Network World articles from October 2006

Network World archives from October 2006

Reasons to set up a test network.
October 1, 2006... Byline: Ron Nutter I'm attempting to gather research on why companies build test networks as a project that I'm working on. I've searched many, many Web sites and tech pubs and haven't see many article providing some of the...

Disingenuous heterogeneity.
October 2, 2006... Byline: Kevin Tolly Multivendor networks exist everywhere - especially when we consider the network consists of more than switches, routers and firewalls. Servers, backup systems and a seemingly endless list of elements all have...

Records management meets IT; Privacy regulations and corporate accountability bring these disciplines together.
October 2, 2006... Byline: Deb Radcliff Records management has always been technology intensive, says Virginia Jones, certified records manager for the 400,000-customer Department of Public Utilities in Newport News, Va. Even in 1966, when she was...

IT worker shortage; CIOs struggle to staff their departments with the right mix of technical expertise and business skills.(Chief information officers)
October 2, 2006... For Ed Albrigo, vice president of enterprise programs at Freddie Mac, the talk of a coming shortage in IT workers is more than idle chitchat. It's already here. In fact, Albrigo's IT staffing challenges date back three years. Most of...

Fortinet, Juniper bolster multifunction security.
October 2, 2006... Byline: Tim Greene Fortinet and Juniper plan to introduce this week new models of their multifunction security devices that break new ground for each company - Fortinet for protecting data centers and Juniper for defending smaller...

Key decisions that enabled the 'Net.
October 2, 2006... Byline: Scott Bradner From time to time it is useful to look back to see how one got to someplace. I was reminded that this might be a good time to look back to see how we got to the Internet recently when I got an e-mail from Dennis...

How we tested Stratus server.
October 2, 2006... We placed the Stratus ftServer 5700 on a Gigabit Ethernet (nonblocking and switched) network with a number of hosts, ranging from other Active Directory (on an HP DL140) systems to Solaris (on a SunServer), Linux (on an HP DL140) and OS X...

FCC auction results and the wireless future.(Thomas Nolle)
October 2, 2006... Byline: Thomas Nolle Providers affiliated with the major wireline carriers largely have dominated wireless services in the United States. By analyzing the bid winners in last month's FCC spectrum auction for Advanced Wireless Services,...

3Com melds Gigabit Ethernet, WLAN switching; New box includes 24 PoE Gigabit ports and an integrated WLAN controller.
October 2, 2006... Byline: Phil Hochmuth 3Com this week is expected to launch a combined wired/wireless LAN switch for small businesses or offices that want one box to control all network-access methods. The Unified Switch, which includes 24 Gigabit...

Do we need computing in the network?
October 2, 2006... The 1990s saw the commoditization of LAN technology. Today we are seeing the beginning of commoditization of the IP routing function in the intranet, with more on the way as new players enter the network element market. Network...

The other side of the staffing story.(Brief article)
October 2, 2006... The job outlook is not a bed of roses for everyone. In Internet communities, including Network World's forums, it is still common to find posts from people who were laid off during the downturn and who haven't yet succeeded in finding new...

Stratus ftServer 5700 takes a licking, keeps on ticking.
October 2, 2006... It's hard to kill Stratus Technologies' ftServer 5700. We tried. We tested the highly fault-tolerant system in a number of very hostile ways, and at worst it took about 6 minutes to recover to full synchronization - while continuing to...

Blue Coat SSL VPN protects data on remote machines.
October 2, 2006... Byline: Tim Greene Blue Coat Networks this week is announcing a single SSL-VPN appliance that helps customers with lots of remote access users protect application traffic as it crosses the Internet. The Blue Coat RA appliance...

Letters to the editor: "Open source companies to watch".
October 2, 2006... Another company to watch Regarding "Open source companies to watch": You missed the No. 1aopen source company to watch: N3P. N3P offers a brand new, contrasting and intrepid two-year college level training in how to become a successful...

VMware adds support for 64-bit servers.(Brief article)
October 2, 2006... Byline: Jennifer Mears VMware this week is expected to announce formal support for 64-bit platforms, letting customers run both 32- and 64-bit virtual environments on single physical servers. While competitors such as SWsoft and...

Broadband line growth hits new low; This despite dropping DSL prices, research firm says.(Brief article)(Statistical data)
October 3, 2006... Byline: Jim Duffy Even though the second quarter of 2006 saw the steepest drop in DSL prices in four years, it was also the quarter with the lowest broadband growth rate ever. According to market tracker Point Topic Research, the...

Blue Coat device aims to make remote access more secure; * Blue Coat RA enforces security policies on remote computers.(Brief article)
October 3, 2006... Byline: Tim Greene Blue Coat is introducing an SSL VPN device that overcomes some of the practical difficulties of extending VPN access to untrusted computers. The device, called Blue Coat RA (which stands for remote access), can...

Keeping your network clean with AJAX; * Interop highlights Web 2.0 apps.
October 3, 2006... Byline: Denise Dubie A new theme at this year's Interop New York conference a couple weeks back was Web 2.0 applications and tools such as blogs, wikis, RSS feeds and AJAX. The conference highlighted how the technologies can help...

Revelation: A NetWare Loadable Module that's still around; * Revelation NLM running on NetWare.
October 3, 2006... Byline: Dave Kearns Many, many press releases cross my desk (including "news stories" that simply reiterate press releases). Well, these days, they usually just cross my inbox on their way to the trashcan. I rarely get past the...

Disruptive approaches to telecom problems.
October 3, 2006... Byline: Daniel Briere,aPatrick Hurley We design solutions to problems every day. These problems can be pretty sticky, and they can seem insurmountable. But we usually find crafty ways to solve the issues at hand and move on. One...

Storage start-ups are back; * Plus, a look at some interesting companies from SWC: Neopath Networks, Exagrid and FilesX.(Storage World Conference highlights)(Column)
October 3, 2006... Byline: Mike Karp I came across a few interesting companies at the Storage World Conference two weeks ago in Boston. Here's the skinny. * Neopath Networks makes File Director network file management servers. Note that these are not...

Gateway ships servers based on Intel Xeon 5100 chips; * Gateway releases three Intel-based servers.
October 3, 2006... Byline: Deni Connor Gateway this week introduced three servers that use the Intel Xeon 5100 processor. The servers - the E-9520T Performance Tower Server, the E-9425R and the E-9525T - are available in 1U or 2U rack-mountable or...

MuleSource targets open source ESB users; Start-up will provide support, services around Mule open source infrastructure and integration software.
October 3, 2006... Byline: Ann Bednarz A start-up built around the Mule open source integration project is set to make its corporate debut Tuesday. MuleSource is backed by $4 million secured in a first round of venture funding it closed this past summer....

Why consider hosted services for backup? * A look at AT&T's hosted backup services for sonsumers and SMBs.
October 3, 2006... Byline: Robin Gareiss Most small businesses and home-office workers rely on an external hard drive, tape drive, or even just a CD/DVD, to back up their critical data and files. But is that the best approach? Well, it's better than...

IBM debuts another batch of SOA-related offerings.(Service oriented architecture )
October 3, 2006... Byline: Ann Bednarz In its second service-oriented architecture blitz of the year, IBM has detailed a range of products and services aimed at helping companies extend their service-oriented architecture deployments. Six months...

Users argue for 100 Gigabit Ethernet; * IEEE Higher Speed Study Group weighs 100 Gigabit.(Conference news)(Brief article)
October 3, 2006... Byline: Jeff Caruso The users participating in the IEEE's Higher Speed Study Group are arguing for 100Gbps to be the next standard Ethernet speed. Of course, the speakers at last month's meeting represented those organizations...

Faster wireless gear set to fly.(Brief article)
October 3, 2006... Byline: Denise Pappalardo Although 1xEV-DO Revision A is aamigration path to faster services for some of the largest wireless service providers in the United States, the CDMA Development Group is touting the wide availability of...

BellSouth adds Avaya, wins Florida state contract.
October 3, 2006... Byline: Network World Staff BellSouth this week said it will resell Avaya's IP telephony products to businesses. Avaya is the third VoIP vendor BellSouth supports under its managed IP telephony services portfolio. The other two are...

Arkeia rolls out new backup software.(Brief article)
October 3, 2006... Byline: Deni Connor Arkeia Software this week rolled out an enhanced version of its backup software for Windows, NetWare, Linux, Unix and Macintosh networks within enterprise-sized businesses. Arkeia Network Backup Version 6.0 adds...

NIST guide to forensics in incident response; * NIST publication gives guidance on integrating forensics into incident response.(National Institute of Standards and Technology)
October 3, 2006... Byline: M. E. Kabay As I mentioned in previous columns, there's a new set of draft documents from the Computer Security Resource Center of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). In addition, SP 800-86, "Guide to...

E-mail without a trace; * Sending recordless e-mails with VaporStream.(Void Communications)
October 3, 2006... Byline: Michael Osterman Some people believe that when e-mail is deleted, it's deleted. However, nothing could be further from the truth. When you send an e-mail, a copy is usually stored in your Sent Mail folder; on your company's...

National Bank of Florida's experiences with metro Ethernet services; * Mailbag: Metro Ethernet services: Panacea or pain?(Letter to the editor)
October 3, 2006... Byline: Steve Taylor,aJim Metzler A couple of weeks ago, we proposed that we're seeing metro Ethernet services beginning to have a major impact on making high-speed access both available and affordable, thereby eliminating the bandwidth...

Verizon to spend $18 billion on FTTP; * Verizon's gives update on its fiber-based FiOS service rollout.(fiber-to-the-premises)(Verizon Communications Inc.)(Brief article)
October 3, 2006... Byline: Jim Duffy Verizon provided an update on its fiber-based FiOS service rollout in an effort to appease squeamish investors and analysts on the project's ROI. FiOS is Verizon's fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) buildout intended to...

Open source tools can manage the data center; * The role of open source tools in the data center.
October 3, 2006... Byline: Andreas M. Antonopoulos Nemertes' recent research on data centers has failed to find the management nirvana: The fully autonomic, adaptive, automatic, on-demand data center. Instead, IT executive participants in our research tell...

CIO to CEO? * Resources to help you move from directing IT strategy to running the entire corporation.(Brief article)
October 3, 2006... Byline: Amy Schurr A recent report from executive recruiter Christian & Timbers shows that the percentage of female CEOs in Fortune 500 companies doubled between 2001 and 2006. There were five female CEOs in 2001, and when PepsiCo's...

Akonix appliance aims to give IT Skype controls.
October 3, 2006... Byline: John Fontana Akonix Tuesday released a management appliance intended to help corporate IT gain a measure of control over the popular voice application Skype. The Akonix L7 Skype Manager is an appliance that sits on the edge...

Silver Peak unveils security roadmap for its WAN acceleration gear; Newest Silver Peak appliance boosts top speeds.
October 3, 2006... Byline: Tim Greene Silver Peak is introducing a security roadmap for its WAN acceleration gear that, when implemented, will not only make traffic between corporate sites more secure but also will speed up SSL transactions. The company...

EMC upgrades application-discovery appliance; ADM 5.0 maps how applications use network, server and storage resources.
October 4, 2006... Byline: Ann Bednarz EMC Wednesday is set to unveil the latest version of its Smarts Application Discovery Manager appliance, which is designed to help users better understand and map relationships among applications and infrastructure...

When should you start planning for Vista (for real, this time)? * As Vista's ship date is a moveable feast, when should we start planning for the OS?
October 4, 2006... Byline: Dave Kearns I got a copy of a Microsoft newsletter the other day headlined: "Windows Vista is coming soon. Is your business ready?" My first thought was that, given that it has been a lo-o-ong time since Windows XP first...

Semiconductor manufacturers team to speed IPv6 processing; * IDT and Bay Microsystems trying to fix the IPv6 performance problem.(Integrated Device Technology Inc., Bay Microsystems)
October 4, 2006... Byline: Carolyn Duffy Marsan Among the challenges faced by IPv6, a long anticipated upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol, is the fact that IPv6 is slower than the existing IPv4 protocol it hopes to replace. Recent...

Numara aims to make bigger service desk management tracks with FootPrints; * Numara's acquisition of FootPrints puts it in the big league.
October 4, 2006... Byline: Lisa Erickson-Harris In a sea of help desk products dominated by a few vendors, one small to mid-tier provider gained strength through acquisition. Numara Software expanded its reach into the service desk management space last...

HP inks seven-year deal with Pepsi.(Brief article)
October 4, 2006... Byline: Jennifer Mears HP, struggling under a boardroom spying scandal, continues to gain new business and on Wednesday announced that it has signed a seven-year deal with PepsiCo to provide data center management services for the soda...

IBM puts up $100 million to simplify mainframe operations.(International Business Machines Corp.)
October 4, 2006... Byline: Deni Connor IBM this week unveiled a program, tools and services the company hopes will make the mainframe easier to manage, program and administer. The company is introducing a five-year, $100 million project to simplify...

The best online calendar yet; * Kiko Calendar from Kiko Software.
October 4, 2006... Byline: Mark Gibbs Just when I thought I would never find a really good online calendar, a new one appears that may be the best yet: Kiko Calendar from Kiko Software. This may - finally - be the one. Implemented using LigHTTPD on...

Novell aims to test your Linux skill level; * Novell preps online Linux skills assessment tool.
October 4, 2006... Byline: Linda Leung Novell is this week is expected to launch on its training Web site an online Linux skills assessment tool that will give you immediate feedback on your level of Linux knowledge and recommend some training and...

Another move to value customer service: AT&T brings its call center in-house; * AT&T brings its DSL tech support in-house.
October 4, 2006... Byline: Dan Twing It was just two weeks ago that I wrote about Frontier Airlines choosing to do its call center in-house for service delivery reasons. Now AT&T appears to be doing the same thing with the technical support desk for its...

Vo-Fi and dynamic power control: A possible mismatch? * Irregular AP transmit levels can degrade voice.
October 4, 2006... Byline: Joanie Wexler The RF fine-tuning capabilities built into wireless LAN equipment help keep WLANs running at optimal performance and build in access point redundancy. But some of these capabilities can actually hinder Wi-Fi...

Silver Peak unveils security roadmap for its WAN acceleration gear; * Silver Peak unveils security roadmap for its WAN acceleration gear.
October 4, 2006... Byline: Tim Greene Silver Peak is introducing a security roadmap for its WAN acceleration gear that, when implemented, will not only make traffic between corporate sites more secure but also will speed up SSL transactions. The company...

VoIP quality over the Internet vs. corporate IP network, Part 2; * VoIP users on the public 'Net are at the mercy of other traffic on the 'Net.(Brief article)
October 4, 2006... Byline: Steve Taylor,aLarry Hettick Today, we'll continue with our answer to a reader's questions about the differences between VoIP quality over the public Internet vs. private IP-VPN. Since a private IP can differentiate and...

AT&T offering consulting services for SMBs; Security assessments, bandwidth optimization among offerings.
October 4, 2006... Byline: Denise Pappalardo AT&T announced Wednesday a suite of professional services designed to help firms with small or no IT staffs make the best network, communications and security decisions. Previously, the carrier offered...

SquashFS squishes files down to size; * SquashFS compresses files and directories for archiving to save disk space.(Brief article)
October 4, 2006... Byline: Phil Hochmuth A tool that is being used widely by the embedded Linux community for creating cell phone and other small-device operating systems could also be adopted as a way for Linux IT professionals to archive and store old...

AT&T changes consumer DSL packages.(Digital subscriber line)
October 4, 2006... Byline: Denise Pappalardo AT&T announced Tuesday that it's reducing DSL service pricing and eliminating the need to sign annual contracts, although users who do sign will get a break. The service provider, which has 7.8 million DSL...

Passwords are so last century ... but some still swear by them; * What's your password policy?
October 4, 2006... Byline: Dave Kearns If you follow NCAA college football, you're probably aware that Penn State's head coach, Joe Paterno, has been in that job seemingly forever. When he was named head coach, it was the same year Bob Metcalfe invented...

Secure Computing teams with Workshare on compliance appliance.(Brief article)
October 4, 2006... Byline: Cara Garretson Secure Computing announced Wednesday a new version of its IronMail messaging security appliance that works with Workshare's compliance technology. Called Workshare Network Protect for IronMail and available...

10 management companies to watch; The time is right for these up-and-comers that promise to take the labor, cost and complexity out of managing today's advanced IP networks, applications and data centers.
October 4, 2006... Byline: Denise Dubie BMC, CA, HP and IBM had better watch their backs. "It is the right time for a more unified, easier-to-use management solution," says Robert Abbott, a principal with venture capitalist firm Norwest Venture...

Sex, gambling and computer game sites being abused by Department of Interior; Inspector General finds Internet abuse costing at least $2 million a year in lost productivity.
October 5, 2006... Byline: Network World Staff The title of a report issued this week by the Department of Interior's Inspector General -- "Excessive Indulgences: Personal Use of the Internet at the Department of the Interior" --apretty much says it...

Alcatel launches 10G LAN aggregation switch; Layer 3 chassis switch supports NAC, IPv6 and VoIP.(OmniSwitch 9000 )
October 5, 2006... Byline: Phil Hochmuth Alcatel this week launched a smaller version of its OmniSwitch 9000 series chassis, intended for businesses that do not want to deploy larger, more expensive core switches in the middle tier of a network. The...

Reported Firefox flaw a hoax; * Patches from Ubuntu, Debian, Gentoo, others* Top 10 viruses reported to Sophos in September* McAfee buys security compliance vendor for $60 million, and other interesting reading.(McAfee acquires Citadel Security Software)
October 5, 2006... Byline: Jason Meserve Today's bug patches and security alerts: Mozilla duped by hacker's 'humorous' presentation One of the hackers who demonstrated exploit code for a vulnerability in the way the Firefox browser handles Javascript...

A free telephone consultant; * Brian Padden recommends mix of IP and digital phones.(HxP and Associates)
October 5, 2006... Byline: James E. Gaskin Many small businesses never think about upgrading their phone systems until they move. Each month the owners and managers curse the huge invoices but don't know where to go for relief. Too often the bills result...

Using collaboration tools to reduce spam; * Managing spam-like e-mail with collaboration tools.
October 5, 2006... Byline: Michael Osterman We're obviously all too familiar with the type of spam that advertises everything from mortgages to bigger body parts, but there's another common type of spam-like content in organizations that we do very...

Juniper introduces new SSG routers to protect branch offices; * Nine new models of Juniper's secure services gateway routers geared toward protecting branch offices.(secure services gateway)(Brief article)
October 5, 2006... Byline: Tim Greene Juniper is announcing nine new models of its secure services gatewaya(SSG) routers, scaled down to protect branch offices. The new models are based on three basic chassis - the SSG 5, SSG 20 and SSG 140 - with...

Oct. 9, 2006 Cartoon of the Week.
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Colgate Palmolive betting on Crescendo to help speed intranet traffic; * Colgate Palmolive to use Crescendo's Maestro to improve application performance.
October 5, 2006... Byline: Denise Dubie Colgate Palmolive plans to have much better application performance on its corporate intranet in the coming months, according to Arthur Fleiss, IT architect at Colgate Palmolive in Piscataway, N.J. "We have...

Why IT projects fail; * Data classification projects don't need to be painful.(information technology)
October 5, 2006... Byline: Mike Karp Why IT projects succeed or fail sometimes has no direct relationship to the quality of the project itself. Sometimes projects fail because nobody properly attended to the requisite politicking. Consider, for example,...

Single sign-on is top priority for healthcare execs; * HIMSS Analytics study into the healthcare sector.
October 5, 2006... Byline: Dave Kearns HIMSS Analytics specializes in IT research for the healthcare industry and for the past 17 years, it has conducted an annual study called the "Leadership Survey." The latest one asked about single sign-on and...

Alcatel builds smaller 10G switch; * Alcatel's OmniSwitch 9600.(Brief article)
October 5, 2006... Byline: Jeff Caruso Alcatel this week introduced the OmniSwitch 9600, the latest in its OmniSwitch 9000 line of chassis-based LAN switches. Other members of this product line include the 9700 and 9800, which were introduced late last...

ClearCube unveils sub-$1,000 PC blade; * ClearCube A Series PC blade can be installed for about $1,300.(Brief article)
October 5, 2006... Byline: Deni Connor ClearCube Technology, a vendor of bladed PCs, this week is rolling out a blade that costs less than $1,000. The A Series PC blade, costing $999, combined with its chassis and the new I8330I/Port access device can be...

House seeks Justice Department delay on AT&T/BellSouth decision; * The House Judiciary Committee letter requests careful review of AT&T/BellSouth merger.(Brief article)
October 5, 2006... Byline: Jim Duffy The House Judiciary Committee last week sent a letter to the Justice Department requesting it delay a final decision in the proposed AT&T/BellSouth merger until the District Court of the District of Columbia completes...

Mid-band Ethernet is metro Ethernet without the fiber; * Mid-band Ethernet makes its debut.
October 5, 2006... Byline: Steve Taylor,aJim Metzler Last time, we mentioned that there is a lower-speed version of metro Ethernet, commonly called "mid-band" Ethernet, which is starting to be rolled out. The keys to mid-band is that it provides access...

No outsourcing today: Strike closes India's tech center.(Brief article)
October 5, 2006... Byline: Michael Cooney Political strife led to a shutdown Oct. 4aof most major outsourcing companies in Bangalore, the heart of India's business community. The 12-hour strike closed most offices of Indian outsourcing giants...

Oct. 9, 2006, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.(International Business Machines Corp)(Brief article)
October 5, 2006... Past weeks GOOD: IBM not forgetting the mainframe Sure, IBM has big businesses in servers, open source and other modern products, but never let it be said that Big Blue is abandoning the mainframe. The company unveiled a five-year,...

PSYOP in action; * A little fact-checking goes a long way.(psychological operations)
October 5, 2006... Byline: M. E. Kabay PSYOP is the abbreviation for "psychological operations," a part of information warfare that includes both distribution of accurate information and propaganda campaigns with lies and distortions. I received a...

Microsoft piracy plan means work, concerns for IT.(information technology )
October 5, 2006... Byline: John Fontana Microsoft's antipiracy plan announced this week is a slap at a multimillion dollar problem, but it leaves a number of questions especially for volume licensing customers who will have to devise new administrative...

WiMAX takes root in Canadian farming town; As big players gather for annual WiMAX conference, start-up shows the way.
October 5, 2006... Byline: John Cox Hanna, Alberta, has 2,996 people, 16 restaurants, 10 churches, seven motels, and six WiMAX towers. This rural farming town about two hours northeast of Calgary, adrift on Canada's ocean of 'short grass country,' is on...

3Com on the block?(Brief article)
October 6, 2006... Byline: Network World Staff Rumors that 3Com might be bought by private investors caused the network company's stock to jump this week. Reports yesterday said that an unnamed private equity group is targeting the network company, and...

Nortel CTO mixed on divested products; Regrets company letting go of network management, though happy to be working in an SOA framework now.(Northern Telecom Ltd.)
October 6, 2006... Byline: Jim Duffy OTTAWA - Nortel has had to divest numerous product programs to cut expenses and return to profitability. But if CTO John Roese could have any of them back, he would take network management. "The one [area] that I...

Corporate dishonesty: Is HP the only one?
October 6, 2006... Watching HP's slow-motion train wreck has been fascinating. Every day in the last two weeks there has been a new revelation of questionable behavior on the part of this once admired company. So far Wall Street does not seem to have joined...

These energy effort are hot, hot, hot.(data centers)
October 6, 2006... Byline: Jennifer Mears,aDeni Connor As heat, power and cooling rise to the top of the list of concerns for data center managers, there are a growing number of initiatives aimed at helping enterprises reduce electricity consumption and...

Microsoft security riles competitors.
October 6, 2006... Byline: John Dix Some of the companies that have built a business on the security problems in Microsoft's operating systems now disingenuously are decrying Microsoft's own efforts to address those security gaps. But Microsoft...

Wideband audio boosts VoIP quality.
October 6, 2006... Companies have rapidly deployed VoIP technology to reduce operational costs and increase productivity by integrating telecom services with other enterprise workflows. However, the codecs most widely used today that let speech be transmitted...

Serving up files and text.
October 6, 2006... Byline: Mark Gibbs Reader Stuart Douglas dropped us a note as a follow-up to our recent Gearhead article on FileZilla, a free, open source FTP client. "If you like their client, check out their server," Stuart suggested. "We're an...

IBM expands service-management tools.(International Business Machines Corp.)
October 6, 2006... Byline: Jennifer Mears IBM today rolled out new products and updated existing software with an eye toward to helping customers get a better handle on how IT is responding to business demands. Among the new products is IBM Tivoli...

Symbol updates its wearable computers; Symbol improves performance, adds voice support and new wearable scanners.
October 6, 2006... Byline: John Cox Symbol Technologies has updated its wearable computer line with a redesigned model, and two redesigned wearable bar code scanners. Don't expect something out of "Star Trek." The WT4000 wearable terminal is aimed...

The changing art of measuring TV viewership; TiVo, iPods forcing ratings company Nielsen to keep on its toes.
October 9, 2006... Byline: Phil Hochmuth If everyone started watching "24" or "CSI" on video iPods or streamed over the Internet - instead of on TV in their living rooms - these top-rated shows would probably go the way of "Cop Rock." That is, Jack...