Computerworld articles from September 2004

Computerworld archives from September 2004

CIOs foresee modest boost in IT spending: new investments being eyed for 2005 aim to cut infrastructure and labor costs.(News)(Chief information officers)
September 6, 2004... As the IT budget season heats up, CIOs interviewed last week said they're guardedly optimistic about their 2005 spending plans. But many IT managers are expected to increase spending on hardware and outsourcing primarily in response to pressure...

Spending increases not likely to trickle down to tech workers.(News)(Information technology workers)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... Analysts last week offered words of caution to IT staffers: Don't translate next year's expected growth in IT spending into visions of fatter wallets. The widespread availability of low-cost labor overseas has meant fewer bonuses and...

Many users are unfazed by scaled-back Longhorn plan: but some want WinFS instead of 3-D graphics.(News)
September 6, 2004... The next major Windows release, code-named Longhorn, is due to arrive so far into the future that many corporate users aren't particularly bothered by Microsoft Corp.'s plan to scale back the product. Prior to its late-August announcement,...

Microsoft presents murky picture of WinFS server plan.(News)
September 6, 2004... Microsoft is now claiming that WinFS was not part of the Longhorn server plans presented last October at its Professional Developers Conference (PDC), where it laid out details about the next major Windows release. But that's not the way...

IBM recalls 225k notebook adapters.(At Deadline)(AC power adapters)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... IBM is recalling about 225,000 AC power adapters for its notebook computers because of concerns about fire and electrical shock hazards. The company jointly announced the recall with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, which has...

Oracle releases software patches.(At Deadline)
September 6, 2004... Oracle Corp. issued patches designed to plug nearly three-dozen security vulnerabilities in its databases, application server software and Enterprise Manager tools. The holes were reported to Oracle early this year by security researcher David...

Intel lowers its Q3 sales forecast.(At Deadline)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... Citing weak sales, Intel Corp. cut its third-quarter revenue forecast and said the fourth quarter may be tough as well. "Our current outlook for the third quarter, and the remainder of the year, reflects a weaker market than we had expected,"...

KeyCorp taps USAA exec to be its CIO.(executive)(Chief Information Officer)(USAA Information Technology Co)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... Cleveland-based KeyCorp named Steve Yates CIO, effective last Friday. Yates had been president of USAA Information Technology Co., the IT services arm of San Antonio-based USAA. He replaces Robert Rickert, who left KeyCorp in late July to...

IBM rolls out arrays, tries again on iSCSI: re-enters storage device market based on low-cost data-transport protocol.(News)(International Business Machines Corporation)
September 6, 2004... IBM ANNOUNCED a pair of entry-level workgroup disk arrays last week, including a scaled-down reincarnation of an iSCSI-based device that the company dropped two years ago. IBM's new offerings include the iSCSI-based TotalStorage DS300, as...

HP, Sun to resell new high-end Hitachi array.(News)
September 6, 2004... Hewlett-Packard Co. and Sun Microsystems Inc. both plan to announce tomorrow that they will resell a high-end disk array being introduced by Hitachi Data Systems Corp. Hitachi declined to comment on its new array in advance of a press...

U.S. Tennis Association nets cost savings from server consolidation: IBM combines scoring, Web publishing apps for tournament on iSeries system.(News)
September 6, 2004... Andy Roddick's 152 mph serve wasn't the only power move on display last week as the U.S. Open tennis tournament began its two-week run here. From an IT perspective, all eyes were on a new iSeries server that was put in place for the tournament...

'War drive' reveals New York's hidden security flaws.(News)(Republican National Convention)
September 6, 2004... While physical security was tightened to unprecedented levels here last week for the Republican National Convention, IT security researchers uncovered an unsettling number of unencrypted wireless devices that they said created a potential...

Nortel's CEO remains optimistic in the face of cutbacks, competition: struggling vendor needs to improve its marketing capabilities, Owens says.(News)(Nortel Networks Ltd.)
September 6, 2004... DESPITE NORTEL Networks Ltd.'s recent announcement of more workforce cuts and executive firings, CEO Bill Owens last week said the struggling vendor is still investing heavily in research and development and is looking forward to having a...

SAP ERP system uncovers $41M in accounting errors: shipper restates earnings; rollout gets part of blame.(News)(Enterprise Resource Planning)
September 6, 2004... An ongoing installation of SAP AG's financial software at a London-based container shipping firm has exposed flaws in its legacy accounting systems, forcing the company to lower its earnings over the past three years by a total of $41 million....

Problems bedevil EDS case management project for U.K.'s Child Support Agency: $806.5M system should be unplugged if flaws aren't fixed, says legislative report.(News)(United Kingdom)
September 6, 2004... A child-support case management and telephony system that's expected to cost the U.K. government $806.5 million over 10 years is in danger of being unplugged if the agency overseeing the project can't fix technical and operational problems...

Except.(News)(British public services)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... The slow pace of processing new claims is also unacceptable and represents a very disappointing level of service.... The present performance falls some way short of what most people would describe as the proper sense of 'working.' EXCERPT...

Federal audit raises doubts about IRS security system.(News)(Internal Revenue Service )
September 6, 2004... Software performance and functionality problems continue to plague a system designed to detect hacking and other unauthorized activities on computers at the Internal Revenue Service, according to auditors within the U.S. Department of the...

Two flaws found in Kerberos code.(Briefs)(software)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... The Kerberos development team at MIT released software patches designed to plug a pair of security holes in the network authentication protocol. The researchers gave a "critical" severity rating to one of the flaws, a so-called double-free...

Veritas to acquire archiving vendor.(Veritas Software Corporation)(mergers and acquisitions)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... Veritas Software Corp. said it has agreed to pay $225 million in cash to buy KVault Software Ltd. (KVS), a U.K.-based vendor of e-mail archiving applications for Exchange users. The deal will be completed this month, said Mountain View,...

AMD shows off dual-core chips.(Advanced Micro Devices Incorporation)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... Advanced Micro Devices Inc. demonstrated its first dual-core processors and said they should be available for use in servers by mid-2005. The devices, which put two processor cores on a chip, will fit into systems built around AMD's Opteron...

IBM, Intel open specs for blades.(Briefs)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... IBM and Intel said they're opening up the design specifications for a jointly developed line of blade servers to vendors that want to build supporting products, such as switches and adapter cards. But other companies still can't clone the blade...

Pop by your service provider in the ...(On the Mark)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... ... wee hours of the morning to prevent a data disaster. Good advice, especially when it comes from the CEO of a Web hosting company who thinks your mission-critical online operations are at risk if you use offshore services or even U.S.-based...

Protect your IP from offshore ...(On the Mark)(Intellectual Property, SourceSentry Inc.)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... ... developers who slip open-source code into your applications. It's not that Indian, Chinese or other programmers based outside the U.S. have malicious undermining of your intellectual property in mind, says Sridhar Balaji, CEO of...

Paying for middleware is soon ...(On the Mark)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... ... to be a distant memory. That's if Marc Fleury gets his way. He's the CEO of Atlanta-based JBoss Group Inc., which offers an eponymous open-source application server that competes with BEA Systems Inc.'s WebLogic, IBM's Web-Sphere and other...

JBoss, tomcat, MySQL, eclipse, ant ...(OpenLogic Incorporation)(graphic user interface tool)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... ... and 95 other open-source technologies can be automatically installed, configured, integrated and maintained by BlueGlue from OpenLogic Inc. in Highlands Ranch, Colo. The GUI-based tool is sold for $399 per system as a subscription service....

Software seeks to stop spyware at ...(On the Mark)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... ... the source by certifying that Web sites and downloads are free of the insidious programs. Rick Carlson, president of Aluria Software LLC in Lake Mary, Fla., says that the company on Friday will unveil its certification program for...

SCO reports loss, caps legal costs.(SCO Group Incorporation)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... The SCO Group Inc. reported a $7.4 million loss for its third quarter and said it has signed a deal to cap the legal costs of its anti-Linux campaign at $31 million. "The litigation business is now in control from a cost standpoint," said CEO...

Manugistics shows president the door.(Manugistics Group Incorporation)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... In a filing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Manugistics Group Inc. said it terminated the employment of President Jeremy Coote effective last Tuesday. The move came just a month after Rockville, Md.-based Manugistics hired Joe...

VeriSign files new suit against ICANN.(VeriSign Incorporation)
September 6, 2004... After losing a federal court battle to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, VeriSign Inc. has filed a breach-of-contract lawsuit against ICANN in Los Angeles Superior Court. VeriSign claims that ICANN violated the terms of...

Dell adds color to its printer line.(Briefs)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... Dell Inc. announced its first self-branded color laser printers, adding three models to the product line it rolled out 18 months ago in an effort to lure users away from Hewlett-Packard Co. Prices range from $449 to $999.

F5, Redline expand technology for speeding app performance: software upgrades work with switches to increase throughput for end users.(News)
September 6, 2004... F5 NETWORKS INC. plans to announce an upgrade of its application traffic management software tomorrow, the same day that rival Redline Networks Inc. is due to release a tool that's designed to help IT managers limit the need to install more...

BMC adds tool to track batch jobs.(BMC Software Incorporation)
September 6, 2004... Management tools vendor BMC Software Inc. tomorrow will unveil an application designed to help IT managers identify and respond to problems in batch-processing jobs. The Batch Impact Manager software tracks batch data flows and can notify...

Health care firm aims to curb printer costs: expects three-year, $15M deal with HP to yield efficiencies.(News)
September 6, 2004... CLEVELAND-BASED University Hospitals Health System last week said it's wrapping up a project with Hewlett-Packard Co. that will reduce the number of printers it uses by more than 60% and slash the total count of different models its IT staff...

Embracing change.(Opinion)(information technology publications)(Editorial)
September 6, 2004... IDID THE CRAZIEST DAMN THING last week. I quit this wonderful job as Computerworld's editor in chief and signed up to be the top editor for an emerging business unit at another publishing company. As I sit here writing my last editorial, I'm...

Something bigger than the next big thing.(Opinion)(Information Technology)
September 6, 2004... IN THE PAST YEAR or so, an idea has been steadily working its way from the back of my mind to the front. This idea is starting to seriously influence the way I see my job as well as my participation in the IT profession. It starts with an...

Bright skies or dark path for IT leaders?(Opinion)(Information Technology)
September 6, 2004... CURRENT THINKING on the future career path of IT leaders is polarized. The Lawson Software-sponsored "Habitat Report" has identified two fundamentally different expected career outlooks for executives leading IT organizations. One scenario,...

Offshoring: unwise or simply inevitable?(Readers' Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
September 6, 2004... THANK YOU for Virginia Robbins' interesting article "The Ragged Edge of Outsourcing" [QuickLink 48217]. As a former senior software engineer who, because of outsourcing, was forced into a middle-age career change. I find it refreshing to see...

Have Jini, will travel: Orbitz put Sun's underappreciated technology at the core of the distributed computing framework that powers its online reservation systems.(Technology)
September 6, 2004... JINI was still being marketed as a networking technology for consumer appliances such as DVD players and televisions when startup Orbitz Inc. made the rather bold decision to build its business on the fledgling Java-based specification. ...

Agents of change: autonomous agents are still in the labs but could eventually play a critical role in areas ranging from setting market prices to creating more resilient networks.(Technology)
September 6, 2004... OVER THE PAST YEAR, NASA has been uploading software into the Earth Observing-1 satellite, turning it into a testbed for autonomous agents. The agents--software programs that are able to learn and can function independently--are used to manage...

Survival of the fittest: survival analysis has been used for years to predict cell death. Now it can forecast customer attrition.(Technology)
September 6, 2004... SURVIVAL ANALYSIS could help you predict that one of your best customers is about to jump ship for a competitor. Or it could help you decide whether that costly promotion is really going to be worth it. Or it could help you tailor that next...

Avoiding Armageddon: predicting asteroid impacts will require supercomputers and petabytes of data.(Future Watch)
September 6, 2004... THE COMPUTERS at the Minor Planet Center recently sorted through some 10,000 observations of astronomic phenomena and deemed a handful as deserving follow-up because they were either newly discovered or on a path in Earth's general vicinity....

Secure e-mail stops at corporate borders: providing end-to-end e-mail security with business partners is difficult at best.(Security Manager's Journal)
September 6, 2004... LIKE ANY OTHER company, my current client does not work in a vacuum. The company--a small insurance firm--has many partners, clients, suppliers and regulators with whom it exchanges information on a regular basis. Much of that information is...

Web resources.(Security Log)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... * Looking for more information on ISO 17799? The ISO 17799 Services & Software Directory Web site has general information on the ISO security standard: www.iso17799software.com/presentation/index.htm * The ISO 17799 World site reviews...

VirusScan gets IPS features.(Security Log)( intrusion-prevention system)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... McAfee Inc. has announced a new version of VirusScan Enterprise that includes some intrusion-prevention system (IPS) functions in addition to antivirus and firewall features. Version 8.0i i offers a small set of IPS capabilities designed to...

Database security tool upgraded.(Security Log)(database security management software suite)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... IPLocks Inc. has announced a new release of its database security management software suite. IPLocks 4.1 adds session policy and usage pattern monitoring, penetration testing features and an auditing function that can monitor record changes...

Xcel deploys Peace Software system.(Briefs)(customer information system)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... * Xcel Energy Inc., a power company in Minneapolis, recently deployed a customer information system (CIS) to support 1.5 million electricity and 1.2 million gas customers in six states. The system, from Peace Software Inc. in Miami, replaces...

Fujitsu announces four-way server.(Briefs)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... * Fujitsu Computer Systems Corp. in Sunnyvale, Calif., has announced a compact four-way SCSI blade server, the Primergy BX600. Each blade accommodates up to four Intel Xeon MP processors and two hot-plug Ultra 320 SCSI hard drives as well as...

Microsoft updates Virtual PC for Mac.(Briefs)(Personal computer )(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... * Microsoft Corp. last week released to manufacturing its Virtual PC for Mac Version 7 and Office 2004 for Mac Professional Edition. Virtual PC enables Windows-based applications to run on hardware from Apple Computer Inc. Version 7 adds...

Why IT will continue to matter.(Information technology )
September 6, 2004... THE COST SQUEEZE IS ON. Automobile companies are racing to get slimmer. According to The New York Times, automakers are now ranked according to how few hours they spend building a car. For instance, General Motors claims to be the leader, with...

Staying power: smart companies are enticing their older, wiser IT workers to remain on the job a little bit longer.(Management)
September 6, 2004... NORMA VETA, 74, AN IT RETIREE from The Aerospace Corp. in El Segundo, Calif., spends two days a week helping her son's family and managing several rental properties. The other three days, she returns to Aerospace to work on special IT projects....

Chat provides competitive edge.(Brain Food for IT Executives)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... We tend to think of instant messaging as the not-very-important electronic chatter of teenagers and white-collar workers. But an innovative auto-racing team is proving that chat can be a powerful tool outside the office. The NASCAR and...

Best bits: the most useful parts of recent business and IT management books.(Brain Food for IT Executives)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 6, 2004... THE BOOK: Simply Better: Winning and Keeping Customers by Delivering What Matters Most, by Patrick Barwise and Sean Meehan (Harvard Business School Press, 2004). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] For the past decade, gurus have said the way to...

No respect.(Brain Food for IT Executives)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... The following companies were at the bottom of the list of 100 U.S. companies ranked by how well they treat their online customers. The index covers factors such as Web site usability, privacy and responsiveness. Customer Respect Index ...

The IT economy.(Brain Food for IT Executives)(Information technology )(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... * The tech recovery seems to be sputtering, as analysts trim their IT spending forecasts and IT vendors such as Cisco Systems Inc. make cautious statements about the third quarter. "IT spending will likely grow slowly in the third quarter,...

Hot spots: India, China.(Brain Food for IT Executives)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... The percentage of IT executives worldwide who expect their companies' IT spending to increase in the next six months, by region: India 86% China 75% Asia-Pacific 59% North America 57% Europe 34% ...

Overhyped.(Brain Food for IT Executives)(Brief Article)(Illustration)
September 6, 2004... Which of the following technologies has promised the most and delivered the least for your company? Wireless LANs 18% Remote access 15% PDAs 14% IP telephony 13% IP VPNs 12% Storage 11% CRM ...

Stop wasting time: how IT management teams can make better, faster decisions.(Q & A)(Interview)
September 6, 2004... The typical company's senior executives spend less than three hours a month working together on strategic issues, and those hours are seldom well spent, says Michael C. Mankins in September's Harvard Business Review. Mankins, a San...

News clips.(Career Watch)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... IBM has boosted its outlook for hiring this year to 18,800 jobs worldwide, up from 15,000. IBM told The Wall Street Journal that the plan reflects its view that the computer and services market is continuing to expand. The hiring plan will...

Executive outlook.(Career Watch)(Brief Article)(Illustration)
September 6, 2004... What is your outlook in general for the executive search business over the next six months? Neutral: 25% Negative: 1% Positive: 74% Base (for both charts): 162 global executive search consultants SOURCE: ASSOCIATION OF...

Jean Delaney Nelson.(chief information officers of Minnesota Life Insurance Co.)(Interview)
September 6, 2004... TITLE: Vice president and CIO [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] COMPANY: Minnesota Life Insurance Co., St. Paul, Minn. WHAT SHE DOES: Delaney Nelson joined her current employer more than 25 years ago, as a college intern. Over the past...

From boot camp to corporate HQ.(Career Watch)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... Corporate recruiters are courting college graduates who are fresh from an expanding number of business finishing schools, according to the August issue of the online newsletter "Workforce Management." The summer programs, run by prestigious...

Chicago Public Schools pick Ciber.(Briefs)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... * Ciber Inc. has won a contract with the Chicago Public Schools to streamline the administration of special education services. As part of the project, the Greenwood Village, Colo.-based systems integrator will implement Learning Tools...

Booz Allen expands Getronics deal.(Briefs)(Booz Allen Hamilton)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... * Getronics North America in Billerica, Mass., and Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. announced a three-year, $25 million contract under which Getronics will provide remote and on-site management and support of desktop technologies used by Booz Allen...

Qwest signs with Krispy Kreme.(Briefs)(Qwest Communications International)(Krispy Kreme Doughnut Corp)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... * Qwest Communications International Inc. in Denver announced a three-year agreement with Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Inc. to deliver data and voice services, including private routed network and net-work management services and long-distance voice...

Field Museum goes wireless.(contract with Concourse Communications Group)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2004... * Concourse Communications Group LLC, a wireless network operator in Chicago, has agreed to install and manage an in-building commercial wireless network and the rooftop rights for external coverage at The Field Museum in Chicago. The system,...

Accountability vs. blame.(Management)
September 6, 2004... I'VE DISCOVERED THAT most of the time, when executives tell me that "what we need around here is more accountability," what they really mean is, "I need to know who I should blame when things go wrong." The sentence that usually follows...

IT Careers in e-business.(Advertising Supplement)(Amazon.com Inc., eBay)(Advertisement)
September 6, 2004... Remember when the question was whether e-business would ever result in real dollars being earned by anyone? The question has been answered as industries have turned the Internet into a tool that is increasing revenue numbers. Amazon.com...

Fruits of labor.(Frankly Speaking)
September 6, 2004... IF IT SEEMS THIS LABOR DAY week like there's not much good news for people who work in IT, consider this: According to a new survey, most users think IT is doing a pretty good job--and a sizable number of non-IT managers actually want more IT...

Doing IT the hard way.(Shark Tank)
September 6, 2004... After this custom application is updated, management is horrified to learn that customers are receiving nearly unreadable messages. "Any text manually edited appeared to have all spaces stripped out, making sentences appear as one long word,"...

Virtual server gets off to a late start: Microsoft chases after VMware's technology.(News)
September 13, 2004... IT managers anxious to consolidate their server hardware will finally get to see the long-promised virtual machine software that Microsoft Corp. has been working on since it acquired the technology from Connectix Corp. more than 18 months ago....

Hitachi Data looks for edge over high-end storage rivals: users see promise in its new disk array line.
September 13, 2004... Hitachi Data Systems Corp. last week announced vastly redesigned versions of its high-end disk arrays and said the new line will scale to hundreds of terabytes of capacity and offer advanced functionality such as long-distance data replication...

ERP system doesn't make grade in Indiana: problems mar university's PeopleSoft rollout, leaving 3,000 students without financial aid.(News)(enterprise resource planning)
September 13, 2004... Technical glitches in a $52 million installation of PeopleSoft Inc.'s applications at Indiana University have left thousands of students without access to promised financial aid and forced officials at the school's eight campuses to implement a...

Apparel maker gets instant feedback with online survey tool.(Computerworld Innovative Technology Awards 2004)
September 13, 2004... When women's dancewear and activewear maker Danskin Inc. created a Web site in 2001, it didn't exactly set the dance world spinning on its toes. Beginning with only one product line in order to avoid conflicts with traditional...

Millipore takes fast track to Asia with global network.(Computerworld Innovative Technology Awards 2004)
September 13, 2004... Millipore Corp. wanted its Japan-based customers to move to Web ordering, but first it had to convince them that using the Web was quicker than sending a handwritten fax. That wasn't necessarily simple to do. The corporate IT strategy for...

Shell Pipeline cuts paper sludge with mobile tracking system.(Computerworld Innovative Technology Awards 2004)
September 13, 2004... After implementing SAP AG's ERP system throughout the company in 2001, Shell Pipeline Co. needed to find a way to improve the efficiency of its U.S. pipeline maintenance operations. Houston-based Shell wanted to eliminate the extra time and...

Documentum saves big with Web conference software for training.(Computerworld Innovative Technology Awards 2004)
September 13, 2004... Prior to 2001, Documentum Inc. had used a smattering of Web conferencing platforms to support internal training, corporate communications and out-bound marketing activities. Problem was, the Web conferencing systems were becoming increasingly...

Intelsat stays a step ahead with data management software.(Computerworld Innovative Technology Awards 2004)
September 13, 2004... For the IT department at Intelsat, the telecommunications firm that launched the first commercial communications satellite in 1965, the challenge isn't reaching for the stars but trying to keep up with the pace of its own business. When it...

Mellon gets closer to clients through search.(Computerworld Innovative Technology Awards 2004)
September 13, 2004... Mellon Financial Corp. spent 2002 evaluating search engines for its customer-facing Web site, its intranet and the sites that the financial services company develops for corporate clients. Edward Cymbalak, a vice president and product...

Bank's mixed infrastructure gets organized with network tool.(Computerworld Innovative Technology Awards 2004)
September 13, 2004... With fewer than 20 IT staff members, First American Bank "uses a lot of [software] packages and integration," says Noel Levasseur, executive vice president of technology. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Elk Grove Village, Ill.-based bank...

Hospital gets faster access to storage with iSCSI technology.(Computerworld Innovative Technology Awards 2004)(Johnson Memorial Hospital, EqualLogic PeerStorage Array 100E)
September 13, 2004... When Johnson Memorial Hospital needed to replace its existing storage-area network (SAN), it looked for a way to upgrade without spending a lot of money or burning out its two-person IT department. "Over the past three to four years, our...

ADM fends off threats with automated vulnerability system.(Computerworld Innovation Technology Awards 2004)
September 13, 2004... Vulnerability and patch management is already a nightmare for most IT security managers. But what makes it worse is the added challenge of trying to figure out how to prioritize remediation work so that the most critical vulnerabilities get...

Parts supplier boosts network capacity with WAN compressor.(Computerworld Innovative Technology Awards 2004)
September 13, 2004... Executives at automotive parts retailer O'Reilly Automotive Inc. thought their existing 12Mbit/sec. dedicated communications link provided all the performance they needed. But the retailer soon found that the link between its headquarters in...

EDS expects to cut up to 20,000 jobs.(At Deadline)(Electronic Data Systems Corp.)(Brief Article)
September 13, 2004... Electronic Data Systems Corp. expects to lay off 15,000 to 20,000 employees over the next two years as part of an effort to slash its annual costs by $3 billion, Chairman and CEO Michael Jordan said during a question-and-answer session at a...

Privacy group sues supermarket chain.(At Deadline)(Privacy Rights Clearing-house, San Diego-based advocacy group)(Brief Article)
September 13, 2004... The Privacy Rights Clearing-house, a San Diego-based advocacy group, said it has filed a privacy-related lawsuit against supermarket chain Albertson's Inc. and its SavOn, Osco and Jewel-Osco pharmacy units. The law-suit, filed in San Diego...