Erin Joyce

Lynda Weinman’s pivotal moment for training arrived in 1984 when her boyfriend brought a Mac home from his travels abroad. Just like the now-famous commercials of a runner breaking through a wall of PC drones to reveal a new kind of computer, there it was in front of her: Apple’s Macintosh. She picked up the […]

WASHINGTON –- As political theater goes, the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s hearing into spy tactics HP deployed to plug its boardroom leaks delivered all the elements, starting with outrage and dramatic gestures. Reads like a “third-rate detective novel,” said Rep. Tammy Baldwin, a Wisconsin Democrat. “I don’t understand how an entire board of directors, […]

WASHINGTON — UPDATED: Patricia Dunn, former chairwoman of HP’s board of directors, repeatedly told a House committee today that she had no recollection of specific spying tactics used in the HP spying scandal. During testimony here today before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Dunn also suggested that HP CEO Mark Hurd had been […]

Mark Hurd’s apology Friday over spying tactics HP’s board of directors used to plug boardroom leaks to the media may lessen the firestorm for now. Whether HP’s CEO can survive the sorry mess the scandal has brought to one of the world’s most respected companies is the looming question. Before all of this, he was […]

Intuit is rolling out QuickBooks 2007 designed to automatically help small businesses deploy Google’s ad and marketing programs, driven in part by research that said close to half of all small businesses don’t have an online presence. The software package, slated for release this fall, will list users’ business on Google Maps and create and […]

As the United States and millions around the world stop to commemorate the fifth anniversary of 9/11, I’m thinking about what’s working, and working well, amid the multi-faceted stories in front of us today. When phone lines were jammed up and down the east coast after the towers fell, as local television stations were knocked […]

With a “pre-texting” scandal swirling around it, HP’s board of directors met in an emergency session Sunday, but only said it would reconvene late Monday with no word yet on the fate of the chairwoman of the board. Patricia Dunn, the chairwoman of the board who ordered the probe, has said that she was appalled […]

FLUSHING, N.Y. — “Challenge it!” US Open fans (never the shy, retiring types) are shouting these words with glee at this year’s tennis tournament. If you’ve taken in some of the US Open play so far -– either via live play on USOpen.org, in person, or the old-fashioned way on TV, you know why: the […]

Online learning systems have come a long way since their early days of static Web pages and a dial-in. But if older online training systems failed to captivate their students with engaging interactivity, quizzes, animations and video, then Adobe is pulling out all the stops with Captivate 2, the latest version of its eLearning software. […]

Gadget freaks have their pivotal moments when one device so utterly captivates them they fall helplessly in love with, well, their device. I have a few. But my one special love is the Treo. Like millions of Treo fans, my first twinkles began with the Palm Pilot and grew with each iteration of Donna Dubinsky […]

Oracle’s latest Express database toolset version is still free — as in free beer — but takes even more inspiration from the free software movement, albeit with a few catches. The database giant is launching into wide release today the latest version of Application Express 2.2, its free tool for building Web apps from a […]

Cows are going digital in the tiny Internet world of RFID  data tagging and data collection. Livestock customers of IBM and agricultural technology provider TekVet are trying out an RFID system of monitoring livestock. The system includes tiny sensors attached to the cows’ ears that monitor their body temperatures then pump that data via a […]