Monthly Archives: April 2001
Just What You Wanted
Im not sure what the word "Oingo" means, but the unique namesake search technology from Oingo Inc. can figure out the meaning of pretty...
Dell Adds Service to Online Sales
As a sign of the changing times, Dell Computer has decided its not enough to sell PC hardware online anymore. It will provide services...
Dell Remains Committed to Pricing Strategy
Despite plummeting profit margins, Dell Computer Corp. has no intention of backing off from an aggressive PC pricing strategy that it initiated earlier this...
The Strong, Silent Types
Combining size, speed and sound—or lack thereof—IBM is getting ready to ship what it calls the worlds highest-capacity and quietest family of notebook drives.IBMs...
eFiles: April 9, 2001
Running the Risk of Insurance IgnoranceAccording to a survey of 282 small and midsize companies with fewer than 500 employees, 80 percent of respondents...
Protection at Your Source
While past efforts to develop software to ensure online privacy have focused on delivering desktop tools for customers, new products from Unica Corp. and...
Bridge to the Hill
Jerry Bermans old row house sits in the center of Washington, D.C.s Capitol Hill, the thumping heart of the nations body politic. Books, alphabetized...
A Token for Encryption
Aladdin Knowledge Systems Inc. this week will introduce its Universal Serial Bus-based authentication token, which offers 1,024-bit encryption. Dubbed eToken Pro, the device is...
GNOME, KDE Draw Closer Together
The gap that has threatened to split the Linux community appears to be closing. Though the GNOME (GNU Network Object Model Environment) Foundation and...
Moving to Linux 2.5
Although the latest Linux kernel is only now starting to appear in commercial distributions of the operating system, the Linux development community is wasting...