Monthly Archives: February 2002
LAN Access for Everybody
Wireless 3Com Corp. this month will ship two 802.11b wireless LAN access points aimed at both sides of the economic spectrum. The Access Point...
Pulse Adds Sound to Site
In an internet cluttered with millions of Web sites, its best to have as many bells and whistles as possible.Pulse Entertainment Inc. this week...
NEC Minimizes Downtime
NEC Minimizes DowntimeWith the release of the NEC Express5800/ft 320La, the first offering in NEC Corp.s Express5800 server line, the company is giving its...
VPNs for Your WAN
If youre looking for a new way to extend the security of your WAN to mobile workers and branch offices, Adtran Inc. plans to...
Geekspeak: February 4, 2002
Broadwing, formed in 1999 by a merger of IXC Communications and Cincinnati Bell, has the first all-optical network with paying customers. The network consists...
The Statistics Do Not Lie
Fellow columnist Peter Coffee commiserated with us recently on how hard it is to form any opinion these days that doesnt involve Microsoft. Hes...
The Importance of Green Hardware
Remember the new economy? Turned out to be nothing more than a barnacle on the butt of the old economy—painful but probably inevitable. Human...
A Penny for E-Biz Thoughts
Ive often predicted that Amazon.com would never turn a profit. Ill continue to say that the company will never yield a competitive return, but...
Adding J2EE to the Mix
Java is getting its tentacles into everything, including CRM.Customer relationship management software developer Chordiant Software Inc. has claimed the J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition)...
Internet Insight: A Little Slice of the UDDI Pie
Sometimes, funny things happen to a technology on the way to becoming the next big thing. Take UDDI. The Universal Description, Discovery and Integration...