Monthly Archives: August 2003
The Wireless Marine
Anyone will tell you that the United States Marine Corps is no typical enterprise. At least not until the typical enterprise storms its competition...
Dell Inspiron 5150 Delivers a Desktop to Go
If youve been shopping for a desktop replacement notebook lately, chances are that the processors in the machines youve compared were never intended for...
Color T-Mobile Sidekick Flips Up Specifications
The monochrome version of the Sidekick PDA/phone combo ("PDAs for Every Budget," May 6) is an impressive communicator and organizer. The enhanced, color version...
Improved BlackBerry Delivers End-to-End Messaging
Research In Motions latest offerings for connecting wireless users to corporate messaging systems center on its improved BlackBerry Enterprise Server for Microsoft Exchange v....
Real Security for Wireless LANs – 2
Have you stayed away from wireless LANs (WLANs) because of their notorious lack of security? If so, its time to take another look. The...
USB Memory Drives: Beyond Simply Storage – 2
The floppy disk is so dead that most people have stopped declaring that its dead. One of the culprits is the USB memory drive,...
Blocking Malicious URLs
Many years ago, Tim Berners-Lee, father of the World Wide Web, spoke at a conference. His message was that URLs that users could decipher...
The Failed Promise of E-Mail
Back in the early 1980s, when many of us were using CompuServe or MCI Mail, it was obvious that e-mail would provide a very...
Take Control of your Computer
Even when seemingly idle, your PC runs a multitude of processes. Some perform vital functions—controlling hard drives, for example—but others dont. All expend precious...