Monthly Archives: March 2004
Software by the Pound
News reports indicate that European Union antitrust regulators are likely to order Microsoft to offer a version of Windows without Windows Media Player. Because...
Powell, Chambers Look to the Future
ATLANTA—At the CTIA Wireless 2004 conference here on Monday, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell challenged attendees to keep up with wireless innovations and...
Onfolio Web Tool Fine-Tunes Old Idea
In the early evolutionary days of the Internet, there were tools to collect and organize data, but most eventually fell by the wayside. Onfolio...
Ciao Time
Ah, the Venetian! As Spence pulled himself from a cab at the entrance and declined to tip the ersatz gondolier, who opened the door...
W3C Expands Speech Framework
The World Wide Web Consortium last week published two key pieces of its Speech Interface Framework as W3C recommendations or standards, VoiceXML 2.0 and...
BehaviorTracking Keeps Fine Tabs
Most Web users would probably agree that few Web sites take site search capabilities seriously. And if sites arent working hard to make sure...
Veritys Ultraseek Hones Web Searches
Verity Inc. has continued to make slow-and-steady improvements to its Ultraseek search product—the recent release of Version 5.2 is only the second new edition...
WLAN Flexibility Expanded
Trapeze Networks Inc. last week introduced a new version of its WLAN switching software that lets IT managers deploy and manage distributed and centralized...
Let My Source Go—Not
A friend used to joke that there are two types of people in the world—those who can pronounce the word "oeuvre" and those who...
Symantec Report Bares Internet Threats
While the number of vulnerabilities found in software essentially has plateaued, the flaws are increasingly easy to exploit and, more often than not, quite...