Monthly Archives: September 2004
Now Batting: Stadium Wi-Fi
For a moment, it felt like I was back on the sports beat at The Cincinnati Post, the journalistic enterprise where I cut my...
RFID Standards Spotlighted at EPCglobal
RFID standards will be an informal theme at this weeks EPCglobal show in Baltimore, if early news of new products and partnerships is any...
Windows JPEG Exploit Ventures into the Wild
The first example of a working program designed to exploit a bug in Microsofts GDI+ library—which allows malicious code to be run simply by...
Will Frustrated Store Managers Revolt Against Corporate CRM?
Frustrated by what some see as IT executives hoarding CRM information, retail store managers are starting to do an end run around corporate with...
Bloglines Tackles RSS Bandwidth Issue
A Weblog aggregation startup is partnering with some of the leading news reader applications to address the bandwidth consumption of XML syndication feeds.
Bloglines announced...
FlexWiki: Microsofts Third Open Software Project
Earlier than scheduled, Microsoft Corp. has gone public with its announcement of its third open-source code contribution to SourceForge. Microsofts mystery contribution? FlexWiki.Late Monday...
Motorola to Cut 1,000 Jobs, Spins Off Semiconductor Division
CHICAGO (AP)—Motorola Inc. will cut 1,000 jobs worldwide and take a charge of $50 million for severance benefits as it completes the spinoff of...
Is Corporate Hoarding the CRM Goodies?
Its a common complaint within retail circles. Store management is given the most hard-line responsibility—your store beats its numbers or youre in serious trouble—along...
Preparing for IT Recovery from a Hurricane
Jan Rideout knew it would be tough to get through the next few days.
Hurricane Ivan had drawn a bead on her part of the...
Red Hat Releases Enterprise Linux 4 Beta
Red Hat Inc. Monday announced the availability of its Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 beta, code-named Nahant.
This is the first public beta of Red...