Storage revenue slipped in the fourth quarter–the first quarterly slide in more than five years, according to IDC. The culprit: Weak server sales that reduced demand for storage systems.  IDC’s report indicates that weak IT spending is even hitting the storage industry, which has enjoy...

Embedded in Microsoft’s earnings report and restructuring news was an implicit message that’s hard to ignore: Netbooks are disruptive and wreaking havoc in the industry. On the surface, Microsoft’s earnings report (initial take, statement, Techmeme) had a bevy of bad news. Earnings...

Santa and his reindeer will be flying around, dropping down your chimney with a 3G iPhone, Amazon Kindle, GPS device or other techno gee-gaw you’ve been lusting after. But if you’re looking for something really cool, you may want to start putting together your wish list for Christmas 2009 or 201...

If you’re a PC pro who needs to recover files off a Mac that won’t boot, you might think to try the old PC trick of removing the problem Mac’s hard drive and attaching it to another machine. But, there’s an easier way. In this IT Dojo video, Bill Detwiler shows you how to use...

EMC is connecting two of its more recent acquisitions–Iomega and Berkeley Data Systems’ Mozy online backup storage–to target small businesses and consumers. On Wednesday, EMC will roll out a storage bundle that includes Iomega’s external hard drives with a software bundle tha...

Dell CEO Michael Dell mentioned the product lust mantra last year and has come back to it repeatedly in conference calls and analyst meetings. Dell’s message: The company needs to improve design and inspire a few ‘gotta have that’ moments from technology buyers. How is Dell doing? ...

Time Warner Cable will offer subscribers “a new wireless cable modem that will allow you to network everything in your house,” CEO Glenn Britt said at an investor conference on Friday, as Reuters reported. “Right now it’s pretty hard to get Internet stuff on your TV,” h...

Nortel is apparently trying to take a page from AMD’s old playbook and sneak up on its much-larger rival-Cisco. Just a few years ago-it’s hard to believe given AMD’s recent execution issues-but AMD snuck up on Intel and gave it fits. Intel was off its game. AMD was on it. AMD creat...

HP CEO Mark Hurd was inevitably asked about the U.S. economy during the company’s earnings conference call and the message was clear: It’s hard to chart tech spending right now. HP reported a strong second quarter due to sales abroad, but analysts spent a good chunk of time trying to rea...

AMD has revamped its server processor roadmap with plans to jump to six and then 12 cores in the first half of 2010, but the larger question is whether the company can actually deliver. Given that AMD has had a hard time delivering its quad-core chips and only recently started shipping it’s a ...