Monthly Archives: August 2005
IE 7 Beta 2 Should Give More CSS 2 Support, Insiders Say
Web designers greeted the release of Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 Beta 1 with heated criticism when they learned it would not include full support...
Microsoft Forms New Connected Systems Division
Microsoft Corp. quietly has formed a new Server and Tools subunit, known as the Connected Systems Division, designed to bring together a variety of...
Taking a Trip Down Denial
I find it fascinating how differently database administrators react to security alerts depending on the platform they support. There is clearly a caste system...
New Tools Make Hardware Softer
People take it for granted that computer hardware should be universal, while applications should be specific to particular tasks. It seems obvious that this...
Microsofts CSS Plans for IE 7 Draw Cheers, Jeers
After remaining mum for months over the extent to which it plans to support the Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) standard with its forthcoming Internet...
Putting E-Mail on Phones Poses Problems for Providers
Which would you rather: make an extra dollar a month per subscriber from mobile consumer data, or make 40 times as much, selling to...
Readers Respond: Broadband Access for All
Whatever happened to Internet via power lines (Editorial, "Broadband Access for All," July 25)? The idea is not new. I used it more than...
How to Build a Strong HP
Certainly, the layoffs were supposed to be over by now. Hewlett-Packards announcement of 14,500 jobs to be cut shows that its acquisition of Compaq...
DHL Adds Supply Chain Services, Signs Sun
European-based shipping giant DHL has added supply chain and logistics services such as distribution warehousing and order management to its package delivery services throughout...
Readers Respond: Software: Ideology vs. Progress
Jonathan Zucks claim that the " and its allies nearly scuttled the standards process for e-mail authentication" in refusing to support a registration...