Monthly Archives: December 2001
ID System Hurdles: Connectivity, Data Cleaning
If the U.S. Government were to seek to establish a national identity card, it would confront a rats nest of technical problems, despite recent...
RSA Addresses 802.11b WLAN Security Flaw
RSA Security, along with several encryption experts, has developed a new technology that it says will solve one of the major security flaws in...
Real Private Routing Over the Public Network
As service providers edge their way into an increasing number of network functions that large enterprises traditionally managed in-house, security and control remain hurdles...
IBM Inks Three Big Outsourcing Deals
IBM Global Services in the last week racked up three more big outsourcing wins with the National Bank of Canada, Mitsubishi Motors Corp. and...
Microsoft: Secure out of the Box?
Howard Schmidt is chief security officer at Microsoft. He recently testified before the House Subcommittee on Commerce Trade and Consumer Protection about the state...
True Colors
Ten days after terrorists transformed passenger jets into bombs in attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, Oracle Corp. CEO Larry Ellison touched...
Not Just Another NOS
Netware 6 builds on Novell Inc.s file and print services strength and enhances it with innovative Web tools. The bigger story, however, will be...
Video-Game Protocol Could Challenge Bluetooth
As Bluetooth slowly inches its way into the market, a video-game-controller startup is taking aim at the emerging wireless standard. Meanwhile, how Bluetooth will...
Kattoon: December 17, 2001
Read this weeks Spencer column.
Virtual Computing Gains Momentum
As an increasing number of enterprise customers look for software that allow them to run applications across different platforms, IBM this week will announce...