Marc Ferranti

IDG News Service

Ferranti is a reporter for the IDG News Service.

marc_ferranti@idg.com

Recent articles by Ferranti

Wal-Mart to sell iPhone 3G starting Dec. 28
Dec. 26, 2008
Wal-Mart Friday announced the long-expected availability of the iPhone 3G at almost 2,500 stores beginning Sunday.

Wall Street Beat: IT crawls to end of a tough year
Dec. 26, 2008
Though Amazon and Red Hat provided a few glimmers of sunlight the tech sector suffered through a turbulent week, with no signs of letup soon.

The Top 10 stories of 2008: Not business as usual
Dec. 14, 2008
What started out as a banking crisis became, in 2008, a story for everyone: retailers, consumers, auto workers -- and tech professionals. Though it wasn't business as usual, some big mergers -- like HP buying EDS -- ...

Wall Street Beat: IT forecasts slashed
Dec. 12, 2008
With CIOs reporting budget revisions, market analysts slashing expectations for tech sector growth, and companies as diverse as Yahoo, Hynix, Texas Instruments and Sony cutting sales forecasts and jobs this week, there ...

Wall Street Beat: Hardware taking brunt of recession
Dec. 04, 2008
Job cuts at AT&T and Adobe Systems and lower expectations for bellwethers like Google and Microsoft this week make it is clear that the now-official U.S. recession is hitting all sectors of IT, though so far it looks ...

Wall Street Beat: Clouds loom for IT despite holiday break
Nov. 27, 2008
The U.S. Thanksgiving holiday is bringing momentary relief to weary IT investors, but forecasts of flat sales or absolute declines for semiconductors, mobile devices and online commerce mean that it will be a while ...

SAP to bring unified interface across apps suite
Nov. 22, 2008
SAP will bring a unified interface across its suite of business applications over the next few quarters as part of an ongoing effort to make its software easier to implement, according to company co-CEO Leo Apotheker.

Wall Street Beat: Tech shares sink to 6-year lows
Nov. 20, 2008
Upbeat earnings news from Hewlett-Packard and Salesforce.com and better-than-expected October PC sales in the U.S. could not boost confidence in the technology sector as IT investors continue to dump shares, bringing ...

Sun slashes up to 18 percent of workforce
Nov. 14, 2008
Sun announced Friday that it will cut up to 18 percent of its worldwide workforce to curb costs in the face of tough economic times.

Wall Street Beat: Another week of tumult for tech
Nov. 06, 2008
Election week in the U.S. turned out to be another tumultuous time on the stock market for tech companies, with a weak forecast from Cisco Systems and bad news for companies including Advanced Micro Devices, Dell, Nokia ...

Google abandons ad deal with Yahoo
Nov. 05, 2008
Google Wednesday abandoned its advertising deal with Yahoo, citing regulatory concerns.

Reporter's notebook: Excitement, fear on the e-vote trail
Nov. 04, 2008
No one's doubting the outcome of the massive turnout in the U.S. presidential election in Democratic New Jersey, but for some voters and elected officials, e-voting glitches and long lines are undermining confidence in ...

Wall Street Beat: Bad news gets worse for IT
Nov. 14, 2008
Despite a market rally Thursday, the financial news for IT just keeps getting worse, with bellwethers like Intel cutting revenue guidance, shares of high-flyers like Google sinking to multiyear lows, investment analysts ...

Wall Street Beat: IT crawls to end of a tough year
Dec. 26, 2008
Though Amazon and Red Hat provided a few glimmers of sunlight the tech sector suffered through a turbulent week, with no signs of letup soon.

Wal-Mart to sell iPhone 3G starting Dec. 28
Dec. 26, 2008
Wal-Mart Friday announced the long-expected availability of the iPhone 3G at almost 2,500 stores beginning Sunday.

Ed Felten on e-voting: What can go wrong
Nov. 03, 2008
Voting machines of all stripes have remarkably similar flaws and though geographically scattered, inaccurate tallies of votes are not likely to flip a whole presidential election, there is a "nightmare scenario" that ...

Wall Street Beat: Financial reports confirm fears for IT
Oct. 30, 2008
Financial reports from vendors including Motorola, Sun Microsystems, SAP and STMicroelectronics, along with economic and IT sector surveys, this week are confirming market watchers' fears that the U.S. is heading into ...

Wall Street Beat: IT earnings mixed, but offer some relief
Oct. 16, 2008
Earnings season got under way with a vengeance this week, as bellwether companies such as Google, IBM, Intel, Nokia, Advanced Micro Devices, and eBay issued quarterly reports that, while mixed, offered some good news to ...

Wall Street Beat: Tech shares slump to 2003 levels
Oct. 09, 2008
Analysts are cutting revenue forecasts for bellwether IT vendors as the U.S. financial sector crisis caused markets around the world to tumble again this week, pushing the tech-heavy Nasdaq down to 2003 levels as shares ...

Wall Street Beat: IT shares hit but hope for midterm remains
Oct. 02, 2008
The U.S. financial crisis is taking a toll on mergers and acquisitions and share prices in the technology sector, causing the tech-heavy Nasdaq to slump to a new 52-week low Thursday, but industry watchers have an ...

Wall Street Beat: IT investors eye buybacks, earnings
Sep. 25, 2008
As the U.S. financial services crisis roiled markets around the world, stock buybacks from bellwethers Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard and earnings reports from Red Hat and Research in Motion caught the eye of IT ...

Wall Street Beat: Confidence buoys tech despite turmoil
Sep. 18, 2008
Even though a smattering of IT vendors including Dell and Nortel issued earnings warnings this week, industry insiders remain hopeful that tech companies won't be dragged down as Wall Street giants collapse.

Forrester says IT spending up in '08, but cautions on '09
Sep. 16, 2008
Despite turmoil on Wall Street, U.S. spending on IT will increase more than previously expected, though the outlook for 2009 is dimming, Forrester Research said Wednesday.

Wall Street Beat: Yahoo slumps, strategic M&A continues
Sep. 04, 2008
As economic worries battered tech stocks in a brief post-Labor Day week, Yahoo hit a 52-week low, Oracle continued its buying spree to strengthen its SOA (service-oriented architecture) offerings, and Red Hat snapped up ...

The Top 10 stories of 2008: Not business as usual
Dec. 14, 2008
What started out as a banking crisis became, in 2008, a story for everyone: retailers, consumers, auto workers -- and tech professionals. Though it wasn't business as usual, some big mergers -- like HP buying EDS -- ...