Monthly Archives: July 2004
Aventail Raises Bar on SSL VPNs
Aventail Corp.s latest release of Anywhere Secure Access Policy software gives a boost to the companys EX-1500 SSL VPN appliance, providing markedly better client...
Court Sets Date for Microsoft Meeting – 1
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP)—The judge presiding over Microsoft Corp.s appeal of the European Unions antitrust decision has scheduled a first meeting for July 27, the...
US-VISIT Is No Bargain
In the wake of the U.S. Department of Homeland Securitys awarding of its largest contract, for a system to fingerprint and to keep tabs...
The Rights of Consumers
We have condemned in this space the poor balance between benefit and harm struck by the grandiosely named and poorly conceived Digital Millennium Copyright...
Overhyped Technologies Make a Comeback
Ah, theres nothing like sitting back and having a good chuckle about technologies that were hyped to death and then bombed and disappeared into...
IT Career Advice for the College-Bound
Will there ever be a point when it seems vaguely quaint to call oneself an application developer? Will knowledge of programming fundamentals soon be...
Offshoring Puts Consumers First
As we pass the middle of 2004, the wave of offshore outsourcing shows no serious signs of subsiding—nor should it, if you listen to...
Users Balk at Software Assurance
Microsoft is facing pushback from volume licensees whose three-year Licensing 6.0 and Software Assurance plans are about to expire.
Many of the Redmond, Wash., companys...
Sprint Tries Out New IBM Tools
Sprint Corp. will be among the first customers to take advantage of new software IBM introduced last week to help wireless carriers provide better...
Sony Storage Gizmo Uses 1-Inch Hard Drive
Consumers interested in portable storage gained a new option Tuesday, when Sony Electronics unveiled a 2-Gbyte solution that takes up the space of a...