Stuart J. Johnston

On the heels of a disappointing earnings report for its third fiscal quarter of 2011, HP executives said late Thursday that the company is looking at — as well as taking — some dramatic steps to realign the firm for a more profitable future, including the possibility it may sell, or spin off, its core […]

Despite a record quarter for cash flow from operations, Dell’s second fiscal quarter of 2012 illustrated just how difficult it can be to expand from a consumer-based marketing company that has been stagnating of late into higher-end products targeted at enterprise customers. Although Round Rock, Tex.-based Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) posted strong diluted earnings per share […]

As Microsoft prepares to provide developers, customers, and OEMs more details about Windows 8 at its upcoming Build conference next Month, the head of the project has started a new blog to try to streamline communications among the various concerned communities. Steven Sinofsky, president of Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) Windows and Windows Live Division, inaugurated what […]

The news has just barely hit that search giant Google is buying Motorola Mobility, yet some pundits have already begun to posit that, other than acquiring a treasure trove of mobile patents, this could be worse news for Google than for Microsoft. For anyone not living under a rock, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced Monday that […]

A recent survey of 250 small to large enterprises found that, while the vast majority of them are seriously concerned about the security of managed file transfers (MFT), 70 percent of them use one of the most insecure file transfer tools of all for many circumstances. According to the survey, conducted by cloud-based enterprise integration […]

Growth in IT budgets this year is helping to fuel the growing adoption of Windows 7 in the enterprise, according to a new research report released this week. Indeed, by year’s end, some 42 percent of PCs worldwide will be running Windows 7, the report released Tuesday by analyst firm Gartner said. “Steady improvements in […]

Privacy officers around the world should prepare to focus on security and privacy monitoring, enforcement, and funding through the end of 2012, analysts plan to tell attendees at Gartner’s Security & Risk Management Summit 2011 coming up next month. What’s more — as always — they should also plan on doing more with less. “Throughout […]

A new report predicts that worldwide mobile connections will reach $5.6 billion this year, while revenues from mobile data services will total some $314.7 billion. That constitutes a significant jump of 22.5 percent from $257 billion in 2010, according to the report released by analyst firm Gartner, Thursday. “Mobile data traffic will increase significantly as […]

A leading analyst firm reported this week that PC processor shipments for the second quarter of 2011 shrank slightly from the previous sequential quarter, yet compared to shipments during the same quarter last year, they gained a fraction. Additionally, of the PC, notebook, and PC server CPUs sold in the second quarter by all the […]

Fujitsu announced late Friday that it is shipping four middleware products designed to work with Microsoft’s Windows Azure public cloud development platform as well as with Fujitsu’s recently-announced Fujitsu Global Cloud Platform (FGCP/A5), which runs on Windows Azure. The storage giant announced FGCP/A5, with which it hosts Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) Azure services in Fujitsu datacenters, […]