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Archrivals Microsoft and Sun Microsystems marked a new leg of their race to create the next generation of Web applications through a week of self-aggrandizing pronouncements. As Sun beat the drum for its Web services offerings, Microsoft launched Windows XP and elements of .Net, its own strategic Web services platform. Bill Gates, Microsofts chairman and […]

Its an unfortunate truism of IT life that there is a strong correlation between purse strings being loosened for security spending and the immediacy of the most recent security incident. Theres nothing like a good hacking or virus infection to make senior management budget a bit more for preventative efforts. Similarly, our obvious greater awareness […]

Most experts believe business users will be the first to widely adopt mobile data applications. But many operators remain narrowly focused on the consumer marketplace, leaving enterprises searching in the dark for wireless data solutions. After deciding to invest in going mobile, many corporations dont know where to find the best applications. They can try […]

Businesses are boosting deployments of flexible IP services that can trim their bottom lines while delivering advanced features, including high-quality conferencing and cheap voice and data services that move on the same network. Major carriers are starting to migrate from old circuit-switched networks to IP systems that can carry voice calls in data packets. Qwest […]

The vast majority of Nextel Communications customers are business users, so when it comes to courting enterprises with data solutions and building relationships with vendors, Nextel has the process down pat. Nextel has 17 vendor partners that help fill the needs of vertical market segments ranging from fleet management and building construction to corporate IT […]

Canadas Postal Service is leading the world in promoting electronic mail, with roughly 100 businesses using the national Epost to send their customers bills and other communications. With anthrax spores appearing in a White House mail-sorting station and at post offices, the model may gather support in the U.S. Anthrax spores, after all, may be […]

Starting a business takes know-how, energy, lots of gumption and no small measure of patience to deal with many layers of state, local and federal government bureaucracy. Now, the federal government is developing a plan to use the Internet to simplify the navigation of governments and their many requirements for small businesses. The goal of […]

Carriers are running out of reasons to exclude free space optics from their network build-out plans. A new alliance between AirFiber and Alcatel promises delivery of carrier-grade fat pipes capable of carrying voice, video and data traffic at a fraction of the cost of optical fiber. FSO is optics without the fiber – a laser […]

Contractions Continue SBC Communications will cut “several thousand” jobs and reduce capital spending by 20 percent, after announcing that its third-quarter net income had dropped to $2.07 billion, or 61 cents per share. BellSouth says its net income was off 99 percent, and that it will pare 3,000 jobs. Nortel Networks reported a $3.5 billion […]

Why Startups Fail: Bad Chemistry? If, like many IT professionals, you decided over the last year to jump to an Internet startup only to see it falter or fail, youre probably wondering what the heck went wrong. A Collegeville, Pa., management consulting company, T. Williams Consulting, said it has the answer: Maybe the management team […]