Anne Chen

While the music industry grapples with the issue of pirated music, many studios in the movie industry have turned to CinemaNow Inc. for online distribution of their films. Armed with a proprietary DRM (digital rights management) system called PatchBay, CinemaNow owns the digital distribution rights to more than 1,200 feature films worldwide. The company, which […]

The Internal Revenue Service is as serious about auditing its computer systems as it is about tax returns. So when the W.32Blaster worm and subsequent attacks wreaked havoc on computer systems across the world, the federal agency was prepared: The IRS used autonomic computing software to distribute the appropriate Microsoft Corp. patch to more than […]

Two years ago, few enterprises would admit they were running Linux. Today, there are few organizations that are not piloting or using the open-source operating system in some fashion. To get an idea of how the operating systems role is developing in organizations, we revisited two of our Linux case-study subjects from last year: Jefferson […]

As mission-critical, Web-based applications proliferate in the enterprise, organizations are rushing to deploy tools that better monitor and manage performance across a distributed infrastructure. McKesson Corp., a $50 billion pharmaceuticals company in San Francisco, needed a comprehensive solution that could handle the load of measuring and managing the availability and performance of its Supply Management […]

While everyones still talking about the potential of wireless technologies, Rod Adkins, general manager of IBMs pervasive computing division, is in the trenches, helping the Armonk, N.Y., company develop wireless solutions for its customers. A major initiative at IBM, pervasive computing extends e-business to new devices. Adkins is charged with integrating IBMs technology, software, hardware […]

IT budgeting has been a zero-sum game for the past few years as CIOs search high and low for technology investments that will drive down costs while driving new business. As CIOs budget for 2004, the focus will continue to be on cost cutting. Keeping an eye on economic volatility and uncertainty through next year, […]

A former eWEEK editor used to be inundated by pop-ups during the most inopportune times—for example, during interviews with hotshot CEOs. Its a pity he wasnt armed with a pop-up killer such as Stopzilla. In my tests of Stopzilla Version 3.0—a pop-up-killer service from Stopzilla—I experienced pop-up-free Web surfing. The service, which costs $29.99 per […]

These days, $1,500 wont buy you much in terms of desktop replacements, but with Acers TravelMate 290LMI, that sum will get you on the Intel Centrino bandwagon—and more. This enterprise-oriented desktop replacement, which was released last month, is a good fit for organizations on tight budgets. Armed with a 1.3GHz Pentium M processor, an Intel […]

When youre Electronic Data Systems Corp., the largest independent systems management and services company in the United States, mandatory jobs such as the deployment of operating system service packs can turn into yearlong projects. To react faster to the needs of its managed hosting clients, EDS in January began deploying automation software. So far, EDS […]

These days, all IT vendors ever want to talk about is utility computing. Research firm Gartner Inc. says utility computing will become part of the mainstream by 2005, and IDC research indicates theres strong interest in utility computing now. Utility computing is a service model in which a service provider makes computing resources and infrastructure […]

I/O softwares SecureSuite XS Workstation 4.2 reduces help desk costs associated with forgotten user passwords by eliminating passwords altogether. The authentication software, which is usually bundled with third-party hardware, can be deployed as a stand-alone application or in a client/server setting that includes integration with Windows Active Directory. SecureSuite XS supports more than 24 authentication […]

Adobe Systems Inc.s Photoshop is the gold standard among image manipulation tools, but its facing increasing competition from alternatives in the open-source world. GIMP is one such graphics tool that was developed for Unix and X Window System. It has since been ported to other platforms, including Windows, and is the most widely used digital […]