Monthly Archives: August 2005
Home Users Need to Plan for the Worst
Businesses, or at least the larger ones, have an easy time spending the time and money to implement some sort disaster recovery scheme. Consumers...
Expand Tunes WAN Optimization
WAN optimization vendor Expand Networks Inc., following the trend of melding application-performance optimization techniques in a single offering, next month will add support for...
MS Patch Day: Six Bulletins on Deck
Microsoft plans to release six security bulletins on Aug. 9 to fix a range of potentially serious Windows vulnerabilities.
Some of the vulnerabilities carry a...
Microsoft Ships Word Doc Redaction Tool
Microsoft Corp. has quietly released a redaction tool for Office Word 2003 to let users black out sections of confidential data from documents.
The security...
The Good and the Bad of Self-Service Call Centers
NEW YORK—The people who make those maddening speech-enabled call center systems met this week at the New York Marriott Marquis hotel, where the management...
Open Source Goes Main Street
Five years ago, if you had asked most people if open-source was a good basis for a business, they would have laughed at you....
Apple Will Target Tigers Networking Glitches
Although two updates to Apple Computer Inc.s Mac OS X Tiger have fixed many compatibility problems, enterprise networking problems persist. A new update, version...
End of Innocence for Mozilla?
The danger of the Mozilla Foundation forming a for-profit business, Mozilla Corp., is that the result may be as nasty and political as your...
The Passion of the Database
In one of my recent articles I described, what I view, as a dim future for IBM DB2 in the Linux, Unix and Windows...
UPS Bolsters Online Shipment Tracking
United Parcel Service Inc. has added new features to its enterprise-oriented Trade Direct service, making it possible for retailers, dot-com sites and other enterprises...