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Top Products of 2004

Firefox 1.0 Firefox 1.0 In one of the most interesting technology stories of the year, an open-source product descended from one of the founding applications of...

Past Year Is Prologue

Technology developments this year started slowly but wound up in a merger and divestiture frenzy that shows no signs of letting up. But behind...

App Security Is Lacking

In 2004, several technologies vied for the limited enterprise dollars earmarked for protecting public-facing applications—and created a lot of confusion in the marketplace about...

A Year Is Not Enough for Tech Predictions

Those who dare to make year-ahead predictions should remember Bill Gates accurate 1997 observation: "There is a tendency to overestimate how much technology will...

Tools Block Code-Busting Crooks

The concept of adding security to the coding phase of application development is catching on, with new companies delivering tools to help developers test...

Microsoft and Sun: Détente Takes Time

Sun Microsystems Inc. and Microsoft Corp. officials said they have reached a number of significant milestones since announcing their landmark settlement and technical collaboration...

Simplicity Eludes Group Work

The future of collaboration is XML, but we still lack products and services that bridge the gap between enterprise data and tools people like...

Where We Stand: The Year in IT

As each year draws to a close, we summarize in this space where we stand on the most important issues facing the IT community....

It Was a Very Good Year

From: [email protected]: Monday, December 20, 2004 12:13 AMTo: eWEEK readersSubject: Of Martell, Mitnick, Macanudo, Messman"And nothing has changed, and everything has changed," Spence crooned...

Real Answers Needed to Solve Spam

Spam gained a nefarious twist this year with the development of phishing scams, but phishing wasnt the least of IT departments problems. They faced...