Monthly Archives: January 2004
Innocent Web Sites Shut Down
The Web site for the Sheshequin-Ulster Community Center in Pennsylvania contains skating party news, calls for volunteers and minutes of board meetings—but no pornography....
Developers Take on Win 9x
The end of useful life for Microsoft Corp.s DOS-based versions of Windows is dictated by factors visible and invisible to users—but, in both cases,...
Big Enterprises Tap SOHO Devices
There are products designed for big enterprises and products designed for small offices, and never the two shall meet, right? Well, not so fast....
Speeding Up Wireless
Whats good for the consumer can also be good for the enterprise, say carriers.To that end, Verizon Wireless and AT&T Wireless Services Inc. are...
RIM BlackBerry Comes With Speakerphone
Nextel Communications and Research In Motion last week introduced the first BlackBerry device to be equipped with a speakerphone.The BlackBerry 7510 includes Nextels push-to-talk...
Ex-Microsoft Executive Joins Macromedia
Macromedia last week announced it has hired a former Microsoft executive to run its mobile and devices business unit.The company appointed Juha Christensen, who,...
Video Streaming Solutions Go Wireless
WLAN technology is making its way into multimedia presentations now that networks are fast enough to handle them.At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las...
Time Is on RFIDs Side
The RFID bandwagon is shifting into overdrive, but not everyone in manufacturing is jumping aboard.Radio-frequency identification technology involves tags and readers that track goods...
NASA Proves Aiming High Pays Off
There is nothing like a big, complicated, high-profile mission to shine the light of public attention on technology. No, Im not talking about Microsoft...
IBM Shares Wealth
IBM this year will broaden the reach of the on-demand provisioning tools it acquired last year with ThinkDynamics Inc. across a spectrum of its...