InfoWorld articles from February 2001

InfoWorld archives from February 2001

The time is now to move storage from servers.(Industry Trend or Event)
February 26, 2001... The endless pursuit of more disk space is taking business to the next level of storage capacity AT THIS MOMENT, no aspect of enterprise computing deserves more attention than maintaining and storing corporate data. CTOs are increasingly...

Unix war flares.(Industry Trend or Event)
February 26, 2001... Although the Unix universe may revolve around Solaris, the 'other' flavors are making clever shifts to eclipse Sun BY ANY MEASURE, Sun Microsystems is at the top of its game. Sun leads the Unix hardware market with its Enterprise server...

Internet revives hope for videoconferencing.(Technology Information)
February 26, 2001... The latest wave of conferencing technologies uses the Web to ease communications EVERY YEAR, companies spend a sizeable chunk of change on business meetings. Arranging a meeting involves expenses for travel and lodging for nonlocal...

Beef up your defense against e-mail viruses.(Industry Trend or Event)
February 26, 2001... Fortify your enterprise before the next outbreak is unleashed ONE TENNIS FAN -- admittedly without an iota of programming skills -- armed with an easily downloaded virus construction kit is all it took to spawn the latest e-mail virus...

Streamline app dev aptly with a single tool.(Software Review)(Evaluation)
February 26, 2001... Together Control Center 4.2 improves workflow, allowing development teams to focus on the big picture IN TODAY'S ultrafast-paced business world, companies need quick and productive turnaround from their programmers. The tools programmers...

Unplugged data can also be hack-proof data.(Technology Information)
February 26, 2001... Security options available only to WLANs boost the appeal of wireless networking ASIDE FROM the obvious distinction of having no wires, wireless LANs or WLANs have the same physical attributes as traditional networks and require the same...

Thought cop.(Industry Trend or Event)
February 26, 2001... Policing employee e-mail and Internet usage is a cultural and legal balancing act for many IT managers SOMETIMES being an IT manager can feel more like being a cybercop than a tech professional. That's because one of IT's roles is often...

Changing the company name.(Column)
February 26, 2001... Corporate name changes are on the increase. Finding or coining the right name and URL to convey the right corporate message is becoming more difficult A COMPANY'S NAME carries significant weight. It must convey a certain attitude and an...

Online recruiter faces 'monster' headaches with CRM.(Company Operations)
February 26, 2001... Teaming up with Akibia helped Monster.com turn around a failed CRM global expansion project IT WAS A MONSTER of a job. Online recruiting and staffing company Monster.com was facing phenomenal domestic growth and grappling with extending...

JOB TITLES: Louisiana.(News Briefs)
February 26, 2001... With Mardi Gras festivities upon us, the job outlook for tech professionals in New Orleans and Louisiana looks bright. Vital statistics Population State: 4,372,035 (ranks 22nd in nation) New Orleans area: 1,305,479 ...

ADSL spurs new venture.(Company Business and Marketing)
February 26, 2001... TELEVISION TOKYO Channel 12, producer of the hit Pokemon TV cartoon, announced plans to establish a joint venture with seven other companies to supply business news and animation content to broadband telecommunications services. It is...

AT&T CEO Armstrong knocks Bells' behavior.(Industry Trend or Event)
February 26, 2001... SHARPLY CRITICIZING the conduct of ILECs (incumbent local exchange carriers), AT&T Chairman and CEO C. Michael Armstrong said competition in the U.S. local-telephone market remains only a vision because the Bells have maneuvered to make it...

Dataquest says satellite broadband will surge by 2005.(Industry Trend or Event)
February 26, 2001... WHILE CABLE Internet and DSL installation has yet to take off in the consumer market, analysts predict satellite broadband connections will soar skyward over the next four years. High-tech market analysis firm Dataquest, in San Jose,...

DoCoMo warns of bugs found in four more handset models.(Product Information)
February 26, 2001... NTT DOCOMO said it has found software faults in two more models of telephones. In January the company began replacing two handset models it had sold because of software bugs. The latest handsets to be subject to a voluntary recall are the...

Equant expands WAP roaming to international mobile users.(Company Business and Marketing)
February 26, 2001... NETWORK SERVICE provider Equant announced an international roaming service for WAP (Wireless Application Protocol), which will allow customers to reach WAP services via a local phone number in 22 countries. Although mobile service...

Japan's i-mode urges chipmakers to think mobile.(Company Business and Marketing)
February 26, 2001... THE HEAD OF NTT DoCoMo's popular i-mode service called on semiconductor engineers to develop new types of chips to allow the development of more advanced wireless Internet services. Launched in February 1999, i-mode has fast become the...

JavaScript spy creates an e-mail wiretap.(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
February 26, 2001... A NEWLY IDENTIFIED snooping technology allows someone sending an e-mail message to see what the recipient wrote when forwarding the message to another user, according to an Internet privacy group. It really is a wiretap, and it's "very...

McAfee creates map to track global viruses.(Company Business and Marketing)
February 26, 2001... NETWORK ASSOCIATES' McAfee.com boosted global virus intelligence by adding a real-time virus map to its Web site. The company claims the map will allow users to view global virus trends, anticipate virus outbreaks, and alert computer users to...

ENTERPRISE STRATEGIES: P-to-P and B-to-B: A match made in heaven, or much ado about nothing?(News Briefs)
February 26, 2001... ARE YOU AS excited as I am by the news from last week's O'Reilly Peer- to-Peer Conference in San Francisco? If b-to-b integration has any bearing on your business objective, you should be. Although Napster's been busy holding litigious...

MANAGEMENT BRIEFING: Seven guides for good sense keep your meaning clear when managing via e-mail.(Industry Trend or Event)
February 26, 2001... THE E-MAIL MISSIVES from a colleague seemed slightly insulting. I seethed. But then seeing that was probably a knee-jerk reaction, I decided to trash my clever response. Good thing, because after giving the messages a little breathing room,...

IS SURVIVAL GUIDE: Theory vs. theory aside, reskilling your work force is a smart conversion.(Column)
February 26, 2001... MANAGEMENTSPEAK: Thank you for your feedback. We appreciate your comments and suggestions. TRANSLATION: I have no idea what you said, because I didn't read it. -- IS survivalist Celia Redmore provides management with some useful...

WIRELESS WORLD: Handful of wireless solutions set to boost data analysis, security, shopping preferences.(News Briefs)(Column)
February 26, 2001... I RECENTLY MET WITH one of the founders of wireless technology startup Xigo, Lenny Raymond, who calls himself "chief spackling officer." I'm not sure what that means. My father was a house painter, and he tried to teach me how to spackle...

WINDOW MANAGER: Microsoft announces Windows XP: The easy, new operating system means eXtra profits.(Product Support)
February 26, 2001... MICROSOFT ANNOUNCED in Seattle on Feb. 13 its next operating system upgrade: Windows XP. As you may have heard by now, this will become the next consumer version of Windows. It will replace Windows Me but is based on the more stable Windows...

THE OPEN SOURCE: No DUH: Commercial Linux distributors should adopt Debian.(Industry Trend or Event)(Column)
February 26, 2001... CORPORATE IT is plagued by a type of obsessive-compulsive disorder known as DUH -- Dementia Upgradia Habitua. It manifests itself through the irrational assumption that the only way a company can maintain a competitive edge in productivity is...

SECURITY WATCH: Trojan horse attack on BugTrak's mailing list poses a problem for online communities.(Column)
February 26, 2001... LIKE MANY OF YOU, I have to juggle a lot of balls, and I don't have time to do all the reading necessary to stay current with industry trends. I do try to regularly browse various news sites to find out what's happening in the "real world,"...

FROM THE EDITOR IN CHIEF: It's about storage -- and if you're in doubt, look at the way you store Web data.(Industry Trend or Event)
February 26, 2001... Storage is one of those technologies that we tend to take for granted. And yet, if we look at the true status of things today, storage is king. One can even argue that servers, which have become commodities, are now becoming peripheral to...

E-BUSINESS MATTERS: Web users get special deals: Is it the digital divide or just good business sense?(Company Business and Marketing)(Column)
February 26, 2001... I RECENTLY CALLED United Airlines to book a flight. While waiting on the line, I was informed, via a recording, that the agents were prepared to offer me the "best possible fares." However, special Web- only fares might not be available to me...

NET PROPHET: What's a dot-com to do as click-and-mortars offer real options to customers?(Industry Trend or Event)
February 26, 2001... EMERGING AS THE real winners lately are those click-and-mortars that are combining the benefits of their physical stores with their ever- improving Web-commerce sites. Look at Nordstrom.com, Macys.com, Bluelight.com, and others. These...

NOTES FROM THE FIELD: Demo gods have laugh on Digital Ink as Verizon plans to regain Genuity.(News Briefs)(Column)
February 26, 2001... SOMETIMES IT'S TOUGH being a hard-nosed, hard-working tech reporter. I recently had to rough it at a warm exotic resort in the middle of February. Yes, it was Demo time again, the conference that showcases new technologies, handpicked by...

THE GRIPE LINE: All's quiet on the UCITA front -- too quiet -- but that's about to change.(News Briefs)
February 26, 2001... THE UNIFORM COMPUTER Information Transactions Act (UCITA) is the proposed state law that carries all manner of horrors for IT organizations, technical professionals, consumers, librarians, and so on (see www.infoworld.com/ucita for background...

FROM THE NEWS DESK: IBM aims to send allies clear message.(Company Operations)
February 26, 2001... The term e-business was the best thing to ever come along for IBM. Guided by CEO Louis Gerstner's strategy to rein in IBM's sprawling organization, the notion of doing business via the Internet gave IBM's rich but sometimes conflicting...

Fixed wireless goes after DSL.(News Briefs)
February 26, 2001... After a year's rest, fixed broadband wireless is finally ready for business WAKING FROM A year-long slumber and recently bursting free from some lingering technical and regulatory restrictions, fixed broadband wireless technology may...

Building up an e-business block by block.(Company Operations)
February 26, 2001... Xuma co-founder Jamie Lerner tells how component architectures aid users in deploying Internet apps AS CHAIRMAN, co-founder, and CTO of Xuma, Jamie Lerner is building an infrastructure for deploying e-business applications. To accomplish...

Java helps trading move into wireless age.(Industry Trend or Event)
February 26, 2001... Vendors partner up to put Java's portability and usability to work in mobile trading ALTHOUGH JAVA-BASED technologies play key roles in the infrastructures of many institutional securities trading systems, they will become increasingly...

Exchanges give bright ideas chance to shine.(Company Business and Marketing)
February 26, 2001... The Internet's free flow of information serves as impetus for the 'idea market' INNOVATION IS NOT a luxury. It is a necessity for companies," says Sanjay Goel, CEO of Ideas.com, a Mountain View, Calif.-based idea exchange. And for many...

Fifty-six percent of U.S. citizens use Net.(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)(Brief Article)
February 26, 2001... The number of U.S. citizens using the Internet grew by 16 million in the second half of 2000, meaning the number of U.S. adults with access to the Internet is 104 million or 56 percent, according to survey results released by the Pew Internet...

Injunction voided.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
February 26, 2001... A patent dispute between online retailers Amazon.com and Barnesandnoble.com saw some movement earlier this month when the U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that Barnesandnoble.com could continue to use the 1-click system technology under contention...

Supply-chain alliance forged.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
February 26, 2001... Manugistics Group has announced a joint initiative with Microsoft to integrate Manugistics' supply-chain offerings with Microsoft's .NET enterprise servers. The initiative is designed to offer a customizable supply-chain solution across a...

LEGAL: Microsoft, Bristol reach settlement in API lawsuit.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
February 26, 2001... Microsoft and Bristol Technology last week reached a settlement in an antitrust lawsuit that alleged that Microsoft manipulated Bristol's access to Windows programming interfaces. The terms of the settlement were not released. Bristol had...

ACQUISITION: Siemens buys Efficient Networks for $1.5 billion.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
February 26, 2001... SIEMENS ON THURSDAY snapped up DSL equipment vendor Efficient Networks in a $1.5 billion merger that is designed to bolster Siemens' broadband offerings. Siemens' Munich, Germany-based Information and Communications Network (ICN) group...

RESTRUCTURING: Hitachi details reorganization.(Company Operations)
February 26, 2001... HITACHI LAST WEEK outlined a series of organizational changes as part of an ongoing business plan in effect through March 2003. Among the changes announced, the Tokyo-based electronics vendor plans to spin off its Instruments Group and...

THE BUG REPORT.(Product Information)(Brief Article)
February 26, 2001... Novell: NetWare 5 Service Pack 6A and NetWare 5.1 Service Pack 2A may have some timing problems when running on Intel Pentium III computers. According to Novell, there may be a timesync drift problem and associated abends. An update to...

GE's Global eXchange Services unlocks its b-to-b network.(Company Business and Marketing)
February 26, 2001... GENERAL ELECTRIC'S Global eXchange Services (GXS) business unit extended broadly its partnership with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) last week while simultaneously moving to open its proprietary service for business-to-business e-commerce...

IBM unwraps IP storage products.(IBM TotalStorage NAS 300G and IBMTotalStorage IP Storage 200i data storage devices and EMC's ESN Manager network management software)(Product Announcement)
February 26, 2001... Big Blue to offer interoperable storage offerings to simplify SANs SEEKING TO OFFER its customers interoperable storage technologies that reduce the complexity of SANs (storage area networks), IBM last week announced a new product...

IBM launches ThinkPad TransNote.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
February 26, 2001... IBM has shipped its ThinkPad TransNote, a PC hybrid device that uses an ink-filled pen and a notebook. ThinkPad TransNote has a starting price of $2,999 and features an Intel Pentium III 600MHz processor, a 10.4- inch TFT (thin-film...

Marimba, Resonate deploy Internet apps.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
February 26, 2001... Internet infrastructure management provider Marimba and software vendor Resonate have announced a partnership for deploying Internet applications. The combination of Marimba's Timbale for Server Management software and Resonate's Central...

Opto22 offers wireless management.(Opto 22 Snap-IT Wireless LAN)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
February 26, 2001... Opto 22 has released a wireless version of its device management system, the Wireless LAN option for Snap-IT. The Snap-IT box is an SNMP-and Web-enabled unit for managing and monitoring real-world devices, such as data centers, cell towers,...

Sybase, WRQ move into EAI to boost e-business efforts.(Company Business and Marketing)
February 26, 2001... ALTHOUGH EAI (enterprise application integration) as a technology remains essentially the same, vendors are shifting to accommodate new e-business uses for it. Primarily for this reason, two vendors,Sybase and WRQ, added EAI to their...

Intel's forum touts IA-64, Xeon.(Company Business and Marketing)
February 26, 2001... ALL THINGS SERVER will be on tap at this week's Intel Developer Forum (IDF), with such issues as the IA-64 platform and Xeon processors making up more than 50 percent of the show's content, according to Intel sources. A primary issue at...

Ask Jeeves' strategy shift targets enterprise.(Company Business and Marketing)
February 26, 2001... A GROUP OF smaller companies that rely on ASPs (application service providers) to deliver their goods are making a move on the enterprise, and a know-it-all butler is leading the way. Ask Jeeves, which earlier this month released the...

Oracle looks to a 'services-as-software' role.(Company Business and Marketing)
February 26, 2001... By providing online access to a suite of e-business apps, Oracle reinvents its relationship with users ORACLE'S ANNOUNCEMENT last week at its AppsWorld conference in New Orleans that it would begin offering online access to its e-business...

Speeding dynamic content.(Industry Trend or Event)
February 26, 2001... CDN show highlights on-demand delivery of Web content SPEEDING THE DELIVERY of dynamically generated content grabbed the spotlight at the Content Delivery Networks (CDN) Conference in New York this week, with several vendors showcasing...

BEA eyes new markets for e-business platform.(Company Business and Marketing)
February 26, 2001... FACING COMPETITION from a growing number of Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE)-based application server vendors, BEA Systems will use its BEA e-World 2001 event this week to delve into application markets that extend its own platform. ...

Ariba extends exchange.(Company Business and Marketing)
February 26, 2001... Alliances spice up marketplace functions WITH ONLINE EXCHANGES no longer able to attract companies merely by offering buying and selling capabilities, Ariba this week will announce alliances that extend the collaborative supply-chain...

Microsoft antitrust case resumes.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
February 26, 2001... Microsoft and the federal government are scheduled to face off in court again this week, when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia hears arguments on the software giant's antitrust appeal. The two sides will present oral...

ebXML to play nice with SOAP.(Technology Information)(Brief Article)
February 26, 2001... Laying to rest industry concerns about interoperability issues between SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) and ebXML (electronic business XML), two standards bodies, the United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business...

Leaders launch fiber-optic venture.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
February 26, 2001... Former FCC Chairman Reed Hundt along with several technology industry leaders and investment companies, including Marc Andreessen, Benchmark Capital, Salomon Smith Barney, and Cisco Systems, have joined forces to fund $435 million toward the...

RIIA battles Napster look-alikes.(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
February 26, 2001... The Recoding Industry Association of America (RIAA) sent out legal notices to approximately 50 ISPs that it believes host file-swapping servers similar to Napster, informing them that the servers are violating copyright law, an RIAA...

HIPAA may be delayed by filing error.(Government Activity)(Brief Article)
February 26, 2001... The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which establishes privacy guidelines for exchanging patient information electronically, may face a two-month delay due to filing errors by the departed Clinton administration....

IBM sews up the middle.(Product Information)
February 26, 2001... Woos partners with integration push IBM IS COUNTING on its partners to bolster the fortunes of its key messaging middleware and application offerings, and will strengthen these connections with a series of agreements and initiatives to...

HSM debate rages: Cost versus user ease.(Industry Trend or Event)
February 26, 2001... Hierarchical storage management offers many benefits but may not be worth it Compared to just five years ago, it's amazing how much more storage modern applications and their data require. According to InfoWorld's research, maintaining...

Storage squeeze demands controversial approach.(News Briefs)
February 26, 2001... SAN and NAS are vying for your data, but is there really a choice between them? No matter what business your company is in, you're feeling the storage squeeze. Traditional storage architecture can't keep up with e-business requirements...

SSPs may hold key to ease the data crunch.(Industry Trend or Event)
February 26, 2001... Young market offers attractive benefits, but must address security concerns for wide acceptance IT LEADERS HAVE long been evaluating various build vs. buy and lease vs. buy scenarios. Soon after the first mainframe was sold, almost any...

Future-proof your storage environment.(News Briefs)
February 26, 2001... A 100 percent fiber network plus SoIP equals a storage system that will work well into the future ONE CONSTANT facing IT managers is ever-expanding storage requirements. In the InfoWorld Enterprise Storage Survey, 96 percent of...

Trying to outpace quickly growing demand.(News Briefs)
February 26, 2001... Pioneers promise to pack more data into smaller spaces WE'VE COME A long way since the punch cards of decades past. IBM first commercially introduced data storage in 1967, and since then storage densities have increased more than 1...

Linux and Itanium alter Sun's gravity: HP's Unix strategy marks a shift toward open systems.(Product Announcement)
February 26, 2001... WITH BILLIONS SPENT on hardware, software, and services each year, the enterprise Unix market can support more than one major player. Sun Microsystems is top dog with a commanding lead in unit sales, revenue, and mind share. Hewlett-Packard's...

Linux and Itanium alter Sun's gravity: IBM proves its commitment to Linux with AIX 5L offering.(News Briefs)
February 26, 2001... IF THE "BIG THREE" industrial-strength versions of Unix had personalities, Hewlett-Packard's HP-UX would be the engineer, manipulating wireframe CAD files while crunching numbers from a lab experiment; Sun's Solaris would be the...

DSL wares make Comnet splash.(Company Business and Marketing)
February 19, 2001... NEW PRODUCTS designed to advance the deployment of DSL services were promoted at ComNet by a number of companies seeming to remain confident about the technology despite recent layoffs and financial difficulties at large DSL service...

Scottish telco Thus says DSL service makes no economic sense.(Industry Trend or Event)
February 19, 2001... THE ROLLOUT OF broadband Internet services in the U.K. suffered yet another set back when Glasgow, Scotland-based telecommunications company, Thus, announced it was pulling the plug on its aggressive plans to offer DSL service from...

Beyond firewalls.(Company Operations)
February 19, 2001... Check Point's Jerry Ungerman thinks it's time to secure networks, applications, systems, and users CHECK POINT Software Technologies is an industry leader that helped make firewalls standard-issue software for IT departments. Check Point...

WorldCom wireless services to reach more U.S. cities.(Company Business and Marketing)
February 19, 2001... WORLDCOM announced an expansion of its 128Kbps wireless Internet service to cover four more U.S. cities. The service is based on Metricom's Ricochet network. The service, which offers 128Kbps for downloads and 64Kbps for uploads, is...

ENTERPRISE STRATEGIES: Conflicting standards hold back EDI from playing a larger role in today's e-commerce.(Industry Trend or Event)
February 19, 2001... IN SPITE OF the recent boom in coverage, e-commerce is not new. For more than 30 years, EDI (electronic data interchange) has been one of the most important innovations to enterprise commerce for trading and tracking business-to-business...

MANAGEMENT BRIEFING: Working to retain your employees is the insider's version of recruiting.(Industry Trend or Event)
February 19, 2001... A RECRUITER DIES and goes to heaven. She and she alone holds the key to her eternal future. The recruiter is to spend one day in heaven, one day in hell, and then tell the keeper of the pearly gates where she wants to spend eternity. Day...

IS SURVIVAL GUIDE: In your transition to management, consider these rules of success.(Column)
February 19, 2001... MANAGEMENTSPEAK: Because you're our expert in this field, we would like you to mentor Joe. TRANSLATION: We would like you to train Joe to be your replacement. -- This week's anonymous IS survivalist, on the other hand, is irreplaceable. ...

WIRELESS WORLD: It may anger users, but profit, not altruism, drives innovation in the wireless industry.(Product Information)(Column)
February 19, 2001... IF THERE WAS a way of rewarding generosity financially, what a wonderful wireless world this would be. After all, the reality here is that companies exist to make a profit; so why should they give away anything -- unless they're forced...

WINDOW MANAGER: Browser, beware: PayLine's scheme promises headaches, not fat payments.(Company Business and Marketing)
February 19, 2001... INTERNET SURFERS, BEWARE: A new Web site is signing up thousands of members at $200 each, even though its promises are financially impossible. ThePayLine.com pledges that members will receive free airline tickets to any destination in the...

THE OPEN SOURCE: Thanks to the lack of a distribution standard, Linux distributors are dropping like flies.(Industry Trend or Event)
February 19, 2001... IN SPITE OF the fact that Mandrake boasts that it is the hottest Linux distributor in retail sales, its retail product is a loss leader. SuSE has laid off two-thirds of its U.S. employees. TurboLinux is cutting back on its workforce and may...

SITE SAVVY: Sure, content is king, but where does it rank on the value scale?(Industry Trend or Event)
February 19, 2001... ALMOST ALL ONLINE businesses that produce content sites are struggling. According to a recent Forrester Research report, "The Content Site Turnaround," 80 percent of content sites are not profitable. The biggest hurdle to the success of many...

SECURITY WATCH: It may require extra work, but corporate IT needs to think about securing family PCs.(Industry Trend or Event)
February 19, 2001... I RECENTLY HAD another demonstration of why telecommuters are the most vulnerable point in a company's IT network. The good news is that we didn't suffer any damage and I found an idea for a column, and the bad news is somebody else's...

FROM THE EDITOR IN CHIEF: Yahoo and IBM head for a collision on the road to business intelligence.(Company Business and Marketing)
February 19, 2001... BI (business intelligence), much like the phrase military intelligence, is an oxymoron that marries two seemingly incongruous ideas to describe a critical function. The vast majority of businesses today have no idea what's happening to their...

E-BUSINESS MATTERS: Turning traditional call centers into e-CRM Web centers is no small task.(Industry Trend or Event)
February 19, 2001... MOST E-BUSINESSES will readily acknowledge that when it comes to Web- based customer service, there is much room for improvement. We all have our pet peeves about resolving service issues, and the truth is that many of those problems exist in...

NET PROPHET: Expedia and Travelocity improve search features and customer experience.(Industry Trend or Event)
February 19, 2001... LOOKING FOR A GOOD airfare these days is almost as hard as finding venture capital for a dot-com startup. OK, nothing is that hard. But to find the right fare and the right itinerary, travelers have to shop around. And there are plenty of...

NOTES FROM THE FIELD: Bobby wonders if Intel is dissing Java and if Intuit will live up to its name.(Column)
February 19, 2001... JOB SECURITY SURE isn't what it used to be. Last month published reports said that the chairman of Red Herring, a magazine that serves the venture capital and high-tech communities, fired one of its founding editors. The chairman, Tony...

THE GRIPE LINE: Readers don't buy eBay's claims that technical glitch resets preferences.(Column)
February 19, 2001... THE FUNNY THING about the Your Preferences page on certain Web portals is that they seem to suffer from a glitch that leaves the Y out. Many companies periodically reset their customers' preferences so that they are eligible to receive...