Computerworld articles from June 2004

Computerworld archives from June 2004

Delta, Boeing to test RFID on engine parts: airline hopes to improve inventory tracking; aviation industry seeks common standards.(News)
June 7, 2004... Delta Air Lines Inc. and The Boeing Co. next month plan to start testing the use of radio frequency identification tags to track airplane engine parts--a trial run that may herald widespread RFID adoption by airlines and suppliers of aircraft...

CA's Kumar resigns; some users welcome departure: he should 'get out of the way,' one user says.(News)(Computer Associates)
June 7, 2004... The announcement on Friday of Sanjay Kumar's departure from Computer Associates International Inc. disheartened some users who liked his focus on improved customer service. But it pleased others who had been concerned about his oversight of a...

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corp.: data replication scheme pushes recovery distances.(Computer World Honors 2004)
June 7, 2004... George Perretti had received a lot of praise for the business continuity and disaster recovery infrastructure he helped build six years ago for The Depository Trust & Clearing Corp., which is responsible for clearing $23 trillion worth of...

Exostar LLC: collaboration platform takes security to new level.(Computerworld Honors 2004)
June 7, 2004... It started as a relatively simple business-to-business hub. It became an industry-altering secure collaboration platform. That's perhaps the best way to describe Herndon, Va.-based Exostar LLC's effort to develop an external collaboration...

Michigan department of transportation: redesigned database improves traffic safety.(Computerworld Honors 2004)
June 7, 2004... As a state that averages more than 450,000 traffic accidents annually, Michigan maintains a mountain of crash-related data. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] But the 650,000 or so documents generated each year as a result of those accidents were...

SAT Corp.: handhelds help refineries quickly spot problems.(Computerworld Honors 2004)
June 7, 2004... Refineries, otherworldly-looking places when seen from a distance, are actually marvels of engineering complexity, with miles of interconnected pipes and thousands of pieces of equipment processing chemicals and petroleum products. But...

Robertson Research Institute: software gives doctors a virtual second opinion.(Computerworld Honors 2004)(Saginaw, Michigan based institute developing NxOpinion aiming at providing exception-based rapid diagnostics)
June 7, 2004... In a developing nation, a physician enters his observations of a patient's condition into a tablet computer. A user-friendly application compares the data to a massive knowledge base, then requests additional information from the physician to...

'Open-source' Solaris plan draws lukewarm response: some analysts doubt Sun's move to extend java model to OS will appeal to corporate users.(News)
June 7, 2004... Sun Microsystems Inc.'s announcement last week that it plans to make Solaris an "open-source" operating system was met with mixed reactions from users and skepticism from open-source advocates. "I'm totally nonplussed by the announcement,"...

Symbol pays $40M to settle probes.(Symbol Technologies Inc.)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... Symbol Technologies Inc. said it will pay a total of $40 million to settle accounting investigations by the U.S. attorney in New York and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Holtsville, N.Y.-based Symbol said the settlements will let...

IT glitch delays bank's processing.(At Deadline)(Information technology, Royal Bank of Canada)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... Royal Bank of Canada disclosed that a computer glitch was delaying its processing of deposits, withdrawals and payments, leaving the bank unable to provide up-to-date account balances. The Toronto-based bank said the problems began "during a...

Intel increases q2 revenue forecast.(At Deadline)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... Intel Corp. raised its second-quarter revenue forecast to the high end of the range it previously had predicted, citing strong flash-memory demand. Intel now expects revenue of $8 billion to $8.2 billion. Chief Financial Officer Andy Bryant...

Canadian IT execs say U.S. peers are overpaid: suggest high wages fuel offshore moves; Canada benefits as a nearshore provider.(News)(information technology)
June 7, 2004... ASK A GROUP OF Canadian CIOs if they think U.S. IT workers are overpaid. After the laughter dies down, there will be a lot of affirmative head-nodding. "They are grossly overpaid, certainly relative to Canadian scales," said Allen Borak,...

One year later, California identity theft law remains low-key: the regulation hasn't spurred predicted lawsuits but has increased awareness.(News)
June 7, 2004... Nearly a year after California's landmark SB 1386 identity theft law went into effect, there has been none of the troublesome litigation that had been predicted to come in its wake. But the law has raised overall corporate awareness of the...

Microsoft puts SQL Server in line with rivals on backup databases.(News)
June 7, 2004... Microsoft Corp. last week began letting SQL Server users who have Software Assurance contracts set up fail-over databases at no extra cost, a new policy that some customers said could give Microsoft an edge over Oracle Corp. Microsoft last...

Database licensing policies.(News)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... MICROSOFT * Users who have Software Assurance contracts can store copies of their databases on cold-backup servers that must be turned off until needed. * The new policy places no time limits on the use of secondary databases when they're...

Sears finalizes IT pact with CSC.(Sears, Roebuck and Co., Computer Sciences Corp.)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... Sears, Roebuck and Co. said it has finalized a 10-year, $1.6 billion IT infrastructure support services outsourcing deal with Computer Sciences Corp. The contract's value is $400 million less than Sears predicted when the retailer disclosed...

Oil Company, IBM ink outsourcing deal.(International Business Machines Corp.)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... IBM announced that its Business Consulting Services unit has signed a seven-year deal to take over the management of some accounting functions at Marathon Oil Co., as well as the systems that support the operations. The value of the contract...

Trial starts in DOJ's suit against Oracle.(U.S. Department of Justice)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... The antitrust lawsuit that the U.S. Department of Justice filed in an attempt to block a takeover of PeopleSoft Inc. by Oracle Corp. is scheduled to go to trial today at U.S. District Court in San Francisco. Oracle last week claimed that the...

Network Associates gets e-mail patent.(Briefs)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... Network Associates Inc. said it has been granted a U.S. patent on various techniques used to filter unwanted e-mail. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company joins a list of vendors that hold antispam patents with potentially broad implications.

Don't monitor servers, look at your ...(On the Mark)
June 7, 2004... ... business operations instead. That's the conclusion of Gordon Arbesman, network administrator at The Worker Benefit Plans of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod in St. Louis. Arbesman used a 3.0 beta release of the eQ Management Suite from...

Microsoft Security Exec Details Windows XP Service Pack Plans.
June 7, 2004... MICROSOFT CORP.'S latest security efforts are focused on Service Pack 2 for Windows XP, which is due this summer. Mike Nash, vice president of Microsoft's security business and technology unit, recently discussed SP2 and the company's security...

Accenture awarded DHS border IT deal.(U.S. Department of Homeland Security)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said it has picked a team of vendors led by Accenture Ltd. to design, install and support a visitor-tracking system for land-border crossings. The contract could be worth up to $10 billion over 10 years....

Nortel sees no fast end to restatement.(Nortel Networks Corp.)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... Nortel Networks Corp. said it won't finish a restatement of its 2003 financial results and report this year's first-quarter numbers by June 30. Brampton, Ontario-based Nortel also said that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police are reviewing its...

SCO ends dispute with key investor.(SCO Group Inc., BayStar Capital LP)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... The SCO Group Inc. said it will buy back preferred shares held by BayStar Capital LP for $13 million plus 2.1 million common shares. The deal resolves a dispute between SCO and Larkspur, Calif.-based BayStar, which has criticized the Lindon,...

Short takes.(Briefs)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... Natick, Mass.-based CRM vendor EDOCS INC. has bought Minneapolis-based Firepond Inc.'s Brightware unit, which makes e-mail response management and customer service chat tools. The price wasn't disclosed.... F5 NETWORKS INC. in Seattle said it...

EMC packages centera with software, services: disk array bundles provide storage for compliance efforts.(News)
June 7, 2004... EMC CORP. today plans to announce three technology bundles that combine its Centera fixed-data disk array with software and technical services for storing e-mail and documents to support regulatory compliance initiatives. The preconfigured...

Microsoft tightens links between office, CRM apps.(application)
June 7, 2004... Microsoft Corp. in August plans to add features to its CRM software that are designed to offer users tighter integration with Office 2003. The software vendor last week announced that it's developing an add-on feature pack for its Microsoft...

Offshore threat debated at hearing on network security: vendors put on defensive before House.(News)
June 7, 2004... Offshore software development is one factor behind the escalation of exploitable network vulnerabilities, according to testimony at a hearing on network security before a U.S. House subcommittee last week. Software companies must add more...

Alcoa to ship 70 IT jobs to India: positions currently outsourced in U.S.(News)
June 7, 2004... Global aluminum giant Alcoa Inc. confirmed last week that it plans to outsource 130 jobs, including about 70 IT positions, to an India-based services provider as part of a move to reduce costs. The jobs will move to India in phases over the...

Start-up finalizes suite of IT management apps: ITM adds module that supports IT governance, regulatory compliance.(News)
June 7, 2004... Start-up vendor ITM Software Corp. has completed the development of an integrated suite of IT management applications that early users and analysts said is something akin to an ERP system for CIOs. The ITM Business Suite is a set of five...

Sony pulls plug on PDAs outside Japan.(News)(personal digital assistants)
June 7, 2004... In another sign that conventional handheld devices have lost the cachet they once enjoyed with users, Sony Corp. last week said that it won't add any new models to its Clie product line outside of Japan for at least the rest of this year. ...

Defending boundaries.(Opinion)
June 7, 2004... TWO WEEKS AGO in this column, I asked if you noticed--or cared about--the blurring of boundaries between editorial content and advertising. The question followed my apology for a mistake we made in our May 24 issue, where we inadvertently...

The security privilege.(Opinion)
June 7, 2004... I RECENTLY CAUGHT Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible on TV and marveled at the movie's use of IT. Tom's team of experts can break into government databases, launch probes of the Internet and find the proverbial digital needle in a haystack. ...

A world without secrets.(Opinion)
June 7, 2004... AS THE investigations continue into the abuse of Iraqi prisoners in Abu Ghraib prison, at least one thing is clear: The incidents might never have come to the public's attention had it not been for the digital photographs taken by soldiers. ...

Crossing the line.(Letter to the Editor)
June 7, 2004... THANKS TO Maryfran Johnson for her editorial on advertising/editorial boundaries ["Blurring Boundaries," QuickLink 47014]. I agree that they should be as separate as possible. I had read the book excerpt "Follow, Don't Lead," and when I...

Wireless worries.(Letter to the Editor)
June 7, 2004... MARK HALL'S column "Still Worried About Wireless" [QuickLink 46026] made a valid point about security in the home office. Case in point: Two of my neighbors are key IT personnel for two of the largest banks in the nation. Both work from home...

Refurnishing the supply chain: office furniture maker Haworth Inc. slashed its warehousing and shipping costs by redesigning its transportation and warehouse management systems.(Field Report)
June 7, 2004... WHEN THE ECONOMY surged in the late 1990s, office furniture maker Haworth Inc. rode the wave. A booming demand for new office space plus several acquisitions propelled the 52-year-old company to $2 billion in sales in 2002, making it the...

The cognitive personal assistant: ai-based systems could handle routine administrative tasks.(Future Watch)(artificial intelligence)
June 7, 2004... RESEARCHERS at Carnegie Mellon University are developing a computer-based administrative assistant that draws upon artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to perform routine tasks such as scheduling meetings for busy managers and filtering and...

Wireless hackers leave no tracks: unprotected WLANs give hackers an untraceable way to launch attacks across the internet.(Security Manager's Journal)
June 7, 2004... I'M A PARASITE. I didn't pay for the bandwidth I'm using right now. I didn't ask for permission to use it--I don't even know whom to ask. But I'm on holiday, I have a few bits of work to finish up before I can relax, and I need to send my...

Security bookshelf.(Secure Architectures With OpenBSD)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 7, 2004... * Secure Architectures With OpenBSD, by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario; Addison Wesley, 2004. OpenBSD is the poster child for secure production operating systems. The team that wrote it takes a paranoid approach to the default...

Wireless security wake-up call.(Security Log)(Brief Article)(Illustration)
June 7, 2004... A global survey of 100 financial services companies, including 31 of the top 100, drew these answers from respondents: 33% Said they have issued employee guidelines for safe use of WLANs. 45% Said they have ...

Recursion readies app dev platform.(Recursion Software Inc., application development)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... Recursion Software Inc. in Frisco, Texas, last week announced Cinergi, a multilanguage application development platform. Cinergi allows software architects to select functionality from applications written in Java, C++, .Net, CORBA or SOAP/XML...

Maximo Nuclear manages assets.(Briefs)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... MRO Software Inc. in Bedford, Mass., has introduced Maximo Nuclear, an asset management system for the nuclear power industry. Maximo Nuclear supports work, asset and supply chain management processes and runs on all major operating systems,...

AT&T adds DDoS protection service.(Briefs)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... AT&T Corp. last week announced a new service feature called DDoS Defense for its AT&T Internet Protect service. The DDoS Defense option provides real-time attack mitigation, stopping denial-of-service and distributed DoS attack traffic floods...

Caelo releases E-mail Organizer.(Caelo Software Inc.)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... Caelo Software Inc. in Vancouver, British Columbia, has released Nelson E-mail Organizer Pro 3 for Microsoft Outlook. The latest version automates e-mail organization using advanced workflow methods, according to Caelo. Pricing starts at $69.95...

Pentagon devises innovative IT strategy.(Technology)(information technology)
June 7, 2004... IN A TALK IN MARCH, John Chambers, the knowledgeable CEO of Cisco Systems, noted that the U.S. Department of Defense is emerging as a pioneer in systems architectures. The DOD has become an innovator in supporting real-time responsiveness...

Bridging the financial skills gap: some companies are teaching IT managers how to calculate the financial payoff of IT projects. But there's lots of room for improvement.(Management)(information technology)
June 7, 2004... WITH TECHNOLOGY costs representing more than half of all capital expenditures at many companies, CxOs are pressuring IT managers to more closely measure returns on technology investments. "For the average company, one out of every 50...

Even IT legal work is headed offshore.(Think Tank)(Information Technology)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... LEGAL SERVICES for IT contracting may be the next function to move offshore, according to an attorney whose boutique technology law firm is engaged in setting up a service in India. "IT contracts are integrally related to IT, and I have...

Best bits.(Heads Up: How to Anticipate Business Surprises and Seize Opportunities First)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 7, 2004... The most useful parts of recent IT management and business books. THE BOOK: Heads Up: How to Anticipate Business Surprises and Seize Opportunities First, by Kenneth G. McGee (Harvard Business School Press, 2004). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]...

Selling to the CIO.(Think Tank)(chief information officer)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... Everyone knows the No. 1 rule for selling IT stuff is to understand the CIO's problems and try to solve them--right? CIOs say enterprise software salespeople know their own products, but less than 15% of the sellers are rated as excellent at...

The IT economy.(Information technology )(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... * Canadian IT spending will grow 3% this year, led by government spending, according to Forrester Research Inc. The slower Canadian economic recovery means that IT spending growth will lag that of the U.S. by one or two quarters. Canadian...

Ups & downs.(in software industry)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... Which software providers are gaining or losing a share of your IT spending dollars? GAINING 1. Red Hat Inc. 2. Symantec Corp. 3. Mercury Interactive Corp. 4. SAP AG 5. Microsoft Corp. LOSING Computer...

Retail E-commerce growth rate.(Management)(Brief Article)(Illustration)
June 7, 2004... Retail e-commerce still amounts to only 1.9% of overall U.S. retail spending. But online sales are growing faster than total sales. Q1 2003-Q1 2004 Total sales E-commerce sales growth rate growth rate 8.8% 28.1%...

AT&T to provide Underwriters' VPN.(Under-writers Laboratories Inc., virtual private network)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... AT&T Corp. has won a multimillion-dollar contract from Under-writers Laboratories Inc. for integrated networking. AT&T will provide an IP virtual private network that will serve as UL's primary data channel, integrating its Northbrook, Ill.,...

Guardian extends Siemens contract.(Siemens Business Services Inc., Guardian Life Insurance Company of America)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... Siemens Business Services Inc. in Norwalk, Conn., and The Guardian Life Insurance Co. of America in New York announced a performance-based agreement that extends their multimillion-dollar outsourcing relationship until 2009. The on-demand...

Accenture wins Allmerica project.(Allmerica Financial Corp.)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... Allmerica Financial Corp.'s property and casualty insurance division has chosen Accenture Ltd. to implement a Web-based software platform to improve the efficiency of the insurer's underwriting systems through diagnostics and rules-based...

AMP, CSC sign deal.(Computer Sciences Corp.)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... AMP Ltd., a Sydney, Australia-based financial services company, has signed a three-year, $103 million IT outsourcing contract extension with Computer Sciences Corp. in El Segundo, Calif. Under the agreement, CSC will continue to provide desktop...

Getting to done.(Management)(benefits of clearly planning the end of a project)
June 7, 2004... I'M FREQUENTLY CALLED upon to help figure out what to do with a project that might be in trouble. Of course, determining whether a project is in trouble is often not a trivial problem. We like to talk about troubled projects as if there were a...

Citigroup to support video streaming on 300k PCs: will use for training and market updates.(News)
June 7, 2004... As part of a multiyear project, Citigroup Inc. has begun rolling out technology from IBM and other vendors that will let the financial services firm stream live or archived videos and multimedia content to about 300,000 PCs. Citigroup will...

Big IT: doomed.(Frankly Speaking)(information technology)
June 7, 2004... BIG IT PROJECTS ARE DOOMED. Want proof? Just look at the four-year, $100 million-plus project to rebuild the air-travel reservation system run by Sabre Holdings Corp. [QuickLink 46873]. Sabre's decades-old system was 10 million lines of...

Darn newfangled pay stubs!(Shark Tank)
June 7, 2004... Support pilot fish is trying to explain to employees who are not office workers--and have no computer experience at all--how to view their new online pay stubs. "The built-in browser for a large Internet provider does not work well with the...

J.P. Morgan Chase to scale back outsourcing pact: bank one buy affects IBM deal, sources say.(plans of restructuring the agreement)
June 14, 2004... J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. plans to bring most of the IT activities it now outsources to IBM back in-house as part of its $58 billion acquisition of Bank One Corp., according to sources within and close to the financial services firm. New...

EDI: alive and well after all these years; Transactions increase, despite XML option.(electronic data interchange)
June 14, 2004... Don't believe reports you might hear about the death of electronic data interchange. Not only is EDI alive more than 20 years after its birth, it's also thriving at companies that use it to exchange purchase orders, invoices and other...

U.S. CERT, Oracle warn of apps flaw.(At Deadline)(U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team)(applications)(Brief Article)
June 14, 2004... The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT) issued an alert about a SQL-related vulnerability in Oracle Corp.'s E-Business Suite applications. The flaw could be exploited to run unauthorized procedures within Oracle databases that support...

SCO hit by drop in licensing deals.(At Deadline)(The SCO Group Inc)(Brief Article)
June 14, 2004... The SCO Group Inc. said revenue in its second quarter fell by more than 50% year over year to $10.1 million, due largely to a steep drop in Unix source-code licensing fees. Licensing revenue totaled just $11,000 in the quarter, which ended...

IBM sued over privacy language.(At Deadline)(Enterprise Privacy Authorization Language)(Brief Article)
June 14, 2004... Zero-Knowledge Systems Inc., a software vendor in Montreal, filed a lawsuit in a Quebec court charging IBM with copyright violations and breach of contract. The suit involves the Enterprise Privacy Authorization Language, a programming language...

EMC warms up to tape, signs resale agreement: storage vendor plans to offer ADIC's tape library line for use in ILM systems.(News)(information life-cycle management)(Advanced Digital Information Corp)
June 14, 2004... AFTER YEARS of telling users that tape drives weren't an important part of storage architectures, EMC Corp. last week put to rest months of speculation and announced that it will resell tape libraries made by Advanced Digital Information Corp....

PepsiCo standardizes on SAP.(News)(mySAP Business Suite )
June 14, 2004... PepsiCo Inc. confirmed last week that it will standardize its global consumer goods empire on the mySAP Business Suite from SAP AG. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Purchase, N.Y.-based PepsiCo doesn't have a companywide ERP system, said...

Stratus shifts high-end servers from PA-RISC to Intel: new ftServer V series will cost about 30% less.(News)(Stratus Technologies Inc)
June 14, 2004... Fault-tolerant server maker Stratus Technologies Inc. is moving its proprietary VOS operating system to a new line of lower-cost, Intel-based servers. VOS had previously been offered only on its high-end Continuum line, which is based on...

G8 summit drives network upgrades.(News)(Brief Article)
June 14, 2004... LAST WEEK'S G8 SUMMIT on Seal Island, located off the coast of Georgia, prompted the installation of various networking technologies that supported delegations from the eight participating countries, a 20.000-person security force and...

'Showdowns' predicted as bar-code deadline nears.(News)(EAN symbology)(Brief Article)
June 14, 2004... Many North American retailers are making preparations to comply with the approaching Jan. 1, 2005. "Sunrise" deadline that requires them to be able to process one digit more than they're accustomed to when scanning bar codes. But one...

Dell puts Itanium in four-CPU server.(Briefs)(Central processing unit)(Brief Article)
June 14, 2004... Dell Inc. began shipping a four-processor server based on Intel Corp.'s 64-bit Itanium 2 chip. The PowerEdge 7250 is just the second Itanium-based system now being offered by Dell, but the company said it sees a growing niche for the 64-bit...

Microsoft appeals European ruling.(Briefs)(Brief Article)
June 14, 2004... Microsoft Corp. filed an official appeal in the European Union's Court of First Instance in an attempt to overturn a ruling that it violated European laws on competition [QuickLink 45778]. A Microsoft spokesman said the vendor also plans to ask...

Intel faces new probe in Europe.(Briefs)(Brief Article)
June 14, 2004... The European Commission has renewed an investigation into Intel's business practices, two years after ruling that a complaint by rival chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. was unfounded. AMD said it recently gave the commission new...

Short takes.(Briefs)(Brief Article)
June 14, 2004... MCI INC. announced a managed service that lets companies use its IP network to distribute Windows-based software to end users and then track use of the products... The INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE renewed a contract under which Stamford,...

Apple claims that industry's fastest ...(On the Mark)(ultrafast Power Mac)
June 14, 2004... ... workstation will ship next month when its dual 2.5-GHz G5 processor Power Mac hits the streets. Indeed, the box's specifications are impressive. The $2,999 Power Mac has half a megabyte of L2 cache, handles up to 8GB of RAM and pushes data...

Cendant portal to deliver security, business benefits: project designed to give 6,500 hotel franchises better access to information.(News)(Cendant Hotels Div.)
June 14, 2004... THE HOTEL DIVISION of Cendant Corp. is investing in Web-based identity and access management technology that it expects will yield not just security benefits, but business gains as well. The New York-based owner of brands such as Ramada and...

Gartner sees growing need for wireless security policies.(News)
June 14, 2004... The escalating use of wireless technology demands formal corporate security policies, according to users and analysts at a Gartner Inc. security conference held here last week. This includes putting in place dedicated intrusion-detection...

Microsoft, SAP say they mulled merger.(Briefs)(Brief Article)
June 14, 2004... Microsoft Corp. and SAP AG disclosed that they discussed a possible acquisition of SAP by Microsoft but decided several months ago not to pursue a deal. The companies said Microsoft brought up the idea late last year during joint development...

Microsoft patches Crystal, other flaws.(Briefs)(Crystal Reports)(Brief Article)
June 14, 2004... Microsoft released patches for Visual Studio .Net, Outlook 2003 and its CRM applications to plug a security hole in Business Objects SA's Crystal Reports and Crystal Enterprise software. Microsoft, which bundles the Business Objects reporting...

Symbol Ex-CEO wanted for fraud.(Briefs)(Symbol Technologies Inc)(Ex-Chief Executive Officer)(Brief Article)
June 14, 2004... The U.S. Attorney's Office in New York issued an arrest warrant for Tomo Razmilovic, the former CEO of Symbol Technologies Inc. Razmilovic is believed to have fled the country after fraud charges were filed against him and seven other former...

Short takes.(Briefs)(Brief Article)
June 14, 2004... Dallas-based i2 TECHNOLOGIES INC. said it will pay $10 million to settle an accounting investigation by the U.S. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION.... AMERICA ONLINE INC. said it's adding corporate online meeting and voice-conferencing...

HP adds more tools to on-demand product line: User conference spotlights strategy, but Adaptive Enterprise is still a tough sell.(News)(Hewlett-Packard Co)(Open-View management tools)
June 14, 2004... LOOKING TO buttress its on-demand computing strategy, Hewlett-Packard Co. this week plans to announce two Open-View management tools at a conference for users of its software products. HP said one of the new tools can be used to measure the...

HP expands ProCurve switch line.(News)(Hewlett-Packard Co)(Brief Article)
June 14, 2004... In a separate announcement, HP will expand its ProCurve line of networking hardware today by adding 32-and 48-port Gigabit Ethernet switches as well as two new modules that can be plugged into existing devices. Corporate users "are going...