The Google Dashboard is a trivial pursuit - with potential. To succeed it needs to take a more holistic view of my data.

Think Windows PC security is a hassle? It's really not much better than that in enterprise data centers, says Scottrade CIO Ian Patterson. Security vendors, he says, need to step up their game.

My fiasco with my cable modem continues as I realize that my equipment wasn't the problem after all. Meanwhile, poor Internet service degrades to no service at all.

An effort to manage cable clutter and save energy goes horribly wrong.

Purchases being made today will lock unwary IT execs into proprietary private cloud computing paths down the road, Gartner warns.

IT Expo Report: IT executives are showing intense interest in hosted virtual desktops, which can be personalized, are less trouble prone and are easier to manage than physical instances of the Windows PC.

You save big on ink costs for the ESP 7 but do you end up spending more on expensive photo paper to get the right image? Not necessarily. Everyday photo papers worked fine. But don't expect good results on plain paper.

XenDesktop 4 brings the capability to dynamically assign the optimal virtualization approach to each client based on that user's role, location and the type of device they ride in on.

Cheap ink. Reliable printer? That's the reason I gave for bringing in Kodak's ESP 7 printer for testing. Here are my first impressions.

Vendors have known that WEP was a security disaster since 2001. So why are they still selling products that offer only WEP security?

Under a new law that went into effect today manufacturers can no longer enforce minimum pricing agreements in Maryland. Similar bills await a vote on Capitol Hill. But those protections came too late for The Filter Connection.

Version 2.0 of the accountability Web site leverages a geographic information system so users can track stimulus spending on a map and drill down to find out the details.

Kodak's ESP ink jet printers are less costly to run, but do they perform as reliably? It's time to find out.

These behaviors will not win friends and influence people on Twitter.

Ariba's Tim Minahan thinks that SaaS is transforming the CIO into a "best practice business assembler." But while SaaS may have transformed Ariba, the jury is still out on whether or not cloud computing will transform IT.