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A Wish List for the Holidays

Here are some presents to put under the high-tech tree this holiday season:A new voting system. This one does not have to be that...

Microsoft Trims Office 10 Features List

Microsoft Corp. is engaging in some serious damage control following its announcement earlier this month that the company will drop two significant features from...

P2P Ascends to New Prominence

Theres nothing new about peer-to-peer networking. Indeed, the Internet fundamentally is P2P. Packet switching—a P2P technology that breaks a message into smaller packets, which...

2000: A Look Back

If put to a vote, 2000 would have to be considered the most interesting, if not the most eventful, year of technology ever. Internet...

Developers Back New XML Spec

With the time frame for delivering the ebXML standard pushed up two months, companies working on the initiative say they already have plans to...

Sun: Server-Side Up

Sun Microsystems Inc.s upcoming Forte for Java 2.0 Internet Edition updates and expands the companys midlevel Java development tool to focus on the tasks...

E-Tail Raises Expectations

When Bill Cosby did TV commercials for the financial services firm E.F. Hutton, the tag line was simple but telling: "Because ... its my...

Microsoft Goes With Flow on IIS

Theres some sincere flattery of Linux going on at Microsoft these days. As we wrote in these pages in August, a prototype version of...

Bluetooth Is Worth a Watch

In his keynote at the Bluetooth Developers Conference earlier this month in San Jose, Calif., IBM Distinguished Engineer John Karidis impressed me with a...

Storage Spans Atlantic on IP

EMC and CNT recently created the first storage-over-IP system that mirrors data across the Atlantic Ocean. The implementation allowed P&O Nedlloyd Container Line to...