Monthly Archives: December 2001
HomeSite Still Tops for Coders
When Macromedia, maker of Dreamweaver, one of the most popular WYSIWYG Web authoring tools, acquired Allaire, maker of HomeSite, one of the most popular...
Survey: IT Controls the Tech Budget
Eighteen months ago, business managers in charge of e-commerce initiatives were picking boutique integrators with an emphasis on creativity and speed to market. What...
T-Systems Keeps Truckers IT Works Moving
Freightliner Llc has built a heavy-duty business selling auto parts, but the truck makers efforts were not without a full load of IT issues....
New Design Tool for Manufacturers
Parametric Technology Corp. this week will release a new solution for manufacturers to provide design-to-order tools to customers and partners.PTCs DDL (Dynamic Design Link),...
Messaging Options Multiply
As Microsoft Corp. bolstered its proprietary messaging platform with the release last week of a new Exchange service pack, Ximian Inc. introduced an open-source...
Watching Web Surfers From the Shore
In the last ethics in IT column, I addressed the issue of allowing users to get to sites and services that provide access to...
Digital Age Needs Smarter Wiretap Rules
Common sense tells us the FBI and other police and intelligence agencies need Internet surveillance tools to track the communications of terrorists and other...
Compuware Revamps Brands
Compuware Corp. last week launched its own rebranding campaign for its series of acquired management tools and introduced a major release of its application...
Battle for Carrier Supremacy Heats Up
At the same time AT&T Broadband snubbed its nose at Excite@Homes negotiating tactics and left the bankrupt Internet service provider high and dry last...
We Need More From Mobile Computing
Mobile computing is underachieving. this is especially true for North American companies wrestling with incompatible, and often unavailable, packet-based digital radio networks.Sure, mobile e-mail...