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Juan Diaz Pinales made only one demand when he signed on as information security manager of Doral Financial: that he report directly to the CEO. While most I-managers may not make such ultimatums, Pinales said his authority has made a big difference for Dorals security infrastructure in his eight months on the job. The bank […]

The latest software pricing scheme—Microsofts Software Assurance program—has many of us angry at the thought of being held hostage to unfair licensing practices. Its a trick thats already been attempted: Earlier this year, Oracle came under attack when it tried to impose a new pricing mechanism that used a universal power unit, or UPU, measurement […]

At Microsofts Developers Conference in Los Angeles, Bill Gates laid out the companys premises for Web services success. Gates asserted that .Net is built on open standards. The trinity of TCP/IP for transport, HTTP for interaction and XML for meaning has become his belief system. Meanwhile, IBMs involvement has largely allayed developers concerns that XML-based […]

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 […]