Erin Joyce

NEW YORK — Lenovo’s latest ThinkPad laptop release, the Z60 series, may be lighter than ever, but it carries weighty ambitions for the number three computer maker. With the help of experienced IBM executives who joined Lenovo after it bought Big Blue’s money-losing PC division, China’s Lenovo is launching a slick marketing campaign and aggressive […]

Online auction giant eBay is expanding its communications services with a $2.6 billion cash and stock deal to acquire Voice over IP darling Skype Technologies. In announcing the deal Monday, which had been rumored for weeks, eBay said the acquisition of the Luxembourg-based Skype would strengthen eBay’s global marketplace and payments platform. Plus, it’s keen […]

UPDATED: After years of endless speculation in the industry about plans for video over its vast Instant Messaging networks, AOL is closing in on its own splashy video Voice over IP calling service, internetnews.com has learned. According to a source familiar with the offering, AOL is about two weeks away from moving the video calling […]

Pictures always say more than words. But words are holding their own in describing the scenes of utter devastation, as well as the anarchy that spread throughout New Orleans and beyond since hurricane Katrina and the flooding that ravaged the Gulf of Mexico. Like we saw in the aftermath of the tsunami, the networking relief […]

FLUSHING MEADOWS, N.Y. –- Behind each thwack of the tennis rackets at the U.S. Open here, ahead of every lunge for a winning shot, virtualized servers are scraping, crunching and pumping mounds of tournament data with a velocity more blistering than Andre Agassi’s serve. As IBM marks the 14th consecutive year providing servers and database […]

I recently returned from a vacation sojourn on a quiet little lake in the Maine woods. Beautiful place, and very tech unfriendly. Cell phone coverage? Spotty, if at all. A 26k dial-up connection was as good as it got. After a few days of high-tech separation anxiety, I accepted the unplugged factor and focused on […]

Microsoft’s Windows Vista is heading for a major close-up next month at the company’s Professional Developers’ Conference. That means companies that make a living in Windows programming tools are gearing up too, and taking stock of trends, tools and issues. New Jersey-based Infragistics is one of those companies. The maker of presentation layer development tools […]

Eight is the number for Macromedia , which unleashed its Studio 8 suite of Web tools and applications, chock-a-block full of features, including advanced integration between the toolsets. Built with Web designers, developers, video professionals and graphic artists in mind, the suite includes Macromedia’s Dreamweaver, Flash Professional and Fireworks applications, along with key productivity tools […]

Avaya’s networking legacy may feel like a burden at times, but the CEO of the software communications giant wouldn’t have it any other way. With origins that trace back to AT&T’s Bell Labs research division, Avaya is sometimes viewed solely as a networking and infrastructure company that knows how to plumb some VoIP connectivity for […]

Employees are downloading “Greynet” (unsanctioned) applications at an escalating clip and unleashing more spyware and adware in the process. The extra mess is costing enterprises on average over $130,000 a month to mop up. Those are just some of the conclusions from a survey by FaceTime Communications, which also sells software security for enterprise IM […]

Voice over IP darling Skype is slated to put its two-way video phone service to the public test in August, likely at the end of the month, internetnews.com has learned. Sources close to the company said Skype is slated to launch the public beta next month and that it has licensed compression codecs from On […]

Every major carrier offers high-speed wireless data plans for enterprises. Sprint wants to break away from that pack by offering mobility consulting services designed to ease customers’ wireless data headaches. After all, one of the biggest pain points in enterprises these days is how to make sense of different wireless devices demanding access to different […]