Monthly Archives: May 2003
Wireless Web Digest: Intel Moves Up 802.11g Plans
FCC OKs Leasing of Wireless SpectrumFederal regulators voted Thursday to allow cell phone companies and others to lease unused portions of their airwaves, a...
Palyh Worm Crawls On
The Palyh worm was showing some signs of running out of steam late Wednesday, as security vendors reported seeing fewer copies than they had...
Is COBOL the 18-Wheeler of the Web?
If youre looking for a hot combination of highly employable skills, consider writing code to provide Web services--in COBOL.Can a person build a 21st-century...
Disinfecting Without Informed Consent
I once was technical director at a computer magazine for which sci-fi writer Orson Scott Card wrote a regular column, prompting me to read...
Enterprise Drives Come to Tiny Town
In the technology market, change presents opportunities for suppliers as well as some moments of doubt for customers. In the business, this is called...
Pioneer Rethinks DVD+RW
Pioneer Corp. took a step away from its exclusive support of the DVD-RW standard by announcing a new recordable DVD drive for PCs, the...
Rendition Rolls Out TrueControl 2.0
Network configuration control vendor Rendition Networks Inc. on Monday launched the second release of its TrueControl software, which focuses on greater extensibility and ease...
Softbase Upgrades Test-Data Management Tool
Softbase Systems Inc. is putting out a version of its test-data management tool that supports VSAM and QSAM, as well as DB2 on distributed...
Web Services Tools Take Different Tacks
Two Web services management software suppliers announced new products, approaching the issue of managing Web services from two different perspectives.Both Swingtide Inc., Portsmouth, N.H.,...
Qualys Offers Free Network-Mapping Tool
Qualys Inc. on Monday unveiled a new free network-mapping tool that can deliver detailed information about any device connected to a given network. FreeMap...