The biggest computing and networking companies in the world are getting bigger - and former partners are now fierce rivals. Is tech's new strife good for customers?
The largest technology companies in the world are at war.
Sure, the executives who run Cisco, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Oracle, and others appear to play nice: Cisco touts the "regular dialogue" between its CEO, John Chambers, and IBM's chief executive, Sam Palmisano. Ann Livermore, an HP MORE
Jessi Hempel, writer - Jan 13, 2010 8:48 AM ET
Tech veteran Watkins talks about why he took the top job at LED maker Bridgelux.
A year after he was booted from the top spot at hard drive-maker Seagate (STX), Bill Watkins has taken on the CEO job at Sunnyvale, CA-based LED lighting company Bridgelux. Bridgelux makes LED (light emitting diode) chips and arrays for use in general lighting applications for everything from streetlights to warehouses.
"I always knew I would go MORE
Michael V. Copeland, Senior Writer - Jan 13, 2010 5:48 AM ET
Electronic Arts provides fresh evidence of technology's ability to change everything--maybe.
Can Electronic Arts win at the game of (tech) life? Image: Electronic Arts.
Remember that awful, overused, ill understood word from the tech bubble? Disintermediation. It was what was going to happen to all "old" businesses, like retailers and newspapers and brokerage houses. The theory went that any company that wasn't serving its customers on the Internet would watch the MORE
Adam Lashinsky, Sr. Editor at Large - Jan 12, 2010 10:36 AM ET
"Unfettered" shouldn't mean unconcerned about mobile hacks.
By David Jevans, CEO, Iron Key
Jevans: Mobility can mean more chances for security breaches. Photo: IronKey.
It's a mobile, mobile mobile, mobile world: More and more of us are using laptop computers, Apple (AAPL) iPhone's, Research in Motion (RIMM) BlackBerrys, USB flash drives and other portable computing and storage devices in our day-to-day lives.
Many freelancers and consultants bring their laptops to Starbucks coffee shops, MORE
Jan 11, 2010 10:00 AM ET
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Jon Fortt - Jan 11, 2010 8:00 AM ET
Apple 2.0 will return in a week
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The third in a series of previews of Apple's results for the first fiscal quarter of 2010
Click to enlarge. Sources: Company reports, Piper Jaffray
Earlier this week we sampled the Street's expectations for Apple's (AAPL) iPhone and Mac sales in the fiscal quarter that ended on Dec. 26.
Today we look at the analysts' Q1 2010 estimates for a product line in transition: from simple MP3 players like the classic iPod MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jan 8, 2010 8:00 AM ET
Is there a business or tech publication on which his face has not appeared?
Click to enlarge. Source: Kuo Design
Art director Sam Kuo at Kuo Design created the original version of this grid after Fortune named Apple's (AAPL) Steve Jobs CEO of the decade in November 2009. Kuo and Robert Newman have posted an annotated gallery version, with names of artists and art directors, on the SPD Blog and Mediaite. MORE
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