Monthly Archives: March 2001
Field Of Screams
Windows 2000 has slowly taken the field to defend Microsofts LAN server dynasty, but Linux is making a series of it. Sooner, rather than...
Geekspeak: March 26, 2001
Having to lug a laptop along with you on business is bad enough; is it too much to ask to have a decent way...
Win XP Has Edge Over 9x
The second beta of Windows XP arrives this week clothed in its spacey, new Luna user interface. In tests of an early release of...
Its No Contest: Busboy 200, Fat Cats Zip
Heres the lineup: 200 of the richest people in the United States vs. a scruffy-looking pot scrubber armed with a copy of Forbes and...
Gigahertz: Who Really Cares?
An ad last week for dells new Inspirons read "1 GHz now in notebook form.""So what," I thought. Another bump up in mobile processor...
Speaking Out to More
Voice recognition companies Nuance Communications Inc. and IBM Voice Systems are partnering to spread their technologies to a broader audience. Nuance, of Menlo Park,...
On Trust and Open Source
When we speak of the open-source culture/movement/business (or threat, if you are Microsoft), many of us may not be aware of its roots. Open...
Theres No Place Like Home Security
In the coming years, security breaches wont occur nearly as often inside networks as at users homes. They are much easier targets. Months after...
Privacy Woe?
When it comes to protecting privacy online, the biggest foes we have to fear are ourselves.Tracking the behavior of individuals while online can be...
WEP Remains Vulnerable
Months after security vulnerabilities were found in the Wireless Equivalent Privacy protocol included with 802.11b wireless LAN technology, the IEEE and WECA are working...