Palm’s new Foleo

How to botch an announcement I’ve been thinking about email lately (see Email value management and What is email?). So it was interesting to see that Palm managed to bungle the announcement of their “next big thing” the email companion called Foleo....

Intel’s best and worst

Over on ZDnet Monday I posted RAM to avoid: hot, expensive and slow. I wrote about Intel’s ill-fated attempt to get Fully Buffered DIMMs accepted as the memory standard for servers and workstations. I got started on the topic because I’m thinking of buying...

EMC has Ph.Ds? – Part II

Last week I realized that I hadn’t seen any research papers from EMC technologists, despite cruising they highways, byways and deep weeds of storage research for some time. I know they have smart guys. What are they doing? They’re salesmen, making 800...

EMC has Ph.Ds? – Part I

An NDA for analysts? As a newly minted analyst I was looking forward to going to EMC’s annual analyst meeting, getting industrial strength marketing smoke blown at me. Then I found they insist on a Non-Disclosure Agreement. Let me get this straight: the analysts...