Monthly Archives: May 2001
Does Automation Make Sales-Tax Administration Easier?
Four states this month will go "Live" with pilot systems for calculating and remitting sales and use taxes for both Internet and brick-and-mortar purchases....
The Morning After the Industrys H1-B Binge
This may be the worst high-tech job market since the recessionary years of the early 1990s. Virtually every major company is downsizing.Cisco Systems Inc.,...
Vendors That Arent Focused on Service Are in Trouble.
When all else fails, kill off the competition by providing customers with better service. That seems to be the mantra among vendors and service...
Robert Derodes
In his role of chief information officer at Delta Air Lines, Robert DeRodes oversees a staff of 2,400, making sure the airlines computer systems...
Up to a Point
The IP multipoint units we tested here work fine for up to four attendees, but if your client needs more than one videoconference simultaneously...
Staffing, Retention in the Dot-Bomb Era
About this time last year, I was telling a colleague that trying to hire and retain top IT talent was making me crazy. In...
Keeping Data to the Point
Building and keeping relationships with customers is easier said than done, but it is getting easier. A number of e-CRM vendors now offer multivendor...
Noah Garden
Noah Garden is in charge of helping Major League Baseball hit a home run on the Internet. The league manages a Web site, MLB.com,...
PeopleSoft Gets Suppliers Talking
PeopleSoft Inc. will move deeper into the business-to-business and data analysis territories this week with an upgraded supplier relationship management suite.Version 5.21 of its...
Sweet Success
Palm Inc. went public on March 2, 2000, at $40 per share and hit $150 on its first day of trading. Today, its trading...