Monthly Archives: May 2001
Fast Breaks Newsfront: May 7, 2001
Lucent TheftU.S. prosecutors have accused two Lucent Technologies scientists and an executive at another technology company of stealing software. They are accused of trying...
Cable Wises Up
Cable is tired of being the dumb pipe and has spent the past five years and $42 billion to prove it.Now, the challenge is...
Microsoft is a Textbook Case of How to Do It Right
Microsofts entry into the professional-services business is one of the best things that can happen to this market. The vendor has always been one...
Breaking the XML Data Bottleneck
As the amount of XML data continues to grow, the market for databases capable of easily handling that data also is sprouting.Startup Ipedo Inc....
Web Services Registry Open for Business
Last week marked another milestone for the future of XML. In addition to the release of the World Wide Web Consortiums XML Schema, the...
Anchors Aweigh
It turns out that the vanguard of e-marketplaces may not be a flashy upstart dot-com, but the U.S. Navy.The service has named 21 contractors...
Fighting to Keep Users Loyal
For telecommunications companies, business is about opportunity and competition. Nearly 20 years after telephone industry deregulation, these companies have tremendous opportunities to sell customers...
XML Databases Offer Greater Search Capabilities
Extensible Markup Language is emerging not only as a Web page markup standard, but as a database technology with the potential to simplify and...
Simplest of Boxes Get Smart, Too
No vendor today can be unaware of network operators growing interest in smart features.Witness the latest transformation: Tiara Networks, the maker of leased-line aggregation...
A Better Way to Share Information
XML schema, released last week as a World Wide Web Consortium recommendation, is the most important new standard from the W3C since XML itself,...