Monthly Archives: March 2002
Making a Place for IM at Work
IM is not an officially sanctioned technology at Bose, in Framingham, Mass., but IT management there recognizes that it is being used to considerable...
Here Be Dragons: Web Services Risks
Anything that accepts input from a caller and then retrieves and returns business-critical data to the caller on the basis of that input should...
More Options for the Small Guy
Small manufacturers can use all the help they can get. Apps4biz Inc. said it has the help.The Andover, Mass., company this month rolled out...
A One-Stop Shop in Telecom
The strategy that brought the bakery, the butcher shop and the vegetable market under the umbrella of the supermarket is hard at work in...
Flash Tools Find Common Ground
Although Macromedia Inc. gets the most attention as the caretaker of Flash, there are several other worthwhile tools on the market that can be...
Security Excuses are on the Rocks
Welcome to "stupid customers," the saga of IT vendors ongoing attempts to blame the victim. This week, we honor Jim Balsillie, chairman and CEO...
BMC Bulks Up Patrol Platform
BMC Software Inc. continues to roll out products that exploit its new Patrol 7 distributed architecture for application management.The enterprise systems management provider, calling...
Outsourcing Looks Overseas
Large companies already smitten with offshore outsourcing of IT services are preparing to send even more of their work, including an increasing number of...
FaceTime Curbs IM
FaceTime Curbs IMInstant messaging is a hot technology thats spreading like wildfire throughout corporations around the world—faster than most IT managers can get a...
How Much Wireless Security Is Enough?
This is a multiple-choice question: if people are so concerned about 802.11 wireless security, why have they deployed $1.5 billion worth of the stuff?(A)...