InfoWorld articles from December 2002

InfoWorld archives from December 2002

BI analytics with brains - Business intelligence players reach beyond OLAP, data warehousing.(Industry Overview)
December 2, 2002... DEMAND FOR business intelligence to drive more nimble business operations is prompting some vendors to nudge aside traditional data warehousing and OLAP to deliver BI in real time to a wider range of users via thin-client technology and...

Knowledge just a click away - QlikTech challenges competitors with an affordable, lightning-fast BI solution coupled with capable Java- powered Web delivery.
December 2, 2002... PROPERLY DEPLOYED business intelligence applications offer invaluable information that helps companies serve customers better and optimize critical business processes. Unfortunately, many BI solutions require an infrastructure based on data...

Redefining offshore outsourcing - CTOs increasingly look to outsourcers to come onshore -- and often contract with more than one -- to improve management practices and mitigate project and geopolitical risks.(Guardian Life Insurance Company of America)
December 2, 2002... WHEN SHELLEY MCINTYRE, vice president of technology services at New York-based Guardian Life Insurance Company of America, needed to outsource her company's application development and maintenance projects, she began with a March 2001 pilot...

Mapping the future.(Interview with Tim Bray)(Interview)
December 2, 2002... XML co-creator looks to cartography design protocols to chart a user- friendly visual browse engine WHEN HE MANAGED the University of Waterloo's New Oxford English Dictionary Project, Tim Bray developed tools for processing large...

Turning to outside development.(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... Nearly 40 percent of CTOs surveyed are keeping head count down by outsourcing their companies' application development. Copyright (c) 2002 InfoWorld Media Group Inc.

Telephony - 2003 may not yet be the Year of CTI, but it's ringing in some notable innovations. Get ready for clear-as-a-bell PDA phones, widespread SIP, and deeper voice and data integration.
December 2, 2002... SPEECH IS THE defining human trait. Shortly after a speech-enabling gene called FOXP2 became fixed in the human genome 120,000 or so years ago, we became anatomically and culturally modern. But we postmoderns are still figuring out how to...

Is it time to punt the PBX? Business telephony means standing pat or plunging into the unknown.
December 2, 2002... MORE THAN 126 years after the invention of the telephone, the 2002 InfoWorld Telephony Survey shows that what business executives want from their phones is open for debate. Some seek basic services, others want voice/data integration, and a...

SIP is sneaking into the enterprise - Protocol works so deep in a telephony session that IT managers may not know they use it.
December 2, 2002... DESPITE ALL THE hype starting to surround SIP (session initiation protocol), implementation among readers polled in the 2002 InfoWorld Telephony Survey appears surprisingly small. Only 5 percent of respondents say they are using SIP, and even...

OneNote sings Office tune - Microsoft's road map calls for deep XML- based Office, SharePoint integration.
December 2, 2002... ATTEMPTING TO PUSH the boundaries of its Office suite, Microsoft has detailed plans to tightly couple its emerging OneNote application with Office to serve as a "staging area" for collaborative information sharing. Microsoft also plans to...

Linux future scales out - Opportunities exist as distributed environments unfold.(Industry Overview)
December 2, 2002... AS DOMINANT SYSTEMS and software companies continue to pour millions into scaling Linux for the enterprise, some observers now believe the open-source OS's future is to serve as a distributed, network-based operating system. During the...

Doing data detail - Although difficult to set up, Big-IP 4.5 provides deep data flow control.(Software Review)(Product/Service Evaluation)
December 2, 2002... F5'S LATEST ITERATION of its Big-IP product line builds on an already great load balancer. This product now can choose which server or resource it will send traffic to on the basis of traffic volume, and it can also decide where to send it...

Managed security hunger grows.
December 2, 2002... FACED WITH THE realization that security event data is unmanageable without centralized control, enterprises are turning to security event management technologies. Security players Symantec, Computer Associates, and IBM/Tivoli, and smaller...

Easing the backup pain - By deftly marrying hardware and software, Unitrends DPU 120 offers a flexible alternative to adding on more tapes.(SR)(Product/Service Evaluation)
December 2, 2002... IF YOU ARE tired of playing the usual backup-to-tape game to protect your company data, a few alternatives are beginning to emerge that replace or complement cartridge-based copies with faster disk-to-disk operations. The benefits of...

NOTES FROM THE FIELD: Going with the flow.
December 2, 2002... I NEEDED TO talk to someone about my Bianca Day situation, so I stopped into the local pub, seeking solace in Rob the bartender. But he wasn't there; in his stead was a new fellow named Cappy. I have a good feeling about this Cappy character....

To the editor.
December 2, 2002... Lacking a killer app AS FOR Steve Gillmor's Ahead of the Curve column, the Tablet PC has no killer app yet -- once again(see "Reappearing Ink"). The things that are missing include: Texture: Paper feels different. Availability:...

WIRELESS WORLD: Bits and snippets - A bevy of topics is flooding the mailbox, from overlooked Java to home-built TV time-shifting boxes.(Column)
December 2, 2002... IT'S TIME to clean a few things off my desk. I read every e-mail that comes to me, but I don't have time to answer every one of them, even though I do try to respond to most requests for help. Here are a few issues readers have raised that...

WINDOW MANAGER: Escaping Xbox fees - Microsoft launches a $50 service for multiplayer gaming, but you can network multiple boxes for free.
December 2, 2002... MICROSOFT recently released the long-awaited Internet gaming service for its technically rad Xbox hardware. The Xbox Live Starter Kit, which includes a year of online multiplayer service and some trialware games, sells for around $50, but you...

SECURITY ADVISER: A modest proposal - With apologies to Swift, P.J. devises a security plan to make you patch your PC -- or else.(Column)
December 2, 2002... SPIT AND DIRTY socks, I said, upon learning of Microsoft's new plan to reduce the number of critical security patches for Windows and other software. This, of course, happened in the week between the writing of last week's column and its...

STORAGE INSIDER: Alternative SANs - Not FC and not iSCSI -- LeftHand Networks deserts both and opts for a third choice.(network unified storage architecture)
December 2, 2002... DESPITE economic uncertainty, we still think this was a good year for storage. New technologies such as iSCSI and Serial ATA moved from the drafting board to the market and promise further interesting developments. Increased competition...

WIRELESS WORLD: Strange bedfellows - 'United we stand, divided we lose subscribers' would be a fitting mantra for the Open Mobile Alliance.(Industry Overview)
December 2, 2002... IF EVER THERE was a single organization that housed more archrivals under one roof, I'd be hard-pressed to name it. The OMA (Open Mobile Alliance) includes in its membership, in alphabetical order: AT&T Wireless, Cingular, Cisco,...

ENTERPRISE STRATEGIES: Pay when it works - When outsourcing a major project, sometimes the most important person on your IT staff is your attorney.
December 2, 2002... A COLLEAGUE OF mine managed an outsourced development project for a major distributor. After three years, the distributor decided that it was never going to meet specifications and pulled the plug. The company said it had done everything right...

CTO CONNECTION: Poised for the top spot - CTOs are well-positioned to become CEOs, but some may prefer to stay where they are.(Industry Overview)
December 2, 2002... AMID THE CHALLENGES of the past couple of years, many CTOs have been so busy managing their budgets, people, CEOs, and company boards that they've paid little attention to managing their own careers. Sometimes it's useful step back and take a...

SURVIVAL GUIDE: Shaking the mailbag - Readers weigh in on everything from eliminating the PTO to FDR and 'emotional intelligence'.
December 2, 2002... THE OLE MAILBAG has been pretty full recently, so let's dive right in. When I suggested killing the Patent and Trademark Office altogether, on the theory that far from promoting innovation it's now inhibiting it, I created quite a stir(see...

THE GRIPE LINE: Big brother nightmare - Knock knock, who's there? Media moguls' dream of mandatory TCPA security could make for a house of horrors.
December 2, 2002... I HAD THE strangest dream last night. Maybe it's because I'm in the middle of having my house reroofed, or maybe it's because of all the readers I'm hearing from who seem strangely insecure about Homeland Security. But I guess I'll leave the...

AHEAD OF THE CURVE: Wild horses - Content providers say stealing a horse and stealing a song are the same crime; John Perry Barlow begs to differ.(Interview)
December 2, 2002... IS JOHN PERRY BARLOW a) a musician, b) a politician, c) a Wyoming rancher, d) a journalist, e) co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), or f) all of the above? For an hour at Comdex a few weeks ago he was a panelist sparring with...

ABOVE THE NOISE: Let's make a toast to this recession - With recovery under way, recognize those that made the most of a tough two years.
December 2, 2002... EVERY CAB DRIVER in Las Vegas grumbled about the poor attendance at November's Comdex. "The economy must be in worse shape than I thought," one driver mused. "Some of these big hotels still have vacancies on the second day of the show."...

Cornering the office - Office 11 beta's collaboration, XML features almost justify the upgrade.(SR)(Product/Service Evaluation)
December 2, 2002... WHEN IT COMES to planned obsolescence, Detroit could learn a few things from Redmond, Wash. When Microsoft Office 11 ships in 2003, it will mark the fifth release in eight years of the industry leader in desktop application suites. Even Bill...

IBM upgrades WebSphere.(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... IBM this week announced Version 5.0 of its WebSphere Application Server, emphasizing Web services, e-business, and mainframe deployments in the release. Version 5.0's Web services features include the Axis 3.0 open-source SOAP parser for...

webMethods, HP team up.(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... Hewlett-Packard and webMethods joined forces this week to offer a real- time solution for assessing the performance of J.D. Edwards' collaborative applications and related business processes. The solution is part of a broader initiative that...

Solaris 9 x86 released.(from Sun Microsystems)(Brief Article)
December 2, 2002... Sun this week made available on its Web site an early-access version of its Solaris 9 OS that runs on Intel-compatible processors. Sun announced in January plans to halt work on the x86 (Intel instruction set) version of Solaris 9, then...

Modeling biz docs in XML - Learning XML Schema won't be easy, but don't let that stop you.
December 2, 2002... THE GOOD NEWS is that Office 11 supports XML Schema. The bad news is that XML Schema has been described even by XML experts as "confusing," "impenetrable," "fuzzy," and "as user-friendly as a stick in the eye." A successor to the SGML/XML DTD...

Extending support - WebEx Customer Support puts technicians' expertise to work on customers' PCs.(WebEx Support Center)(Software Review)(Product/Service Evaluation)
December 2, 2002... FOR COMPANIES in the computer business, giving support reps the tools to directly control a remote customer's PC can go a long way toward trimming the field-service budget and keeping customers satisfied. Solutions such as WebEx Support Center,...

Handling mobile apps - ISVs manufacture handheld apps despite development challenges.(Industry Overview)
December 9, 2002... REVOLUTIONARY IN its own right, the rise of the personal computer had as much to do with its software as its hardware. Applications such as Lotus 1-2-3 emerged as "killer apps," setting a precedent for the current environment in which...

Featherweight champ - Salesforce.com Airforce Wireless Edition leverages e-mail and Web to keep sales reps connected to customer data.(Product/Service Evaluation)
December 9, 2002... PERVASIVE COMPUTING thrives on wireless communications and PDAs. Unfortunately, PDAs still have their limitations: Trying to squeeze the complexity of a desktop GUI on a few square inches of display is a true challenge. Moreover, desktop...

InfoWorld's 25 Most Influential CTOs 2002.
December 9, 2002... From Wall Street to nonprofits, these CTOs have risen to the challenge of a tough economy -- by leading, innovating, and keeping an eye on the future VISIONARY LEADERS KNOW that there are lessons to be learned at every moment in history,...

Randy McCoy, CheckFree.(Brief Article)
December 9, 2002... Randy McCoy, CTO of Norcross, Ga.-based CheckFree, is finding himself at the center of an expanding universe of electronic billing. Clients include Bank of America, Yahoo, and America Online. The service reaches more than 6.5 million consumers...

Kevin Vasconi, Covisint.(Brief Article)
December 9, 2002... Southfield, Mich.-based Covisint, a b-to-b venture between several automotive companies, is working to introduce an ASP software delivery model to an industry that is used to a more traditional model. For CTO and Senior Vice President of...

Dawn Meyerriecks, DISA.(Brief Article)
December 9, 2002... As the CTO of the U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), Dawn Meyerriecks (InfoWorld's 2002 CTO of the Year) oversees a $4 billion operation out of Arlington, Va., that is responsible for implementing the technology that supports...

Gene Rogers, Boeing.(Brief Article)
December 9, 2002... As the chief technologist at Boeing Space Systems' Huntington Beach, Calif.-based engineering organization, Gene Rogers recently worked on a $300 million NASA contract to develop critical technologies for a next- generation reusable launch...

Terry Milholland, EDS.(Brief Article)
December 9, 2002... Overseeing a 140,000-person enterprise, serving business and government clients in 60 countries, Terry Milholland is both CTO and CIO of Plano, Texas-based Electronic Data Systems (EDS). Wearing his CTO hat, he establishes company policies and...

Julie St. John, Fannie Mae.(Brief Article)
December 9, 2002... In 2001, Washington-based Fannie Mae handled completed residential mortgage transactions totaling $1.6 trillion, up from $800 billion in 2000. That, coupled with a $402 million IT budget, makes CTO Julie St. John a major force with vendors...

Norman Lorentz, Federal Government (OMB).(Brief Article)
December 9, 2002... Norman Lorentz's business card reads "Executive Office of the President." As Bush's chief technologist -- the first CTO of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) -- he is charged with fulfilling the White House's technical mission --...

Larry Biagini, General Electric.(Brief Article)
December 9, 2002... Larry Biagini, CTO of General Electric, is responsible for driving the technology direction of the Fairfield, Conn.-based corporate giant, which operates businesses spanning appliances and medical systems to media. Biagini controls the...

Tony Scott, General Motors.(Brief Article)
December 9, 2002... As CTO of General Motors' information systems and services, a huge technology consumer, Tony Scott has seized the opportunity to shape the national technology agenda. A founding member of the Liberty Alliance, Scott has been a leader in the...

Duane Ebesu, Housing Works.(Brief Article)
December 9, 2002... After the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks last year, the donations and grant moneys that nonprofits had counted on dwindled as attention focused on recovery efforts. New York-based Housing Works, a provider of housing to homeless people with AIDS,...

Mark Halstead, Keen.(Brief Article)
December 9, 2002... At San Francisco-based Keen, knowledge from all over the globe comes together in one marketplace. Keen serves as the connection mechanism for the more than 8.7 million members seeking advice and information. Mark Halstead, CTO, is involved...

Wade Hennessey, Kontiki.(job of a CTO)(Brief Article)
December 9, 2002... The job of a CTO at a startup is constantly changing. Just ask Wade Hennessey. More than two years ago Hennessey, CTO and vice president of engineering at Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Kontiki, dreamed up the idea of a content distribution network...

Max Levchin, PayPal.(Brief Article)
December 9, 2002... It sounds like a fairy tale from the dot-com era: Young technologist creates a succesful Internet startup that is acquired by one of the big players. Only it happened to Max Levchin after the bubble burst. Levchin was CTO -- he announced his...

Allan McLaughlin, LexisNexis.(Brief Article)
December 9, 2002... Under Allan McLaughlin's leadership, $1.9 billion information provider and publisher LexisNexis has aggressively redefined vendor relations. In the past year, McLaughlin has singled out low-value vendors and replaced them with larger "tier one"...

John McKinley, Merrill Lynch.
December 9, 2002... When John McKinley takes on a project, IT leaders pay attention. And now that McKinley, CTO of the venerable New York-based financial services giant Merrill Lynch, is embracing Web services, IT executives are hearing the message. This...

Alex Zoghlin, Orbitz.(Brief Article)
December 9, 2002... Alex Zoghlin, CTO of online travel company Orbitz, faced some heavy hitters in 2002. He had to ensure the company's bold IT strategy would work against rivals Expedia, partly owned by Microsoft, and Travelocity, which owns a portion of Sabre, a...

Rodric O'Connor, Putnam Lovell.(Brief Article)
December 9, 2002... Rodric O'Connor, CTO of San Francisco-based investment bank Putnam Lovell, proved the value of Web services this year by putting the finishing touches on an IT strategy that used outsourced Web services components to save money. He...

Gerhard Eschelbeck, Qualys.(Brief Article)
December 9, 2002... Protecting a single network against hackers isn't an easy task for a network administrator. Protecting 600 networks, though, is a snap for Gerhard Eschelbeck. Thanks to a Web-based network assessment service designed by the CTO and vice...

Mike Sayers, Reuters.
December 9, 2002... When Mike Sayers joined London-based Reuters more than 15 years ago, the CTO role did not exist on the company's organizational chart. Now, as the company aggressively develops technologies to deliver news and serve the financial services...

Dave Moellenhoff, Salesforce.com.(Brief Article)
December 9, 2002... Dave Moellenhoff, CTO of San Francisco-based Salesforce.com, and his co-workers could be thought of as the people who rejuvenated the ASP business model. By offering CRM and other applications through an Internet-based, on- demand delivery...

Phil Wiser, Sony Music Entertainment.(Brief Article)
December 9, 2002... He helps lead the technology strategy of one of the biggest entertainment companies in the world. And at the same time, Phil Wiser, CTO of Sony Music Entertainment in New York, thinks deeply about the implications of the debate raging over...

Phyllis Michaelides, Textron.(Brief Article)
December 9, 2002... Textron Chief Technologist Phyllis Michaelides is responsible for using technology to improve business processes and promote the strategic use of IT, as well as planning the direction of major technology projects across the $13 billion,...

Jim Barton, TiVo.(Brief Article)
December 9, 2002... As CTO and senior vice president of research and development at TiVo in Alviso, Calif., Jim Barton sees himself as an educator rather than an information machine. Barton works very closely with TiVo R&D, overseeing a staff of five top TiVo...

Peter Tippett, TruSecure.(Brief Article)
December 9, 2002... Peter Tippett challenges the security status quo. The CTO of Herndon, Va.-based TruSecure has built his reputation and his company on the notion that security should be treated as a risk issue, which means the company focuses on figuring out...

Rob Robless, United Air Lines Loyalty Services.
December 9, 2002... In May, Rob Robless, CTO of United Air Lines Loyalty Services in Arlington Heights, Ill., admonished Microsoft, Sun, IBM, and other IT vendors, telling them to stop fighting over emerging standards for Web services. Now, he says vendors are...

Sun, HP strengthen services - Strategies aim to deliver comprehensive offerings.
December 9, 2002... ARCHRIVALS Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard are deepening their respective strategic commitments to managed services, with Sun promising to tie services tighter to core products and HP cementing its plans in managed services, citing its...

AT&T, IBM, Intel unite under Wi-Fi - Jointly owned company Cometa to deploy nationwide WLAN.(Brief Article)
December 9, 2002... RIDING WHAT THEY called the WLAN wave, executives from AT&T Business Services, IBM Global Services, and Intel Capital Investments formally launched this week a jointly owned company, dubbed Cometa Networks, that plans to roll out what it...

Wi-Fi intelligence gets boost - Wireless vendors shift focus from security to smart, location-based tools.(Industry Overview)
December 9, 2002... FOLLOWING A YEAR-LONG barrage of security announcements meant to calm nervous IT professionals considering the deployment of WLANs, Wi-Fi vendors at the 802.11 Planet conference in Santa Clara, Calif., last week switched gears and focused their...

Downloads by nodes - Kontiki's grid could solve the crisis of massive Internet file transfers.(Kontiki DMS 2.0)
December 9, 2002... WHEN THE INTERNET bogs down on long weekends, it's not from instant messaging, online games, or spam. The traffic that makes circuits and servers buckle is large file transfers. Yes, some of this traffic is contraband. But ripped music CDs,...

WLAN, cellular unite.(IntelliNet Technologies' server)(Brief Article)
December 9, 2002... IntelliNet Technologies last month unveiled a server targeted at mobile operators, designed to allow users to move between LAN hot spots and areas without being interrupted with password prompts. With the EAP (Enhanced Authentication Protocol)...

Simplified mobile testing.(Brief Article)
December 9, 2002... Spirent Communications and TestQuest announced this week plans to develop hardware and software tools for carriers to test handsets and mobile data services before selling them to customers. Initial test will be aimed at SMS. Copyright (c)...

ABOVE THE NOISE: Leading with an eye on innovation - CTOs have the strategic vision and business savvy to move the enterprise forward.
December 9, 2002... IF TOUGH TIMES put leaders to the test, then the past two years have been an ongoing proving ground for CTOs charged with charting a profitable course for their organizations with fewer resources. The result is that many IT executives have had...

: The economics of innovation - Examining today's boom and bust cycles in the context of history.
December 9, 2002... WHAT IS DRIVING INNOVATION today, and how does it compare with other periods of hyperinnovation in the past? What happens when the party ends in these kind of technology booms, and what are the best strategies for survival? Let's start...

Stealing the show.
December 9, 2002... AT FIRST, THE new bartender, Cappy, seemed to be a sleepy man of few words. But now he is talking, and is he an easy fellow to agitate, too. "You have got to be free, not tied down," he told me. Talk about trying to steal the show Sun...

THE OPEN SOURCE: Security by numbers? Aberdeen Group's conclusion that Windows is more secure than open source just doesn't add up.
December 9, 2002... A RECENT Aberdeen Group report claims that open source is less secure than Windows. And how did they come to this profound conclusion? Apparently, they counted the number of CERT advisories in the past couple of years and found more...

WINDOW MANAGER: A matter of trust - Microsoft's latest security nightmare threatens most users and casts doubt on digital signatures.(Column)
December 9, 2002... I NEVER THOUGHT I'd see the publisher of Windows issue an official document saying, "You shouldn't trust Microsoft." But that day has arrived. And the behind-the-scenes explanation reveals a lot about Windows and the flaws users are...

SECURITY ADVISER: Modest proposal II - Making vendors responsible for shoddy software and security sounds nice, but is it doable?
December 9, 2002... AMONG THE platitudes we've heard from the media in the wake of the past summer's accounting scandals were the words "corporate responsibility." The funny thing is that I always thought that corporations were devised to relieve individuals of...

STORAGE INSIDER: A story of strategies - EMC's past, present, and future collide thanks to a cast-off lab called Diligent.
December 9, 2002... IT WAS JUST about a year ago today that EMC pushed aside the engineer that put it on the map. The engineer is Moshe Yanai, and the product he created is the EMC Symmetrix. The story begins late last November when EMC realized that storage...

WIRELESS WORLD: Ain't over 'til it's over - Some readers disagree with the notion that Microsoft stands to crush opposition in the handheld market.
December 9, 2002... A COUPLE OF weeks ago, I implied that Microsoft had won the handhelds war(see "I see dead companies" ). I also solicited your comments and thought it only fair this week to run reader responses that give equal time to the other side. Therefore,...

ENTERPRISE STRATEGIES: Software goes extinct - These days, software isn't software, it's revocable, metered computing potential.
December 9, 2002... I AM ADJUSTING to the idea that I cannot own a piece of software. The "right to use" license has been standard issue for many years now. In 99 paragraphs, your company releases, holds harmless, and grants the perpetual right of unrestricted...

CTO CONNECTION: Influencing innovation - CTOs can benefit from reviewing history's innovative periods as they craft day-to-day business strategy.
December 9, 2002... RECENTLY I HAD the pleasure of listening to Dr. Hal Varian, the dean of U.C. Berkeley's School of Information Management and Systems, speak to InfoWorld's 25 Most Influential CTOs at our awards dinner in San Francisco. I'll admit that I...

SURVIVAL GUIDE: Burden of leadership - Once you reach the executive suite, it won't always be clear how to make the most ethical decisions.
December 9, 2002... MY CHOLESTEROL LEVEL, I recently learned, is high enough to experience the Oort cloud up close and personal, which is why I looked at the nutritional information printed on a bag of fudge-covered Oreos. The news was wonderful -- only 0.5 grams...

THE GRIPE LINE: Some call it fair play - In the censorship debate, several readers are quick to defend vendors who put restrictions on product reviews.(Industry Overview)
December 9, 2002... DO VENDORS HAVE a right to require product reviewers to ask for permission to publish? Surprisingly, even some fairly rational-sounding readers say yes. As we've tracked the growing use and abuse of censorship clauses in the fine print of...

AHEAD OF THE CURVE: Show me the model - In the aftermath of the Bubble, new business models and buying patterns emerge.(Industry Overview)
December 9, 2002... IN THE AFTERMATH of the Bubble, much hand-wringing and searching continues for a viable business model in the Internet Age. Of course, there's one obvious model: Microsoft. But failing an entrenched monopoly, the choices soon boil down to one:...

Intel forges next-gen chip - Manitoba attempts to combine CPU and DSP for pervasive devices.
December 9, 2002... AS INNOVATION drives the convergence of computing and communications devices, Intel is building momentum around its mobile strategy and its forthcoming Manitoba chip. Intel's strategy is unfolding at a time when analysts predict the shift...

SMT goes mainstream - Intel's new 'Simultaneous Multithreading' Pentium 4 CPU rewrites the rule book for desktop performance.(Intel Pentium 4 3.06GHz)
December 9, 2002... LAST FEBRUARY, when Intel was still basking in the glow of its new Hyper-Threading Xeon DP CPU, the company suggested that it would be at least the second quarter of 2002 before we'd see Hyper-Threading in a desktop CPU. Perhaps hoping to break...

Inside information - QualysGuard service strengthened with an intranet scanner appliance.(QUALYSGUARD Intranet Scanner Applicance )(Hardware Review)(Product/Service Evaluation)
December 9, 2002... TO CALL THE QUALYSGUARD Intranet Scanner Applicance just an appliance is to miss the point. Yes, it does include a device that's intended to scan behind the firewall, but it also comes with the QualysGuard Web- based service. The combined duo...

The power of voice - Fast-Talk Communications brings full-text search to audio recordings.
December 16, 2002... CHEAP STORAGE MAKES it feasible to save voice recordings of many of our meetings, teleconferences, interviews, and other conversations. In some environments -- call centers and certain sectors of finance and government -- that already happens....

Bringing BI to masses - Forthcoming Yukon database extends business intelligence capabilities.(from Microsoft)
December 16, 2002... WITH THE ONSET of Microsoft's next SQL Server version, Yukon, drawing closer, the company is attempting to execute on a plan to bring BI (business intelligence) capabilities to the masses. BI should be given to users across the enterprise,...