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  • RIM Investors Give Thumbs Down On New CEO

    January 24, 2012 11:45 AM | Ed Hansberry

    Stock drops after new chief Thorsten Heins said he'll stay the course laid out by his predecessors.

  • Storage Administrators Of 2015: Must-Have Skills

    October 20, 2011 05:37 PM | George Crump

    What's your three-year career plan? Make sure you have the knowledge that will be required to handle storage systems of the future.

  • Who Are The Real Losers In Patent Lawsuits?

    August 31, 2011 03:15 PM | Ed Hansberry

    While the mobile industry's patent litigation frenzy is amusing to watch, the side effects to consumers, developers, and enterprises are not so funny.

  • Android Lawsuits: Google Finds Its Voice

    July 22, 2011 01:32 PM | Ed Hansberry

    Now that Apple has HTC on the ropes for patent violations in Android, Google has stated it will not let HTC lose this case.

  • Block AT&T T-Mobile Merger Says Senate Antitrust Chief

    July 21, 2011 12:25 PM | Ed Hansberry

    Members of Congress blast the proposed deal as anti-competitive, but Verizon COO thinks it'll go through anyway, with restrictions.

  • Apple, Samsung, HTC To Dominate Cellphone Sales

    July 15, 2011 04:00 PM | Ed Hansberry

    Second-quarter earnings reports are expected to reflect big changes in the handset market, with Nokia and LG declining and Android phone makers on the rise, say analysts.

  • AT&T Deal For T-Mobile Gets Greater DOJ Scrutiny

    May 10, 2011 05:05 PM | Ed Hansberry

    The Department of Justice is taking a harder look at AT&T's proposed acquisition of T-Mobile, which means the deal could be delayed indefinitely while the investigation continues.

  • Data Storage Vs. Information Management

    April 01, 2011 04:44 PM | Kurt Marko

    A recent reader response to my State of Storage 2011 report got me thinking about the difference between data and information, or, more generally between technology itself and the ways we creatively use it to solve problems. State of Storage, as these annual reviews are wont to do, focused on trends in storage technology. My correspondent, however, called me for not discussing information management-one way we apply tech to improve how we do business. "I was underwhelmed with the article in that it only focused on the technology platform components of storage and was silent on how we should organize the data we store," he wrote. "In an old-world analogy, it would be like the Library of Congress worrying about the number of shelves they build and the type of wood to build the shelves."

  • You're Invited To Take InformationWeek Analytics' Enterprise 2.0 Survey

    October 31, 2010 08:27 PM | Alexander Wolfe

    Do you E2.0? If so, I need your help. InformationWeek Analytics is conducting a survey to determine what's important to you when you're choosing Enterprise 2.0 applications, and how vendors stack up against a list of criteria rating the performance, applicability, cost, and reliability of their software.

  • Why Steve Jobs Loves Optimized Systems

    October 19, 2010 01:56 PM | Bob Evans

    While much of the attention today surrounding highly engineered and optimized systems centers on big, powerful machines used in data warehousing and OLTP, Apple CEO Steve Jobs reminded the world in yesterday's earnings call that Apple's iPhones, iPods, iPads and Macs have always embodied that model: "And this results in an incredible product at a great price."

  • Jack Welch Says HP Board Is Dysfunctional

    October 05, 2010 02:50 PM | Bob Evans

    Admitting he doesn't understand all the "back room dynamics," management guru Jack Welch says Mark Hurd's dismissal was a result of tensions between Hurd and the HP board, which Welch said "appears to be somewhat dysfunctional." Read on for the transcript from Welch's appearance on Bloomberg Television's "In the Loop."
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