Monthly Archives: November 2001
In Health Care, Privacys the Best Prescription
Copaxone was not the first multiple sclerosis drug on the market in North America, nor was it the second. When Teva Neuroscience Inc. introduced...
Fed Up With Licenses? Click Through This!
Before I get into my topic, I just need to take care of a few legal matters. Reading this column may cause anger, confusion,...
Microsoft Settles Other Suits
Microsoft Corp. last week reached a settlement to put more than 100 pending private antitrust cases behind it while, at the same time, scoring...
Altiris Updates Client Suite
Altiris Inc. earlier this month at Comdex in Las Vegas introduced an upgrade of its Client Management Suite that provides full desktop life cycle...
The Buzz: November 26, 2001
MS Hearing Set for EuropeMicrosoft, fresh off favorable settlements with the U.S. government and private plaintiffs, now must face antitrust issues raised overseas.The European...
Geekspeak: November 26, 2001
Small enough to fit on an infants fingertip, the 15mm-squared intel 4004 ran at 108KHz (yes, we mean a tenth of a milligigahertz) and...
IBM Servers to Tap Big Iron
IBM is poised to release a four-processor, Intel Corp.-based server, code-named Crusade, that will feature performance-enhancing technologies drawn from the companys high-end mainframe systems.The...
Stay Focused on End-Of-Year Priorities
If you are looking for the three it trends that will be the hallmarks for the rest of the year, you might want to...
Security Has to Make Sense
Perhaps the worst thing about the post-Sept. 11 environment is the abandonment of cost-benefit analysis, or any analysis at all, in the rush to...
Tool Measures W2K Security
Administrators who want to measure how well their Windows 2000 servers are secured will find a free security scanner from the not-for-profit Center for...