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Newest Thing A new company called Neoteris, led by Web pioneers Jim Clark and Krishna “Kittu” Kolluri, is set today to announce its first product, designed to cut the cost and complexity of deploying secure remote networks. The network appliance simplifies the process of deploying a virtual private network for accessing enterprise applications, and requires […]

General Electric, a diversified conglomerate with more than 300,000 employees around the globe, has become one of the most spectacular online success stories, a unique accomplishment, company officials say, given that they launched the drive to fully develop the electronic mediums less than three years ago. At the time, like many corporate players, GE made […]

The economic downturn in the U.S. Has played havoc with the countrys manufacturing and engineering sectors for more than a year, leading to the longest continual month-over-month decline in industrial production since World War II. But if there is a bright spot in what economists are predicting for manufacturers in the year ahead, it is […]

The Holy Grail for the energy and chemical industries can be summarized in one word: integration. For the past 12 months, virtually every major company in these sectors has been working toward increasing the use of the Web for purchasing and selling, while at the same time integrating their Web and e-commerce portals into their […]

For businesses in the travel and tourism industries, life has been divided into two segments: everything before Sept. 11, and everything after. The terrorist attacks have likely taken a heavier toll on the travel industry than on any other. As a result, companies in the sector have been using the Web as an alternate communications […]

Oracle has revamped its tool for developing Java database applications into more of an integrated development environment. Formerly a lookalike to Borlands Jbuilder, which Oracle licensed in 1996, JDeveloper is now completely rewritten in Java itself and has more integrated modeling and code analysis features. “Developing applications is now a platform game,” said John Magee, […]

The uphill fight to merge EchoStar Communications Dish Network with Hughes Electronics DirecTV gets tougher when you factor in competition from an upstart that has no satellites, but plenty of friends in high places. Northpoint Technologies – no relation to defunct competitive telecom carrier NorthPoint Communications – seeks to piggyback on the spectrum used by […]

As Medieval legend has it, Camelot was the castle from which King Arthur reigned over and protected England. Todays Camelot provides a hands-off tool that allows I-managers to reign over and protect network resources from the dangers of real life. But unlike the storied Knights of the Round Table, who defended Camelot from outside attackers, […]

Without compelling content, consumer broadband is little more than an empty pipeline whose most impressive features are faster downloads and “always on” capability. After the early adopters, the next wave expected to pay premium rates for high-speed connections were those seeking streaming entertainment, which is virtually unavailable over dial-up networks. That idea drove the creation […]

As the United States escalates its war on terrorism in Afghanistan, the Department of Defense is accelerating an initiative aimed at replacing complex and inefficient procurement and logistics systems with collaborative, Web-based supply chain management procedures and software. The effort, DOD officials said last week, could cut DOD procurement and logistics costs by hundreds of […]

Sun Microsystems initiative to provide an open source set of building blocks for peer-to-peer computing is gaining some traction, but it still lacks enthusiastic support of large enterprises, according to industry executives. Suns Jxta Project, short for “Juxtapose,” was launched in April and has since signed up 6,700 developers. Sun has 20 of its own […]

Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Sun Microsystems – having already jaw-boned each other on the respective merits of their high-end Unix servers – shifted their sights last week to entry-level Unix servers and started all over again. The battle on the low-end Unix front will be fought over customers such as Dennis Steiger, chief of Internet engineering […]