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Heres the Scoop on Whether to Snoop

In just one week, severe damage may have been inflicted on our personal privacy—or at least on our privacy on public and private networks....

In the Hot Seat

They had the midas touch—and suddenly lost it. For what seemed to be a whirlwind minute, Internet Capital Group built a dot-com kingdom that...

Big Play

Jamcracker, the richly funded application services firm headed by Exodus Communications co-founder KB Chandrasekhar, is a blue-blooded company in what turns out to be...

Bill, Old Buddy!

How many ways can esteemed journalists suck up to a serial killer? If the criminal is Ted Kaczynski, aka the Unabomber, the skys the...

Customers Not Biting Windows XP Bait

As new legal pressures mount against Microsoft Corp., the company is trying to put the spotlight back on its operating system products. But, so...

Microsoft Rolls and Spins

Microsoft proved last week just how strong a stomach it has for coping with the vagaries of high-tech life, announcing a new president and...

Cupid Crashes IBMs Party

IBM has played many roles over the years in its evolution from hardware maker to solutions provider. The latest part it aims to play...

Consultants: Cant Live With Em, Cant …

In the future, only ignorant companies will keep their IT security teams completely in-house. And those ignorant companies will become the first to collapse...

Protecting Your Privacy

Some months back I wrote about the phenomenon of privacy on the Internet. I say "phenomenon" because thats what it is, a notion whose...

Denial of Death Benefits

There is reason today for great celebration throughout computer land. Users, developers and hardware manufacturers should be popping corks and shouting from the rooftops....