InfoWorld articles from January 2001

InfoWorld archives from January 2001

Samsung phone, Bluetooth in Palm's future.
January 8, 2001... SAMSUNG Electronics became Palm's latest customer, announcing plans to deliver a smart mobile phone based on Palm's software that combines voice calls with a Web browser and the functionality of a PDA. Samsung said it plans to launch its...

Demand for wireless Internet access can pose application challenges.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 8, 2001... Lori: Last week we wrote about wireless Internet access. That topic raised a lot of reader questions regarding how to enable applications for wireless access. We will see major growth in the number of wireless data subscribers, rising to...

Shinei brings MP3s to Palm's m100 handheld computer.(Product Development)
January 8, 2001... AT THE PALMSOURCE developer conference in Santa Clara, Calif., last month, Singapore's Shinei Sangyo showed off what it claims is the first hardware accessory that turns Palm's m100 handheld computer into an MP3 digital music player. ...

ENTERPRISE STRATEGIES: Cobol programmers, face it: Your favorite code is outdated and losing support.(Technology Information)
January 8, 2001... IN THE NEARLY five years I have been writing for InfoWorld, never has an article of mine generated such incredible response as "Application transformation" (see www.infoworld.com/printlinks). The article presented an overview of two tools,...

IS SURVIVAL GUIDE: Last year's crystal ball reveals predictions that came true -- and a few that did not.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 8, 2001... "If today is the first day of the rest of your life, what was yesterday?" -- Unknown, but probably Stephen Wright IT'S 2001. We should have a self-supporting space station, a permanent outpost on the moon, and a psychotic computer...

WINDOW MANAGER: Free software site makes programs that compete with big-buck Windows applications.(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)(Brief Article)
January 8, 2001... READER BRIAN GANLEY wrote in, full of praise about a Web site called AnalogX. Sure, there are shareware and freeware sites up the wazoo, and I could write 52 columns a year about nothing but the latest shareware. But it turns out Ganley is onto...

THE OPEN SOURCE: Predictions for the first year of the new millennium are easier than ever before.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 8, 2001... WELL, IT'S PREDICTIONS time again, and boy is it easy this year. My first prediction is that we will see the 2.4 Version of the Linux kernel arrive early in 2001 and Version 2.4.1 by the middle of the year. Version 2.4.1 will include support...

SECURITY WATCH: Security cannot rest on one element: You also need full disclosure and varied technologies.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 8, 2001... WE'VE BEEN GRACED with the opportunity during the past two-and-a-half years to deliver security information that we hope will motivate and inspire you to take action. What we have found over this time is that many still don't understand the...

WIRELESS WORLD: Broadband wireless is getting closer, but incompatibilities will push up the price.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 8, 2001... AS SURELY AS NIGHT follows day, to use a phrase of Shakespeare's, 3G (third-generation) broadband wireless connectivity is on the way. Along with better performance and more headroom for cell phone growth, 3G technology will also enter the...

TO THE EDITOR.(Letter to the Editor)
January 8, 2001... Incorrect and misleading WE WOULD LIKE to comment on a story that appeared in your publication, titled "Microsoft, HP play politics" (Nov. 13). The article states that "Through [a speculated] agreement, Microsoft would layer HP's Chai, a...

SITE SAVVY: After all the fruitcake from last year, it's time for a few predictions.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 8, 2001... IT'S A NEW YEAR'S tradition to resolve that I'll shed the tire around my waist from eating my way through 25 pounds of fruitcake during the holidays. And it's practically an annual requirement that I make a prediction or two for the new year....

FROM THE EDITOR IN CHIEF: Top 10 technology trends for 2001 all ask one thing: Are you experienced?(Industry Trend or Event)
January 8, 2001... Welcome to the first full working week of the new century. As we begin the new year, many of the IT priorities of 2000 will continue to hold sway through 2001. But the environment in which those projects will come to fruition has changed...

E-BUSINESS MATTERS: Be a czar in the short-lived role of institutionalizing your e-business strategy.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 8, 2001... MOST CEOs SEE THE value of appointing an e-business czar -- a senior executive whose full-time job it is to create and oversee the execution of the enterprise e-business strategy. The czar is a transient figure, typically lasting no more than...

NET PROPHET: New Year's resolutions, goals, and predictions for 2001's b-to-c winners.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 8, 2001... IN THESE FIRST DAYS of the real new millennium, it's time for everyone, from individuals to entire departments to giant corporations, to take stock of what's working and what's not and to set some goals for the new year. Writing New Year's...

NOTES FROM THE FIELD: Microsoft Tahoe needs service pack; AltaVista's customers need service.(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
January 8, 2001... RANDI IS predicting that I will have a much less stressful year in 2001. You see, among all the gadgets and garments I received from well- wishing family members and friends this holiday, my girlfriend bought me an aromatherapy kit. "It is...

THE GRIPE LINE: Phony lotteries, domain name extortion may be the latest Internet con.(Industry Trend or Event)(Column)
January 8, 2001... DON'T BELIEVE everything you read. And when it comes to the Internet, don't believe anything you read until you're sure it's not another con job. Recent Internet scams reported by readers follow many of the same patterns we've seen before....

FROM THE NEWS DESK: Time to reassess software licensing.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 8, 2001... With a topic as complex as software licensing, it's tempting to shift to autopilot and rubber-stamp contract renewals. But a few factors make re-examining software purchases a strategic concern for enterprises going forward. For starters,...

Dot-com brokerage exploits a market niche.(Company Operations)
January 8, 2001... With economic expertise and technology passion, BUYandHOLD.com's CTO keeps the site on target IN THE FAST-PACED world of online trading, it is not surprising that one of the more important tasks of a CTO in the industry is managing change....

Content sites find possible revenue source.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 8, 2001... Sites offer consumers chances to buy products relevant to the content they are viewing SINCE THE INCEPTION of the Web, online content sites have been struggling to find new ways to add to their revenue streams. Subscription models have...

Power taps the Web.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 8, 2001... Facing a future full of questions regarding deregulation and industry restructuring, energy retailers are turning to the Internet to retain customers and solidify valuable partnerships IN THE MIDST of the complex and uncertain revolution...

Pepco lights up.(Company Business and Marketing)
January 8, 2001... Potomac Electric Power Company (Pepco) is no longer a hometown utility selling a single commodity. The Washington-based company is now a competitive enterprise offering an array of energy and telecommunications products and services in an...

Scorecards ease businesses' balancing act.(Technology Information)
January 8, 2001... Boosting efficiency helps companies do more with their current resources COMPANIES OFTEN RELY on a single telltale measurement to determine success: profits. That may appeal to investors and Wall Street mavens, but it does not always...

HP, Sprint partner for wireless e-mail.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
January 8, 2001... Hewlett-Packard and Sprint PCS struck an alliance last month to give mobile workers wireless access to corporate e-mail accounts. The companies said they will jointly market and sell the HP OpenMail Anywhere messaging and collaboration system...

Siebel unveils apps for interactive selling.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
January 8, 2001... E-business applications software vendor Siebel Systems has unveiled a suite of interactive selling applications called the Siebel Interactive Selling Suite. The applications are designed to boost the quality and effectiveness of online...

Mytec, Biometric Identification merge.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
January 8, 2001... Mytec Technologies has signed an agreement to acquire Biometric Identification (BII). The acquisition will be completed through a merger of BII and a newly formed, wholly owned California subsidiary of Mytec called Bioscrypt. The new company...

REBRANDING: Andersen Consulting takes on a new moniker.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
January 8, 2001... With a new year comes a new name for Andersen Consulting, which will now be known as Accenture. The organization's rebranding is intended to better reflect its "network of businesses" that provide consulting, technology, outsourcing, alliances,...

FINANCIALS: BMC bucks trend with forecast of increased revenue.(Company Financial Information)
January 8, 2001... AMID A STEADY stream of profit warnings from software vendors, BMC Software had some surprising news last week: The mainframe and client/server systems management software company raised its forecasts for third-quarter revenue. For its...

PARTNERSHIP: Napster inks deal with music label.(Company Business and Marketing)
January 8, 2001... PEER-TO-PEER file-sharing service Napster announced an alliance last week with a German independent music label to promote a new membership- based business model under development by Napster. The deal calls for edel Music to allow the...

THE BUG REPORT.(Product Information)(Brief Article)
January 8, 2001... Microsoft warns of a limitation in its Windows 2000 Advanced Server and Datacenter Server. The command-line utility Cluster.exe will create multiple spooler resources, but only the first spooler resource will actually come online. This error...

A health care Y2K is starting to hit home.(Government Activity)
January 8, 2001... With a stroke of the pen, outgoing President Clinton raises the bar for automating outdated health care systems and giving patients more control over personal information A MASSIVE UPHEAVAL OF the IT and administrative procedures of the...

IBM finally adds diagnostic 'smart agents' to its PC line.(Company Business and Marketing)
January 8, 2001... AS CUSTOMER SERVICE and support continue to top the list of priorities among PC vendors, IBM made a late entry into the automated PC support market last week with the introduction of "smart" technology tools that automatically diagnose and...

Yahoo bans hate-group commerce sites from its Web portal.(Company Business and Marketing)
January 8, 2001... IN THE BATTLE BETWEEN U.S. Web portal Yahoo and the French courts over banning Nazi gear, the Americans have conceded in at least one arena. Santa Clara, Calif.-based Yahoo will prohibit Nazi memorabilia from being sold on its commerce...

iPlanet, SilverStream round out Web platforms.(Product Announcement)
January 8, 2001... LOOKING FOR A bigger piece of the application server market, iPlanet E- Commerce Solutions and SilverStream Software rounded out their e- business platforms with updates to their server wares. Vying for market share is expected to intensify...

Intel chip trips up Linux install.(Product Information)
January 8, 2001... IT IS SAFE to say that last week Intel's Pentium 4 processor had a bad week. Not only did a market report come out confirming the chip's lethargic retail sales, but a handful of top Linux operating systems distributors said their products...

NAI changes executives - New CEO to focus on top accounts, employee retention.(Company Operations)
January 8, 2001... ALTHOUGH THE RECENT shake-up at Network Associates (NAI) may have Wall Street nervous, enterprise users most likely will not be affected unless the company's woes continue and cause substantial employee retention problems, according to...

Online holiday sales surge - Brick-and-mortar retailer sites reap the most benefits.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 8, 2001... AS BRICK-AND-MORTAR retailers staged a comeback this year with improved Web sites, online sales across the board for the holiday season rose 60 percent. Online sales surged to $6 billion, according to BizRate.com, a data collection and...

Retooling software pricing.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 8, 2001... Vendors look to add usage-based models AS THE NATURE of software evolves into services and hosted models, vendors and customers are facing what is probably the beginning of the end for user-based licensing. A new era of pricing schemas...

Running on empty.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 8, 2001... Energy crisis pinches hosting vendors INDUSTRIAL BEHEMOTHS aren't the only ones eating up all the electricity in California. That state's energy crunch is zapping power-hungry Web hosting vendors as well. And faced with steep utility...

Apple looks to price cuts and to Macworld for jump start.(Company Business and Marketing)
January 8, 2001... SHOWING ITS WOUNDS from the industrywide slowdown in personal computer sales, Apple Computer last week slashed prices across several desktop and notebook system lines. After warning of disappointing first quarter financial results last month,...

Vendors woo consumers.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 8, 2001... Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas sets stage SEEKING NEW CUSTOMERS and sales, high-tech companies with established reputations in the commercial marketplace courted the consumer market at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), which...

Microsoft hit with $5 billion discrimination suit.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 8, 2001... SIX BLACK FORMER and current employees joined a $5 billion racial discrimination lawsuit against Microsoft last week, alleging that the company has passed them over for promotions, discriminated against them in hiring and firing practices, and...

Interest rate cuts to keep IT projects rolling.(Government Activity)
January 8, 2001... THE IMMEDIATE EFFECT of the Federal Reserve's interest rate cuts may be green lights for IT projects and initiatives; however, IT managers and their suppliers will have to keep an eye on whether or not demand returns for the offerings of both...

Lotus reorganization planned.(Company Operations)
January 8, 2001... Lotus Development is being restructured, with the bulk of the reorganization due to occur this quarter, a company official confirmed Friday. Details of the reorganization were not immediately provided, and will not be provided until the...

Sun building Web apps framework.(Product Development)(Brief Article)
January 8, 2001... Continuing its mantra of "network as the computer," Sun Microsystems is at work on a development framework for building Web-enabled applications. The project will inevitably help Sun move further into the Web services fray and to compete with...

Torvalds releases Linux kernel update.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
January 8, 2001... The much-anticipated 2.4.0 version of the Linux kernel has been released by Linus Torvalds, the creator of the open-source operating system. The 2.4 kernel has been keenly awaited by Linux users and Linux companies such as Red Hat, Caldera...

L&H gets Belgian bankruptcy protection.(Company Financial Information)(Brief Article)
January 8, 2001... A Belgian court last week granted troubled software vendor Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products (L&H) bankruptcy protection under Belgian law, after which L&H promptly announced that it will lay off 1,200 employees within the next three months as...

BMC names new chief.(Company Operations)(Brief Article)
January 8, 2001... Enterprise software maker BMC Software last week announced the appointment of Robert E. Beauchamp as its new president and CEO. Beauchamp, 41, is BMC's former senior vice president for product management and development and a 12-year veteran of...

Device domination ahead.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 8, 2001... Handheld PCs, mobile solutions, and wireless PDAs are just the beginning of the device revolution promising to bring increased productivity to the mobile workforce THE DAY OF THE DEVICE is fast approaching. Whether or not the device can...

Turning staff-owned gadgets into work tools.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 8, 2001... Leaving your employees to their own devices is no way to ensure productivity in the office IT'S EASY TO ARGUE about the pros and cons of various holiday traditions, but there is no question that because of the annual gift- giving, your...

Tachyon's reliable broadband access is truly heaven-sent.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 8, 2001... Resilient 2MB Internet service comes via satellite, making it an attractive and convenient option for remote users A LANDLINE DATA circuit is a fragile thing. Data must travel through miles of cable to get from your telephone closet to your...

Will you be ready for the wireless enterprise?(Industry Trend or Event)
January 8, 2001... Building a wireless infrastructure today requires future-proofing and flexible standards WITH ALL OF the hype surrounding the wireless Internet and its promises of anytime, anywhere information availability, businesses are champing at the...

News and advice on working with temporary employees.(Brief Article)(Directory)
January 8, 2001... Site: Bendich, Stobaugh and Strong - www.bs-s.com What you'll find: Visit this site to review the proposed settlement of the class-action lawsuit filed by "permatemps" against Microsoft. What you won't: You won't find an unbiased...

INDUSTRY OUTLOOK: Aerospace.(Industry Trend or Event)(Statistical Data Included)
January 8, 2001... As many companies move toward an economic slowdown, the Aerospace Industries Association says the business and employment outlook for the aerospace industry is looking up. Industry statistics Employment Total employed in United...

Review temporary workers' status.(Company Business and Marketing)
January 8, 2001... Microsoft has agreed to pay a $97 million settlement to some 10,000 "permatemps" -- long-term employees -- putting an end to their long- running class-action lawsuit and a dollar figure on the mistake of misclassifying temporary workers. ...

Optional illusions.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 8, 2001... Citing wrongful termination, employees increasingly turn to the courts for 'lost' stock options Stock options are the grease that keeps the wheels of our New Economy turning. In the high-stakes race to attract IT talent, many high-tech...

Undersea-cable operators eye Asian bandwidth.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 15, 2001... PREDICTIONS OF A future shortage in bandwidth, combined with the recent high-profile breakdown in a major regional undersea fiber-optic cable, have put Asia's telecommunications infrastructure under the spotlight like never before. A...

Lower phone costs, free IPSs closing Italy's Internet gap.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 15, 2001... ITALY IS CLOSING the gap on the leaders of the Internet revolution and was estimated to have about 14 million Web users by the end of 2000, double the figure for the previous year and five times that of 1998, according to a recent study. ...

Nortel to consolidate Latin American wireless operations.(Company Business and Marketing)
January 15, 2001... NORTEL NETWORKS will consolidate its Latin American wireless and local Internet access operations during 2001 by building broadband networks with local partners, according to the new vice president of Nortel for that region. Nortel, in...

Users should plan to ring in the new year with anti-virus products.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 15, 2001... Lori: We have come to the end of the first year of the century, and with that I must say goodbye to InfoWorld and Test Center Rx. The past five years in the InfoWorld Test Center have been great, and I have thoroughly enjoyed working with a...

ENTERPRISE STRATEGIES: A new look at your old project management methods can promote your advantages.(Technology Information)
January 15, 2001... I HAD THE good fortune this holiday season to visit friends in Switzerland. One, a project manager for food giant Nestle, is no stranger to multinational project development. I found his counsel regarding successful project management, born...

IS SURVIVAL GUIDE: Predicting Microsoft's next big hit is about as reliable as forecasting Minnesota weather.(Company Business and Marketing)
January 15, 2001... MANAGEMENTSPEAK: We have an evolving business model. TRANSLATION: We're in the red and don't know how to fix it. --IS Survivalist Stirling Rasmussen shows his expertise in strategic business analysis. IN JANUARY, Minnesota turns...

WIRELESS WORLD: FBI phone tapping and locating cell phones making 911 calls: Is it privacy or paranoia?(Government Activity)
January 15, 2001... FOR ALL YOU kids out there who don't like scary stories, turn the set off now. I'm about to tell you of a monster that's coming this year. And the scariest thing is you can't hide. In October a Federal Communications Commission requirement goes...

WINDOW MANAGER: Now you can make Notepad print plain text files using your preferred settings.(Product Support)(Tutorial)
January 15, 2001... WE ALL HAVE to handle plain text files from time to time, and we know that printing files with the built-in Notepad applet in Windows should be called "pain text." Fortunately, I've found a way to bend Notepad to your will so you can make it...

THE OPEN SOURCE: Persuading AMD and Intel to fight over open source this year.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 15, 2001... I SPENT MY YOUTH during the pop psychology age of I'm OK, You're OK, a book by Thomas Harris that helped popularize something called transactional analysis. One of my favorite authors of the genre was Dr. Eric Berne, who wrote an interesting...

SECURITY WATCH: This tour of duty ends with fond memories and expectations for a secure future.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 15, 2001... IT SEEMS LIKE yesterday that we decided to take up the challenge of writing a weekly column that propels security issues into the consciousness of IT. When we wrote our first column, in 1998, and declared security the next big IT crisis, little...

TO THE EDITOR.(News Briefs)
January 15, 2001... eToys and monopoly power BARBARA GOMOLSKI'S comments regarding eToys (see E-Business Matters, Dec. 25 / Jan. 1), "... and the media's focus on dot-com fallout... " is an excellent insight into the monopoly power that the Time Warner-...

FROM THE EDITOR IN CHIEF: It's not sexy, but supply-chain management will prove its worth in time.(Industry Trend or Event)(Editorial)
January 15, 2001... For years, supply-chain software received no respect. In fact, most existing supply-chain systems are broken in one way or another, which is a fact the business people are in some state of denial about. Fortunately, supply chains are hot, and...

E-BUSINESS MATTERS: Top 10 recommendations on building scalable, high- performance Web sites.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 15, 2001... A FEW WEEKS AGO, I wrote a column about eToys that generated a large reader response (see "eToys may not survive, but valuable lessons can be learned from its mistakes," Dec. 25 / Jan. 1). Most people chimed in to lament the hardships of the...

NET PROPHET: This year may become the year that bricks-and-clicks achieve their revenge.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 15, 2001... THE HOLIDAY SHOPPING season 2000 may be remembered as the time when brick-and-click retailers came into their own, trumping their pure-play counterparts. Many of the preliminary numbers are in for holiday season 2000 and despite a rough retail...

NOTES FROM THE FIELD: Dean Kamen, iBot creator, may change the world with new project.(Technology Information)
January 15, 2001... RANDI IS ALL aflutter, wondering just what this secret project is that Dean Kamen is working on. Kamen is the winner of the National Medal of Technology and most recently created the iBot, an off-road wheelchair. (Check out Bob Metcalfe's...

THE GRIPE LINE: Poor shipping processes got Amazon on this year's holiday naughty list.(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
January 15, 2001... UNLIKE SANTA, I make up my list of who's been naughty and nice after the holidays, with a special emphasis on Web retailers that were wayward in their shipments to holiday shoppers. So far this year my naughty list is a short one: Amazon.com....

FROM THE NEWS DESK: Filling in the b-to-b e-commerce picture.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 15, 2001... It's no mystery that today we speak broadly of e-business rather than only e-commerce. When the Internet was first applied to business, people seized on the idea of selling via the Web, first to consumers and then among business partners. Much...

Wielding influence.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 15, 2001... Corporate customers' wireless and mobile needs are forcing PC vendors to sit up and take note, speeding a departure from traditional PC packaging and changing the face of PCs to come HIGH-FLYING CONSUMER PC sales may have hit some...

Building the expertise to serve many b-to-bs.(Company Business and Marketing)
January 15, 2001... CTO takes on the challenge of becoming an application service provider across multiple industries AS AN ASP (application service provider), North Systems is trying to become an e-commerce hub for an array of business-to-business...

Businesses look to consumer technology.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 15, 2001... CES show exhibits easier-to-use products designed for business and remote workers RECENT ADVANCES IN office technology have been aimed at the consumer market, producing smaller, simpler tools for the workplace. These streamlined devices...

Biometrics eye the mainstream markets.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 15, 2001... High-tech biometrics may offer the solution to authentication and security demands LIKE THE PERENNIAL bridesmaid hoping to find her perfect match, makers of biometrics technology continue to search for easier and more cost- effective means...

Exchanges announce plans for megahub.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
January 15, 2001... Chicago-based Transora, an exchange for the consumer packaged goods industry, and San Francisco-based GlobalNetXchange, a business-to- business exchange for the retail industry, announced plans earlier this month to create a megahub to enable...

PwC to offer Web-based platform.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
January 15, 2001... AlphaBox and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) this month expanded their existing alliance to build business intelligence solutions, according to officials at AlphaBox. Under the terms of the agreement, PwC will implement and resell AlphaBox 3,...

Northern Light unveils new partner.(Company Business and Marketing)
January 15, 2001... Internet search engine and content company Northern Light Technology last week locked up a new partnership with PA Consulting Group, a London-based firm, Northern Light officials said. Under the deal, PA will use Northern Light's solutions,...

FINANCIALS: SAP says quarterly results to top predictions.(Company Financial Information)(Brief Article)
January 15, 2001... Business software maker SAP is touting "very good" fourth-quarter results. Preliminary figures show an operating profit of about $574 million, a growth of more than 40 percent from the same period in 1999, the company said in a statement last...

ACQUISITIONS: CRM players increase offerings with acquisitions.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
January 15, 2001... TWO CRM (customer relationship management) companies, Chordiant and Onyx, beefed up their offerings by acquiring smaller vendors last week. Chordiant announced plans to buy PrimeResponse, a fixture in the business-to-customer relationship...

SALE: NetObjects to shed enterprise division.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
January 15, 2001... NETOBJECTS, WHICH makes business software for building and maintaining Web sites, said last week that it has signed a definitive agreement to sell its enterprise division to Merant for $18 million. NetObjects will use the cash from the sale...

THE BUG REPORT.(Product Information)(Brief Article)
January 15, 2001... Cisco Systems: The company has discovered a problem with the CPA (channel port adapters) in Cisco 7200 routers. If they use SanDisk storage media, the default microcode is not being loaded after a start- up or Internetwork Operating System...

Auction sites hit hard by electronic crime.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 15, 2001... THE BULK OF electronic crimes committed in the United States last year related to Internet auction sites and affected people between the ages of 20 and 40, according to a study released last week by New York-based market research company...