Monthly Archives: March 2001
Room Service
Hotel bookings for e-procurement are picking up as the technology ripens and alliances form.A joint venture of Hyatt Hotels and Marriott International — Avendra...
Out of Reach
Integrated access devices have become the problem to their own solution. While IADs, or "eye-ads," are the enablers of voice-over-Digital Subscriber Line connections, they...
Web Hoster Uses Solar-Powered Server
Servers, routers, PCs and other high-tech components are voracious consumers of electricity. And as the power shortages in California have demonstrated, rolling electrical blackouts...
Beefing Up ECM, Delivering More
Configuresoft Inc.s Enterprise Configuration Manager 3.5 enables administrators of large Windows 2000 and Windows NT enterprises to proactively monitor massive, geographically dispersed networks while...
Robo Cop-Out
Lay the blame for the collapse of the Internet economy on poorly designed computers and applications that lack a human focus.Thats the message put...
HP Takes Aim at Small Biz
Hewlett-Packard Co. earlier this month became the first large PC maker to try its hand at the nascent PC subscription utility-based computing model.The Palo...
Compaq Latest to Cut Staff, Lower Estimates
Stung by falling sales and shrinking market share, Compaq Computer Corp. is abandoning what it called its "more prudent" sales approach and is now...
A Privacy Assessment Tool Offers One Answer
The online-privacy game has many rules, but few ways to keep score.Fiderus Corp., a privacy consulting firm based in Cary, N.C., seeks to address...
Surviving in an Insecure E-World
As if we needed another one, the vulnerabilities recently found in the widely used Berkeley Internet Name Domain server (see www.cert.org/summaries/CS-2001-01.html) should serve as...