Between the Lines
Larry Dignan and other IT industry experts, blogging at the intersection of business and technology, deliver daily news and analysis on vital enterprise trends.
Larry Dignan
Larry Dignan is Editor in Chief of ZDNet and SmartPlanet as well as Editorial Director of ZDNet's sister site TechRepublic.
Andrew Nusca
Andrew Nusca is a writer-editor for ZDNet, contributor to CNET and the editor of SmartPlanet, ZDNet's sister site about innovation. In 2013, his coverage will focus on enterprise startups. He is based in New York.
Rachel King
Rachel King is a staff writer for ZDNet based in San Francisco.
Latest Posts
Now, HP denies rumors of executive shuffle
Discounting a report that HP CEO Carly Fiorina's authority over the whole company was about to be diluted by an executive shuffle, a News.com story by Matt Hines quotes HP spokesperson Robert Sherbin as saying:"Boards discuss a wide range of topics consistent with their fiduciaryresponsibilities, and any speculation about these discussions is justthat--pure speculation....
Phil Windley asks: Whither innovation?
Former CIO for the state of Utah, Internet company executive (Excite@Home and...
Fiorina: One foot out the door?
Unhappy with HP's uneven performance on Wall St., the company's board of directors is apparently reconsidering the scope of CEO Carly Fiorina's management duties.
The Holy Grid cometh
Ian Foster is one of rock stars (if there is such a thing) of grid computing. For the last decade, Foster-- Associate Director of the Mathematics and Computer Science Division of Argonne National Laboratory and the Arthur Holly Compton Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago--and his cohorts have been working on a set of software services and libraries to develop open-standard grid infrastructure and applications.
Apple's 'mindshare' off the charts, says ZDNet Research
Datapoint: Latest BT Trax mindshare figures show that, in the last month, Apple's share of total news stories read by ZDNet users in the desktop category skyrocketed from 3 to over 70 percent...
Face Off: Sun issues open letter to IBM's Palmisano
Sun is ratcheting up the heat on IBM, with an open letter from Jonathan Schwartz to IBM CEO Sam Palmisano (text...
Life in a fishbowl
In the interests of research, one of my colleagues at the Labs is walking around wearing a LifeShirt from VivoMetrics. The LifeShirt contains sensors that track heart rate, body temperature and respiration, and wirelessly transmit the data to a PDA or PC.
The post-Powell FCC
Russell Shaw explains why telecom policy won't change under a new FCC commissioner when Michael Powell leaves the post...
Spyware planning off the mark, says ZDNet Research
When security firm WatchGuard Technologies reported today that spyware is the biggest threat to company networks this...