Monthly Archives: May 2001
C&W on the Prowl
The British powerhouse bought Web hosting and content distribution company Digital Island for $340 million last week. The acquisition did not squelch industry talk...
Putting on a Show
Cable operators have spent the last few years getting their acts together. Now theyre ready to put on a show.Since the mid-1990s cable operators...
Fast Facts Matrix: May 21, 2001
Browser in HandHandspring, maker of handheld computers that run the Palm OS, last week said it struck a deal with Microsoft to make MSN...
Dont Close The Door On Open Source
Open source should be a part of any long-term strategic plan. If you have not incorporated it into your IT strategy, you risk missing...
Networking Thrives
Usually, when an industrys biggest player sneezes, everyone else catches cold. But in the realm of networking equipment, something like the opposite is happening....
Wont You Buy Me a Stress-Test Machine?
At Networld+Interop earlier this month—where the shiny cars in the Mercedes-Benz booth lured attendees away from real technology and attracted far more attention than...
Building LANs of Tomorrow
I can live with long cab lines in 99-degree heat. I can manage making the interminable walk from the 100s of the Las Vegas...
IT Advancements Deliver for UPS
United Parcel Service of America Inc. has been a quiet company, steadily increasing its business through new technology but rarely calling attention to its...
Battle Lines
RLX Technologies this month fired the first salvo in what is shaping up to be a serious battle in the blade server market, when...
Jeff Marshall
As chief information officer of The Mens Wearhouse, Jeff Marshall manages the IT operations for 600 brick-and-mortar stores in the U.S. and Canada, and...