7 posts and columns on corporations

2012: Siri Is a Stunner, Amazon Is Amazin’ and Security Gets Spendy

in News on December 8, 2011 at 8:59 pm PT

Tech prognosticator Mark Anderson is back in New York with his annual predictions for the world of tech in 2012.
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Ballmer Says Microsoft Breakup Not in Cards

in News on November 17, 2010 at 12:00 am PT

Microsoft Corp. weathered government pressure a decade ago to break up its business. Now the software giant faces similar questions from a new quarter: its stockholders. At the company’s annual shareholder meeting Tuesday, Chief Executive Steve Ballmer and Chairman Bill Gates sought to calm investors, some of whom asked if the maker of Windows operating systems and Xbox game consoles would be more valuable as individual companies.

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Some Courts Raise Bar on Reading Employee Email

in News on November 20, 2009 at 5:00 am PT

Big Brother is watching. That is the message corporations routinely send their employees about using email. But recent cases have shown that employees sometimes have more privacy rights than they might expect when it comes to the corporate email server. Legal experts say that courts in some instances are showing more consideration for employees who feel their employer has violated their privacy electronically.

No Matter How Hard You Try, You Can’t Get Apple to Say Anything Nice About a Netbook

in Media on July 21, 2009 at 3:32 pm PT

This is now an Apple earnings-call tradition: Analysts try their hardest to convince Apple executives to express interest in the booming market for cheap netbooks and Apple executives make it perfectly clear how much disdain they have for netbooks. But an $800 iTablet? That’s something else altogether…
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Six in Ten Businesses Suffering From Post-Traumatic Vista Syndrome

in News on July 13, 2009 at 4:55 am PT

When Windows 7 arrives at market in October, it will be ignored by more businesses than adopted. That’s the conclusion of a new survey conducted by Quest Software’s ScriptLogic unit, which polled 1,000 corporations on their plans for Microsoft’s forthcoming operating system. While 5.4 percent of respondents said they plan to deploy Windows 7 this calendar year and 34 percent by the end of 2010, 59.3 percent said they had no plans to deploy it at all.
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