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There was the time when a former boss encouraged Ruey-Feng Li not to come back to work after the birth of her second child because he felt a mothers place was in the home. Then there was a colleague who passed her over for a big assignment because she was less assertive than her male […]

The writing is on the wall at Compaqs Global Services unit, but there are questions about what language its written in. The crown jewel of Compaqs purchase of Digital Equipment Corp. was always considered the services arm, but so far that piece hasnt played particularly well on U.S. soil. Now the company is forming plans […]

We remember hearing about Metricom in 1993 when it was out near Stanford University. Here were these little pole-top radios, placed along El Camino Real every quarter-mile or so. The idea was to bring wireless connectivity to laptops all along the San Francisco Bay Peninsula. Who would ever need that? Fast-forward to 2001 when, according […]

In a move to provide an end-to-end content management and delivery system, Vignette Corp. this month released new versions of its content syndication and aggregation servers. Vignette Content Syndication Server is used for content that a customer owns and wants to sell or provide to others. Vignette Content Aggregation Server gathers information from anywhere on […]

Y2K provided the scare of 1999. For financial institutions, the worrisome acronym today is GLB. Short for the federal banking law known as the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Financial Services Modernization Act, GLB, like Y2K, comes with a deadline. By July 1, all financial entities in the country are supposed to have policies and infrastructure in place to […]

COMPANY: Compaq Computer Corp. SYMBOL: CPQ WEB: www.compaq.com SPECIALTY: Consulting, design, maintenance STRENGTHS: Compaq brand is widely known, and the overall company picked up some strong engineering talent from its acquisitions of Tandem Computer and Digital Equipment, as well as a huge installed base CHALLENGES: Continue growing the professional-services piece of the business and gain […]

Computer security is a strange mixture of intuition, guesswork, mathematical certainty and obsessive attention to detail. The professionals must try to convert specialized formulae into seamless programs without making any mistakes. If one metaphorical back door is left ajar, banks, hospitals, stores and everyone else pays the price. Ordinarily, open source software flourishes in an […]

What would be more disastrous to a Fortune 500 corporation: an employee who chronically shows up late, or an employee who chronically breaks security policies and puts the companys valuable information at risk? The greater threat of employees harming security may seem obvious, but I-managers must set firm policies and drop the hammer when necessary […]

South African-based Dimension Data has quietly flown under the radar in the U.S. market, buying smaller integrators in its bid to build up its presence. But its small footprint made a big stomping noise last week, when the company crushed Compaq Computer Corp.s proposed acquisition of Proxicom. Dimension Datas offer, which was 30 percent higher, […]

Light and fast NEC Computers Inc., of Sacramento, Calif., has introduced a lightweight, silver-magnesium-encased notebook, the Versa TXi, that company officials said offers dual-spindle capabilities and a modular-bay design normally found only in heftier laptops. Multifaceted Weighing less than 4 pounds, the notebook uses a 12.1-inch thin-film transistor XGA display and ships with a 20GB […]

Mega-, giga-, tera-, peta-bytes of data. Where will we put it? How will we access and manage it? How much will it cost? John Dodge, editor in chief of ZCast.tv and eWeek editor at large, recently sat down with EMC Chief Technology Officer Jim Rothnie to discuss these issues and more. For the complete interview, […]

Rep. Billy Tauzin, R-La., has some unwelcome company in his drive to free the regional Bells from restrictions on their data services. Two rival lawmakers in the House said last week that they would offer competing legislation to Tauzins bill, H.R. 1542, which passed a subcommittee in late April. Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., and Rep. […]