Monthly Archives: April 2001
Fast Facts Infrastructure: April 23, 2001
Long-Distance OperatorThe Federal Communications Commission, in a 3-to-1 vote last Monday, gave Verizon Communications the go-ahead to begin offering long-distance service in Massachusetts. FCC...
New Level of Cool
There are some things you just cant live without, some inventions that make you wonder how the heck we survived before their creation.Then there...
Another Big 5 to Go Public
Accentures planned $1 billion IPO may boost the ailing tech sector, according to analysts who follow the high-profile consulting firm.Accenture partners voted last week...
Getting Past the Hurdles
In an effort to lure car owners back to the dealership for repair and maintenance jobs, Ford came up with the saying, "Its your...
Tackling Cancer Behind Scenes
A worthwhile new distributed computing project backed by the University of Oxford, in England; the National Foundation for Cancer Research, in Maryland; Intel; and...
Name Stake
The system of looking up web addresses by their domain names is archaic and doesnt lend itself to commercialization, says New.net, a new domain...
Bandwidth Gets Real
Forget location. If theres a 21st century axiom for the commercial real estate industry, its broadband, broadband, broadband.The commercial real estate industry is, in...
How to Slice and Dice a Résumé
How are the more sophisticated e-recruiting tools and services helping employers select standout job candidates from a sea of electronic résumés? Its not rocket...
Developer Sites Expanding
The trend by software companies to pump ever more dollars and energy into their online resources is taking hold as developers flock to the...
E-Recruiting Takes Next Step
Two years ago, at the height of the IT skills shortage, Keith Vencel thought he had come up with a great way for his...