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AOL AIM Misses the Business Message

AOL Time Warner, which pioneered instant messaging and counts it as a crucial feature, stands to lose the most potentially lucrative part of the...

Solaris Integrators: Rock-Solid Foundation

Times are tough, but Sun Microsystems partners are confident that demand for the Solaris operating system will help keep them afloat.A little over a...

HP Backs Open Source Server

Hewlett-Packards endorsement of an application server that uses open source code holds the promise of saving corporate users big money.The Enhydra application server is...

Tech Companies Face Bias Issues

The stereotype of high-tech companies is that theyre filled with young, white male employees. In fact, thats been largely true — and even if...

In Microsoft Do You Trust?

Microsoft envisions a future with computing as pervasive as air, and it sees itself as the oxygen.The question is: Will the rest of the...

Privacy Momentum Slows on Capitol Hill

It was piping hot in 2000, but the issue of privacy is now in danger of ending up on the congressional back burner.Just weeks...

Microsoft Wakes Up to Security

It took the globally debilitating "ILoveYou" virus and its link to vulnerabilities in the Outlook messaging software, but Microsoft Corp. says it has finally...

Switch Your Defense

Security is one of those amorphous areas of computing where slick marketing preys on the fears—warranted or not—of doing business on the Internet. Sorting...

WEP Cant Stand Alone for Security

Although the IEEEs 802.11b wireless LAN standard includes a provision for security called Wireless Equivalent Privacy, or WEP, the protocol leaves much to be...

Do the Feds Have Your Number?

The Federal Bureau of Investigations latest controversial snoopware is a high-tech wiretap that ISPs might want to challenge.But dont bet the business on winning...