Monthly Archives: February 2002
Siemens Expands IP Convergence Line
Would you like peanut butter with your chocolate, or chocolate with your peanut butter?Thats the kind of conundrum enterprises sometimes face when trying to...
Author Tries to Wiggle Way into Microsoft Case
In an unusual twist to the Department of Justices antitrust case against Microsoft Corp., the author and inventor of an economic method for preventing...
Bush Pushes IT Security Spending
Funding for information security projects within the federal government would increase by more than 50 percent in 2003 under the budget proposed by President...
Marketers Get New Spam Rules
The Direct Marketing Association on Monday issued new guidelines to its members on the sending of unsolicited e-mails and posting of Web site privacy...
Merger Votes Set for March
Hewlett-Packard Co. and Compaq Computer Corp. will put their controversial merger to votes on March 19 and 20, giving shareholders final say as to...
HP Gets Unexpected Earnings Boost
Hewlett-Packard Co. today said that stronger than expected PC and printer sales will result in higher than anticipated earnings for the first quarter.The computer...
Secure Enough for Government
F5 Networks Inc. this month will release an Internet traffic and content management product, Big-IP FIPS e-Commerce 540, with an accelerator that meets federal...
Cashing In on Smarts
An Excel spreadsheet. A pad of paper and a Bic pen. And a total of seven—count em, seven—disconnected systems containing training information. Is this...
Welcome to the Wireless Backwater
When the world gathers later this week in Salt Lake City for the opening of the 2002 Olympic Winter Games, visitors from all over...
Companies Join to Make Combo Handheld
Trying to fill the same niche as Handspring Inc.s Treo, a carrier and two hardware manufacturers are pooling efforts on a combination handheld.Nextel Communications...