Matthew Hicks

For nearly three years, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has attempted no small feat: to set policies and procedures governing how the Internet will grow. At no time has that role gained so much scrutiny as in the past year. Among its highest-profile decisions was the introduction in November of seven TLDs […]

Honor Guiney understands the art of consulting. Before becoming CIO in 1998 at National Oilwell Inc., she ran the global services organization at Ardent Software Inc., which was later acquired by Informix Corp. A year ago, as her company was launching a major business-to-business e-commerce initiative, Guiney quickly recognized that National Oilwell and its customers […]

Technology manufacturers and service providers are not the only segments of the economy suffering a downturn. According to a compensation study released last week, average salaries for top-performing CIOs and other IT managers are beginning to fall for the first time since the 1980s. The study, by Janco Associates Inc., of Park City, Utah, found […]

Dun & Bradstreet Corp. wasted no time in November when U.S. companies were given an easier way to comply with Europes tough privacy laws. The company signed up right away to comply with the so-called Safe Harbor deal, negotiated by European Union and U.S. officials, which gives companies like D&B the chance to meet all […]

The Coca-Cola Co. knows its fizz. So you might not expect the soft drink giant to jump into the venture capital game just as its going flat. But thats just what Coca-Cola is doing. As overall venture capital investments in IT were tanking, the Atlanta company three months ago launched a division charged with finding, […]

Attention, Enterprise ASP customers: Do you know for sure whos managing your mission-critical data, and whos taking responsibility for making sure the applications you depend on are available when you need them? These days, the answers to those questions are not so obvious. Thats because more and more application service providers, rather than hosting applications […]

What happens when two WLANs end up in the same location? If two 802.11b WLANs are set up in close proximity to each other, clients can see the access points of both WLANs. Access, however, is dependent upon user authorization and, if set up correctly, MAC address authorization. So users of one system should not […]

Venture capitalists and corporate executives. In many ways, they seem worlds apart. Venture capitalists are typically entrepreneurs who embrace new ideas and business models with as much gusto as corporate executives usually embrace prudence. Corporations investing in IT startups are increasingly breaking down that divide—but not always on their own. Many of their venture arms […]

Doug Watt cant help it: he still catches himself feeling a bit jealous when fellow programmers tweak his code. But that doesnt stop Watt—a senior engineer in the product engineering group at Woodward Industrial Controls, a unit of Woodward Governor Co., in Fort Collins, Colo.—from being a fan of the new, increasingly popular collaborative approach […]

If anyone is entitled to harbor a sour-grapes attitude about ASPs dying on the vine, its Michael Osborn. After all, the founder of online retailer eVineyard Inc. has twice been left high and dry after application service providers kicked the bucket, leaving him scrambling for alternatives. The bad news started in September, when Pandesic LLC, […]

Reading rumors of dot-com doom can pay off with easy pickings for competitors of ailing companies, as Mark Goldin learned in October. One of Goldins co-workers at application service provider Elite.com Inc., in Los Angeles, spread the news of competitor Red Gorillas falling fortunes. Both offered a Web-based time and expense application. Goldin, Elite.coms president, […]

Jobless and fearful, a former marketing director at a Denver dot-com was facing an increasingly common decision last month: whether to sign away some of her rights in exchange for severance pay. The woman had decided to leave the startup at the end of March because of disagreements with the way executives there were managing […]