Monthly Archives: August 2001
Hope for LMDS Dwindles
Industry onlookers are losing hope for the resurgence of a key fixed broadband wireless technology that was expected to serve a big market for...
Intel Busts PC Bottleneck
An industry standards group has voted to use Intels next-generation input/output technology as the basis for its next serial interconnect — promising computer users...
Phoneboy Site Worth Checking
Phoneboy.com is a handy Web site for those who administer Check Points Check Point FireWall-1 firewalls. Visitors can submit questions and browse through an...
For Optical Switches, Less Is More
The worlds leading supplier of key optical components believes it will be two years before the biggest all-optical switches are widely deployed, but the...
Smart Outsourcing
It was the week before Valentines Day — always a crucial time in the flower business — when Web florist Proflowers.com saw that it...
Bandwidth Use Priced Per Click
If bandwidth is increasingly becoming a commodity, does any company really want to pay for more than it uses?To give service providers and enterprise...
Fast Facts Matrix: August 6, 2001
Cisco Grabs VPN StartupSlowdown or no slowdown, Cisco Systems has acquired yet another networking firm. Last month, Cisco bought Allegro Systems, a 39-employee startup...
Getting Caught in the Lying Game
Did Microsoft lie? The answer depends on whether you side with the wife or the husband in the age-old domestic dispute about "lies of...
The Slowdown Shuffle
The uneasy song and dance is already familiar. Nearly all of the IT companies I meet with these days start their pitches with earnest...
Catalog Management Made Easier
Catalog management has long been the bane of suppliers. A lack of standards and the expense of creating multiple catalogs to reach individual suppliers...