Monthly Archives: September 2001
E-Tickets Will Survive Tighter Security
The Federal Aviation Administrations new restrictions on the use of electronic ticketing may appear to be a threat to online travel, industry experts said,...
Secure Bits: September 17, 2001
MS Reader HackedAdd Microsoft Reader to the list of e-book programs whose copyright protection schemes have been hacked. Technology Review, published by the Massachusetts...
Can We Ever Be Safe (Again)?
Last weeks terrorist attacks in New York and Washington are spawning new technology-based security efforts in places such as airports, where the days of...
Being Fast, Cheap and Flexible
Ask Motorolas engineers what they did on their summer vacation. The day after Labor Day, the company announced it had succeeded in growing layers...
BizTalk Speaks to Chem B2Bs
Microsoft Corp. last week introduced a BizTalk business-to-business integration software development kit for the chemicals industry.The Microsoft BizTalk Server 2000 CIDX Software Development Kit...
Meeting the Street
Every company that sells a product using a catalog and a toll-free phone number is trying to push that business to the Web. But...
HP-Compaq: Still Time to Call It Off
Shareholders, customers and employees of Hewlett-Packard and Compaq should be thankful for the laws of the United States that mandate a careful review of...
Extending a Hand
Almost lost in last weeks tragic events were the efforts of some Internet, computer and communications companies to help victims and assist various relief...
E-Mail Runs the Gamut in Wake of Attacks
In the immediate wake of last weeks attacks on the world Trade Center towers and Pentagon, a couple of vastly different broadcast e-mails were...
A Watchman to Stand Guard Over the Net
I ended my article, "Theres No Place Like Home Security," by asking readers how to thwart script kiddies and hackers. Readers brought to my...