eWeek articles from April 2001

eWeek archives from April 2001

Beware the iTaxman cometh.(Letter to the Editor)
April 2, 2001... Internet taxes: The path of least resistance by businesses, government will cost consumers Taxing tale When governments and businesses get together and tax Internet sales, consumers better beware ("Notice to e-biz: Taxes due," March...

And now, some good news.(Technology Information)(Column)
April 2, 2001... XML, a misleadingly simple idea, is quickly becoming convincing proof of a notion we've often championed: Multivendor standards are the right way to do IT. n The most novel feature of Extensible Markup Language is, paradoxically, its oldest:...

Coding over the waterfalls.(Industry Trend or Event)(Column)
April 2, 2001... I recently challenged the continuing relevance of the "waterfall" model of software development in a column for our eWeek Labs e-mail newsletter (enewsletters. ziffdavis.com). An old friend and fellow LISP hacker fired off a rebuttal that...

Waiting for Godot, Bluetooth.(Technology Information)(Column)
April 2, 2001... Sometimes this business can seem like participating in, or at least watching, a Samuel Beckett play. Absurdities rule the day, and despite all the mumbo jumbo about "innovation," in the end we are left pretty much where we started. n...

Staples.com IPO gets deep-sixed.(Company Financial Information)(Brief Article)
April 2, 2001... As the economy goes, so goes even the No. 1 company on eWeek's 2000 FastTrack list of the top 500 e-business leaders, Staples Inc. The Framingham, Mass., office supply retailer, which suffered flat retail sales growth in its recently announced...

FedEx moves ahead with wireless plans.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
April 2, 2001... Eweek 2000 fasttracker no. 5 begs to differ with naysayers who claim that wireless technol ogy-well, its return on investment, anyway-has hit a wall. Indeed, FedEx Corp., based in Memphis, Tenn., is forging ahead with its wireless strategy. ...

PKI starts to deliver - While still costly, the technology is making inroads.(Industry Trend or Event)
April 2, 2001... On June 30, 2000, president Clinton made history when he signed the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act-federal legislation legalizing digital signatures-into law. He also helped Chuck Chamberlain breathe a whole lot...

Securing wireless transactions.(Technology Information)
April 2, 2001... Implementing PKI in the wired world is becoming an increasingly important way to authenticate and secure e-commerce transactions. But, experts say, security managers shouldn't stop there. The same security and identity verification capabilities...

Harrah's places its CRM bet - Casino combines gaming info with legacy data.(Company Operations)
April 2, 2001... At Harrah's entertainment Inc.'s casino properties, a few lucky gamblers aren't the only ones coming up with winning hands. While other casinos on Las Vegas' famous strip are luring customers with extravagant rooms and entertainment, Harrah's...

Answering a CEO's penetrating question.(Technology Information)
April 2, 2001... It can begin with a friendly lunch conversation with your boss."Hey, did you hear Egghead and Travelocity got hacked?" you begin."Yeah, with credit card numbers lifted and everything," says the boss."Don't worry, Boss, our security is...

The CD that should have been a coaster.(Industry Trend or Event)(Column)
April 2, 2001... It was a multimillion-dollar client/server implementation project, complete with high-priced consultants, new hardware, increased bandwidth and eventual deployment to 16,000 worldwide users.With 300 pilot users and four new servers, the new...

The fast track to fortitude - Helping harried tech pros confront adversity.(Industry Trend or Event)
April 2, 2001... Eric Whiteman mopped up hundreds of workstations in the wake of the Melissa virus. He's been chewed out by an idiot boss in front of the entire tech staff for allegedly not fixing something that he had already taken care of. And more than once,...

Pair widens collaboration - ArsDigita, OpenDesign seek room for their offerings with personalization, content management.(Product Announcement)
April 2, 2001... Vendors such as Arsdigita Corp. and startup OpenDesign Inc. are continuing to try to gain a foothold in the crowded market for so- called collaborative commerce, offering products and platforms that combine e-commerce with such features as...

SAP picks up pace of transformation.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 2, 2001... SAP AG is continuing its transformation from a traditional enterprise software vendor to an e-business software provider. At the CeBIT trade show here late last month, the company announced that it has expanded the capabilities of its...

Driving apps performance.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
April 2, 2001... Netiq corp. last week continued to add breadth and depth to Windows- based application management in a major new release of its AppManager suite. Version 4.0 adds performance monitoring for six programs and provides a tool that allows...

Multiple views in real time.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
April 2, 2001... Redsiren Technologies Inc. became the latest management services provider to recognize the importance of the user interface, adding a browser-based view to its services. RedSiren's 1stView user interface allows customers to see how...

Mobile users gain access.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
April 2, 2001... Offerings on iplanet E-Commerce Solution's Portal Server are going to be rolling out for most of the year. iPlanet, an alliance between Sun Microsystems Inc. and America Online Inc., unveiled last month the addition of Mobile Access Pack, a...

Bridging the storage gap.(Product Development)(Brief Article)
April 2, 2001... As Snap Appliances Inc. officials see it, there is a battle among giants such as EMC Corp. and Network Appliance Inc. for market share in the data storage industry, and they want no part of it. Instead, they're hoping the San Jose, Calif.,...

Inside and Out.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
April 2, 2001... Mirapoint offers a new e-mail security option Sitting pretty Mirapoint Inc. last week unveiled Mirapoint Message Director, an e-mail firewall that sits between a company's internal messaging system and the Internet. Enforcing the law...

OmniSky widens OS horizons.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
April 2, 2001... In his review below, technical Analyst Jason Brooks compares the performance of OmniSky's wireless Internet and e-mail service on handhelds from HP and Compaq. In addition to stellar access to e-mail and several Web clipping services,...

PowerBook G4 flattens competition.(Product Information)(Brief Article)
April 2, 2001... Nostalgic for the MAC-vs.-PC wars? Too bad, says Analyst Emeritus Herb Bethoney (who now heads eWeek's Corporate Partners program). In his review on Page 61, Bethoney says Apple's first G4-based portable might not woo Wintel die-hards but gives...

Low-cost security? VPN, firewall services brought to branch sites.(Hardware Review)(Evaluation)
April 2, 2001... At its core, eSoft Inc.'s InstaGate EX2 provides VPN and basic firewall capabilities, along with a host of other server functions. With a few tweaks, the EX2 can provide branch offices and small enterprise sites with an easy-to- manage,...

OmniSky extends Net service to HP, Compaq.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 2, 2001... A year ago, Omnisky Corp. launched its wireless Internet and e-mail service for Palm Inc.'s Palm V handheld, and the service has become one of Palm's strongest selling points. With the launch of its wireless service for Hewlett-Packard...

Can Microsoft weather the hailstorm?(Company Business and Marketing)(Column)
April 2, 2001... Microsoft's hailstorm: you may love it, hate it or stir up litigation over it, but do you know exactly what it is? I'm not sure even Microsoft knows. But one thing is clear: Choosing an interesting, overly aggressive code name will get a...

Sans need to be as manageable as Lans.(Industry Trend or Event)
April 2, 2001... In today's enterprise networks, it managers have to continuously allocate budget and other resources for storage to provide robust data availability and support for critical e-business applications. Companies that can effectively manage large...

Pings&Packets - Searching the industry for technical connections and returning analysis in byte-size packages.(Buyers Guide)
April 2, 2001... A walk on the wide side In developing its handheld operating systems, Microsoft has consistently chosen to err on the side of complexity in deciding which applications to include in its Pocket PC devices. Sure, it can be useful to take...

Very fine powerbook design - Apple's titanium-clad laptop will turn heads; 500MHz machine also outruns 600MHz Pentium III.(Hardware Review)(Evaluation)
April 2, 2001... Well, Apple Computer Inc. has done it again. The company's recently released Power Book G4 redefines how a notebook computer should look and feel, just as its iMac and G4 Cube led the way for new desktop computer designs. Although it won't...

Wireless Net's future under a cloud - Despite uncertainties, companies continue to roll out products, services.(Industry Trend or Event)
April 2, 2001... The CTIA wireless show may have been staged here in the glitz capital of the country, but the focus was far from flashy. Where just one year ago the conference, sponsored by the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, was a...

SAS moves to strengthen CRM suite - The company's acquisition of Intrinsic benefits both; merges research and development teams.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 2, 2001... SAS Institute Inc.'s acquisition late last month of campaign management software vendor Intrinsic Ltd. was a move to extend SAS' CRM software offerings beyond pure analytics. The addition of Intrinsic's namesake technology will enable...

Actional upgrades integration app.(Product Announcement)
April 2, 2001... Actional Corp. is looking to make connecting front-and back-end systems easier. The Mountain View, Calif., company last week upgraded ACB (Actional Control Broker) with scalability and functional enhancements that enable corporations to...

Rewritable DVDs in works - Panasonic, Philips show technologies at CeBIT, but lack of uniform standard could slow adoption.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 2, 2001... The popularity of rewritable CDs has grown rapidly over the last two years, with more than 60 percent of all PCs sold at retail now featuring CD-RW drives. But hot on their heels is new DVD technology that promises more than 13 times greater...

Lotus, Motorola make wireless pushes.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 2, 2001... Lotus Development Corp. and Motorola Inc. have unveiled separate initiatives to make gaining access to personal information management and business applications on wireless devices easier. Lotus late last month extended its relationships...

Vendor ventures beyond box - Micron Electronics leaves the PC business world.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 2, 2001... Micron Electronics Inc.'s decision late last month to quit the PC business and focus on its application hosting division is, depending on who's asked, either a great strategic decision or a bow to the inevitable. Either way, the Nampa, Idaho,...

Measuring the health of security.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 2, 2001... Securify Inc. this week will launch a security service that will be custom-designed to fit the unique needs of each customer. As part of an effort to broaden its offerings beyond simple consulting services, the Mountain View, Calif.,...

Flexible payment option for small biz - NEC adds leasing to professional services targeted at midsize firms.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 2, 2001... When it comes time to implement CRM or e-business applications, small and midsize businesses often face a dilemma: Wait until the money can be found to fund such projects, or go ahead with something less complex and with fewer features. ...

'Don't spit blue at your customers ...'.(Industry Trend or Event)
April 2, 2001... At last week's windows hardware developers conference in Anaheim, the Furball wondered if schlockmeister John Waters hadn't taken over the PR chores for Microsoft. Certainly the video presentation by Brian Valentine, senior vice president of...

Litter box lynx.(Brief Article)(Directory)
April 2, 2001... www.laugh.com The funny site and CD label for comics like Jonathan Winters and George Carlin offers cartoons, MP3s and tips from Heidi Fleiss. www.toaster.org The Toaster Museum Foundation follows the history of electronically...

Global warming becoming a hot topic.(Industry Trend or Event)(Column)
April 2, 2001... Remember energy star? it was in 1992 that the u.s. department of Energy (www.energystar.gov) came up with the program to identify and promote energy-saving devices to counter carbon dioxide emissions. The purpose was noble, the logo including a...

Schmidt takes Google post.(Company Operations)(Brief Article)
April 2, 2001... A week after saying he was giving up the CEO job at Novell, Eric Schmidt signed on as chairman of the board at the popular search site Google.com. Schmidt will take over for Sergey Brin, Google's founding chairman, who will remain as...

Napster goes to Washington.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
April 2, 2001... The battle continues between file-sharing company Napster and the Recording Industry Association of America. Last week, the association filed papers in U.S. District Court accusing Napster of not complying with a court order to pull...

Study warns against site.(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
April 2, 2001... A study released last week warned that a travel Web site being developed by the major airlines could cost consumers an extra $183 million per year in fares. Jerry Hausman, an economics professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology,...

MarchFirst woes mounting - Web boutiques struggle to regain ground; lose out to bigger integrators.(Industry Trend or Event)
April 2, 2001... A handful of boutique Web integrators continued their collective death spiral last week with announcements of more dismal financial news and layoffs-all this amid a growing reluctance among clients to continue working with the shaky companies....

New satellite service rises from ashes.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 2, 2001... Commercial satellites may be more than just pies in the sky. A year after Iridium LLC shut down its satellite phone service because operating costs outweighed customer interest, a reincarnation, Iridium Satellite LLC, is giving it another shot....

Outsourcing supply chains - Hosted apps from Webplan, Ozro, IBM offer a low-budget way to pull together ERP, procurement.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 2, 2001... Webplan Corp., Ozro Inc. and IBM are targeting new hosted SCM products at companies that have had neither the time nor the resources to develop their own business-to-business e-commerce applications. Webplan will launch in two weeks its...

Developer duo pumping up analytics.(Product Announcement)
April 2, 2001... Analytics software developers Informatica Corp. and Broadbase Software Inc. are looking to make their customers more efficient through new applications that perform even richer business analysis. Informatica last week released Version 4.1...

Window dressing? One year after guilty verdict, industry ponders changes at Microsoft.(Industry Trend or Event)
April 2, 2001... For all of its size and influence, microsoft Corp. has been built to react rapidly to changing competition, user demands, computing models and, yes, legal pressure. At no time in its history has that ability to cope with change been tested as...

Core OS differences from Apple - Mac OS X 10's new direction could be a rough ride for Mac faithful.
April 2, 2001... With the release of Apple Computer Inc.'s Mac OS X, Macintosh users for the first time have a modern operating system that combines the power of BSD 4.4 Unix with the flexibility of the Mac GUI. However, veteran Mac users trying Mac OS X...

A new dimension in design - Leading players Adobe, Macromedia enter 3-D Web development space.(Product Development)
April 2, 2001... While smaller niche companies have been providing 3-D technology to Web developers for years, the design giants began to enter the space last week. Adobe Systems Inc. released a beta version of its Atmosphere software, designed to help...

Microsoft exudes optimism.(according to Bruce Valentine sr. v.p of Windows division)(Company Business and Marketing)(Interview)
April 2, 2001... VP Brian Valentine says company looks to expand, improve partnerships The past year has been one of significant change for Microsoft Corp. A federal judge ordered the company split in two, the case was heard on appeal and a decision is...

Marimba retunes management tools.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
April 2, 2001... Marimba this week will unveil the first of an anticipated fam ily of performance management tools. The tools go hand in hand with a product- line reshuffle in which Marimba's Castanet and Timbale products will be modularized and rebranded. ...

Perot reduces Time0 footprint.(Company Operations)(Brief Article)
April 2, 2001... Perot systems has quietly folded its Time0 e-business consulting and integration subsidiary into the parent company. Late last week, an official said that Perot had downsized Time0's capabilities and stopped using the name. Time0's...

In through out door - Security vendors set to roll out PKI managed services.(Product Development)
April 2, 2001... PKI-based security is heading out the door-literally. If the early years of public-key infrastructure security have been stymied by complex deployments and little interest from corporate IT departments, then the future may belong to vendors...

Mobile makers not immune to hard times.(Telefon Ericsson, Nokia, Motorola, and Palm)(Company Operations)
April 2, 2001... Faced with slowing demand for products and a slowing economy, the major cell phone and handheld computer makers spent the end of last month cleaning house. Telefon Ericsson AB, Nokia Corp., Motorola Inc. and Palm Inc. have laid off...

Xerox changing colors to get in black - Company slashes costs, sells assets and plans three printers and a reseller agreement with Scitex.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 2, 2001... Anne Mulcahy wants to transform Xerox Corp. from the "document company" to the "color document company." Now all she has to do is persuade customers and Wall Street to buy it. Mulcahy, the Stamford, Conn., copier and printer giant's...

Fujitsu takes storage management leap.(forms Softek aka Fujitsu Software Technology)(Company Business and Marketing)
April 2, 2001... As more companies jump into the storage management software space, customers are seeing less difference in the range of products being offered. Fujitsu Ltd. became the latest company to join a market that is expected to grow to about $16...

Microsoft's five-year plan.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 9, 2001... Microsoft Corp.'s upcoming versions of windows weave corporate IT into a net of Microsoft's making, and action is needed now to preserve the freedom and independence that the PC revolution bestowed on IT buyers two decades ago.In both its...

GHz to the people?(Letter to the Editor)
April 9, 2001... Who needs it? says a reader. No one, at least until hard drives get a boost to 7,200 rpm Speed needs... As an avid notebook user, i ap- preciated John Dodge's recent article regarding 1GHz notebooks (The Dodge Report, "Gigahertz: Who...

1394 reasons to like Win XP.(Product Development)
April 9, 2001... Twenty-five cents won't buy you a decent cup of coffee, but it will cover the license fee for putting an IEEE 1394 connection in a digital device. That's a good deal. n The high-speed serial connection of IEEE 1394a carries up to 400M bps; the...

New Mac OS eyes enterprise.(Product Announcement)
April 9, 2001... You may have seen our review of mac OS X on page 1 last week. You weren't seeing things. By my research, the last time we ran a story about Apple on our front page was Aug. 11, 1997. That story detailed how Steve Jobs sold his soul to Bill...

Running the risk of insurance ignorance.(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
April 9, 2001... According to a survey of 282 small and midsize companies with fewer than 500 employees, 80 percent of respondents said they had no idea if their current insurance policies covered such specific cyber-risks as e-mail viruses, Web site business...

Plenty to fear from security breaches.(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
April 9, 2001... A thorough look at your organization's insurance policy might not be a bad idea, considering the number of security losses reported last year. In the annual Computer Crime and Security Survey conducted by the Computer Security Institute, of San...

Keeping partners together - Suppliers tap PRM to boost channels.(Industry Trend or Event)
April 9, 2001... As any manufacturer can tell you, running a distribution network with lots of resellers and other channel partners is a bit like maintaining a harem. You expect and demand complete fidelity and dedication from all your partners. They, in...

Protect partners from prying eyes.(Industry Trend or Event)
April 9, 2001... If you're planning to roll out PRM, don't be surprised if your channel partners start asking you how you intend to protect and secure the confidential information they're expected to share with you online. "Security is, and will continue...

Planning for dot-com d-day can ease pain.(Industry Trend or Event)
April 9, 2001... In the context of the ever-expanding dot-com down- fall, I recently heard someone say, "People don't plan to fail, they fail to plan." Well, folks, whether your company planned to fail or failed to plan does not change the color of your...

Giving your Web site tender loving care.(Industry Trend or Event)
April 9, 2001... Web sites are like babies: there are no ugly ones if you listen to the proud parents of the Web site or the baby. n But the truth is that, like loving parents, the creators of Web sites are often tempted to ignore their progeny's shortcomings....

A spoonful of e-medicine - Extranet helps drug company digest ad material.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 9, 2001... Preparing the launch of a product can cause even the best marketers heartburn, what with the steady stream of stress from deadlines and from trying to coordinate advertising agencies. Before even beginning to feel that pain at Johnson &...

Techies plug into hot skills - If it doesn't produce ROI, kiss the bonus goodbye.(Industry Trend or Event)
April 9, 2001... What do you get when you mix a red-hot market for IT skills with a willingness to put in elbow grease to gain new skills and key IT certifications? If your name's Erik Weinmeister, you get two promotions and a cumulative 60 percent salary hike...

Industry weighs in on Bush's plans - Technology leaders call for tax breaks and more attention to cyber-crime.(Industry Trend or Event)
April 9, 2001... While the white House was busy deciding who should lead its technology policy, industry sources at a high-tech town meeting said they now expect more federal action in the form of tax breaks and other support. Following the meeting between...

Tablet PCs stirring minimal interest - High cost and notebook inertia stand in the way of widespread deployment of Microsoft devices.(Product Announcement)
April 9, 2001... While Microsoft Corp. is touting its upcoming Tablet PC as the laptop of the future, corporate IT managers are less than convinced. Microsoft officials told delegates at WinHEC here recently that the Tablet will become the laptop of the...

Upgrades speed high-volume e-mail.(Lyris' List Manager 4.2 and List ManagerSQL 1.1 and Boldfish' BoldFish Express Server 2.3)(Product Announcement)
April 9, 2001... Businesses looking to communicate with customers, partners and suppliers more rapidly and more often could be in for good news from BoldFish Inc. and Lyris Technologies Inc. Both companies are readying upgrades to their respective...

SAP AG buys portal player - Acquisition of TopTier will help out the software giant's integration work.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 9, 2001... In another step in its plan to build market-leading positions in enterprise portal, supply chain management and customer relationship management software, German software giant SAP AG has said it will buy TopTier Software Inc. A partner of...

A token for encryption.(Aladdin Knowledge Systems' Aladdin Knowledge Systems eToken Pro)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
April 9, 2001... Aladdin Knowledge Systems Inc. this week will introduce its Universal Serial Bus-based authentication token, which offers 1,024-bit encryption. Dubbed eToken Pro, the device is about the size of a house key and plugs directly into the port. ...

Tying markets and partners.(Click Commerce's ClickForward 4.1)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
April 9, 2001... Seeking tighter ties between corporations and their business partners, Click Commerce Inc. is rolling out a new integration product. ClickForward enables real-time, machine-to- machine exchange of business information, as well as...

The strong, silent types.(Ibm Travelstar 48GH, IBM Travelstar 30GN and IBM Travelstar 15 GN)(Brief Article)
April 9, 2001... Combining size, speed and sound-or lack thereof-IBM is getting ready to ship what it calls the world's highest-capacity and quietest family of notebook drives. IBM's Travelstar family includes the Travelstar 48GH, 30GN and 15GN. All use...

Lots of help for small providers.(Ensim Corp's ServerXchange, Webppliance LS)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
April 9, 2001... Hosting automation enabler Ensim Corp. announced two products and an alliance with Houston-based Compaq Computer Corp. last week. Ensim's products include Version 2.5 of its flagship ServerXchange system, which adds Windows 2000 support....

The Easy Way To Set Up DSL.(Covad Communications DSL JumpStart Install Kit)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
April 9, 2001... Covad offering JumpStart Install Kit Less frustration Tired of waiting for your DSL technician to show up? Covad Communications Group Inc. now offers a self-installation kit to eliminate the hassles typically associated with signing up for...

But just what exactly is it?(Microsoft's SharePoint software)(Software Review)(Brief Article)(Evaluation)
April 9, 2001... The goal of knowledge management systems is to aggregate data and deliver it to those who need it. But managing knowledge management is not simple-every vendor has a different idea of what should be in such a system. In his review at...

Of firewalls and e-CRM.(Brief Article)(Directory)
April 9, 2001... Go to www.eWEEK.com/links for reviews of the latest firewall and electronic customer relationship management wares. Contributing Editor Roger Hartje reviews Captus' innovative Captio firewall/switch appliance, which can prevent...

Sharepoint's a hit - Microsoft's knowledge manager adept at pulling in data.(Microsoft Corp.'s SharePoint Portal Server)(Software Review)(Evaluation)
April 9, 2001... Part portal, part document manager and yet another part search engine, Microsoft Corp.'s SharePoint Portal Server (released to manufacturers late last month), the company's first venture into the knowledge management space, has no shortage of...

Shunra's Storm tests Ethernet networks.(Shunra Software Ltd.)
April 9, 2001... Shunra Software Ltd. has made Version 1.1 of its Storm hardware and software WAN emulation tool significantly easier to use. However, nagging questions about Storm's price and flexibility could make Shunra's software-only Cloud tool a better...

The training option beats the stock option.(Industry Trend or Event)(Column)
April 9, 2001... Living in the heart of silicon valley, i have seen the rise and fall of the dot-coms firsthand. In their heyday, the job market was an employee's fantasy come true-opportunities included positions with everything from startups to companies that...

Pings&Packets - Searching the industry for technical connections and returning analysis in byte-size packages.(News Briefs)
April 9, 2001... Just what you wanted I'm not sure what the word "Oingo" means, but the unique namesake search technology from Oingo Inc. can figure out the meaning of pretty much anything else. Most standard search engines simply index text and...

Dot-com deaths pave the way for Sybase.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 9, 2001... One positive thing to emerge from the dot-com disasters is that there is much less traffic congestion along the San Francisco peninsula.My commute may get even easier. A new report by Rosen Consulting, a real estate research company, shows that...

One small step for laptop security - Caveo leads charge to secure devices using motion detection technology.(Caveo Technology's forthcoming Anti-Theft system)(Product Development)
April 9, 2001... The goal of laptop security is threefold: Protect the laptop, protect the data and keep it all easy to use. eWeek Labs believes Caveo Technology's forthcoming Anti-Theft system takes a smart path that competitors will likely follow. Caveo...