InfoWorld articles from April 2001

InfoWorld archives from April 2001

Reduced access fees help spur European Internet usage.(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
April 2, 2001... THE NUMBER OF European households connected to the Internet increased by 55 percent between March and October of last year, and Europe now has more users than the United States, according to the European Commission. Forty percent of...

Malaysian telecom regulators reprimand no-show operators.(Government Activity)
April 2, 2001... MALAYSIA'S telecommunications regulator, the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (CMC), has reprimanded most of the country's leading telecommunications operators for failing to respond to a public inquiry into fixing an access...

NetScreen app helps protect VPSs.(Product Announcement)
April 2, 2001... NETSCREEN Technologies announced new VPN and firewall security- management software for large enterprises, Internet datacenters, and service providers last month. The new NetScreen-Global Pro product can manage VPN security on as many as...

Nonprofit center software tackles Internet hackers.(Product Announcement)
April 2, 2001... THE CENTER FOR Internet Security (CISecurity) has released a free tool to help plug vulnerabilities that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warned last month were being exploited by Russian and Ukrainian hackers. CISecurity, founded...

Sonera predicts quality positioning services in five years.(Industry Trend or Event)
April 2, 2001... LOCATION-BASED SERVICES may be the key to new revenue for mobile phone operators, but don't expect anything big for at least the next five years, said Sonera Vice President Ari Hakala at the industry conference Competitive Telecoms Pricing. ...

Sony adds digital audio to Clie PDA, improves display quality.(Product Announcement)
April 2, 2001... SONY HAS UPGRADED its Clie PDA with a new model that adds a higher- quality display and digital music player function, the company said in a statement last month. The PEG-N700C not only expands the Clie line of PDAs, which until today...

ENTERPRISE STRATEGIES: Virtualized storage offers to cut costs, ease administration of your data assets.(Industry Trend or Event)
April 2, 2001... AS TODAY'S E-BUSINESS applications become increasingly datacentric, storage always seems in short supply. Add the increased capacity requirements of multimedia and on-demand video being deployed more often by human resources and marketing...

CTO DIRECTIONS: Visibility is vital: Promote yourself and your cause now.(Industry Trend or Event)(Column)
April 2, 2001... AS CTOS KNOW, IT managers contribute an important, informed voice of how technology affects the business process. But a problem can arise for effective IT managers: They become pigeonholed as merely technical people. To avoid this problem, I...

IS SURVIVAL GUIDE: Are Mr. Ellison's vanilla flavor-style customer relations good for you?(Industry Trend or Event)
April 2, 2001... MANAGEMENTSPEAK: He plays a key role in our process. TRANSLATION: He has no ownership of any part of it. -- This week's IS Survivalist played a key role in explaining process dynamics. THE NEW ECONOMY must truly be dead. In the New...

WIRELESS WORLD: 'Telephone ladies' turn into entrepreneurs; and will Silicon Valley change its dress code?(Company Business and Marketing)
April 2, 2001... THIS MARCH IN Las Vegas, Professor Mohamed Yunis, founder of the Gramine Bank, addressed the issue of the digital divide in a keynote conversation at CTIA Wireless 2001, an event sponsored by the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet...

WINDOW MANAGER: Postal authorities seize the cash flow of the Internet outfit known as PayLine.com.(Company Business and Marketing)(Column)
April 2, 2001... TIPS I RECEIVED from readers led to the publication of my Feb. 19 column about an organization called ThePayLine.com (see www.infoworld.com/printlinks). As a result, I'm pleased to report, the U.S. Postal Service recently seized the contents of...

THE OPEN SOURCE: The misadventures of setting up VarLinux.org begin with a DNS classless subnet.(Technology Information)
April 2, 2001... WHAT A WEEK. I've run into some interesting challenges setting up a new combination Weblog/magazine site called VarLinux.org, a nonprofit portal dedicated to serving the VAR and channel communities. (For those of you who are unfamiliar with the...

SITE SAVVY: Going global may bring new opportunities for existing customers.(Industry Trend or Event)
April 2, 2001... THE WORD global causes us to think big and conjures up thoughts of costly investments which aren't too popular these days. But going global may not be as expensive as you think, and you may already have an existing customer base. By far,...

SECURITY WATCH: Novell's security looks tight, but they're not talking; meanwhile XP prepares for onslaught.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 2, 2001... I HATE TRADE SHOWS, mainly because I spend the two or three days of the show being whisked from one briefing to the next. It's a sensation best described with the saying, "If this is Tuesday, it must be Belgium." But for me, Tuesday means Salt...

TO THE EDITOR.(Letter to the Editor)
April 2, 2001... Good service I JUST FINISHED reading Barb Gomolski's article on effective warranties (See E-Business Matters, March 12). Interesting timing. A friend and co-worker was in my office less than an hour ago (at the time of writing this...

FROM THE EDITOR IN CHIEF: The extreme swings of the pendulum can have equally bad results.(Industry Trend or Event)
April 2, 2001... When it comes to information technology, everything is about extremes. If you look back at the past three years, we have been living at one extreme end of the pendulum, which is now in the process of swinging back to the other extreme. Recent...

E-BUSINESS MATTERS: Despite slower growth, Gartner predicts b-to-b sales to reach $919 billion.(Industry Trend or Event)
April 2, 2001... THE RECENT DROP in the stock market has many of us shaking our heads and wondering how much lower it will go. Dot-com fallout in the business-to-consumer sector has received the most attention. In truth, most e-businesses are scaling back and...

NET PROPHET: To survive the customer revolution, businesses must change their ways.(Industry Trend or Event)
April 2, 2001... WITH A COURT decision effectively shutting down the music-exchange system run by Napster, it may be tempting to forget about the issues raised by the system in order to return to business as we knew it. Certainly Napster raised questions...

NOTES FROM THE FIELD: More dot-coms drop dot-dead as Microsoft invites reader comments.(News Briefs)
April 2, 2001... CHANGE IS IN the wind here in Silicon Valley. Randi gleefully pointed out an article to me from The Wall Street Journal that said housing prices for the most expensive residences in San Francisco are finally dropping. (She's hoping for a better...

THE GRIPE LINE: Is Network Solutions exploiting the rules or just aggressively marketing?(Company Business and Marketing)
April 2, 2001... YOU'D THINK, NOW that Network Solutions (NSI) has lost its domain registration monopoly, it might be a little less arrogant and a little more customer-sensitive than in the past. But reports to The Gripe Line indicate that would be wishful...

FROM THE NEWS DESK: Cutting edge adapts to e-biz downturn.(Industry Trend or Event)(Editorial)
April 2, 2001... Does the rate of innovation slow when the business cycle turns down? That's the question IT and business executives need to ask in today's financial environment, where fear and uncertainty dominate the private and public markets. Coming...

Where's the XML?(Technology Information)
April 2, 2001... The sudden rise of XML puts a new twist on the old problem of data storage CUSTOMERS SAY THEY want them, vendors are scrambling to provide them, and opinions vary as to how to set them up correctly. They are XML databases, a way to store,...

Online marketplace is built for the long haul.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 2, 2001... Transportation.com links shippers and carriers that are equipped with computers and Web connections WHEN DAN Bentzinger wanted to pitch his vision of the technology that Transportation.com would use to build its logistics business, he did...

Printers now use the Web to add capabilities.(Industry Trend or Event)
April 2, 2001... Internet-enabled printers do more than push paper from the workplace network BY HARNESSING the power of the World Wide Web, a recent wave of new printers that can reach out over the Internet is enabling companies to be more productive,...

Tax forms and tax filing get a high-tech twist.(Government Activity)
April 2, 2001... As the IRS enters the Internet age, private companies attempt to ease tax-process pains IN THE PAST FIVE years, people have purchased everything from groceries to books to automobiles online as businesses rolled out ERP (enterprise...

Totality and F&D to offer e-business insurance.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
April 2, 2001... Totality, maker of Application and Infrastructure Management services for e-businesses, will be able to provide its customers with insurance policies for protection against losses of business income, threats on intellectual property, and...

Alibre, MatrixOne partner on system for collaboration.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
April 2, 2001... Alibre and MatrixOne have partnered to offer a collaborative product development system that will provide design teams with enhanced real- time collaboration and visualization tools, the companies have announced. Through the partnership,...

Motive details CRM offerings.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
April 2, 2001... Motive Communications last week unveiled a set of CRM (customer relationship management) solutions specifically tailored to the financial services industry. The offerings are designed to take advantage of the market at a time when Jupiter...

ECONOMY: Worldwide networking industry hit by layoffs.(Company Operations)(Brief Article)
April 2, 2001... Gloom cast a shadow on the networking industry last week, with layoffs announced by several market leaders. Nortel Networks added to fears of an ever-worsening U.S. economy by predicting lower-than-expected first- quarter financial results and...

FINANCIALS: Palm beats analyst estimates, cuts jobs.(Company Financial Information)(Brief Article)
April 2, 2001... PALM LAST WEEK reported $470.8 million in revenue for the third quarter, up 73 percent from the year-ago quarter, with $9.3 million pro forma income or 2 cents per share, beating analysts' estimates. But the company also announced plans to...

STRATEGIES: Micron swaps PC biz for Web hosting.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
April 2, 2001... IN A MOVE aimed at focusing the company's sights on its Web hosting business, Micron Electronics has announced its intent to merge with Web hosting company Interland and sell off its PC division, Micronpc.com. Micron officials said the...

THE BUG REPORT.(Product Information)(Brief Article)
April 2, 2001... Microsoft: On Windows 2000 Server or Advanced Server, after a Terminal Services client logs off, the HKEY_USERS\SID_Classes registry key may stay in the Registry. This could prevent subsequent log-ins. An error message will appear reading,...

Check Point rallies major partners for speeding security.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 2, 2001... WITH AN EYE toward speeding Internet security functions, Check Point Software Technologies is bringing out a new security architecture designed to boost VPN and firewall performance and has joined up with heavyweight partner companies,...

Startups unveil network-layer integration frameworks.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 2, 2001... THE NATURE OF APPLICATION and data integration is changing. Although the early whisperings of the demise of EAI (enterprise application integration) are proving premature, the technology is now finding itself challenged by an expanding range of...

Microsoft releases beta of XP OS.(Product Development)
April 2, 2001... Company risks mixed message to Windows 2000 users MICROSOFT EMPLOYEES from Bill Gates on down are hailing the beta release of the Windows XP operating system as the first step in an ambitious attempt by the company to gradually shift the...

Bang Networks to enhance data-routing.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 2, 2001... Company provides new technique for flow of information on the Internet using Object Routers A NEW NETWORK service company will arrive this week, touting a real- time routing network service it hopes will radically alter how information...

Cisco pushes VOIP development strategy.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 2, 2001... ALTHOUGH other sectors of Cisco Systems' product line may be faltering, the company is keeping up with an unwavering demand for VOIP services by stressing the importance of enterprise application development beyond traditional telephone...

U.S., E.U. divided on standards.(Government Activity)
April 2, 2001... THE BUSH administration last week sent up the first clear signal that it intends to become more proactive on the brewing international privacy debate. A joint letter from the departments of Commerce and Treasury outlined White House...

Industry trio seeks to cure health care IT ills.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 2, 2001... HOPING TO LEND credibility to application hosting in the health care industry, pharmaceutical giant Pfizer teamed with IBM and Microsoft last week to form a new company designed to offer administrative and clinical services to small medical...

IBM releases 64-bit mainframe OS.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
April 2, 2001... Looking to reinvent its mainframe line, IBM last week delivered its 64- bit mainframe operating system, zOS. IBM's zOS exploits the z900 series of mainframes, including support for a feature called Intelligent Resource Director (IRD). With IRD,...

Caldera, SCO offer Linux wrapper for Open Unix platform.(Open Unix 8.o)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
April 2, 2001... Caldera Systems and Santa Cruz Operation (SCO) have announced a Unix- based operating system that will support Linux applications. The release, titled Open Unix 8, will maintain compatibility and continuity with the UnixWare 7 OS so that most...

WebGain furthers component reuse battle plan.(Application omposer)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
April 2, 2001... WebGain last week announced Application Composer, software that enables developers who use Visual Basic and other non-Java languages to build applications and deploy them on a Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) platform. The software also will...

Optical titans refocus.(Cisco, Lucent and Nortel)(Company Business and Marketing)
April 2, 2001... Cisco, Lucent, Nortel tackle downturn FACED WITH A plummeting stock market and depleted sales, networking giants Cisco Systems, Lucent Technologies, and Nortel Networks are refocusing their optical strategies, either by offering products...

Industry tows the privacy-CRM line.(Industry Trend or Event)
April 2, 2001... Tools allow businesses to allay customer privacy concerns A WAVE OF TOOLS on the horizon for companies struggling to manage the divergent demands of CRM (customer relationship management) will enable marketing departments to better balance...

E-tailers join former foes.(Industry Trend or Event)
April 2, 2001... Pure-plays eye benefits of brick-and-mortar partnerships AS BUSINESSES across the board recognize the benefits of multichannel retail, e-tailers are looking to cash in with other channels by teaming up with their counterparts in the...

Network streamlines shipping.(fromGT Nexus, formerly Tradiant,)(Company Business and Marketing)
April 2, 2001... THE TECHNOLOGY company that spearheaded the launch of a global transportation alliance for ocean carriers is charging ahead with its plan to design the de facto online reservation marketplace of the shipping industry. GT Nexus, formerly...

Pay-per-use models ready for online business.(Industry Trend or Event)
April 2, 2001... WITH THE DEMISE of the pure-play dot-com business model -- which said you could give away content and make it up in volume -- technology providers are readying pay-per-use content management systems to allow content providers to change the way...

iPlanet comments affect rival's stock.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
April 2, 2001... Comments by an iPlanet E-Commerce Solutions official last week in an article on www.infoworld.com led to a sell-off of stock in rival software provider BEA Systems. The comments were later denied by another iPlanet official. Patrick Dorsey,...

IE flaw lets hackers take over computers.(Product Information)(Brief Article)
April 2, 2001... Microsoft said late last week that it has discovered and created a patch for an Internet Explorer (IE) vulnerability that might allow hackers to run a program of their choice on another user's machine. The program could then allow the attacker...

HP warns that monitors can deliver shock.(Product Information)
April 2, 2001... Hewlett-Packard has discovered a defect in some of its computer monitors that can deliver an electric shock to users and is working to identify and replace the affected products, the company said last week. The defect affects a small percentage...

Biometrics comforts customers while securing assets.(Technology Information)
April 2, 2001... Thanks to financial, health care industries, biometric applications are close at hand MOST PEOPLE ARE familiar with biometric technology from the movies, but its use in the real world isn't anything like that in a James Bond thriller. On...

Wieghing the risks of innovation.(Industry Trend or Event)
April 2, 2001... THE HYPE SURROUNDING new technologies, which right now includes biometrics and storage management, is impossible to ignore. Although you may be tempted to chart a new course with your IS staff, adding new technologies to your enterprise is no...

P-to-P promises to streamline business processes.(Technology Information)
April 2, 2001... Although an emerging technology, peer-to-peer has a place in strategic planning THINK PEER-TO-PEER communication is a new technology? Think again. If you've made a phone call today, you've experienced p-to-p communication firsthand. Yet,...

Chipmakers race toward faster enterprise-grade speeds.(Industry Trend or Event)
April 2, 2001... As CPU makers jockey for position, companies will have to wait for the fallout THE CENTRAL processing unit, or CPU, is the brain of the computer. Scientists work constantly to overcome the obstacles of heat dissipation and low...

Relieving the headache of incompatible storage devices.(Product Information)
April 2, 2001... Companies are cranking out solutions for easing NAS, SAN management NETWORKED STORAGE is a boon for companies: By shifting the control point away from the server OS with a SAN (storage area network) or NAS (network area storage) model,...

Should companies track bleeding-edge technology?(Industry Trend or Event)
April 2, 2001... Diligently monitoring new technologies may be good for your company, or not Mention Linux, VPNs, Java, or even wireless to just about any CTO or CIO and the last thing that comes to mind is that those technologies are still unproven,...

Keep up with industry developments.(Directory)
April 2, 2001... Web sites offer info on technologies, products, and players allEC.com - www.allec.com E-commerce news and information from a variety of sources, plus special reports on ecommerce trends, issues, and applications AT&T Labs Research...

Venture capitalist is cautious in economic slowdown.(Interview)
April 2, 2001... But Foundation Capital partner Mark Saul still sees plenty of good opportunities for startups AS A GENERAL PARTNER with Foundation Capital, Mark Saul specializes in funding startup companies at their earliest stages of development. In...

IT on automatic pilot.(Product Information)
April 2, 2001... IT departments have begun to turn to technology chain automation to manage workflow, save costs, and compare project value HERE'S A SHOCKER: IT departments are using software to automate -- themselves. It helped Walter Weir get a handle on...

JOB TITLES: Consultants and contractors.
April 2, 2001... With the economic slowdown, independent contractors and consultants are often among the first workers to be dismissed as companies tighten purse strings. Compensation Salary Average salary: $104,833 Percent who feel fairly...

Inside Track: Have 401k, will travel.
April 2, 2001... Starting a new job -- whether by choice or due to a layoff -- brings many changes. Choosing what to do with an existing 401k is one decision that may have a direct effect on your financial future. BECAUSE 401Ks are often a cornerstone of...

BeVocal launches application suite for voice-based services.(Total Messaging Solution)(Product Announcement)
April 9, 2001... VOICE NETWORK infrastructure company BeVocal launched its Total Messaging Solution for voice-based dialing and messaging. The application and services suite, which includes a voice dialer, e- mail-over-phone service, address book, and...

Ericsson joins multimedia, phones.(Product Announcement)
April 9, 2001... ERICSSON ANNOUNCED what it claims is the world's first cordless Internet radio. At the same time, it announced two new GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) mobile phone handsets and some new services and equipment for network operators, with a...

German mobile subscribers to get fixed-line SMS service.(Deutsche Telekom's service)(Company Business and Marketing)
April 9, 2001... FIXED-LINE telephone subscribers in Germany will soon be able to send text messages from their phones using SMS (Short Message Service), already widely used on mobile phones. Deutsche Telekom (DT), in Bonn, Germany, plans to introduce the...

Palm handhelds get expansion slot.(Palm m500 and Palm m505)(Product Announcement)
April 9, 2001... PALM UNWRAPPED two new handheld computers, both of which include small expansion slots that let users add extra memory and software applications to their devices and eventually hardware add-ons such as wireless modems or digital cameras. ...

Qualcomm unveils new CDMA technology.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 9, 2001... WIRELESS provider Qualcomm announced its new family of CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) MSM (Mobile Station Modem) integrated circuits and system software, which allows new services and expanded roaming. Qualcomm CMDA Technologies (QCT)...

Sharp to target Europe, U.S. with Linux Zaurus.(Sharp Zaurus MI- E1 PDA)(Product Information)
April 9, 2001... SHARP GAVE EUROPE its first look at the company's sleek new Zaurus MI- E1 PDA (personal digital assistant). The PDA, which went on sale in Japan in November last year, includes a 3.5-inch color LCD, miniature keyboard, digital music player,...

ENTERPRISE STRATEGIES: Database optimization techniques in Kdb could help ease the enterprise data crunch.(Kx Systems' DBMS)(Software Review)(Evaluation)
April 9, 2001... DATA ANALYSIS IS getting out of hand. As enterprise data warehouses grow rapidly, the requirements for data analysis to produce timely, meaningful results seem to be hitting a brick wall. With so many touch points for customers to interact...

MANAGEMENT BRIEFING: The job market: Are IT professionals working in a time of feast or famine?(Industry Trend or Event)
April 9, 2001... EVERY DAY WE READ about layoffs, about the influx of IT and IT-support professionals to the job market. Yet, every day, often in the same newsletter, you can find articles about how difficult it is for hiring managers to find qualified IT...

IS SURVIVAL GUIDE: Let's clarify a few things: First, the post office will not impose an e-mail tax.(Glossary)
April 9, 2001... MANAGEMENTSPEAK: I would like to say that it's true. I'm not going to say that it's not true. TRANSLATION: I don't know. -- IS Survivalist J. W. Jensen recognizes the truth. SOMETHING IS VERY wrong with the world. Every so often I...

WIRELESS WORLD: Without middleware to translate, wireless would be no further along than square one.
April 9, 2001... IF THERE WERE an award for the most important technological concept of the past 20 years, to my mind there would be no question of the winning conception: No other technology comes close to middleware. Wireless would be useless without it....

WINDOW MANAGER: Now you can search Microsoft's database in good old English or almost any language.(Product Announcement)
April 9, 2001... A HUGE IMPROVEMENT in our ability to search Windows' technical support database is about to arrive. A search engine that allows users to search the documentation of Microsoft and several other companies using plain English will be announced...

THE OPEN SOURCE: Get rid of full-duplex manually when using half-wit network cards.
April 9, 2001... HERE I AM, still setting up the VarLinux.org Weblog and Webzine. As I mentioned last week, I need a new server to double as the VarLinux.org server and act as my secondary name server. The best way to exploit the new chip sets on the new A7V133...

SECURITY WATCH: Reader feedback on banning attachments to e-mail brings out a range of opinions.
April 9, 2001... ONE OF THE MOST interesting things about writing a column is that I never know what's going to excite you readers. I figure I have three communities of readers, and their interests don't always overlap. Many of you read this column in print,...

TO THE EDITOR.(Letter to the Editor)
April 9, 2001... Failure to plan is a plan to fail AFTER READING JESSICA Davis' comments concerning President Bush's policy on California's energy problems (see Net Prophet, March 26), I must say I strongly disagree. I think it would be a monumental...

FROM THE EDITOR IN CHIEF: Limiting your security to a firewall could be akin to opening Pandora's box.(Industry Trend or Event)(Editorial)
April 9, 2001... The fundamental problem with security is that it's everyone's problem, which means that no one is actually responsible. When people talk about security today, they tend to focus on the edge of the network, where they deploy firewalls and VPN...

E-BUSINESS MATTERS: Do you know what the benefits are of joining an e- marketplace now?(Industry Trend or Event)
April 9, 2001... A BUSINESS-TO-BUSINESS marketplace can connect many buyers to many suppliers using the Internet. The benefits can range from forming strategic partnerships to meeting buyer demands ("We won't buy from you unless you use our e-marketplace"). ...

NET PROPHET: Gloomy economy reports don't look so bad after the spring- cleaning is done.(Industry Trend or Event)(News Briefs)
April 9, 2001... SPRING IS HERE, daylight-saving time has come, and I thought I'd do a little spring-cleaning of my files and talk about some of the interesting companies and bits of news I've run across over the last several weeks. In spite of the...

NOTES FROM THE FIELD: 'Springing forward' with daylight-saving time causes ills for eBay and NT.
April 9, 2001... IT WAS ONLY because I was an hour late meeting Randi for lunch on Sunday that I realized the clocks had gone forward. She was waiting for me outside the San Jose, Calif., restaurant where we had arranged to meet. When I arrived, she was digging...

THE GRIPE LINE: Why is Sony's warranty on batteries for its notebooks good for only 30 days?
April 9, 2001... YOU WOULDN'T EXPECT the manufacturer of a flashlight or a camera to give you a warranty on the batteries that come with the device. But what about the battery in a notebook computer? A reader we'll call Mr. Powers recently had an...

FROM THE NEWS DESK: E-business shakeout sparks IT opportunity.(Industry Trend or Event)
April 9, 2001... Overheard at a recent e-business expo in New York: "They should include the 52-week high and low stock price next to vendor listings in this conference catalog." Although just an offhand remark, the crack aptly captures growing concerns about...

Opportunity in failure.(electronic commerce)(Industry Trend or Event)
April 9, 2001... As dot-coms go under, CTOs at traditional brick-and-mortars see a chance to acquire predeveloped technology and other assets AFTER WATCHING THE fast rise and fall of many New Economy pioneers, brick-and-mortar companies are now planting...

It's time to open the corporate portal door.(Electronic Data Systems)(Company Business and Marketing)
April 9, 2001... EDS technology chief proposes expanded Web site as innovative way to offer services to customers, partners TERENCE V. Milholland's dual roles -- CTO and CIO -- at Electronic Data Systems (EDS) keep the Baltimore native busy. The old-guard...

Making the case for wireless access to apps.(wireless e-business application delivery)(Industry Trend or Event)
April 9, 2001... A handful of vendors argues that wireless delivery offers real bottom- line benefits WIRELESS E-BUSINESS application delivery could boost critical customer service and field worker efficiency as well as provide business-to- business...