Database and Network Journal articles from February 2002

Database and Network Journal archives from February 2002

The philosophy of .NET. (A Revelation of .NET).
February 1, 2002... There is probably no software development in the last years that has not been regarded with such caution as .Net. Caution because its source is Microsoft, regarded by many as at times `economical with the truth' whose business model is a...

Advancing business opportunities for service providers. (Viewpoint - Services).(Editorial)
February 1, 2002... An Aberdeen Executive White Paper discusses the need for service providers to adopt a robust, integrated platform for deploying personalized communication services that will suit the needs of consumer and business customers. The platform sets...

Convergence: not `tomorrow land' anymore. (Networks).
February 1, 2002... "Digital Convergence:" The idea of seamlessly merging consumer electronics devices such as DVD players and set-top boxes with features like digital photo viewing, streaming audio, and even the Internet. Sounds impressive to those enthusiasts...

Using Mobile Information Management. (Networks).
February 1, 2002... Today's modern business executive works from numerous locations including client sites, branch offices, from home or whilst on the move. To take advantage of these new working patterns, access to office based business systems must be maintained...

Next generation optical network standards. (Network News).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... ITU says that its Telecommunication Standardization Sector has reached agreement on new global standards for equipment and management of the next generation optical network. The new standards support carrier-grade ultra-high capacity transport...

Integrated network optimisation suite. (Network News).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Cramer Systems, supplier of Network Resource Management software for telecoms, and network software and systems integration specialist, Anite Telecoms, have created a new integrated solution for telecoms network optimisation. The solution...

China selects iAnywhere for mobile access. (Network News).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... iAnywhere Solutions, has announced that the Supreme People's Court of the People's Republic of China has chosen SQL Anywhere Studio, for the development of its information management and statistical systems. The Chinese court system has been...

Scaling the Mobile Internet requires both 1Pv6 and NAT. (Network News).
February 1, 2002... Chief scientist of Tahoe Networks Dr Paul Francis, a prominent Internet innovator, says that mobile operators will require a new data network infrastructure to scale addressing for future Mobile Internet devices. The Mobile Internet many times...

CRM software for NEC MobilePro 790 handheld PC. (Network Products).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... StayinFront has developed and implemented CRM software for use with the NEC MobilePro 790 handheld PC. Pocket ElK, the CRM software used in NEC Computers' MobilePro 790, is the Windows CE based version of StayinFront's Visual EIK CRM solution,...

ISD200 aids network printing. (Network Products).(SEH Technology)
February 1, 2002... SEH's ISD200 is a new server appliance for network printing. When attached to a LAN, the Intelligent Spooling Device acts as a print appliance, offloading print services from general-purpose-servers or workstations, increasing the efficiency of...

SIM cards to respond only to owners voice. (Network Products).(Product Announcement)
February 1, 2002... Domain Dynamics offer a simple solution to weaknesses in mobile phone security using the owner's voice. In the Domain Dynamics voice authentication solution one part is installed in the phone, and the second part in its SIM card. The user's...

Bluetooth Palm-based developer kit. (Network Products).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... The Bluetooth Development Mt, created by TDK Systems, allows developers to test the effectiveness of Bluetooth applications in minutes. The kit also allows Piconet applications to be developed. This involves up to eight different Bluetooth...

S-box security appliance. (Network Products).(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
February 1, 2002... SofaWare Technologies, SofaWare S-box is a a security appliance for home office and general home computer Internet security. Running Check Point-based Safe@Home software. it can be deployed into any home environment with DSL or cable Internet...

Remote task manager 3.7.1 for Windows NT/2000/XP. (Networks Products).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Remote Task Manager 3.7.1 is a tool to enable system administrators to have control over services or devices of multiple remote networks or systems. Remote Task Manager enables administrators to manage run levels, configure security...

Open source not fully exploited in UK ... NCC. (IT News).
February 1, 2002... A major report published by the National Computing Centre (NCC). "Open Source - The UK Opportunity" provides an authoritative and independent overview of the issues surrounding Open Source software, and its take up by UK organisations. It...

2002 UK software market. (IT News).
February 1, 2002... The UK Computer Software market will grow by 2.6% in 2002, according to an analysis from Plimsoll. However this growth will not be seen across the entire industry. Analysing the latest figures from the largest 2000 companies in the Computer...

Profit warnings record high in Q4 2001. (IT News).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Ernst & Young's latest quarterly Analysis of Profit Warnings reveals that 149 profit warnings were made during the three months to December 200l, a rise of 10% on quarter 3, making a total of 520 over the full year, a rise of 117% on 2000. This...

World Summit on `information society'. (IT News).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... The United Nations has taken a major step toward bridging the `Digital Divide' with the adoption, by the General Assembly, of a resolution which welcomes the organization of the Word Summit on the Information Society. The Summit, expected to...

BSI new kit of software standards. (IT News).
February 1, 2002... The British Standards Institution has just produced a new kit of standards on software process assessment and quality. The kit comprises the nine parts of the BS ISO/IEC TR 15504 series, known as the SPICE Suite of documents, plus four related...

Free software development resource. (IT News).
February 1, 2002... The National Computing Centre have launched an enhanced version of Towards Software Excellence (TSE), a free internet resource designed to help small to medium sized (SME) software companies maintain and improve quality and business procedures....

Using legacy resources. (IT News).
February 1, 2002... In today's ebusiness era, the most successful companies will be those that best exploit their current systems while simultaneously developing new applications to improve business processes, according to Information Builders. In outlining its...

A guide to Source Code Escrow ... BSI. (IT News).
February 1, 2002... The events of 11 September 2001 have reiterated the need for business continuity planning for many organizations. The disaster highlighted the interdependency of businesses on each other and never is this more prevalent in the relationship...

IT spending carries on. (IT News).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Despite the continuing economic uncertainty, 69% of the UKs IT departments are continuing to invest heavily in technology. These are the results of research carried out by ICM, commissioned by Cognos.. The survey questioned 100 financial...

UK plc decisions based on inadequate data. (IT News).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... 81% of UK companies admit they are making business-critical decisions without access to comprehensive information. This is the conclusion of a survey of 100 medium-to-large enterprises by Cognos. However, the research revealed that those polled...

SSPA Europe launches www.supportinsight.co. (IT News).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... SSPA Europe, a division of The Service and Support Professionals Association (SSPA) - the industry association for IT support professionals - has launched www.supportinsight.com. a daily news and information service created exclusively for IT...

UK managers in dark about IT quality and performance. (IT News).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Nearly half of senior business managers in UK organisations believe that five percent or less of IT resource is sufficient for quality assurance through application testing, compared with the recommended industry standard of up to 50 percent....

Optical Switching Market worth $6.45 bn by 2006. (IT News).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... ARC Group (www.arcgroup.com) forecasts that the worldwide optical switching equipment market will reach US$6.45 billion by 2006 from US$307 million in 2001. After 2006, this technology is expected to dominate the telecommunications market,...

Management solution for SAP R/3. (IT News).(Capscan)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
February 1, 2002... Capscan has available a new address management solution for SAP R/3 users. developed by its partner Uniserv. The new SAP R/3 product allows an interchange of data between R/3 applications and the address management software, for the management...

Urban road design software. (IT News).(Infrasoft MXURBAN)(Product Announcement)
February 1, 2002... Infrasoft Corporation, supplier of IT solutions to the civil engineering market, has launched MXURBAN, a dedicated design tool to allow users to design new surfaces. The 3D-string design capability of the MX software gives greater efficiency...

Q-Pulse. (IT News).(Gael Quality's Q-Pulse 4.2 document management software)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
February 1, 2002... Gael Quality, a Scottish software company, launched a new version of its product - Q-Pulse - at the Inspex exhibition at the NEC in Birmingham. Q-Pulse enables quality specialists to manage the huge, amount of documentation required by...

2001 anti virus review: Kaspersky Labs presents a year-end review of events taking place in anti-virus safety. (Security).
February 1, 2002... 2001 saw anti-virus companies achieve many definitive successes in the area of new anti-virus development, as well as the perfecting of already existing defence technologies thwarting malicious programs. In spite of these achievements, the year...

The virus top twenty December 2001 (percentage by occurrence). (News).(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
February 1, 2002... The Virus Top Twenty December 2001 (percentage by occurrence) I-Worm.BadtransII 87.4 Trojan.PSW.Gip 2.5 I-Worm.Hybris 2.3 I-Worm.Sircam 1.4 I-Worm.Magistr 1.1 I-Worm.Aliz 0.9...

Summary for the year 2001 September - December (percentage by occurrence). (News).(Statistical Data Included)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Summary for the year 2001 September - December (percentage by occurrence) I-Worm.BadtransII 40.8 I-Worm.Sircam 15.6 I-Worm.Hybris 6.4 I-Worm.Aliz 3.1 I-Worm.Nimda 2.7 I-Worm.Magistr 2.3...

Top ten Viruses reported to Sophos in December 2001. (News).(Statistical Data Included)
February 1, 2002... This is the latest in a series of monthly charts counting down the ten most frequently occurring viruses compiled by Sophos. For December 2001, the chart is as follows, with the most frequently occurring virus at number one: Comment:...

"Donut virus". (News).
February 1, 2002... Kaspersky Labs, reports the detection of the "Donut" virus, which is the first malicious program to infect NET files. "Donut" has been developed by the notorious Czech hacker going by the pseudonym "Benny", who is a part of the "29A"...

Anti-Virus 4.0. (News).(from Kapersky)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
February 1, 2002... The main distinguishing feature of Kaspersky Anti-Virus 4.0 (also known by the code name `Prague') is the product's new generation anti-virus kernel based on the product structure and technological interaction with an operating system which...

Cumulative Database available. (News).(Kaspersky Anti-Virus Cumulative Database Update)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... The Latest Kaspersky Anti-Virus Cumulative Database Update offers a new line of features,including the world's first-embedded, second-generation heuristic analyser that searches for unknown network worms written in Visual Basic; Added feature...

Internet book browser. (Security).(eight book reviews)
February 1, 2002... How the Internet Works. Millenium Edition Gralla, Preston Que Publishing 1999 ISBN 0-7897-2132 21.99 [pounds sterling] An illustrated book in large type. We would call this an easy learning book. It does cover everything which means...

Database and Network Journal editorial features 2001.
February 1, 2002... VOL 32 NUMBER 1 MANAGEMENT CRM-Using The Customer Database E-Procurement......Companies blindly jump on the. bandwagon E-Learning Guide to Foreign Exchange-Taxonomies for Business-E-Procurement Service for Bespoke Market-e-Net...

Database and Network Journal 2001 - Product Reviews.
February 1, 2002... Database and Network Journal 2001- Product Reviews Program Type Name Issue Page 3D Animation Virtual Reality Toolbox 6 15 3D Internet Service 3D PartStream.NET...