Bryan Crynes, Chief Information Officer for Starbucks, the multi-national coffee giant based out of Seattle, Washington, finds himself out on the street today as part of a general corporate shake-up...

Microsoft has announced today that long-time employee and current president of their Business Division Jeff Raikes will retire from the company in September. Raikes, who currently presides over one...

Although much of the hoopla over outsourcing and offshoring technology functions has died down in the press lately (a bit odd, considering the election year spooling up here in the US), the market...

I love it every time when Nick Carr pulls out his lighter and sets fire to someone's sacred cow, not because he is always right, but because the ensuing controversy almost always manages to pull...

Microsoft announced today that they have made an offer to acquire enterprise search solution provider FAST for $1.2 billion. This represents a significant move in a market the Redmond software giant...

Apple announced today the next version of their Xserve server platform, a 1U, $3000 unit which nearly doubles the speed of the previous version. The Leopard version of OS X Server provided a much...

Mary Jo Foley brought up the interesting point yesterday that Microsoft's ongoing problems with the popular XBox Live service might have implications for the company's other Live or hosted...

It was only a matter of time, but now the geeks over at Slashdot have gotten wind of Nick Carr's The Big Switch, and they're not kindly disposed to it. This is in contrast to some of the...

It's always been sort of an open secret that Bill Gates is a terrible public speaker, and his traditional role as presenter of the opening keynote at the massive Consumer Electronics Show (CES)...

The Google Docs team has posted an update discussing some recently released features for their Presentations component and a few minor updates to their core document management components. If you are...

Apparently smelling blood in their perpetual battle with Linux for the server market, Microsoft is going for the jugular by relaxing licensing restrictions in their next release of Windows Server Web...

Just about the only significant trend that I have not yet seen some random pundit proclaim that 2008 will be a "break-out" year of "explosive growth" for is virtualization....

...they just have support for their formats withdrawn. Or at least some older Excel, PowerPoint, and third-party file formats have been given the axe by Microsoft with the release of Office 2003...

Let me say "no" immediately so as not to engender accusations of hopping on the sensationalism bandwagon (I think it is stuck over at Scoble's house today anyway). But Matt Asay's...

A curious fact (or maybe not so curious) that I have noticed in the inevitable spate of new year prognosticating is that everyone seems to believe that the field about which they are prognosticating...

I'm not much at specific predictions and I'm not going to get into the business of offering any up now, but if you're in the business of offering advice in the field of Information...

I've got my first "Vision Thing" post! After all, nothing better deserves the category than a book originally subtitled "Our New Digital Destiny" (later changed to a more...