Anne Chen

When Mike Giovaninni moves his company to a next-generation operating system later this year, he wont be migrating to the much-ballyhooed Windows Server 2003. Hell be moving to NetWare 6.5. Eight months into testing a beta of Novell Inc.s operating system, Giovaninni, the IS manager at aerospace manufacturer Berkshire Industries Inc., of Westfield, Mass., said […]

Fujitsu PC Corp. is now shipping notebooks armed with the mobile Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Athlon XP-M processor. Based on eWEEK Labs tests, we think these notebooks could give Intel Corp.s Centrino-based systems a run for their money. We tested the Fujitsu LifeBook S2000 Notebook, which shipped in March, and found it to be a […]

Brunswick Corp., one of the largest manufacturers of pleasure boats in the world, is in the business of leisure. Improving and streamlining vendor support while reducing costs for Brunswick Boat Group, the pleasure-boat division of Brunswick, is Jason Beckers business. Last year, Becker (pictured on left), manager of client applications for Brunswick Boat Group, was […]

Microsoft Outlook users looking to regain control of their in-boxes may want to take a look at Ella, an e-mail organizer that filters mail by example. The $30 Outlook plug-in was released earlier this month by Open Field Software, and a 15-day free trial edition is available online. Rather than relying on rules and lists, […]

Just a year ago, many IT managers would have scoffed at the idea of running Windows in corporate data centers. But times change. Today, IT staffs cant find out fast enough how the Cornell Theory Center at Cornell University, in Ithaca, N.Y., is using Microsoft Corp.s Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition on Intel Corp. 64-bit […]

Microsoft, AOL and Yahoo may not play well together in the instant messaging space, but the trio announced today that they will combine forces in an attempt to help fight spam, or unsolicited commercial e-mail. The online giants will focus on reducing the ability of spammers to use their e-mail services to send spam. They […]

Verticals are leaders in the deployment and use of wireless technologies. So it should come as no surprise that Kyocera Mita has fine-tuned a version of its wireless-capable FS-3800 laser printer specifically for the health care industry. That version, the $1,364 FS-3800RX, includes functions geared to pharmacies, but the real benefits of this printer are […]

With the war on Iraq and the sluggish economy keeping IT budgets low, and SARS potentially hampering production of hardware in Asia, it may seem as if theres little to be excited about in IT these days. And it seems as if the bad news just keeps on coming —concerns with privacy, students being sued […]

Two years ago, when it expanded into the United States, T-Mobile International AG made a bet that the mobile phone market would explode with new business opportunities. That bet paid off, and now the subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom AG, in Bonn, Germany, has 82 million subscribers worldwide. Now T-Mobile is placing a new bet on […]

If pop-up ads have become the bane of your Web surfing experience, relief is here, in the form of a utility from Sunbelt Software called, appropriately, IHatePopups. Installation and setup of IHatePopups, which shipped in March, were a breeze. Minutes after downloading the program from Sunbelts Web site, I was able to surf the Internet […]

As Im writing this column from the Gartner Symposium ITXPO Conference in San Diego, Im conversing with a colleague in our San Francisco offices who is infamous among public relations managers for never answering his telephone. The reason hes speaking to me, however, isnt because he picks up the phone when I call. He never […]

SAN DIEGO—The future of beleaguered WorldCom Inc. rests on its IP backbone, said Michael Capellas, CEO and chairman of WorldCom Inc., here Wednesday. Ten weeks after taking the helm at the bankrupt telecommunications giant, Capellas said his strategy centers on using the IP backbone to offer network-centric services built using Web services and open standards. […]