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IT Moves Into Voice Communications
IT companies are digging further into voice communications, forcing change to traditional telephony that could leave a century-old communications industry unrecognizable in short order.
As...
How Do We Know if E-Voting Is a Success or Failure?
In the days after the Nov. 2 presidential election, we were treated to headlines such as "E-voting passed the test" on Techweb.com and "Success...
Time Warner Settles Charges – 2
WASHINGTON—Time Warner Inc. moved Dec. 15 to resolve two federal investigations into its America Online unit, agreeing to pay $210 million to settle criminal...
More Offices Open Up
As organizations sought ways to control IT costs in 2004, IT managers increasingly considered open-source alternatives.
Ive made various predictions about the rise of open-source...
Windows: Hard to Give Up
This year, desktop Linux finally emerged to assume a tangible enterprise presence, albeit one that resides more in the marketing collateral of IT vendors...
Storage Standards Lagging
Reducing costs has been a major goal for it managers during the past few years, and this year storage vendors delivered technologies to help...
CA Joins Eclipse Foundation
Computer Associates International Inc. Monday announced that the company has joined the Eclipse Foundation and will begin contributing code and talent to the open-source...
A Web Services Holiday Letter
Every December revisits the (mostly) good-natured debate over holiday letters: those page-length greetings, ranging in tone from a chatty but generic personal letter to...
Movable Type Fixing Bug as Spam Clogs Blogs
Six Apart late Monday planned to release an update to its Movable Type Weblogging software to combat a recent surge of blog comment spam.
Movable...
Time for PeopleSoft Customers, Workers to Cut Best Deal
Its time for PeopleSoft customers and employees to start thinking about the future and about protecting their own interests, because nobody else is going...