Recent Articles
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This Happy Breed: IT Workers Who Like Their Jobs
When the majority of people talk about work, it’s almost undoubtedly followed up with a complaint. From "Dilbert" comics to the movie "Office Space," the grumblings are remarkably similar: too little pay, too many hours, no respect, bad chairs, mean bosses, stifled creativity, under-funded projects, lousy equipment and an assault of busy work. Hearing enough…
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Sun Labs Looks at Search, Online Games
BURLINGTON, Mass.—Sun Microsystems spends about $2 billion a year in research and development, touching on everything from its SPARC and x86 server lines to its Solaris operating system to its storage devices and Java development offering. About 10 percent of that R&D money goes to the company’s labs, where researchers pursue different projects with the…
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Seagate to Acquire EVault for $185 Million
Disk drive sales leader Seagate Technology continued its expansion-by-acquisition strategy Dec. 21 with the announcement that it will acquire privately held EVault, a provider of online backup services, in an all-cash transaction for about $185 million. With the deal, Seagate significantly augments its service business, which includes data recovery, online backup/recovery and archiving for SMBs…
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D&H: Multicore, Mobile to Be Major 2007 Drivers
With a handful of blockbuster new products recently making their premiere, plus several other market drivers on their way down from the enterprise into the small and midsize business space, 2007 looks to be a strong year for SMBs. That’s the forecast from D&H Distributing, a Harrisburg, Pa.-based distributor catering to the SMB VAR market.…
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Bah Humbug: Jobless Claims Jump Again
For the week ending Dec. 16, first-time jobless claims grew by 9,000 compared to the week before, according to a Labor Department report released on Dec. 21. The number of newly laid off workers signing up for unemployment benefits was 315,000, up from 306,000 the week prior. Despite the high numbers, many feel that the…
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Microsoft Gets Positive Feedback for Vista APIs
Initial feedback for Microsoft’s new Vista software development interfaces appears to be largely positive, which could signal an end to lingering doubts over the company’s willingness to grant sufficient access to the kernel of its latest operating system. Microsoft shared an initial set of drafts for its new Vista APIs with security software developers Dec.…
