Monthly Archives: December 2004
Comair Blames Software Meltdown for Flight Delays
After troubles with its 32-year-old crew-scheduling software spawned huge holiday flight delays, Delta Airlines subsidiary Comair resumed its usual flight schedule in the middle...
Vegas Airport Offers Free Wi-Fi Access
For anyone with a laptop computer, what happens in Vegas neednt stay in Vegas. Visitors waiting for flights out of town can share their...
Defense Department Tests Hybrid Active/Passive RFID
There is more to radio-frequency identification than the passive RFID that retailers are looking to deploy. The U.S. Department of Defense, in fact, is...
Bar Code-Reading BlackBerrys Could Aid Health IT
A new device allows BlackBerry handheld computers to read bar codes, a capability that should make them more popular among health care providers.The device,...
2005: The Year We Hog-Tie Data
One good bet for a 2005 prediction: Companies are going to get scared into buying something—anything—to help them get a handle on information management.We...
Check 21, Sarb-Ox Boost Business for Financial IT
The CEOs of companies that supply financial systems and software ought to add a long list of bureaucrats to their holiday thank-you list. Those...
Microsoft: Single Sign-On Far from Dead
Microsoft on Thursday rushed to put the kibosh on talk that it was abandoning the single sign-on Passport identity management service.But even as company...
Californians Face Deadline on Microsoft Antitrust Claims
Thousands of companies and California residents will turn their backs on a share of the $1.1 billion antitrust settlement against Microsoft Corp. if they...
Five Years Later, Windows 2000 Looks Naïve
I remember roughly when Windows 2000 "went gold"—when Microsoft finalized the shipping code for the product. It was mid-December 1999, and the product officially...
Apples 2005 Challenge: Surpass the iPod
Bertrand Russell once said—and Im paraphrasing here—that genius is to present a problem in a way which allows a solution. And thats exactly what...