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Cutting Back Compaq Computer said it will lay off 5,000 employees, or 7 percent of its work force, as it lowered its expected earnings for the first quarter of 2001 to $9 billion to $9.2 billion, or 4 percent less than the same quarter a year ago. Rip Cord Another Yahoo! executive is moseying out […]

Hotel bookings for e-procurement are picking up as the technology ripens and alliances form. A joint venture of Hyatt Hotels and Marriott International — Avendra — began beta testing online procurement for 16 hotels last month. Competing marketplace PurchasePro recently announced new deals bringing its customer count to more than 3,100 hotels. Additionally, Wyndham International […]

Integrated access devices have become the problem to their own solution. While IADs, or “eye-ads,” are the enablers of voice-over-Digital Subscriber Line connections, they also cost so much that its hindering the deployment of VoDSL at all. IADs run $800 to $1,500 per unit. Is that a problem? “You bet,” one service provider says. “Make […]

Lay the blame for the collapse of the Internet economy on poorly designed computers and applications that lack a human focus. Thats the message put forth by the handful of big-picture information technology visionaries who gathered for the Association for Computing Machinerys “Beyond Cyberspace” conference in San Jose last week. “For 40 years, weve been […]

Stung by falling sales and shrinking market share, Compaq Computer Corp. is abandoning what it called its “more prudent” sales approach and is now preparing for a war on pricing. The worlds largest PC vendor, after warning late last week that earnings were falling short of projections, vowed to slash costs, streamline its business and […]

A spate of recent computer attacks indicates that software fixes distributed after the fact cannot make the Internet safe, and are themselves too numerous and too burdensome to install. From hackers theft of the Windows blueprints from Microsoft last October, to Russian gangsters robbery of thousands of credit-card numbers last week, to kids launch of […]

Even as corporate foes of federal privacy regulation champion the release of new data detailing the lofty cost of such rules to businesses and consumers, behind the scenes the industry remains as fractured as ever on the issue. The divisions are apparent even within the Online Privacy Alliance, a coalition of 80 leading corporations aimed […]

As if we needed another one, the vulnerabilities recently found in the widely used Berkeley Internet Name Domain server (see www.cert.org/summaries/CS-2001-01.html) should serve as a fresh reminder that its an insecure e-world out there. Anyone planning to do business on the Internet needs to be well-fortified, vigilant and prepared to react rapidly to known security […]

Denial-of-service attacks, typically launched by malicious hackers from commandeered servers, can be stopped with security products that can detect and block outgoing attacks, security experts said. But Internet service providers and hosted services need to invest in such products before distributed denial-of-service attacks will cease to be a feature of the Internet, they said. Such […]

Heres a sampling: Be: Apple discussed buying this OS company in 1996 but instead opted to acquire NeXT in 1997. Be was founded by Apple veteran Jean-Louis Gassée. Copland: A Mac OS upgrade under development from 1994 to 1996. It became one of Apples biggest software disasters. Copland consumed $250 million in R&D in 1996 […]

A quarter later than it was expected to be delivered, Microsoft Corp. announced last week general availability of its Application Center 2000 product. Heralded by the company as one of the keystones for its .Net strategy, Application Center 2000 promises greater scalability and centralized management. The server product, which requires Windows 2000, manages applications across […]