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Upstarts Success No Optical Illusion

The optical industry is pondering whether recent stumbles by giants Lucent Technologies and Nortel Networks signal a permanent tilt in favor of younger vendors...

Back to Work

Dave House, the man who coined the term "Intel Inside," is jumping back into the game after a 15-month car-racing-and-helicopter-skiing sabbatical. San Jose-based start-up...

Wireless Threatening ILECS

Like their monopolistic counterparts in the Regional Bell Operating Companies, local exchange carriers are concerned about encroaching services from wireless carriers and other telecom...

Press the Mute Key

Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) wants to take a second look at the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. "I have been troubled by the possible practical...

Helping Systems Communicate Can Only Help You

In todays high-pressure business environment, companies want to get new products and services to market quickly. A systems integrator—a specialist—is often called to install...

Shock Therapy

Its a matter of when, not if. Sooner or later, one of your customers is going to face a disaster—not a botched project or...

Out of Gas?

Californias electricity shortage has wreaked havoc, but a looming natural gas shortage may be even more calamitous.If current rates of withdrawal continue, Pacific Gas...

David Lord Surfaces

David Lord, former chief executive and founder of Toysmart.com, is now chief executive and founder of Expound, a Bedford, Mass., company that provides solutions...

Putting More Smarts in Web Services

This month, Sun Microsystems Inc., in introducing Sun ONE, became the latest company to outline a Web services strategy, joining others such as Microsoft...

Everything Old Is New Again

In computings mainstream, middleware, along with client/server computing, has always been fundamentally about small boxes working vertically with bigger boxes, or servers. Historically, there...