Monthly Archives: February 2001
Same Game, New Name
Providing application services has become the business model that dares not speak its name, but investors arent giving up on managed software and services."There...
Out & About
Though corporations have not outsourced their data center operations at the pace at which the Internet industry had hoped, an irreversible, if frustratingly slow,...
Primix Adds Two Practices
Web integration company Primix Solutions Inc. added two practices to its professional services offerings for e-procurement and e-fulfillment.The Watertown, Mass., boutique, which continues to...
Organic Chips: Lasers Not Health Food
Breakthroughs in the physics of transistors may eventually permit them to be manufactured like rubber stamps, dramatically reducing the cost and investment required for...
AT&T May Hang Up Local Calls
The outlook for local telephone competition dimmed last week as AT&T threatened to retreat from the field and the industrys chief regulator signaled what...
Loose Lips Sink Sites
eWeek labs just-completed Openhack III test was a great exercise in low-level security hacking, but dont forget that good security is also about issues...
eFiles: February 12, 2001
Big Bucks to Be Made in Net AccessWireless access to complex, high-bandwidth services such as video may seem sexy, but truth be told, the...
Can You Dig It?
The battle between cities tired of torn-up streets and optical fiber companies trying to meet the demand for fast Internet access is intensifying.Cities from...
Global Connections
When two domestic telecom powers go global in a down market, it might look as if theyre swimming against the tide. But few analysts...
Sticky Fingers
If there was any doubt that biometrics have entered the mainstream, it was laid to rest by three Pennsylvania school districts that recently announced...