Monthly Archives: January 2001
Spectrum: New Year, New Bidding
Carriers seeking spectrum have rung up more than $11 billion in bids in the most expensive government auction of airwaves to date—and its not...
Is Wireless Just the Ticket?
Nobody is more mobile than a frequent flier, so airlines are trying to keep up with the wireless trend. But while several are offering...
Ricochet: Fast but Very Scarce
Metricoms Ricochet is the first national, high-speed wireless network. The facts that high-speed is a relative term and that coverage isnt completely national shouldnt...
Beefed-Up Rex Makes a Trim PIM
With a touch-sensitive display, new Web clipping capabilities and four times the RAM of the device it replaces, Xircom Inc.s Rex 6000 MicroPDA represents...
Outside World Wants Inside IT
If your company isnt a world-class technology user, it wont last long: Aggressive adoption and deployment of information systems, both computing and communications, are...
The Upside of the Downside
A couple of questions and maybe a few answers coming into the new year.Managed and hosted services were all the rage a year ago,...
App Servers to Comply With J2EE
The application server market continues to bustle, with new releases on the horizon from BEA Systems Inc., Borland Software Corp. and IBM.BEA, of San...
Layer 7 Switching Routes Data Discerningly
Burgeoning Internet traffic coupled with rising demand for QOS multimedia content such as VOIP and real-time streaming have fueled the emergence of Layer 7...
Beyond the Database
Boldly going where no database has gone before, Oracle Corp.s Oracle8i Release 3 is a lot more than a database. Oracle8i is now also...
Cost Control: Microsoft Learns From GE
At this time last year, the IT outlook was ebullient if not giddy. Demand for IT skills was off the charts, with the backlog...