Scot Petersen

The ThinkPad is still the ThinkPad. Its been a year since Lenovo officially took over IBMs PC business, but its hard to believe that Lenovo wasnt always making all those ThinkPads. The China-based manufacturer has accomplished a great deal in the past 12 months, reports Senior Writer John G. Spooner this week, managing growth while […]

In Scott McNealys own words, its time for Sun to call 1-800-CRL-ALT-DEL. The landscape of IT history is littered with the carcasses of companies that tried to be the one that finally brought down Microsoft: Ray Noordas Novell, Jim Manzis Lotus and Philippe Kahns Borland (Larry Ellison and Oracle are still going strong). But no […]

Imagine you are driving your familys Toyota Camry down an interstate highway, heading to grandmas house for Thanksgiving. You approach a tollbooth, roll down your window and prepare to throw in your quarters. But before you can, the tollbooth worker says, “Sorry, sir. This section of the turnpike is under new management. We only allow […]

You have heard the analogy about Microsoft Windows and the auto industry. Something like, if cars were built like Windows, they would crash twice a day. While crashing (computers) isnt as much of a problem anymore, infestations of spyware and rootkits are. Even if they are detected, they can be very difficult to remove. The […]

Virtualization and computing have been together since the early 1960s, but only in recent years has the virtualization concept really taken off. Now, virtualization is, well, virtually everywhere in products and the enterprise. Its certainly on the minds of senior IT executives. “I cannot have a conversation with someone today without the topic of virtualization […]

LAS VEGAS—Is wireless changing the world? It just might be. In Afghanistan, for instance, wireless is the main mode of communication, according to Karim Khoja, CEO of Roshan Afghanistan, speaking at the opening keynote at CTIA Wireless here on April 5. “Take all the land mines in the world, and you have more in Afghanistan […]

As technology keeps shrinking the world, it may be time to ask if there is any aspect of enterprise computing that cannot be done in another country, another time zone and in another culture. The Internet has enabled Procter & Gamble to manage the first two hurdles, with outsourced business process operations in 56 countries. […]

In the fast-moving Internet economy, new acronyms and catchphrases have a way of sneaking up on people. Sometimes before we even know what they mean, we begin using them. The hottest ones right now are “mashup” and “Web 2.0.” (Even better: a “Web 2.0 mashup.” See Microsoft Watch Editor Mary Jo Foleys story on Page […]

Tis the season for courting small business deals. Or, if you are IBM Global Services or EDS, that could be shortened to just “small deals.” eWEEK reported on Jan. 23 how EDS is completing a makeover that will enable the IT services provider to accept smaller contracts and not rely on multibillion-dollar deals. Likewise, IGS […]

In the news business, its cool when an emerging technology youve covered for years finally “makes it.” Storage over IP and the iSCSI specification were just in their infancy back in 2001, but as eWEEK reported in May of that year, vendors were already planning products and looking to the day when iSCSI caught up […]