Monthly Archives: January 2002
Negotiating the Maze
In position Thales Navigation and Rand McNally Inc. have partnered with Palm Inc. to launch a Global Positioning System offering for Palm m500 handheld...
One LAN, One Product Family
If youre looking for one product family to cover an entire LAN system from the wiring closet to the backbone, Foundry Networks Inc. may...
Everdream Patents Service Methods
PC subscription service provider Everdream Corp. last week announced it has received two patents on technology it created to facilitate its services.In addition, the...
Geekspeak: January 14, 2002
Remote control software, still the wallflower of the IT help desk, is rapidly gaining functionality, as I saw in tests of CrossTecs $179 NetOp...
The Big Hype for the New Year: ebXML
A new year and already the hype has started over some arbitrary technology thats supposed to change the world. Its got to stop. Hype...
Protecting Privacy of Smart-Card Data
In a recent column, I brought down a hailstorm of protest by asserting that a voluntary national ID was all but inevitable in a...
The Buzz: January 14, 2002
USi Finally Files for Chapter 11It didnt come as the biggest surprise, but USinternetworking—the once-highflying pioneer of the application service provider field—last week finally...
IBM Pushes PCs Out Door
IBMs decision last week to farm out the manufacturing of its desktops marks the latest bid by a PC maker to rein in expenses...
Google Bolsters Usenet Postings
Last year, I wrote a column about the loss of the Internets collective memory, especially when it came to older Usenet postings.At the time...
Diskeeper 7.0 Supports XP
Version 7.0 of executive Software Internationals Diskeeper disk defragmenter, which shipped last month, gains remote network installation capabilities and support for Windows XP.Diskeeper is...