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In its day, the Sears, Roebuck & Co. Catalog represented one of the most advanced retailing tools ever conceived. Through the phonebook-size publication, residents of rural America could order everything from cowboy hats to prefabricated houses, while expecting fair prices and reliable delivery. Sears still publishes catalogs today, but the cutting edge is Sears.com, a […]

A new alliance of telecom carriers, movie studios and manufacturers plans to use video-on-demand to cut a broadband swath to the front door of the consumer willing to spend freely on entertainment. The question for some industry rivals: Who gets mowed down in the process? Among the most threatened are cable operators and video rental […]

I wrote a few weeks ago about the guy in Connecticut who was fined by a car rental place that had tracked his speeds using global positioning satellites — I was appalled, and figured that everyone who read the column would be, too. But I was wrong. Acme Rent-a-Car in New Haven automatically debited the […]

Intel plans a big push into the market for mobile and laptop computer chips that use less power, but supply high speeds. The power management features of the new chips will be “second to none,” said Intel executive Don MacDonald at the annual developers forum last week. Currently, Intel is second to Transmeta, which has […]

Its not uncommon to find IT issues in the courts. Napsters tangle with intellectual property rights and Microsofts tango with the DOJ regarding anti-trust issues are todays best-known examples. As an IT manager, youre doubly exposed to these issues—through the mainstream media and through coverage in trade journals like eWeek. This week, in Ethics in […]

PC Power United Devices, a distributed computing startup, hauled in $18.2 million in second-round funding last week. Lead investors were Constellation Ventures and GE Capital; others included AOL Time Warner, Intel Capital and Sonys 550 Digital Media Ventures. The Austin, Texas, company, whose technology harnesses idle PC resources across networks, will ramp up sales and […]

Cisco Systems plans to put its muscle behind the latest tool for thwarting worms and other scary creatures attempting to penetrate e-business infrastructures. The networking giant is expected to unveil its CiscoWorks IDS Host Sensor, which uses intrusion detection and prevention technology from Entercept Security Technologies, according to Entercept officials. Entercepts technology is a step […]

The battle over Internet taxes prompted the creation of a high-profile commission, numerous studies, scores of congressional debates, tough behind-the-scenes Capitol Hill politicking and the most serious attempt ever by states to simplify their sales tax structures. But it appears likely the various partisans engaged in the more than 2-year-old war surrounding online sales taxes […]

The antennas have turned in the fixed wireless world. Experts are now giving Teligent — earlier pegged as the least likely of the bankrupt broadband fixed wireless players to succeed — the best chance of returning to the market. Winstar Communications, once considered the golden child of broadband wireless, is now given slim odds of […]

Even a moron knows that when you are buying large quantities of a commodity over a long period of time, you hedge your bets with long-term contracts. Unfortunately for the citizens of California, their legislators didnt ascend to that level when they attempted to deregulate the Golden States electricity market. The legislators decided that the […]