Timothy Dyck

Organizations that want to deploy data analysis and visualization tools to thousands or tens of thousands of users will find Databeacons updated Databeacon server and analysis client (www.databeacon.com) easy to purchase and distribute. The updated version, now called Databeacon Collaboration Edition, began shipping last month. The client is a digitally signed Java applet and so […]

The voice recognition packages available today base their recognition process around a probabilistic table of word pairs and triples used to map spoken phonemes to written text. This knowledge of likely word relationships allows the software to predict that (to use a phrase from one of our test documents) “sagebrush strewn” is more often written […]

The latest release of ScanSoft Inc.s Dragon NaturallySpeaking voice recognition package provides nice incremental improvements but does not change the market significantly. Version 7 of NaturallySpeaking, which began shipping at the end of March, provides users with more input options (including transcription of Pocket PC voice recordings) and more precise controls for improving accuracy and […]

No word in the computing industry is more abused than the word “easy.” Well, “performance” is a pretty battered concept as well, but along with closely related notions of “usability,” “ease of use” and “user friendly,” the idea of easy has been the industrys challenge and its curse ever since computing spread beyond the glass […]

For most office workers, staying on top of things means keeping track of a depressingly large amount of paper—paper that, no matter how hard we try, seems to keep piling up in desk corners and file folders. Paper is durable, portable and cheap, but its very hard to manipulate as a data format. ScanSoft Inc.s […]

The release of Windows Server 2003 is a small step forward for the platform—an effort that really should be considered Windows 2000 Server Second Edition. With the exception of Internet Information Services 6.0, there arent any far-reaching or fundamental changes in the product. Organizations that like how Windows 2000 Server is working for them will […]

March was a bleak month for security and no doubt left many administrators figuratively tapping out Save Our Server signals on their wirelesses. Advisories came out last month for root-level vulnerabilities on three major server applications: Sendmails namesake product, Microsofts Internet Information Services 5.0 Web server and the Samba Development Teams Samba file server. Together, […]

Teros this week shipped a free Social Security number protection add-on to its $25,000 Teros-100 Application Protection System Web application security appliance. To my knowledge, this is the first time anyone has tried to automatically filter SSN traffic in real time. Teros has similar add-ons to help prevent credit card and password disclosure. The SafeIdentity […]

In contrast to other Web scripting languages, JSP presents the greatest training hurdle for Web designers wanting to design applications because of Javas mandatory data typing and exacting syntax. M7 Corp.s M7 Application Assembly Platform 3.0 (which eWEEK Labs reviewed in final beta form) provides a spoonful of sugar to help the Java go down. […]

The category of e-business foundations includes the building blocks most organizations use as part of their basic IT application infrastructure: application servers and Web services tools, databases, server operating systems, data management packages, electronic storefronts, and data integration servers. This years field of entrants included a good mix of products spread across these application types, […]