Michael Hickins

Having had the opportunity to travel abroad this summer, I found myself comparing things: How good is their food compared with ours? How good is their public transportation system? How safe are they? From terrorism? From disease? From voter fraud? Those are very different questions, of course, with very different degrees of importance. But it […]

Uneasy sell for Dell You can imagine what the honchos down in Round Rock, Texas, may have been thinking: How hard can it be to sell computers to small-business people? Theyre desperate for efficient technology solutions to give them a competitive edge. Weve got the resources—lets scoop them up! So, on July 11, Dell bought […]

SAP has agreed to include metadata management tools from Informatica with some of its enterprise resource planning and analytics products. The combination of the two products is intended to help customers analyze data stored in third-party or legacy systems. It also solves a marketing problem for SAP, as the applications from Informatica will help the […]

NEW YORK—An explosion just south of Grand Central Station interrupted Internet service for Manhattan customers here today. In the hours following the incident, Verizon had already determined that major switches located underground had not been affected, and was preparing to inspect the cables underground. But it could not provide an estimate of whether or how […]

NEW YORK—Michael Dell doesnt think that making inexpensive laptops for underprivileged kids is very helpful. According to Dell, those so-called $100 laptops wont be powerful enough to make much of a difference in their lives. “The issue is not so much what does it cost, but what does it do,” he said during a question […]

On the face of it, open-source software has been gaining ground of late. The much-anticipated draft of GNU GPLv3 (GNU General Public License Version 3) has been finally published, giving the open-source community an opportunity to finally get out of its own way. State and local governments have latched onto the idea that having their […]

ORLANDO, Fla.—Information storage giant EMC on May 22 introduced a new toolset it hopes will simplify transaction processing for its customers, making it easier for them to process more transactions in less time. The new BPM (business process management) application, called TaskSpace, allows employees to get a single view of transaction-based processes such as loan […]

ORLANDO, Fla.—According to CEO Joe Tucci, EMC plans to develop a storage service offering to penetrate the SMB market, where it has “relatively little share today.” Speaking in an interview with eWEEK editors here at the EMC World partner conference, Tucci would not reveal details of the planned offering, but said, “Were way beyond planning. […]