InfoWorld articles from April 2000

InfoWorld archives from April 2000

Grocers stock online shelves - Retailers go shopping for hybrid e- commerce strategies.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 24, 2000... BRICK-AND-MORTAR companies struggling to build a viable Internet presence are capitalizing on a soft stock market to jump-start their e- business strategies with partnerships and acquisitions. Two major deals last week between established...

FROM THE NEWS DESK: Buying an e-business strategy on the cheap.(Industry Trend or Event)(Editorial)
April 24, 2000... Lately those Internet pure-plays don't look so scary after all. After another week on Wall Street where Old Economy companies gained favor over New Economy hotshots, it seems that traditional companies are showing signs of catching up to the...

Inaction on merger hurts, Corel said.(Inprise/Borland)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
April 24, 2000... Corel informed the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission last week that it could run out of cash within 90 days if its merger with Inprise/Borland does not go through. Corel and Inprise/Borland announced on April 10 that the waiting period...

Microsoft reports higher profits.(Company Financial Information)(Brief Article)
April 24, 2000... Microsoft for the quarter ending March 31 reported net income of $2.4 billion, up from $1.9 billion a year ago. Revenue for the quarter was $5.7 billion, a 23 percent increase from the $4.6 billion reported in the same quarter of 1999....

Internet File System available for Oracle8i.(Product Information)(Brief Article)
April 24, 2000... Oracle today plans to make its internet File System (iFS) for the Oracle8i database available to 700,000 members of the Oracle Technology Network (OTN). Oracle iFS is a file system and development platform designed to increase user...

Microsoft faces new lawsuit.(for Windows 98 OS)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
April 24, 2000... Microsoft last week had another private antitrust lawsuit lodged against it when Washington lawyers filed one on behalf of local residents who purchased the software giant's Windows 98 operating system. The latest in a string of lawsuits...

Novell's ScheMax admin tool to debut.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
April 24, 2000... Novell this week will make its ScheMax 1.1 eDirectory schema tool available as a free download at www.novell.com/download#nds. As a directory-based administration tool and part of Novell's NetConsole product family, ScheMax 1.1 helps manage...

Lucent to roll out professional services.(ServiceWorks)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
April 24, 2000... Lucent Technologies' NetworkCare consulting arm early next month plans to roll out a professional services group and a software solution aimed at helping emerging carriers introduce network services and increase their reliability. The...

Microsoft to outline hardware specifications.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 24, 2000... AT THE WINDOWS Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) in New Orleans this week, Microsoft will spell out its design specifications for hardware vendors, emphasizing this year's software-based upgrades on products from DSL modems to...

Enabling the channel for e-business - Automakers encourage dealers' Internet efforts, while combatting dot-coms.(Industry Trend or Event)
April 24, 2000... WHILE CARMAKERS were unveiling slick new models at the New York International Auto Show last week, behind the scenes, automakers were carefully crafting Internet strategies designed to head off disruption by dot-coms to the traditional...

HP exposes printer roots in Web services push.(Printing E-Service)(Company Business and Marketing)
April 24, 2000... BETTING THAT ITS core competency will both pave the way toward a global Internet ecosystem for businesses and consumers and ease potential headaches associated with paper-intensive applications, Hewlett-Packard last week announced its...

Windows ME gets re-networked.(Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition)(Product Announcement)
April 24, 2000... AFTER SURREPTITIOUSLY removing some networking features from Windows Millennium Edition (ME) in March, including connections to Novell NetWare and a proposed client for Active Directory, Microsoft last week returned some, but not all, of the...

Tying up Windows 2000 - Microsoft accused of dubious tactics to win server share.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 24, 2000... WHILE THE U.S. Department of Justice prepares to recommend remedies to restrain Microsoft's monopolistic practices, Microsoft foes have introduced new allegations that the software giant is using Windows 2000 to extend its dominance into the...

Hardware vendors roll out Pocket PC devices.(Product Announcement)
April 24, 2000... MICROSOFT'S LAUNCH of its third version of Windows CE for handhelds, dubbed Pocket PC, went off as planned last week at Grand Central Station in New York. Although fewer hardware vendors than usual were there to support the operating system...

Clinton to IT execs: Help close digital divide.(Industry Trend or Event)
April 24, 2000... HIGHLIGHTING HIS campaign to close the "digital divide," President Clinton made a passionate plea last week to the IT community at Comdex/Spring 2000 in Chicago, asking for help in the interest of not only society but the new economy as well....

Sell-side access evolves.(HAHT Software HAHT Sellside Exchange)(Industry Trend or Event)
April 24, 2000... IN RECENT WEEKS, HAHT Software, Ironside Technologies, and SpaceWorks have debuted products that aim to make the experience for sell-side participants in trading exchanges more advantageous businesswise. But each vendor's offering fails...

Canadian Mounties get their Mafiaboy.(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
April 24, 2000... AFTER A TWO-MONTH cybermanhunt, a 15-year-old Montreal teenager, who went by the online name Mafiaboy, was arrested last week in connection with the distributed DoS (denial of service) attacks that immobilized Internet giants including CNN,...

Intel plays Cupid to its solution providers - Plan would draw vendors together.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 24, 2000... HOPING TO PLAY matchmaker for computer product dealers, system integrators, service providers, software developers, and Web designers, Intel this week will announce its Intel e-Business Network, a Web portal to launch in May that will link...

Microsoft highlights initiatives at retail show.(Product Development)
April 24, 2000... MICROSOFT AT THE Retail Systems 2000 Conference & Exposition in Chicago last week gave customers sneak peeks at its new Commerce Server 2000 and BizTalk Server 2000 systems for e-business. Microsoft is positioning the Commerce Server, due...

GE CTO reinvents the house that Edison built - Frank Campagnoni drives technology strategy to make GXS the world's supply-chain solutions leader.(Company Operations)
April 24, 2000... TWO YEARS AGO, Frank Campagnoni left a promising e-commerce job at AT&T to take the CTO position at GEIS (General Electric Information Systems). At a time when many of his colleagues were rolling the dice on dot-com start-ups, Campagnoni...

Plugging IT into the merger equation - Merger mania underscores the need for IT managers to establish key positions within the strategic decision-making hierarchies of their companies.(Industry Trend or Event)
April 24, 2000... WALL STREET LOVES a merger: Consolidation increases shareholder value by restoring the balance of supply and demand, creating synergy among products, and opening the way for ever-popular efficiencies and any number of other benefits -- or so...

Citrix neatly renews Unix apps - MetaFrame delivers Unix to mixed clients, but lacks some manageability.(Citrix Systems MetaFrame for Unix)(Software Review)(Evaluation)
April 24, 2000... THE PROMISE OF server-based, thin-client computing is compelling for companies that want to reduce desktop costs and increase manageability. Citrix Systems, co-architect of the original Microsoft Terminal Server, has delivered a solid...

PLATFORMS & INFRASTRUCTURE - HOTLINKS.(Directory)
April 24, 2000... BREAKING NEWS ONLINE Platforms & Infrastructure breaking news and business briefs: For the latest Platforms & Infrastructure news, go to InfoWorld.com's Home Page at www.infoworld.com. Articles about topics such as WAN and LAN...

Toughbook 34 minimizes mobile downtime.(Panasonic PC)(Hardware Review)(Evaluation)
April 24, 2000... WITH TODAY'S mobile workforce growing, it is crucial to keep your off- site employees in the loop at all times. Undoubtedly, your IT department distributes an increasing number of notebooks for this very purpose. However, the perils that lie...

SECURITY WATCH: Growing vulnerabilities in e-commerce apps present the latest challenge to security.(Technology Tutorial)(Tutorial)
April 24, 2000... WE'VE BEEN TOUTING for some time the critical nature of Web and e- commerce security. Unlike traditional security risks, attacks on e- commerce are moving up the protocol stack to the application layer, effectively blinding many security...

WINDOW MANAGER: Readers send in their best tips on Internet security, USB mice, floppies, and more.(Technology Tutorial)(Tutorial)
April 24, 2000... I'VE WRITTEN RECENTLY about security risks for Windows users when connected to the Internet. Reader Eric Pogroski points to a feature of Windows 2000 that can help. You can shut off your "always-on" Net connection when not in use. Along with...

THE OPEN SOURCE: Make sure that those back doors stay locked by using Linux-based firewall software.(Company Business and Marketing)(Column)
April 24, 2000... IT IS GETTING pretty easy to defend the choice of open-source software for corporate projects these days. It is common knowledge that the Internet runs mostly on open-source software. If you are among the few who aren't aware of just how...

Panel highlights threat of broadband security.(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
April 24, 2000... JUST HOW WIDE OPEN to the world is your computer when you use your lightening-fast cable modem? The always-on aspect of broadband poses a threat that is real, panelists at the Computers, Freedom and Privacy conference held in Boston earlier...

BlackBerry maker showcases PDA.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 24, 2000... RESEARCH IN MOTION (RIM), the company that makes the BlackBerry wireless e-mail device, is taking aim at the PDA (personal digital assistant) market with the release of a product that resembles a Palm computer and comes equipped with a...

Mobile speeds to stall.(Technology Information)
April 24, 2000... VENDORS ARE promising new mobile products that will deliver bandwidth of 115Kbps, but this is only a theoretical speed and will never happen, according to Nigel Deighton, research director at Gartner Group. In reality the new products, such...

Cisco turns out router for service providers.(Company Business and Marketing)(Product Announcement)
April 24, 2000... TO RAMP UP THE deployment of advanced IP services, Cisco Systems has rolled out a new router targeting the edge of Tier 1 Internet service provider networks. And Cisco appears to be fueling the fire at a particularly good time. Market...

Router maker Juniper eyes Asian Internet.
April 24, 2000... A RAPID SHIFT toward locally produced Internet content and local hosting of foreign content is driving demand for increased bandwidth across Asia, according to executives of Internet backbone router vendor Juniper Networks. The maker of...

U.K.'s 3G bids for mobile licensing top $17 billion.(Industry Trend or Event)
April 24, 2000... LESS THAN A MONTH after the first bid was placed, the combined highest bids for the five, third-generation mobile-communications licenses in the U.K. are approaching the $17.5 billion-dollar mark. Each round of bidding lasts 30 minutes,...

Amazon.com looks to tap into the impulse shopper in all wireless users.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 24, 2000... IMPULSE BUYING is one of the few grown-up, guilt-inducing pleasures I allow myself these days. I've systematically eliminated dozens of bad habits over the years -- with scores more on the list -- but the cheap, or not-so-cheap, thrill I get...

AT&T, BT make major e-commerce deal.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 24, 2000... AT&T, BRITISH Telecommunications (BT), and their joint venture, Concert Communications, announced that over the next three years they will invest $2 billion to deliver electronic commerce services via a worldwide network of 44 Internet data...

Delano's e-CRM enhances service - Tool strengthens relationships with timely responses, targeted marketing.(Cutomer Velocity e-commerce software)(Software Review)(Evaluation)
April 24, 2000... AS DOT-COM VENTURES continue to flood the marketplace, the fight for customers has reached a fever pitch. Driving customers to your e- commerce site has become a complicated and costly proposal, so maintaining an effective relationship to...

INTRANETS & I-COMMERCE - HOTLINKS.(News Briefs)
April 24, 2000... BREAKING NEWS ONLINE I-commerce breaking news and business briefs: For the latest news on the products and companies in the I-commerce marketplace, turn to www.infoworld.com. Breaking news and business briefs are updated throughout...

Cisco rolls out small business DSL router.(Cisco 827 ADSL)(Product Announcement)
April 24, 2000... CISCO SYSTEMS introduced a DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) router designed to help service providers and resellers provide fast Internet access for small businesses and home offices. The Cisco 827 ADSL (Asymmetrical Digital Subscriber Line)...

China spammers a growing source of e-mail headaches.(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
April 24, 2000... JUST AS THE U.S. is getting a grip on its own spam problem, China has emerged as a new source for a mass of unsolicited e-mail that is clogging up inboxes around the world. Two types of spam are on the increase from China, according to...

EPIC survey finds encryption regulations are ending.(Electronic Privacy Information Center)(Government Activity)
April 24, 2000... REGULATIONS THAT ONCE stunted the distribution of strong encryption technology around the world are being rolled back at an encouraging pace, according to a new study by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), a public research...

MDaemon Pro 3.0 proves speedy, but not scalable - Solid, low-price mail server adds IMAP4 support and spam blocking.(Software Review)(Evaluation)
April 24, 2000... IF YOU'RE PLANNING to equip your shop with e-mail, you've got a few options. For around $50 per mailbox, you can sign up for the total e- collaboration experience with Microsoft Exchange or Lotus Domino/Notes and give users e-mail, group...

Acrobat Capture adds content quickly - Cluster Edition lets you easily share hard-copy data online.(Cluster Edition version 3.0)(Software Review)(Evaluation)
April 24, 2000... YOU'VE GOT 5,000 pages of human resources manuals your boss wants you to post on the intranet by tomorrow, and the documents must retain the original formatting and be searchable by users. You can either stay up all night scanning,...

SITE SAVVY: InfoWorld.com's litmus test, or how to pick the winners and pass over the losers.(News Briefs)(Column)
April 24, 2000... THERE ARE LOADS of opportunities out there for new products, services, and partnerships that could really make a Web business hum. There are also boatloads of bombs, and one of them may have your name on it. I receive several "Let's Make...

IBM refines DB2's manageability - New release bolsters e-business capabilities with OLAP and XML support.(version 7.1)(Product Announcement)
April 24, 2000... IT CAN BE frightening to think about just how much trust a company, especially one with mission-critical Web-based applications, must put in its enterprise database environment. To avoid making the wrong choice, companies generally stick to a...

ENTERPRISE COMPUTING - HOTLINKS.(News Briefs)
April 24, 2000... BREAKING NEWS ONLINE Enterprise Computing breaking news and business briefs: For the latest news on the products and companies in the enterprise computing marketplace, including application development and databases, turn to...

XML Junction transforms source data - Conversion tool also supports project design, enabling complete source-to-XML workflow.(version 7.0 from Data Junction)(Software Review)(Evaluation)
April 24, 2000... ALTHOUGH WEB development companies continue to flock to XML, the process of transforming source system data into XML is still underserved by the software market. As a result, companies end up delaying their time to market and paying more for...

Max 2.0 sleuths meaning from biz data - Intuitive tool transforms any user into a business analyst.(Maximal's database access package)(Software Review)(Evaluation)
April 24, 2000... YOU KNOW THAT stored away in your data archives is a treasure trove of information that you could use to make faster and more efficient business decisions. But boiling that data down into a usable nugget has never been easy. Fortunately, many...

TEST CENTER RX: Pesky print banners just won't go away when running Windows NT clients on NetWare.(News Briefs)
April 24, 2000... My problem has to do with printing. We recently upgraded all of our workstations to new Pentium III systems running Windows NT Workstation. One of our print-queues is on a NetWare box. Whenever anyone prints to this queue, a banner page...

ENTERPRISE TOOLBOX: Radical organizational changes, updated integration tools fuel the virtual enterprise.(Industry Trend or Event)
April 24, 2000... WE ARE MOVING quickly toward the creation of "virtual enterprises" that encompass e-business customers, distributors, suppliers, physically distributed management, and staff, as well as a multitude of intermediate-term interconnected business...

Preventing culture clashes - As the IT workforce grows more diverse, managers must improve awareness without creating inconsistency.(Industry Trend or Event)
April 24, 2000... THE CHANCE OF potential culture clashes in American IT workplaces might increase with the influx of highly skilled foreign workers, mainly in the technology field, entering the United States on H1-B work visas. According to figures...

IS SURVIVAL GUIDE: Some suggestions for Judge Jackson as he considers what penalty Microsoft should get.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 24, 2000... "Your honor, we find the defendants incredibly guilty!" -- Jury foreman, about Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder, in Mel Brooks' film The Producers CAN YOU IMAGINE if Lance Ito had been the judge? By the time this column appears, the...

PEER TO PEER: If adaptability has made you a generalist, learn how to pitch it and get hired.(Industry Trend or Event)
April 24, 2000... IT is a fickle business. For unusual jobs, many consulting firms will send out people who are adaptable and willing to learn. These jobs, which are often more fun, are the ones where either the firm has no idea what the job entails and sends...

FROM THE EDITOR IN CHIEF: Systems and relationships are key if IT is to play a part in mergers and acquisitions.(Editorial)
April 24, 2000... IT considerations have been an afterthought in many a merger and acquisition plan. And this has caused a promising deal to falter on more than one occasion. With the current pace of merger and acquisition activity showing no signs of slowing,...

IT job trend Web sites.(Directory)
April 24, 2000... Information Technology Association of America - www.itaa.org What it is: This industry association's recently released study "Bridging the Gap: Information Technology Skills for a New Millennium" includes data on the size of the U.S. IT...

JOB TITLES: Network manager.(Industry Trend or Event)
April 24, 2000... Network managers are responsible for the day-to-day operations of a company's network infrastructure, including maintenance and troubleshooting. Compensation Average salaries: Nationwide - $61,656 West - $69,877(*) ...

Handling HR on Internet time.(Industry Trend or Event)
April 24, 2000... The lure of the start-up is making it increasingly difficult to retain employees, both at large corporations and Internet technology companies. These tips will help your company stay competitive and attractive to your employees. HOW DO...

NOTES FROM THE FIELD: Restless with cabin fever, Bobby addresses a flood of complaints about DSL.(Humor)(Column)
April 24, 2000... LAST WEEK TAUGHT me two very important lessons. One: Never go so far as inviting readers to bombard me with e-mails to complain about poor connectivity service (no offense meant to those who did). I'll address this issue later in the column....

THE GRIPE LINE: Maryland Legislature caves to UCITA, but Iowa may offer a safe haven from law.(Government Activity)
April 24, 2000... ON OCT. 1, THE Uniform Computer Information Transaction Act (UCITA) will become law in Maryland. IT managers, you'd better begin preparing your defenses now. In fact, you might want to build an anti-UCITA bomb shelter. Although totally...

Health care data deadline looms.(Industry Trend or Event)
April 17, 2000... LESS THAN SIX months removed from Y2K, the health care industry is readying itself to face yet another deadline-oriented IT infrastructure upheaval aimed at bringing bring health care providers into the electronic age. The Health...

Market upheaval bites IT - Users to adjust business models in reaction to stock volatility.(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
April 17, 2000... A SHAKEOUT IS COMING for the dot-com start-ups of the New Economy, and the impact on users could be long-lasting. The likely consequence is a shift away from traditional two-to five-year strategic IT planning toward nimble business models...

FROM THE NEWS DESK: Tech roller coaster may send IT for wild ride.
April 17, 2000... In these heady economic days, it seems all of business follows the stock market: only going up and only getting bigger. It's gotten to the point that we barely bat an eye at another multibillion-dollar deal. The merger of Kana and Silknet and...

HP plans portal for soup-to-nuts offerings.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 17, 2000... HEWLETT-PACKARD this week plans to unveil a Mammoth cross-country Web portal and hosting strategy that the company hopes will drive the creation of a $100 billion services market HP has set its sights on dominating, according to sources close...

Water-cooled laptops due from Toshiba.(Toshiba Portege 3440CT)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
April 17, 2000... Toshiba this week will introduce an advanced "super-cooling heat pipe" in its latest mobile offering, the Portege 3440CT laptop computer. The cooling system, which is a device that attaches directly to the processor, uses low-pressure water...

Dell backing 64-bit Solaris.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
April 17, 2000... Dell Computer this week will announce its intent to offer the Sun Solaris 64-bit operating system on its PowerEdge line when Intel's 64- bit Itanium processor ships later this year. Both Intel and Sun have been unable to cooperate in merging...

SAS plans IPO, details wireless push.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
April 17, 2000... Data warehousing software vendor SAS Institute within the next 12 to 18 months plans to have an IPO equal to 15 percent of the company's ownership, company officials have confirmed. Additionally, the company has announced support of wireless...

Wireless Web file transfers set.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
April 17, 2000... StoragePoint.com is targeting mobile workers and e-commerce customers with a service that allows secure, Web-based file transfers from WAP (Wireless Application Protocol)-enabled cell phones and some handheld devices. Customers can use a...

Data Junction to detail XML tool.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
April 17, 2000... Data Junction this week will release XML Junction, a data-conversion tool that lets companies migrate existing data into XML data format to help better exchange data with business partners. The product automatically creates DTDs (Document...

DATA Act attempts to bridge digital divide.(Government Activity)(Brief Article)
April 17, 2000... The U.S. House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee has introduced legislation that would decrease taxes on employee-purchased computer equipment in an attempt to increase families' access to computers at home. The DATA (Digital Divide...

Mobilizing e-commerce - Vendors to develop framework for wireless transactions.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 17, 2000... THE PLAN ANNOUNCED last week by Ericsson, Motorola, and Nokia to jointly develop an open framework for secure mobile electronic transactions may not only boost the wireless e-commerce market but also increase access providers' clout in the...

High-speed wireless networks to proliferate.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 17, 2000... THE PROMISE OF mobile wireless broadband to create more e-commerce sales channels and decrease connectivity costs may soon be fulfilled, as major network carriers advance 3G (third generation) wireless technologies in the United States. ...

WorldCom reinvents itself.(Company Operations)
April 17, 2000... DISTANCING ITSELF from its roots as a long-distance phone service provider, MCI WorldCom last week announced a corporate repositioning. The company ditched, at least unofficially, the "MCI" from its name and declared itself to be primarily a...

Airlines band on buyer-driven b-to-b exchange.
April 17, 2000... MEMBERS OF Star Alliance, an international airline network, last week unveiled plans to lead the launch later this year of a buyer-driven, business-to-business e-commerce exchange for the global airline industry. The exchange aims to...

Ethernet gets its MAN.(Technology Information)
April 17, 2000... TO ADDRESS THE fact that voice networks are ill-equipped to handle the ever-increasing volumes of data travelling via MANs (metropolitan area networks), networking vendors are attempting to capitalize on the familiarity and flexibility of...

SAP aims to automate supply chain.(Product Announcement)
April 17, 2000... RESPONDING TO customer demands for more automation in the channel management and business-to-business realms, SAP last week introduced the SAP Distributor/Reseller Management (SAP DRM) package for supply chain management. SAP also made...

Volkswagen crowds auto b-to-b marketplace.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 17, 2000... THE THIRST FOR controlling the supply chain continues at high speed as Volkswagen last week revealed plans to join the ranks of manufacturers creating an online exchange for auto parts. Volkswagen will partner with IBM, Ariba Networks,...

Microsoft's Web complex - The software giant is assailed about standards approach.(Product Information)
April 17, 2000... AT A TIME WHEN the demands of the Internet are prompting ever- increasing interdependencies between technologies, Microsoft is again being criticized for having patchy support for Web standards. The company has come under fire from some...

Microsoft places bet on PocketPC.(Product Announcement)
April 17, 2000... MICROSOFT WILL finally unveil the third version of its Windows CE operating system for palm-size handheld devices this week at Grand Central Station in New York, and if initial analysis is any indicator, Palm may have some serious competition...

THE BUG REPORT.(Product Information)
April 17, 2000... Apple Macintosh OS 9.0.4 includes an updated version of Open Transport 2.6.1. This new version fixes a bug that previously caused a crash when Open Transport was receiving empty packets on UDP (User Datagram Protocol) port 49152. Lotus...

CA heralds e-biz offerings - Jasmine ii apps platform is linchpin of company's plans.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 17, 2000... COMPUTER ASSOCIATES (CA) pinned its future to e-business at its CA World 2000 user conference in New Orleans last week, detailing products and partnerships to provide infrastructure for business-to-business commerce applications. Users...

CMGI, Novell, Sun to create hosting network.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 17, 2000... SETTING THEIR SIGHTS on creating a global Internet network to enable a host of profile-based services, CMGI, Novell, and Sun Microsystems joined last week to form a new company known as CMGion. CMGion will build a worldwide network of...

Satellite technology starts to enter IT's orbit.(Technology Information)
April 17, 2000... DESPITE THE fervor surrounding DSL and cable options for remote workers, outfitting corporate outposts far away from fiber-rich infrastructures remains a problem for many IT managers. "There are really limited options for some locations....

Locking up data on direct-hit Web searches - ImageLock CTO Ken Belanger hopes to outperform other search engines by providing analysis.(Company Operations)
April 17, 2000... IN THE COMPETITIVE search-engine space, the name of the game is Web site hits. AltaVista, HotBot, and Yahoo have all adopted a business model that depends on the number of hits they can garner every day. ImageLock has put a twist on this...

INVESTMENT: Lucent sinks $150 million into optical network center.(Company Operations)(Brief Article)
April 17, 2000... Lucent Technologies last week said it will build a $150 million optical networking provisioning center in Dublin, Ireland. The investment is expected to create 500 new jobs over a three-year period at the planned 200,000-square-foot extension...

FINANCIALS: Athlon sales power AMD's strongest quarterly results.(Company Financial Information)
April 17, 2000... CHIPMAKER Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) last week posted bullish fiscal first-quarter results, boosted in part by strong sales of its Athlon processors. For the quarter ending April 2, AMD reported net income of $189.3 million, or $1.15...