Monthly Archives: December 2002
Macromedia Overhauls Director Authoring Tool
Macromedia Inc. last week announced a new version of its multimedia authoring platform for building interactive content and applications for CDs and DVDs, kiosks,...
BI Standards Emerging
Two standards designed to ease the use of business intelligence tools in heterogeneous data server environments are gaining momentum, but tangible benefits for users...
Jetway Shrinks PC, Not Power
If theres one thing I expect to see at Comdex, its the Sony pavilion filled with PCs and peripherals that make new rules for...
Metaserver 4 Elevates BPI
One of the newest acronyms in enterprise business applications is BPI, which in many ways seems awfully similar to formerly hot acronyms such as...
AirZip Locks Down Attachments
E-mail would become more useful, and less dangerous, if attachments could be kept on a leash and if senders could control privileges such as...
AMD Places Chips on 64
Like just about every other company in IT, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is burdened with the challenges of an economic slowdown and drop in...
Future of Portable Power
If the annual gathering of technologists and technology that is Comdex/Fall is any indicator of things to come, wireless computing will continue its drive...
Gaps Delay Sweet Smile of Success
Licensees for Microsoft Corp.s Tablet PC operating system are at eighteen and counting, but notably missing are two of the giants in the industry—IBM...
Dana Lightens Users Loads
From the new tablet PCS from Microsoft and its OEM gang to mobile phones endowed with J2ME and fold-out keyboards, users are willing to...
Net Guard Needs IT Pros
The motto of the National Guard Is "Always Ready, Always There," and soon, the U.S. government will ask IT workers to stand by the...