Jessica Davis

Whether it’s a BlackBerry, iPhone or Android-based smartphone, more workers will be checking e-mail on their smartphones in the years to come, according to a new report from IDC, which predicts the number of subscribers to mobile e-mail will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 36.5 percent through 2014. More than 250 million […]

Image via Wikipedia Technology vendors have been turning up the volume on acquisitions in the past month or two, with several unexpected developments.  For instance, Intel’s  buy of McAfee was a surprise to many because of the different markets the companies have played in. And HP and Dell’s bidding war to win 3Par surprised many […]

IBM is turning up the heat on Oracle/Sun and HP, with a new financing program with special terms for customers who trade their Oracle/Sun and HP equipment to migrate to selected IBM equipment. IBM says it is offering attractive lease terms and no payments until 2011 for credit-qualified U.S. customers that trade in Oracle/Sun and […]

Image by plαdys via Flickr It’s getting nasty out there. Between Oracle’s Larry Ellison threatening to cut business ties to HP, and HP and Dell’s extended bidding war to buy 3PAR, plus a brutal battle in the field between players such as HP and Cisco to win highly-coveted data center  business, big vendors are increasingly […]

Rackspace Hosting’s Headquarters Cloud Provider Moves into Abandoned Mall Rackspace moved the first of its employees into the space on May 12, 2008, about five months after demolition had begun. They sit where Mervyns used to be. Local and state incentives were offered to Rackspace to take over the abandoned mall. No Title Rackspace took […]

Image by Getty Images via @daylife HP and Oracle both ratcheted up the hostilities yesterday as HP sued its former CEO and now Oracle president Mark Hurd and Oracle responded with a statement from CEO Larry Ellison threatening to cut ties with HP. The companies are protecting their turf, for sure, and their shareholders’ investments. […]

Image via Wikipedia In the day since Oracle announced it would hire HP ex-CEO Mark Hurd to serve as president, replacing Charles Phillips, plenty has been written about just what Hurd brings to the table for Oracle. For instance, Oracle now has an executive that has led a multi-billion dollar business. It now has an […]

HP has filed suit against former CEO Mark Hurd over his intention to join Oracle, which could be considered a rival in many aspects of the business. HP announced the lawsuit at its corporate blog. The tech giant filed the civil complaint in the California Superior Court of Santa Clara County, stating the following: “Mark […]

Ever feel like your life is full of doing the same task over and over again? Does it seem like you are on a treadmill, figuratively? Well, now you can also be on one, literally, while you are working. In honor of Labor Day weekend, we bring you the TrekDesk Treadmill Desk. Now you don’t […]

Image via Wikipedia Pointing to one of the dangers of putting all your eggs into one, uh, cloud, Intuit last weekend cut off all its Quicken Online users, encouraging them to set up Mint.com accounts instead. Intuit acquired the cloud-based personal finance application provider Mint.com a few years ago, acknowledging the momentum behind cloud-based solutions. […]

Image via Wikipedia Watch out, Cisco. HP and VMware are getting cozier. The two have struck a partnership to deliver a new virtualization solution, reference architectures and IT services to help customers get to the cloud more quickly.  HP and VMware announced the deal at VMworld in San Francisco today. The deal calls for VMware […]

Image by cocoate.com via Flickr Intel’s newly announced plan to buy chip maker Infineon’s wireless business unit for $1.4 billion gives Intel another shot at the highly coveted mobile business that includes smartphones, embedded devices and laptops. And for Intel it’s familiar territory. That’s because Intel previously tried to win in this space with its […]