Monthly Archives: March 2001
Office XP Has a Lot to Like
Microsoft Corp. is billing Office XP as the most significant version of Office ever released. In eWeek Labs tests of the Corporate Preview version...
Windows Source Code Deal: Not for All
Microsoft Corp.s decision last week to give its 1,000 top U.S. enterprise customers access to the Windows 2000 source code has been sharply criticized...
Customizing Resolution
Sensors In a drive to enhance speed and resolution, Hewlett-Packard Co. next month will begin selling three scanners that include two separate sensors to...
Its the Chips, Stupid!
Its a little like the United States building a working space-based missile defense and then being successfully invaded by Mexico. Such is the condition...
Outliving the Worm
Unlike many people convicted of computer crimes, Robert T. Morris shies away from the spotlight and has moved on to become a leading researcher...
Intel Puts Bus Plan in Gear
Intel Corp., in what critics say is a bid to suppress growing support for a rivals technology, is leading an effort to develop a...
Out of the Garage, Into the Office
Hewlett-Packard says it hasnt closed its much-hyped Garage Program, it just found a new home for it.Following the fizzle of the dot-com boom, the...
Bruce Sterling
Bruce Sterling would no doubt hate the idea of being a hero of any kind — sung, unsung, whistled or hummed. But Sterling deserves...
IBM Takes Note of Mobile Users Needs With Laptop
IBMs new ThinkPad TransNote combines a laptop PC with an electronic notepad in a unique folderlike form factor that represents a fresh take on...
Wanna Keep A Secret?
Security is mostly a state of mind, but creating that good feeling can be very expensive. Banks, for instance, are absurdly easy to rob....