Erin Joyce

Who’s number one in servers? Depending on how you slice the data, IBM, or HP, with Sun on a growth spurt in number three. IDC’s second quarter stats on worldwide server share showed that IBM  held the top spot in vendor share of the overall server market with 31 percent in factory revenue. However, it […]

Woe to Dell. Piling on about the world’s #1 PC maker is the next act for analysts and tech pundits alike after its woeful quarterly earnings report. After all, when you announce that net income dropped by 51 percent to $502 million ($22 per share) in the second fiscal quarter of 2007 (which just ended), […]

Matthew Wise’s world just got a lot hotter, and we don’t mean the recent heat wave that swept a swath of North America last week. Last month, he was appointed president and CEO of Q Interactive, after two years in his role as SVP of marketing for the interactive marketing firm based in Chicago. With […]

How does the once-mighty AOL become mighty again? By becoming free. And we mean more than switching to an ad-supported model of free content and services that it announced this week. That much has been an open secret in the industry for months now, given the inexorable slide of its dial-up subscription revenues, as more […]

IBM  is on a mission to push the adoption of advanced telematics, such as sensors, actuators and other networked devices. Oh yeah, and it wants to do it with RFID-enabled  applications. Sounds great, but what if developers’ skill sets aren’t quite up to speed on building applications for the Internet world of RFID? In IBM’s […]

Attention ASIC Design engineers and application developers: You’re having a hot summer of demand for your skills. SAS programmers? Database administrators? You’re no slouches either if you’re in the market for work. According to the Yoh Index of Technology Wages, there’s no room for summer doldrums for tech workers so far this year. So if […]

Sure, it lost $20 million after its former toy-selling partner Toys R Us won a court battle to leave Amazon.com’s selling platform. And yes, Amazon.com’s marketing and technology investment costs are up, thanks to free shipping with its Amazon.com prime offering. Then there are all those new developers Amazon.com hired for its Web services plans […]

Ask folks in the banking industry to explain a debit, and you’ll likely get a few answers, all of them at odds. Now ask folks in the accounting industry to explain the term; even more varying terms pop up. In the data-tagging world of RFID, amid the billions of bits data sensors are pumping out, […]

They’ll always be with us in the wooly corners of the Web: attackers bent on breaking your network system, stealing your data, pilfering funds, or letting their fingers do the walking through your e-mail and IM threads. Research firm IDC, in its security trends forecast for 2006, said chief security officers, as well as other […]

Forget the printer wars. Ink is the new blood sport in the printing market, thanks to the budding growth of digital photo prints. Get ready for users and vendors to spill more of it, with smiles all around. In a consumer and business world utterly saturated with printers that do everything but take out the […]

You don’t have to veer too far into major industry sectors these days without bumping into the quickening pace of adoption of RFID tagging. Wal-Mart, for instance, is driving RFID adoption in its supply chain by mandating that trading partners adopt pallet-level RFID use. The Department of Homeland Security expects RFID chips to be on […]

UPDATED: You might say the marriage of Adobe  and Macromedia is producing some rich results — as in Rich Internet Applications (RIA). That’s one of the main drivers behind the latest Flex 2.0 programming features just released today. Call it Ajax  on steroids, Vista on a diet or the latest cutting-edge tools for real Web […]