Monthly Archives: August 2001
The U.S. Is Just Like Japan
On a recent visit to Japan, an American consultant met with a group of Japanese business managers. In the midst of the proceedings, a...
New Ground: Web Access Insurance
When Joe Russells broadband access provider suddenly shut off service this spring, he resorted to a wireless link connecting his offices to an access...
Accelerating E-Mail Flow
E-mail traffic can cause as much congestion as anything on the roads. BoldFish Inc. has released its BoldFish Express Router to alleviate network congestion...
Geekspeak: August 6, 2001
Driven on by an open-source development community that refuses to rest until it has coaxed the Linux operating system onto everything from the largest...
Open Source Moves to Phones
Linux backers are hoping their open-source operating system will end up being the dark horse in the smart-phone operating system race—especially if the other...
P2P Goes to Work
Peer-to-peer computing—the sharing of computer resources and services by direct exchange between systems—is more than just hip. Napster made P2P famous and showed how...
Superplugged
The pressures on. A major competitor has just launched an online service, and your customers are calling and e-mailing by the hundreds, asking when...
Identicon DB Takes Development Tack
One of the most frustrating things about mobile computing is that although the hardware is highly portable, the data isnt. ThinAirApps Inc.s Identicon DB...
Mac Summer Party Pack
Late July and early August are the dog days of the Mac social calendar.Mays Worldwide Developers Conference, Junes MacHack and Julys Macworld Expo/New York...
Intel to Release 1GHz Mobile PIII Chip
Intel Corp. this week will release a mobile Pentium III processor that runs at 1GHz. At the same time, the companys usual supporters plan...