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Hewlett-Packards endorsement of an application server that uses open source code holds the promise of saving corporate users big money. The Enhydra application server is emerging as another software building block of open source code — alongside the Apache Web server and the Linux operating system — around which a company can build its business. […]

The stereotype of high-tech companies is that theyre filled with young, white male employees. In fact, thats been largely true — and even if no blatant discrimination exists against women or minorities in a company, high-tech businesses often have difficulty avoiding the appearance of discrimination, since their available labor pool tends to be more white […]

Microsoft envisions a future with computing as pervasive as air, and it sees itself as the oxygen. The question is: Will the rest of the world buy what Microsoft plans to bottle and sell? To breathe in the electronic environment of Microsofts .Net imaginings, consumers must first hand their private information over to Microsoft, and […]

It was piping hot in 2000, but the issue of privacy is now in danger of ending up on the congressional back burner. Just weeks ago, leading lawmakers were promising a Capitol Hill privacy battle this year. But last week, House of Representatives Majority Leader Dick Armey sent a letter to his Republican colleagues urging […]

Security is one of those amorphous areas of computing where slick marketing preys on the fears—warranted or not—of doing business on the Internet. Sorting out real tools from the hype can be time-consuming and an exercise in headaches. Enter application or Layer 7 switches, devices that are security-enhanced to defend against an expansive range of […]

Although the IEEEs 802.11b wireless LAN standard includes a provision for security called Wireless Equivalent Privacy, or WEP, the protocol leaves much to be desired. WEP is supposed to provide the same security that a locked door does for a building, but recent research from the University of California at Berkeley and the University of […]

The Federal Bureau of Investigations latest controversial snoopware is a high-tech wiretap that ISPs might want to challenge. But dont bet the business on winning anytime soon. The FBI insists the system, commonly known as Carnivore, is used for surgically precise scanning of Internet packets to monitor transmissions from criminal suspects under investigation. Still, an […]

“You can hope that your staff are only surfing the Net for business use . . . or you can ensure it.” Thats the rather ominous marketing pitch from SurfControl, one of the leading purveyors of Web-filtering software for businesses. The SurfWatch system — and similar products from Elron Software, Websense and others — can […]

Marlboro, Mass., has its own easy riders snowmobile club, but any members who work at Telica arent likely to be revving up too much during the week. Long hours are common at the start-up, which launched in August 1998 and provides network voice and data infrastructure products. But the hours arent what its 200 employees […]

In the context of the ever-expanding dot-com down-fall, I recently heard someone say, “People dont plan to fail, they fail to plan.” Well, folks, whether your company planned to fail or failed to plan does not change the color of your impending pink slip. But, if you find your e-commerce startup on the superhighway to […]

Send Help! U.S. companies will need about 900,000 new information technology workers in 2001, according to a survey issued last week by the Information Technology Association of America. While thats less than the 1.6 million new IT workers needed in 2000, recruiters still predict a shortfall of 425,000 skilled workers this year. Click Analysis DoubleClick […]

In a little over three years, 51-year-old Maxine Clark has turned Build-A-Bear Workshop into one of the nations largest retailers of teddy bears through mall stores, direct mail and the Internet — a part of the business that will double this year. Shes also created a great place for people to work. The keys to […]