Jessica Davis

Technology outsourcing and consulting giant Accenture’s (NYSE: ACN) financial results fell very much in line with that of other technology companies during this phase of the current recession—declines across the board, but characterized as strong when considering the current economic environment. For Accenture that has meant pricing has come under pressure for both systems integration […]

For basketball fans watching tonight’s 2009 NBA Draft live on television to see which team gets Blake Griffin, there’s no tolerance for lost video signals, dropped video or audio or anything else going wrong with the broadcast. For the fifth year in a row, video conferencing managed service provider Glowpoint service will be making sure […]

The PC market is now expected to post positive unit growth in the fourth quarter of 2009 in a long-awaited turnaround from what have been several quarters of decline. And that will lead to a “healthy market recovery in 2010.” Market research firm Gartner is now forecasting PC unit sales for 2009 to decline by […]

You may think your favorite Twitter application—Tweet Deck, Seesmic or Twhirl, for example—is saving you time, but regardless of what you are using, it is likely riddled with bugs. uTest’s most recent Twitter Apps Bug Battle found a total of 317 bugs across five applications, including Tweet Deck, Seesmic Desktop and Twhirl, with 20 percent […]

Intel and Nokia’s announcement this week of a long-term technology partnership around mobile devices of the future was long on vision and short on the product details that everyone wanted to hear. Intel and Nokia offered nothing in the form of product direction or timelines beyond a general statement of targeting devices that go beyond […]

Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) and Nokia (NYSE:NOK) announced a long-term technology partnership on a range of devices beyond today’s smartphones, netbooks and notebooks to mobile Internet devices that executives say they have “yet to imagine,” but those executives stopped short of actually announcing any of those devices or when they might be delivered. “We’ll talk about products […]

You’ve probably wanted to do this yourself to a laptop computer at some point or another–run over it with a truck. In this case it was a DOW (Doppler on Wheels), a storm-tracking truck. And the laptop in question? The new Lenovo Thinkpad T400s, announced today. Lenovo did the demonstration to show how rugged the […]

Lenovo is releasing what the PC maker is billing as the best of both worlds – a combination of its thin and light laptop, the Lenovo Thinkpad x300,  and its powerful Thinkpad T series of laptops. “The T400 is our most popular notebook that we sell and make,” says David Critchley, worldwide segment marketing manager […]

The target market for the current generation of netbooks is largely confused about how the new devices differ in functionality from traditional laptop computers.  And that makes for a large set of unsatisfied customers. That’s according to a new report from NDP Group, a market research company, that further shows that many consumers who purchased […]

You may be reading all the stories about amazing new processors and high-performing, low-power PCs on the market today, but chances are you aren’t reading this story on one of them. Unless you are at home. Responding to a deep economic recession, companies across the board have delayed their PC refresh cycles, and today’s corporate […]

As travel budgets have been cut to the bone, plenty of companies large and small have been considering the benefits of implementing video conferencing systems, a technology that can help them realize the new business mantra, “do more with less.” And video conferencing does seem to be on the precipice of more widespread adoption, driven […]

You probably knew this already, but Facebook isn’t just for students anymore. Increasingly business people are using it to stay in touch with one another. And businesses have created fan pages for themselves and their technologies. This point hasn’t been lost on Heartland Technology Solutions, a solution provider in the Midwest. Chief operating officer and […]