Monthly Archives: October 2004
Teradata, SeeCommerce Alliance Promises Retail Out-of-Stock Help
Leveraging the deep retail installed base of Teradata, SeeCommerce and Teradata announced on Monday an integrated package focusing on one of retails most troubling...
EMCs Dantz Buy Reveals SMB Ambitions
EMC Corp. on Tuesday announced the acquisition of Dantz Development Corp., developers of the Retrospect family of backup and restore technology for the SMB...
A Wi-Fi Alternative To RFID Being Explored
Arguing that the current RFID retail approach is a haven for shoplifters and forces retailers to work with overly-expensive and fragile components, a retired...
Will Dirty Data Make RFID A Big Waste Of Time?
With all of the worries about privacy, security and integration costs and methodology, one critical issue is getting little attention: Data quality. And a...
Stopping Spyware Today, Cookies Tomorrow
Welcome to the "Internet Spyware Prevention Act." Just passed by the U.S. House of Representatives, this proposed federal law eventually will give the Justice...
Microsoft Issues Flurry of Fixes on Busy Patch Day
Microsoft on Tuesday announced its latest round of patches, focusing almost exclusively on flaws in older operating systems, servers and applications that were largely...
Microsoft Stretches Reach of Digital Entertainment
LOS ANGELES—Microsoft formally unveiled its "Digital Entertainment Anywhere" strategy here on Tuesday, part of the companys plan to manage multimedia content at home, on...
RFID Tag Shortage: A Blessing in Disguise?
Havent RFID mandates been imposing enough stress on product suppliers? Now, with the initial deadline for Wal-Mart and Department of Defense RFID compliance still...
GlowPoint Carves Role as IP Video, Voice Carrier
GlowPoint, a major provider of on-demand IP videoconference bridging and networking services, made two announcements Monday that take the model of telephony carriers and...
Podcasting: Is It Just Noise?
The newest thing in the RSS universe is something called "Podcasting," which is, when you think about it, just what it sounds like: distributing...