Monthly Archives: September 2001
IT Cops: An Ugly Can of High-Tech Worms
The South Carolina legislature recently modified an anti-pedophilia state law to require IT people discovering child pornography on a system to report the computers...
Just Another Manic Monday
When Al Lucchese arrived several months ago as the new CEO of netNumina, a Cambridge, Mass.-based e-biz integrator, he carried with him two essential...
Dueling Payment Systems
Online merchants could face integration hassles as they deploy forthcoming and competing credit card payer authentication technologies from Visa USA and MasterCard International Inc.The...
Interop Infrastructure Awards
The past year has been a wild ride for service providers, which found themselves challenged — and how — not only by rocky financial...
Backbone Service Provider
If there was an overwhelming choice within any category, it was Broadwing, best known for its national optical fiber backbone. Billed as the nations...
You Cant Run From Your Roots
Every industry has its share of falling stock prices and earnings warnings, but you can always smell blood in the computer and Internet markets...
Top Line: September 10, 2001
HP, Compaq: Now, For the Hard PartTake two struggling hardware companies, put them under one roof, and what do you get?The answer to that...
PC Pair Goes For Broke
If the computer industrys biggest merger ever succeeds, the combined Hewlett-Packard and Compaq Computer will have an opportunity to position the company as a...
Risky Business
Leaders of two of the worlds largest computer companies contend their proposed megamerger will produce a winning combination. But Hewlett-Packard Co.s Carly Fiorina and...