating itself into their Web surfing behavior. I’m probably making this sound more nefarious than it really is. The ISP has begun redirecting what it terms “web address errors” to a “helpful search page” — […]

I suppose I’m not done ranting about mobile content and the [Nokia news](http://blog.internetnews.com/csaunders/2008/02/nokia-mobile-content-and-the-e.html). I’ve deliberately not mentioned the obvious: Nokia is not a carrier. With Ovi, Nokia is competing with the likes of Google, Apple and Microsoft — technology players making inroads into an arena long dominated by carriers, with their mobile portals. (I use […]

Nokia. We here typically think of the Finnish mobile phone giant as just that — a handset maker. But it’s aiming to be far more. The company began rolling out its “N-Gage” and “Share on Ovi” offerings earlier this week, as Reuters noted. Both are designed to enhance its mobile portal and e-commerce service, Ovi. […]

Reuters writer Eric Auchard takes a whack today at sorting out the myriad of new products being shown off in Las Vegas this week at CES. His take? Plenty of new gadgets are simply “in need of problems to solve.” Isn’t that always the case with new technology, eh? I’m certainly with Eric on the […]

LAS VEGAS — South Korea’s Hynix Semiconductor, the world’s second-biggest maker of memory chips, expects a rebound in its key computer chip market in the second quarter of this year, its chief executive said on Tuesday. “Previous cycles in the sector have lasted about 15 months,” said Jong-Kap Kim at the Consumer Electronics Show in […]

It’s no surprise that plenty of Americans do research using the Internet. In fact, a new study finds the Web has become the predominant source for many, a trend that’s also revolutionizing consumers’ use of libraries and their expectations for e-government. The new Pew Internet and American Life Project study found that more people turn […]

With readers increasingly consuming their media over the Internet, is it any wonder that advertisers are scrambling to capture their attention online? Valassis today became the latest to do so, as the offline coupon giant looks to woo Web-savvy consumers using a new coupon and content site. The company plans to launch RedPlum.com next month, […]