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As much as you may love your laptop, the real weapon of the road warrior is the PDA. A laptop may let you set up a temporary office in a hotel room, a coffee house or—in a pinch—an airplane seat; but it still requires a chair, a desklike surface, and time to start up. If […]

If we read one more story about how great and wonderful Bluetooth will be, or how 3G will transform the PDA/cell-phone world, were going to hurl. Bluetooth doesnt work. 3G is years away. Wireless has more hype than Jennifer Lopez has admirers. But underneath the overhyped pitches, real wireless technology, with real business applications and […]

For managers of interactive technology across enterprises such as hotel chains, residential buildings and office towers, the choice of service providers may be growing soon. A new kind of broadcaster is getting into the interactive act in Europe, and could see an opportunity to undercut the cable and satellite competition in the U.S. using digital […]

My PC is talking behind my back. Or at least its trying to. I finally got around to installing a firewall about three months ago and Ive been amazed at the amount of background chatter that goes on — either from my PC to mysterious Internet Protocol (IP) addresses or from nefarious external entities trying […]

Chief Technology Officer, General Motors Age: 48 Degree: Law degree from Santa Clara University; bachelors degree in information systems from the University of San Francisco. Car: “I have a lot of cars. My favorite car is a 2000 [Chevrolet] Corvette.” Stress reliever: Sailing When General Motors employee portal needed revving up, the responsibility fell to […]

Frame relay is 10 years old. The first virtual networking technology was a tough sell initially; businesses had to be lured from dedicated lines to a shared public network. Today, frame remains a top-selling technology. Senior Writer Max Smetannikov spoke to Robert Gourley, who took an existing standard and developed the first frame relay network […]

New technology in an upgrade to InfoImage Inc.s portal software is designed to enhance collaboration among knowledge workers inside and outside a company. The Pivot Portal technology in InfoImage Decision Portal 4, which launched last week, presents information to each user differently, depending on his or her particular role or based on a predefined activity […]

Systems managers for web hosting companies are looking forward to a new breed of high-density servers they hope will enable them to boost computing power without utilizing more space and power. The key benefit of so-called ultradense hardware is the ability to increase the server capacity of existing rack space while reducing power consumption, wiring […]

It started as a small rebellion — A warning shot fired at the Windows monopoly by independent-minded programmers. But the open source movement traditionally associated with the happy penguin and the pierced, tattooed crowd is increasingly moving into the enterprise, mingling peacefully with commercial and proprietary code. Sure, plenty of reservations linger. With one or […]

Sun Microsystems Inc., Accenture LLC and Parametric Technology Corp. have joined to improve cross-company product development. The trio early this month introduced a combined offering, called CPC (collaborative product commerce), that will allow a manufacturers partners, suppliers, customers and internal production teams to work in concert in all phases of a products life cycle. This […]

1.Mark the date. Microsoft says Windows XP will be ready to roll on Oct. 25. A six-day delay would make for some creepy headlines. 2.A winning hand. Aprisma Technologies scores cheap hotel rates in Las Vegas after some dot-coms skip last weeks NetWorld+Interop. 3.Cisco strikes out. Company reports its first quarterly loss since going public […]

Technology managers worry most about a shortage of skilled workers and a lack of money to buy equipment to keep their companies communications networks from failing, according to a new survey. Their nightmares are filled with human error, security breaches, server failure, power outages, natural disasters and staffing problems — all leading to downtime and […]