Not many in business will look back on the last quarter of 2008 and see positive milestones, but Christina Lampe-Onnerud, CEO and founder of startup Boston Power, is coming off a great year.
In 2007, the big question about virtualization in data centers was "How much money and time will this save us?" In 2008, the big question will be "How secure are we?"
This year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas had the biggest audience since the pre-recession 2008 show, hopefully an early indicator of economic recovery in 2011.
When the economy plummeted at the end of 2008, the Western U.S. branch of The Salvation Army was ahead of the cost-cutting game. CIO Clarence White had centralized the IT organization a year or two earlier, and he had consolidated the database and storage servers from the business units into a single data center in Long Beach, Calif.
Microsoft was once again back in court on Tuesday to appeal against a €899 million fine imposed by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in 2008 after a decade of legal battles.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has asked a federal court to issue a contempt order against electronics financing firm BlueHippo after it allegedly violated a 2008 court order requiring the company to make good on promises to deliver computers to customers.
Microsoft this month will release another CTP of SQL Server 2008 R2, this one feature complete and including new business intelligence integration tools and master data management features. In addition, two highly scalable editions will be introduced.
Sales of Apple's laptops in the U.S. surged 25% last month compared to June 2008, a retail market analyst said today. He credited Apple's laptop refresh and accompanying price cuts for the increase.
Spending on plants and equipment used to make semiconductors will likely rise 64 percent next year, with more than half of all spending coming from six chip makers. But 2010 spending will remain far below 2008 levels, an industry group said.
I tend to equate the salaries of celebrity CIOs (an oxymoron, I know) with the compensation packages of today's professional athletes: They're all seemingly excessive and incomprehensible to most salt-of-the-earth people. HP CIO Randy Mott, for instance, took home more than $28 million in compensation in 2008, while New York Yankees' slugger Alex Rodriguez earns $15,856 every time he sees a pitch, according to The Wall Street Journal .
Social media may be the flavor of the moment for corporate marketers but these tools won't work for everyone, according to the man who led the social media component of Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign, saying it was Obama's message -- and not the medium -- that carried the 2008 election.
New mobile connections in India, at 178.26 million, were 57 percent higher last year than in 2008, according to data from the country's Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI).
Brocade will soon unveil 100Gbps Ethernet additions to its switching and routing product line, in what the company claims is its most significant Ethernet/IP product rollout since acquiring Foundry Networks in 2008.
AT&T reported net income of $3 billion for the fourth quarter of 2009, up nearly 26% from the fourth quarter of 2008, largely due to increases in mobile subscribers.
Dawn M. Taylor is a research scientist at the Cleveland Functional Electrical Stimulation Center, a consortium of partners Case Western Reserve University, the Cleveland VA Medical Center and MetroHealth Medical Center. She is a co-author of Brain-Computer Interfaces: An International Assessment of Research and Development Trends (Springer, 2008), which discusses how years of research are beginning to produce practical tools for the disabled.
Sales of pre-owned domain names ending in the German extension -- .de – were up 43% in 2008, according to a study on the secondary domain market released Wednesday by Sedo, an online marketplace for domain names and Web sites. http://www.sedo.com/press/domainmarketstudy2008-us.pdf