Davis D. Janowski

Two years ago, the stresses and challenges of finding jobs drove the founders of Simply Hired (www.simplyhired.com) to create the site and its service—both dedicated to job seekers. The site currently contains over five million jobs aggregated from many U.S. sources, including thousands of newspapers, 5,000 job bulletin boards, and over 200,000 companies—all conveniently indexed […]

Longtime fans of MSN Messenger rejoice: Youve got an all-new, fresh-out-of-beta descendant to start using as your new communications hub. Whether its text-messaging, voice calls, or video chats, the new client—Windows Live Messenger—mostly delivers. This beta ripened fairly quickly too; it was just a little over six weeks ago that we reported Windows Live Messengers […]

Beauty is not alone in the eye of the beholder—ugly is there too. Behold most RSS aggregator/readers, and youll get an eyeful of ugly. Not so with FeedDemon 2.0. It starts with a look and feel similar to Microsoft Outlook 2003, but with a much prettier interface thats tailored to managing RSS feeds. /zimages/4/28571.gifClick here […]

As those at Skype are fond of reporting, many millions of Web surfers worldwide have downloaded the companys client; indeed, its available in 27 languages. A few million of these folks have even gone so far as to use it to either instant message or make unlimited voice calls to other Skype users on a […]

Though standalone access points are often the method of choice for setting up wireless networks for the office, some businesses turn instead to switch-based systems because of the higher-level controls they provide. Theres a host of switch-based wireless LAN products currently available, led by Cisco Systems and Symbol Technologies, though several relative newcomers have entered […]

Johns Manville—a Denver-based manufacturer of building materials, in business since 1858—has 52 facilities of varying sizes spread over North America, Europe, and China. With more than $2 billion in annual sales, 9,000 employees, and some 120 servers in its corporate headquarters alone, Johns Manville gives top priority to data backup every night. Scott Blancett, a […]

For Jim Mancini, security threats to his companys network are the stuff bad dreams are made of. As IT director of ICTI, a Yardley, Pennsylvania, firm that manages clinical trials for pharmaceutical companies, Mancini had used antivirus software as his main weapon for years. But he just couldnt get comfortable with the fact that the […]