Monthly Archives: April 2004
Highwire Converts Web Pages to PDFs
While Web pages arguably have been one of the most successful forms of electronic content delivery ever, they have serious shortcomings. When it comes...
Privacy Concerns Dog RFID Chips
During a briefing on RFID tags at Sun Microsystems Menlo Park, Calif., facility late last month, Director of Advanced Development Juan Carlos Soto passed...
Oracle Ships Web Services Tools
Oracle Corp. announced last week the availability of its latest Java and Web services development environment and said its Java application server continues to...
Drug Companies Look to RFID
With a need for greater reliability and accountability in the supply chain, companies in the pharmaceutical industry see RFID as a way to increase...
App Furnishes Framework for Moving RFID Data
ConnecTerra Inc.s RFTagAware 1.0 manages RFID readers to ensure accuracy while providing a framework for passing radio-frequency identification data to applications.
ConnecTerra uses per-reader antenna...
NAI Adds to Netasyst Line of Net Management Tools
Network Associates Inc. is expanding its Netasyst line of network management tools for SMBs with a pair of new distributed network analyzers.
The Netasyst D...
IBM Goes Midsize with Mainframe
Forty years after introducing its first mainframe server, IBM continues to polish the venerable computing platform with hardware and software enhancements designed to make...
Sun Tools Hone Blade Performance
Sun Microsystems Inc.s N1 Grid Provisioning Server 3.1 Blades Edition is a comprehensive management tool kit that provides robust configuration, automation and management of...
Patent Process Needs Reform
When Microsoft and Sun announced their rapprochement this month, one tangible benefit to both was the resulting settlement of patent disputes. Like Cold War...
IT Security Providers Lobby for Incentives
The U.S. government does not need to mandate IT security audit reporting because corporate America will adopt best practices voluntarily, industry lobbyists promised. But...