These days you don’t read or hear too much about companies deploying Sun Servers or workstations, you don’t read about the great advances in the Sparc Architecture, and you don’t read about how Solaris is powering the newest supercomputer. All of the things are what you would have routinely...

Venture Beat is reporting that Yahoo’s Zimbra has 40 Million Paid Email boxes, which is gives it more paid mailboxes than Google’s Free Gmail and it’s paying Apps (Gmail) For Your Domain customers, and puts it close behind AOL and Microsoft’s Hotmail services. While Zimbra’s...

Today Google launched their new Google Sync Product that allows you to sync your Google Calendar and Gmail Contacts to your Windows Mobile and iPhone devices. To do this they have licensed Microsoft’s Activesync protocol, just as Apple did to allow the iPhone to sync to a Microsoft Exchange server. This...

The Tech blogs are all a buzz this morning with a revelation that Microsoft may be considering adopting WebKit to use as the rendering engine in Internet Explorer. While I hate to rain on their parade, this will not happen, at least any time soon. Considering that Microsoft is in the process of preparing...

With all of the Macs being deployed in companies all over the world there are a lot of admins scratching their head on how to integrate Macs into a Windows world. The most common request these admins will get is, “Can you configure my Mac to get my Exchange 2007 email?”. The simple answer...

Yesterday Google and TMobile released the first Android-based phone, the G1, but where were the people camping out to get one, where were the people waiting in line for hours, where are the record breaking sales? All of these things were seen with both of the iPhone launches. Without getting into a battle...

Last week, before Apple refreshed it’s line of MacBooks there was a big rumor that they would release a MacBook at the $800 price point, this did not materialize. However, Apple did knock the price of the older-style white MacBooks down to $999, disappointing many. I for one though, am glad Apple...

Microsoft launched their new Ads last night, sans Seinfeld & Gates, trying to play off of the Apple “I’m a PC” guy. The ads touted all of the cool things that people are doing with their PC’s (with Windows I guess). The campaign includes some tie-ins such as an autoresponder...

There is an interesting article on MSNBC about a new phone from Sprint. The phone is essentially an iPhone knock-off. It copies heavily from the iPhone in functionality and design. Sprint is trying to creatively use social media to promote the phone online by offering customers $20 to make videos for...

This month’s Fast Company magazine has a listing of “The World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies”. While it is a great article, it has some traditional “low-tech” companies such as Wal-mart mixed in with the tech companies. I recognize that some of these companies are...