Monthly Archives: May 2005
McDonald’s Wooing Young Customers With Technology
McDonald’s is trying to attract younger, tech-savvy customers by offering services, including Internet access, photo printing and ring-tone downloads with the use of an...
Storage Digest: News from DataCore, EMC, Maxell and Hitachi
DataCore announces the SANmaestro Utilization and Monitoring Suite, while EMC offers a new version of its Documentum Content Intelligence Services. On the hardware front,...
.Net Developers: What, Me Worry?
Microsoft Corp.s request that developers do more testing of the .Net Framework before the Redmond, Wash., software vendor delivers that technology to market doesnt...
Ask Jeeves Expands Related Searches, Seeks Answers
In a bid to distinguish itself from its larger search competitors, Ask Jeeves is tapping into its core search technology to present more-detailed related...
Veritas Unleashes Panther Data Recovery Software
CHICAGO—Veritas Software Corp. is putting Web-based file recovery and retrieval directly into the hands of users with the public beta of its new "Panther"...
Tools Maximize Backup and Recovery Options
Enterprises looking to get more out of existing backup and recovery infrastructures will see several new options from storage vendors at this weeks Storage...
SaaS Emerges as Long-Term Rival to Packaged Software
LOS ANGELES—Selling software as a service rather than as packaged goods is catching on around the world. But leading advocates of the practice say...
Report Says Military Computers Helped Spread Witty Worm
A new analysis of last years Witty worm by three university researchers documents the worms spread and claims that U.S. military computers and inside...
Why Offshoring Will Always Be a Novelty, Never a Valuable Strategy
In my last column I explained the obvious, if mostly ignored, reason why so many significant development projects fail.
At its most basic, the problem...
Linux Is Already Big Business
NEW YORK—What part of "Linux is enterprise-ready" dont you understand?
I keep hearing CIOs and the like yap about how Linux isnt really ready for...