Monthly Archives: September 2001
Tech Brands and Also-Rans
Among California-based, high-tech companies, the strongest brand belongs to—may I have the envelope, please—Hewlett-Packard.According to Connecticut-based Corporate Branding, HP is outranked only by Honda,...
Intel Scales Developer Thinking
With hyperthreading, Intel Corp. offers the cost-effective performance of multithreaded execution without the infrastructure costs of multiprocessor systems. At the same time, by opening...
Intel Chip Will Have Apps Seeing Double
As part of its "move beyond megahertz," Intel Corp. last week unveiled a technology that could have computers seeing double. Called hyperthreading, the architectural...
The Buzz: September 3, 2001
Dertouzos Was Web PioneerMichael Dertouzos, the MIT professor who played a key role in pushing the Internets presence beyond the academic and governmental realm...
Hype Takes a Holiday
There has been a lot of mourning about the bursting of the New Economy bubble, but heres one big plus: Mindless hype has largely...
Microsoft Adds Security Option
Microsofts Personal Security Advisor certainly cant replace a well-designed set of group policies and a strong initial Windows and Office installation, but the free...
IE 6.0: Big in Name Only
Improved performance, better standards support, and cookie and privacy control capabilities are pretty much all thats new in the recently released patch to Microsoft...
Startup Preps Weapon for DDOS Attacks
While DDOS attacks have become more prevalent and more varied, users defenses have changed little—shut off the flow of traffic, call your service provider...
Microsoft Security Tool Defends IIS
Looking to repair the real and public-relations damage done by Code Red worms during the last few weeks, Microsoft Corp. last week released a...
FBI
Bureaucratic bungling is pandemic in Washington, D.C., but when it comes to information security enforcement, the FBI is setting new levels of razworthy incompetence....