Monthly Archives: May 2001
SBC Speeds Web at Work
It uses zero watts, its the size of a pack of gum and its the key piece of SBC Communications strategy to bring broadband...
Wall Street Wins Bidding War
In the midst of the down-turn for Internet consulting companies, a bidding war has broken out for Proxicom, one of the better-positioned players. The...
Kevin Burton
Co-Founder and Primary Developer, OpenprivacyKevin Burton has a warning for developers everywhere: Open source programming can suck you in."It first starts off when youre...
Fast Facts Matrix: May 14, 2001
3Com Plans Layoffs . . .Aiming to save $1 billion in annual costs, 3Com last week said it would lay off about 3,000 people,...
eFiles: May 14, 2001
Industrial Company CIO Takes LeapAir Liquide America Corp. has appointed an IT veteran as its vice president of IT for the United States and...
Asera Picked to Power Steel Site
Steel is hard. So is the growing competition among Web-based metals exchanges.This week, Steel24-7, the new European metals exchange, will announce that it has...
PC-Driven
In February 2000, Ford Motor and start-up PeoplePC announced a program to provide more than 365,000 Ford employees worldwide with a name-brand personal computer...
Shows No-Shows
As the tech economy food chain gets further strained, many industry trade shows are scrambling to survive.More than a few have gone to that...
Speed of Flight
On April 1, 1990, David Waitzman proposed what may have been the first experimental standard for wireless Internet Protocol (IP) networks.The proposal, contained in...
NetIQ Keeps Its Edge
With version 4.0, NetIQ Corp.s AppManager remains king of the hill for Windows NT/2000 systems management, but sites looking to cover non-Windows systems should...