by William M. Bulkeley and Keith J. Winstein, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal
A mainframe computer may seem as out-of-date as a typewriter in the age of Google and iPhones. But the half-century-old business is still crucial and lucrative enough to be drawing scrutiny from U.S. antitrust investigators.
International Business Machines Corp. is now almost alone in the market for mainframes: high-end computers that run everything from Amtrak’s reservation system to benefits payments for the Social Security Administration.
by William M. Bulkeley, Staff Writer, The Wall Street Journal
“Like the physical universe, the digital universe is expanding. In fact, exploding,” says John Gantz, a researcher for IDC.
For the last three years, Mr. Gantz has been commissioned by storage provider EMC to count the number of bits created each year. And each year he reports that IDC previously underestimated the explosion of information.
by Eric Savitz, Blogger and Columnist, Barron's, Tech Trader Daily
Intel certainly isn’t immune to the downturn in the economy–a decline that both IDC and Gartner today said will result in a big dropoff in 2009 semiconductor industry revenue.
But Barclays Capital analyst Tim Luke today asserted that Intel might not be hurt quite as badly as some other chipmakers.
More than half the country actively uses social-networking sites, but so far advertising on these properties is nothing short of anemic, says a new report issued by market research firm IDC. In fact, IDC calls advertisers’ attempts to tap into these sites’ unique social nature “stillborn.”
Should security people doubt themselves? Or does that make us seem wishy-washy and weak? Is that why we continue to pursue the goal of Perfect Security with such single-mindedness? Or are we just protecting our own investments?
At the risk of shocking the security world, in my keynote address at the 2007 RSA Conference, I said [...]
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