eWeek articles from May 2001

eWeek archives from May 2001

High bandwidth, but security, too.(Industry Trend or Event)
May 7, 2001... Anyone can tell you it's risky to put a bank branch with unlocked doors next to a freeway on-ramp. It doesn't take long for would-be robbers to notice the combination of an attractive target and a ready means of escape. Something similar is...

Microsoft: Unsubscribe.(Letter to the Editor)
May 7, 2001... Microsoft's subscription-based software plan has few fans among this week's letter writers Obvious problems It amazes me how many people do not see the obvious problems with the Microsoft licensing scheme and the reliance on Web-based...

Relearning labor lessons.(Company Operations)
May 7, 2001... The first of May is a common workers' holiday, according to labor scholars, because it was once the most common day for strikes and other labor protests. PeopleSoft management, take note. n In 1500s Europe, warm spring weather lowered living...

A way to ease security woes.(Nokia, Ingrian Systems)(Company Business and Marketing)
May 7, 2001... We all have come to take our simple household appliances for granted. Pick up the phone, make a call; put a slice of bread in the toaster, get toast; turn on the TV, veg out. n Appliances in the computing world are another matter altogether....

Still surfing the friendly e-skies ...(a report from Jupiter Media Metrix Inc.)(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
May 7, 2001... Despite the recent economic slowdown, the U.S. online travel booking industry will continue to draw more and more customers, according to a report from Jupiter Media Metrix Inc., based in New York. According to the report, 29 percent of...

... but still wanting to kick the tires, too.(study conducted for online automotive site Auto by tel. com Inc. by Opinion Research Corp.)(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
May 7, 2001... It looks like all those u.s. travelers will be hopping into used cars to take their vacations this summer. In a recent study conducted for online automotive site Auto by tel. com Inc. by Opinion Research Corp., of Princeton, N.J., the slumping...

ERP II: It's alive! Enterprises investing in extending systems for collaborative commerce.(Industry Trend or Event)
May 7, 2001... About this time last year, as the stampede to the Internet and e- business grew, you could stick a fork in the ERP market. It was dead. Muerto. Not alive. Enterprise resource planning, common wisdom held, didn't fit e- business. Not only...

ERP vendors push private exchanges.(enterprise resource planning)(Industry Trend or Event)
May 7, 2001... Revamping ERP to support collaborative commerce is becoming increasingly common. But, experts say, corporations shouldn't stop there. As organizations turn their attention toward linking their enterprise resource planning systems to the...

A Tale Of E-biz Survivors - Students at MIT's Sloan School pick e- winners.(Enron Corp.)(Company Operations)
May 7, 2001... Revenge is sweet. A year ago, Old Economy stalwarts like $100.7 billion Enron Corp. were ridiculed for their slow pace in moving to embrace e- business. Today, those same companies are being showered with accolades and awards. Most recently,...

Sizing up the online project from all angles.(Industry Trend or Event)
May 7, 2001... You're familiar, no doubt, with the ancient Indian parable of the six blind men and the elephant. Each examines the elephant by touching a different part, and each comes away with a different impression of the beast. n Measuring the success or...

Are two it departments better than one?(information technology)(Industry Trend or Event)
May 7, 2001... If you're fortunate, upper management has involved you in plans to acquire another company. This process-usually referred to as due diligence-gives you, as IT manager, a chance to learn about another company's environment and technology. As a...

XP pros take it to the extreme - New programming technique rattles workplace.(Extreme Programming)(Industry Trend or Event)
May 7, 2001... Doug Watt can't help it: He still catches himself feeling a bit jealous when fellow programmers tweak his code. But that doesn't stop Watt-a senior engineer in the product engineering group at Woodward Industrial Controls, a unit of Woodward...

Keeping kids off streets - Future ITers learn in local Intel Computer Clubhouses; teens motivated to stay on track.(Industry Trend or Event)
May 7, 2001... Teenagers whom you normally associate with street corners and lost hours are instead in a room together, motivated and hard at work on projects such as building their own Web sites, learning robotics, doing computer-aided animation and learning...

Teen is CEO of Web design firm.(Keith Peiris, president, founder and CEO of the Web design, e-business and marketing company Cyberteks Design)(Company Operations)
May 7, 2001... There once was a time when, if ambitious adolescents wanted to make extra money, they would take on a paper route, mow lawns or shovel snow. But no longer. These days, they're turning to a more lucrative pastime than shoveling neighbors'...

Finding the right IT manager - Look for solid mix of interpersonal, technical and project management skills.(Industry Trend or Event)
May 7, 2001... Not long ago, when the economy hummed, dot-coms materialized overnight. There were plenty of new IT seats to fill, and job applicants who could barely turn on a PC landed IT jobs. No longer. Employers focusing on steady growth-and the...

Certificate currency devalued as firms stress experience.(information technology)(Industry Trend or Event)
May 7, 2001... These days, it seems, there's a certificate that IT workers can earn for any type of skill under the sun. From Novell Inc. networking to Oracle Corp. databases to servicing hardware and beyond, there are a dizzying array of certificates from...

Training in bite-size pieces can save big chunks of time - Learning modules offer flexibility for a busy work force.(information technology)(Industry Trend or Event)
May 7, 2001... A new trend in e-learning-developing and delivering courseware in small, easily digestible components-will allow your busy work force to get just the training it needs when it needs it. It is difficult for most e-business employees to find...

Keep talent on your turf - Despite economic slowdown, you need a solid retention plan to keep the best and brightest.(information technology)(Industry Trend or Event)
May 7, 2001... Don't be fooled into thinking that the economic slowdown is a safety net for retaining your top IT talent-quite the contrary. The temperature in the overall IT job market may have dropped a few degrees, but the competition for top IT talent is...

Two-pronged front frames server plans.(Unisys' CS7802, CS7108; IBM p620, p660)(Product Announcement)
May 7, 2001... New servers announced recently by Unisys Corp. and IBM highlight two strategies the computer makers are pursuing to attract customers. Unisys promoted the integration of Microsoft Corp. applications into high-end mainframe computing, and IBM,...

XML eases data transport - Captiva, RTSe, Kofax and Tower products help employees transmit documents along networks.(Industry Trend or Event)
May 7, 2001... Developers of document capture and management software are increasingly turning to XML as a means to transport data to far-flung organizations. Captiva Software Corp., RTSe USA Inc., Kofax Image Products Inc. and Tower Software were among...

Jxta expands software compatibility.(Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Project Jxta)(Company Business and Marketing)
May 7, 2001... Early users of Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Project Jxta said the peer-to- peer building blocks will help them open their applications to a wider audience. Andrew Grimshaw, chief technology officer of Applied Meta Computing Inc. and an alpha...

Presenter aims at enterprise.(Presenter.com Inc's iPresentation Suite 3.0)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
May 7, 2001... Staking ground in an area it calls Business Knowledge Delivery, Presenter.com Inc., of San Jose, Calif., is shipping a version of its iPresentation Suite that is tailored for enterprises with dynamic and mobile work forces. iPresentation...

Catching up with the times.(Relativity Technologies Inc.'s RescueWare for ADW)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
May 7, 2001... Companies looking to migrate their business off the legacy ADW application development platform now have help. Relativity Technologies Inc., whose products help companies move from under-supported platforms, late last month released...

Help for the small suppliers.(SPS Commerce)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
May 7, 2001... The e-business world is not always kind to suppliers and even less so to those in the small and midsize range. SPS Commerce is hoping to make it a little bit kinder. The St. Paul, Minn., company late last month announced enhancements to...

Keeping tabs on Windows.(TamoSoft Inc. last week unveiled CommView 2.6)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
May 7, 2001... For companies in need of a network monitor and packet analyzer for all versions of Windows, TamoSoft Inc. last week unveiled CommView 2.6. The Christchurch, New Zealand, company's product pinpoints security flaws and LAN bottlenecks and...

SHDSL gateway rolls in.(Efficient Networks Inc.'s 5950 SHDSL Business Gateway)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
May 7, 2001... Standard eases multivendor tool provisioning For the little guy Dallas-based Efficient Networks Inc. is launching a symmetric, high-density digital subscriber line gateway for small and midsize businesses, branch offices, and teleworkers....

Write now, code later.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
May 7, 2001... West coast technical director Timothy Dyck found a lot to like in a beta release of iConverse Mobile Studio 2.0, reviewed at right. iConverse makes designing mobile applications almost simple: Developers drag and drop program elements onto...

Building on basics for solid sites.(Product Information)(Brief Article)
May 7, 2001... At right, contributing analyst Russell Windman compares the latest versions of Microsoft's FrontPage and NetObjects' Fusion, two market- leading Web site design products that have shifted their sights to the small-office front. These tools...

Mobile apps in sight - iConverse beta masters drag-and-drop layout.(Software Review)(Evaluation)
May 7, 2001... Taking a fresh approach to mobile application development, iConverse Inc.'s iConverse Mobile Studio lets users visually design these applications without having to worry about the rat's nest of devices and markup languages that currently plague...

Enhanced Web tools for small business.(Software Review)(Evaluation)
May 7, 2001... Microsoft Corp.'s Frontpage 2002 and NetObjects Inc.'s Fusion MX are competent, expanded products that, although of the cookie-cutter school of Web site creation tools, will be valuable to small companies that need to create and post entire...

A poignant plea to the powers (th)at be.(Product Information)
May 7, 2001... There's something likable and self-effacing about an operating system that grants its users and developers leave to pop the hood and make modifications-the closed-box designs of Mac OS and Windows both seem to say that Cupertino and Redmond,...

Pings&Packets - Searching the industry for technical connections and returning analysis in byte-size packages.(News Briefs)
May 7, 2001... Ricoh i700's focus is fine Ricoh's RDC-I700 is perhaps the most powerful digital camera on the market. In other words, it's overkill for snapshot-shooting consumers. Fortunately for Ricoh, it is targeting the corporate market with the i700...

What's in store for Informix under IBM.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 7, 2001... In a way, it's sad that ibm purchased informix. the troubled but innovative underdog of a company had quite a following. On the other hand, if anyone had to do it, IBM's not a bad suitor. Otherwise, Informix might have languished and died....

NetScreen's firewall, VPN unit fast in tests.
May 7, 2001... The powerful NetScreen-500 firewall and VPN combination with a Gigabit fiber interface delivers exceptional high-bandwidth throughput, transferring data at almost 750M bps across the firewall and as fast as 243M bps with 168-bit Triple DES...

Fighting to keep users loyal - Telcos tap analytical CRM to evaluate offerings.(Industry Trend or Event)
May 7, 2001... For telecommunications companies, business is about opportunity and competition. Nearly 20 years after telephone industry deregulation, these companies have tremendous opportunities to sell customers a variety of telecommunications products and...

Slicing the enterprise pie - Portal developers partnering with integration vendors to make software more transaction-oriented.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 7, 2001... Portal developers octopus Software Inc. and Data Channel Inc. are making their software more transaction-oriented through upgrades and partnerships with EAI vendors. The goal of products coming from both companies is to provide users with...

Breaking the XML data bottleneck.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 7, 2001... As the amount of XML data continues to grow, the market for databases capable of easily handling that data also is sprouting. Startup Ipedo Inc. this week will announce the upcoming release of its native Extensible Markup Language database,...

Putting focus on WLANs - N+I show highlights functional 802.11x gear.(Industry Trend or Event)
May 7, 2001... While numerous high-speed wireless technologies flap about, WLANs have continued a steady migration into corporate America, gaining ground with added speed, security and the number of devices supported. At this week's NetWorld+Interop show...

Tiptoeing at the edge of the IT chasm.(Industry Trend or Event)
May 7, 2001... Stabilize was a word much in the news last week as an array of commentators from stock pundits to hopeful investors looked for signs that the downtrodden markets had finally stabilized. The hope being that, once stabilized, the business of...

Have some Web with your coffee.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
May 7, 2001... Coffee drinkers at starbucks stores across the continent will soon be able to surf the Net while sipping java. In a five-year, $100 million deal announced last week, Compaq will supply Starbucks with iPaq Pocket PCs and other wireless...

Apple iBook in the IT world?(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
May 7, 2001... Apple portrays its revised iBook, which debuted May 1, as an education and consumer portable, but can it make inroads into the IT world? Apple executives said they prefer to leave the IT market to the higher- priced (and higher-powered)...

Budgets impact education - Enterprise clients suffer from shifting strategies.(Industry Trend or Event)
May 7, 2001... The tightening purse strings of major telecommunications equipment vendors are straining the training and services provided to carrier and enterprise customers. This is good news-but only if you're an independent IT training provider. Some...

Tarantella pursues the enterprise.(Product Announcement)
May 7, 2001... With the launch this week of its updated thin-client computing platform, Tarantella Inc. hopes to draw on its years of mainframe experience to offer enterprise users better scalabil ity, drive mapping and local printing. Tarantella...

Building dams against DOS flooding - Captus enhances CaptIO to protect high-speed networks; Mazu's devices detect attacks at ISP level.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 7, 2001... In the aftermath of the distributed denial-of-service attacks against several high-profile sites last year, dozens of vendors rushed into the vacuum that was the anti-DDoS software market and proclaimed they were working on products that will...

Tools promise smarter problem solving.(Industry Trend or Event)
May 7, 2001... A bevy of testing and performance monitoring vendors are following networking giants to NetWorld+Interop in Las Vegas this week with advancements that promise faster and more intelligent problem solving. Noteworthy offerings will come from...

Sun's sarcasm sets Kitty to snickering.(News Briefs)
May 7, 2001... Spencer had to laugh when he read that sun offered to send volunteers to help clean up IBM's "Peace, Love, Linux" graffiti campaign, which adorns the streets of San Francisco. The seemingly ecology-minded gesture from Sun came with its own PR...

Litter box Lynx.
May 7, 2001... Have some industry gossip? Found a funky Web site? Contact Rumor Central at spencer_katt@ziffdavis.com or call (781) 393-3700. www.flypower.com Attention sickos! Don't pull the wings off those poor tiny flies. Harness the little suckers...

Four Microsoft sites defaced.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
May 7, 2001... Abrazilian hacker crew that apparently has a grudge against Microsoft defaced four Web sites connected to the company late last week. The MSNBC Sports scoreboard site was one of the vandalized sites. Instead of a list of scores from...

Kodak buys online rival.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
May 7, 2001... Eastman kodak last week announced plans to acquire online photography service Ofoto, although details of the deal were not disclosed. Ofoto's services, for which the company boasts 1.2 million members, include digital processing of digital...

B2B guard change - New CEOs at Ariba, i2 Technologies lay out their strategies.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 7, 2001... Two of the leading business-to-business software pro viders will look quite different once the CEOs that each introduced last week make their marks. While new Ariba Inc. CEO Larry Mueller expects to take his company back to basics with a...

Wearable computing: More than geek chic.(Mobile Assistant V notebook computer from Xybernaut Corp)(Product Announcement)
May 7, 2001... Although widely considered geek chic, wearable computing systems are steadily gaining ground in vertical and consumer arenas alike. At the center of the movement is wearable computing pioneer Xybernaut Corp., which, at its annual wearable...

PeopleSoft boosts HR with acquisition.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 7, 2001... Peoplesoft Inc. bolstered its long-held supremacy in human resources automation software with the acquisition of SkillsVillage Inc. last week. The addition of SkillsVillage's functionality of locating and hiring services and contingent staff...

Correction.(Correction Notice)
May 7, 2001... An April 23 review incorrectly stated the price of Cycore AB's Cult 3D Designer, which caps at $15,000 per year for usage-based licensing. An April 30 story incorrectly stated the origins of Informix's Arrow head database project.

Buying content management - Microsoft's $36 million acquisition of NCompass Labs last week fills the gap in company's lineup.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 7, 2001... Microsoft Corp.'s $36 million acquisition of NCompass Labs Inc. last week adds a powerful player to the growing content management field. The industry is already a crowded one, including the likes of Vignette Corp., Interwoven Inc. and...

Changes at Exodus under scrutiny.(Company Operations)
May 7, 2001... Data hosting pioneer exodus Communications Inc. is at a crossroads and trying to go in two directions at once. The company, best known for its popular-but unprofitable-hosting business, is trying hard to break into higher-margin managed...

A better way to share information - XML Schema permits rich data descriptions; W3C standard promises to streamline exchanges.(Industry Trend or Event)
May 7, 2001... XML schema, released last week as a World Wide Web Consortium recommendation, is the most important new standard from the W3C since XML itself, making it much simpler for applications, data repositories and business partners to exchange and...

Web services registry open for business.(Industry Trend or Event)
May 7, 2001... Last week marked another milestone for the future of XML. In addition to the release of the World Wide Web Consortium's XML Schema, the scores of companies involved in the UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery and Integration) project...

Battle rages over carrier restrictions.(Industry Trend or Event)
May 7, 2001... From the convention floors of Las Vegas to the halls of Capitol Hill, a downturn in the fortunes of carriers is blunting customer enthusiasm for all but the most Spartan offerings and raising regulatory cries of unfair competition in...

Project eLiza greeted with wariness - IBM vows to spend billions on developing self-healing servers that require little human intervention.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 7, 2001... IBM is pledging to spend billions of dollars over the next few years to develop self-managing servers that it said will help IT staffs oversee ever-expanding data centers. But the aims of IBM's Project eLiza, announced two weeks ago,...

Worms come under attack - Anti-virus vendors work on technologies that will keep outbreaks such as the ILoveYou virus at bay.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 7, 2001... When the ILoveYou virus swept through corporate networks around the world last May, it took everyone by surprise-especially anti-virus software developers. As the one-year anniversary of the Love Bug's attack passed last week, McAfee...

Intel's plan for faster chips hits speed bump - Fab glitches also threaten delivery of newer chips.(Silicon Valley Group Inc.'s Mirascan V production system impacts delivery of Pentium 4 2GHz processor)(Product Information)
May 7, 2001... Already dealing with an inability to meet demand for its 1GHz mobile Pentium III chips, Intel Corp. is now facing a manufacturing problem that could delay the chip's even-faster successors. A delay in the delivery of a key chip-making...

E-storage futures - Future-proofing your e-business data capacity and access strategy.(Industry Trend or Event)
May 14, 2001... There's a reason why enterprise storage investments are among the least-soft sectors of IT spending. It's almost impossible for any organization to know too much. Even in industry sectors that don't seem strongly data-driven, it's...

Taking the bite out of storing bytes.(Industry Trend or Event)
May 14, 2001... EMC Chief Technology Officer Rothnie discusses the current state of storage and what lies ahead Mega-, giga-, tera-, peta-bytes of data. Where will we put it? How will we access and manage it? How much will it cost? John Dodge, editor in...

Bridging the storage/IP gap - Nishan switch stretches resources by tying Gigabit Ethernet, Fibre Channel.(Nishan Systems Inc.'s IPS 3000 Switch)(Product Announcement)
May 14, 2001... Nishan Systems Inc.'s IPS 3000 Switch bridges the gap between Fibre Channel SANs and Gigabit Ethernet networks, helping to pave the way for the long-awaited convergence of storage and IP networking. The state of standards for storage over...

Customer support: Bad call.(Letter to the Editor)
May 14, 2001... A reader questions our estimates and formula on the cost of technology support Support formula I am a senior technical support engineer. Your estimate of $20 per call-center call is close enough if you include overhead. Your estimates...

One hundred days for IT.(Industry Trend or Event)
May 14, 2001... Much is being written about president George W. Bush's first 100 days in office. We'll join the chorus but from the point of view of IT. n The Bush administration's top priority has been its income tax cut plan. In principle, we see nothing to...

Digging For E-biz Success.(Industry Trend or Event)
May 14, 2001... Interaction data from e-business sites is "a gold mine," asserted a Braun Consulting senior manager, Jeff Schlitt, at the Corporate and e- Business Portals conference in New Orleans this month. I agree, but only if you accept the entire...

Who are the survivors in IT?(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
May 14, 2001... Now that the second season of "survivor" is over, what are the show's junkies to do? What we need is a high-tech industry version of the show. All of us, in one way or another, seem to be playing a game of survival, either getting voted out by...

Industrial company CIO takes leap.(Air Liquide America selects Steve Bellis)(Company Operations)(Brief Article)
May 14, 2001... Air liquide america corp. has appointed an IT veteran as its vice president of IT for the United States and Canada. In that position, Steve Bellis will report to the company's president and CEO and help oversee its worldwide IT group. ...

Eastman Chemical names senior VPs.(Company Operations)(Brief Article)
May 14, 2001... Eastman chemical co. announced earlier this month that it appointed Roger Mowen as senior vice president of global customer services and CIO. In addition, Garland Williamson has nabbed the position of senior vice president of worldwide...

Lessons from luxury - Struggling dot-coms can learn from sites selling to the rich.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 14, 2001... The rich are different. So are Web sites that sell to the rich. Just ask Bob Paquin, who, as chief operating officer of Blue Nile Inc., last year sold $50 million in diamonds online by figuring out how to build a site that appeals to the...

Offshore havens beckon-online.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 14, 2001... When Michael Nelson, an attorney and wealth management adviser in Walnut Creek, Calif., jumped on the Web about a year ago, he was hoping his site, Go-Offshore.com, would attract new business and perhaps even become a vehicle for selling some...

Bringing Buyers Into Focus - Eddie Bauer combines enterprise CRM data.(Company Operations)
May 14, 2001... What does a young, single male think about a clothing company that keeps sending him mail-order catalogs for children's wear? Or a woman who keeps receiving lingerie catalogs who would never dare order such personal items through the mail? ...

Why I'm the last of the PDA holdouts.(Technology Information)(Column)
May 14, 2001... I will probably be the last person in North America to acquire a personal digital assistant. But I'm clearly bucking the trend. Many people are increasingly relying on PDAs, palmtops, two-way text pagers and Internet-ready cell phones to do...

Stopping diversity from walking away - IBM programs work at keeping women and minority techies in-house.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 14, 2001... There was the time when a former boss encouraged Ruey-Feng Li not to come back to work after the birth of her second child because he felt a mother's place was in the home. Then there was a colleague who passed her over for a big assignment...

SPSS broadens CRM scope - Launches new division to market company's analytical software in tandem with services.(Company Operations)
May 14, 2001... Spss Inc. is taking software that it has developed for analysts and repurposing it for a broader audience. SPSS' new CustomerCentric Solutions division, which was announced last week, will market the company's analytical CRM (customer...

DBAs' reaction mixed on Oracle9i clustering.(database administrators)(Product Development)
May 14, 2001... Oracle Corp. is touting real Application Clusters as one of the key enhancements in the company's 9i database software, which is being readied for release in the next few months. But even this feature may not be enough to persuade users-some of...

Switching to the Web.(Ericsson's WebSwitch 100 G4)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
May 14, 2001... Ericsson enterprise is rolling out an IP desktop gateway that allows small businesses and branch offices to migrate to IP telephony without tossing out an existing PBX system and investing in a brand-new top-to- bottom IP network. ...

Authoring made easier.(Ektron Inc. has released a new version of its Web content and authoring tool, eWebEditPro 2.0.)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
May 14, 2001... Ektron Inc. has released a new version of its Web content and authoring tool, eWebEditPro 2.0. The tool includes an environment similar to Microsoft Corp.'s Word for business users and server-side controls for IT users. The browser-based tool...

Encryption for transactions.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
May 14, 2001... In a step to secure future wireless transactions on mobile phones, Texas Instruments Inc. last week unveiled plans to include encryption technology from NTRU Cryptosystems Inc., of Burlington, Mass., in some of its chips. The company will add...

Security from a distance.(Cylink's NetHawk Version 3.0)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
May 14, 2001... Telecommuting and other remote computing apps are key sources of security anxiety among IT managers. Cylink Corp. says it can help. The Santa Clara, Calif., company late last month rolled out NetHawk Version 3.0, a VPN (virtual private...

Notebooks cut down to size for user ease.(NEC Computers Inc., of Sacramento, Calif., has introduced a lightweight, silver-magnesium-encased notebook, the Versa TXi)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
May 14, 2001... Versa TXi offers big-portable capabilities in a small, convenient package Light and fast NEC Computers Inc., of Sacramento, Calif., has introduced a lightweight, silver-magnesium-encased notebook, the Versa TXi, that company officials said...

Low profile and high performance.(Technology Information)(Brief Article)
May 14, 2001... The word "servers" doesn't usually inspire excitement in IT circles, but every manager knows that if these back-end basics of business aren't in place, the flashier components of any enterprise just don't matter. This week's Infrastructure...

A gracious host, but not that fast.(Hardware Review)(Brief Article)(Evaluation)
May 14, 2001... Go to www.eWEEK.com/links for Contributing Editor Roger Hartje's review of UVNetworks' new WebBox UV 30, the first commercial Web appliance eWeek Labs has seen that is built on the SPARC/Solaris platform. Hosting companies looking for the...