InfoWorld articles from March 2001

InfoWorld archives from March 2001

DoCoMo alerts users to bug in Matsushita Java handset.(Matsushita P503i)(Product Information)
March 5, 2001... NTT DOCOMO SAID one of two new cellular telephones launched just last month has a bug, which can cause all data stored in the handset to be lost. For the high-flying Japanese cellular operator, the news marks the fifth time in the last two...

Gartner study finds mobile phone sales up 46 percent.(Industry Trend or Event)
March 5, 2001... WORLDWIDE SALES of mobile phones reached 412.7 million units last year, an increase of 45.5 percent, according to research and consulting company Gartner Group, in Stamford, Conn. But by year's end, a long- rumored market slowdown had kicked...

Handspring chief unwraps Visor modules.(Jeff Hawkins)
March 5, 2001... JEFF HAWKINS, founder, chairman, and chief product officer of Handspring, returned to the Demo technology show in Phoenix last month to launch two new modules for the Visor Personal Data Assistant (PDA): a new version of the eyemodule camera...

Location-based services called key to unplugged Internet industry growth.(Industry Trend or Event)
March 5, 2001... PERSONALIZED, location-based services will be a vital application for the success of the wireless Internet, but several issues such as privacy still need to be addressed to ensure success, said Sridhar Ranganathan, general manager of Yahoo...

Unimobile kills free service.(Company Business and Marketing)
March 5, 2001... UNIMOBILE, a startup in Santa Clara, Calif. offering two-way SMS (Short Message Service) that lets users send messages between PCs and mobile devices, has decided to discontinue its free service for the more than one million consumers who use...

Service to be next killer wireless application.(Industry Trend or Event)
March 5, 2001... THERE IS NO KILLER app for the wireless industry, no single super software application that will drive people to use their mobile devices more -- except, perhaps, better service. So said panelists at Harvard Business School's Cyberposium...

ENTERPRISE STRATEGIES: EDI redux: Early adoption of substandard standards may leave costly legacy pains.(Technology Information)
March 5, 2001... I'VE RETURNED from a recent set of roundtable discussions in which several retail clients heatedly discussed the migration of existing EDI (electronic data interchange) systems to XML-based alternatives. After intense discussion, I found that...

CTO DIRECTIONS: Garner inside advice by networking with fellow tech leaders.(Industry Trend or Event)
March 5, 2001... GOOD CTOS -- and anyone intent on becoming one -- are always finding ways to improve their game. Consistently the best money-and time-saving advice comes from other CTOs. If you are not networking with your technocompadres, do so now. This may...

IS SURVIVAL GUIDE: Management skills can save you from becoming a slave to technology.
March 5, 2001... MANAGEMENTSPEAK: We need to cut our IT budget. TRANSLATION: We haven't figured out a way to grow and we aren't willing to give up any executive perks. -- This week's anonymous contributor describes the relationship between strategy and...

WIRELESS WORLD: RIM Blackberry, look out behind you; mobile ASPs will disappear; and SeeMyBaby.(Industry Trend or Event)
March 5, 2001... PETER GAUCHER, the program director of mobile product strategy at IBM, said at the recent Mobile Insights conference that IBM was quite surprised at how many people are willing to use their thumbs to type, alluding to the relative success of...

WINDOW MANAGER: Attention fellow Windows sufferers: You could win the free 'Geek for a Day' contest.
March 5, 2001... I'VE NEVER SEEN a Windows system that didn't need tuning, tweaking, fixing, or at least complaining about. I thank my lucky stars that Microsoft created such a complex and cranky collection of software; Windows certainly gives me lots to write...

THE OPEN SOURCE: We'll all be better off when Linux distributors accept the inevitable.(Industry Trend or Event)
March 5, 2001... LAST WEEK I suggested that all commercial distributions adopt Debian as the foundation for their Linux distribution. Gauging from the response I received, most readers misunderstood my rationale for choosing Debian as a prime candidate for a...

SITE SAVVY: Incrementally revamp your Web site for your customers -- not you.(Industry Trend or Event)
March 5, 2001... MOST FOLKS HATE it when sites go through major design changes, even when the current design reeks; the idea of learning to use another design is simply not appealing. And so, incremental design improvements are a necessity. Whereas a...

SECURITY WATCH: Banning attachments is like tying an arm behind your back and expecting results.(Industry Trend or Event)
March 5, 2001... IN THE WAKE of the Visual Basic Script (VBS) SST, or Anna Kournikova e- mail virus, a lot of ink and toner -- some of it mine -- has been spilled on ways to foil future incidents. Many of the solutions are simple, obvious ones that fall under...

TO THE EDITOR.(Letter to the Editor)
March 5, 2001... Struck a nerve I'VE BEEN AN InfoWorld reader for about a year now and I love the articles. But the chart from the Employment Policy Foundation (see Career Currents, Feb. 19) in the article on employee absenteeism really struck a nerve. ...

FROM THE EDITOR IN CHIEF: The widget is not enough, so build a community and they really will come.(Industry Trend or Event)(Editorial)
March 5, 2001... For some inexplicable reason, people who build e-commerce sites on the Web tend to take leave of their common sense when they first launch their new business venture. Whether it is a business-to-consumer site or a business-to-business site, the...

E-BUSINESS MATTERS: When e-businesses need to find their message, a good PR agency can help.
March 5, 2001... IN THIS COLUMN, I have written a lot about technology and marketing issues in relation to e-business. But there's one aspect that I haven't yet touched upon: public relations. Some would argue that PR is not a strategic decision, and...

NET PROPHET: If you've had it with the Travelocity and Expedia wars, try other options.(Industry Trend or Event)
March 5, 2001... WITH TRAVELOCITY.COM AND Expedia.com duking it out for the consumer and business online travel dollar, sometimes it's easy to forget about all of the other players in the huge -- and still growing -- market. Forrester Research says that by...

NOTES FROM THE FIELD: Software giant looks to bury test results as @Home digs a new hole.
March 5, 2001... RANDI SAYS I must have been having a senior moment recently when I passed along a tip that Intel's Pentium IV didn't work with Java. I do know better. As many astute readers have pointed out, Java's a platform-independent language. It doesn't...

THE GRIPE LINE: Some new shrink-wrap license terms seem tailor-made for UCITA.(Government Activity)
March 5, 2001... WHAT ARE SOFTWARE publishers hoping to get out of the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA)? Judging by some of their shrink- wrap terms, it's a license to kill. As we know, UCITA can cause plenty of problems just by...

FROM THE NEWS DESK: A business downturn revives supply chain.
March 5, 2001... The bad financial news from the tech sector has gone well past the "dot-bomb" phenomenon. High-tech industry leaders are getting hit by an IT spending slowdown, and they blame a suspension in major capital expenditures as CEOs monitor how...

Web law blocks growth - When in Rome: Web sites run afoul of the law internationally when they offend mores locally.(Industry Trend or Event)
March 5, 2001... COURT RULINGS in France and Germany have attempted to make Web sites operating from outside their national borders liable to the laws within those borders, effectively telling Web site operators to filter out visitors from their countries. ...

Online sportscaster keeps users in the game.(Company Business and Marketing)
March 5, 2001... SportsLine.com soaks up the pressure from fans who want up-to-date scores and site reliability A RITE OF SPRING beloved by college basketball fans, the NCAA men's basketball championship popularly known as March Madness, has grown into one...

Broadband moves into multitenant buildings.(Industry Trend or Event)
March 5, 2001... Building owners use advanced switching technology to reuse legacy wiring NOWADAYS, EVERYONE from business users to home users to students wants a high-speed Internet connection. Unfortunately, many buildings cannot receive fat pipes. Some...

Business intelligence keeps tabs on the Net.
March 5, 2001... Companies are using the Web's wealth of information to learn about the competition BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE, or BI, has come to the fore in the last two years, as vendors make the technology easier to use and make data easier to analyze,...

Siemens, HP join on payments effort.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
March 5, 2001... The Information and Communication Mobile (IC Mobile) division of Siemens is forming a consortium with Hewlett-Packard to enable payments via mobile telephone. The companies want to develop an open standard for mobile payment, they said in a...

SeafoodAlliance swims with Gofish.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
March 5, 2001... SeafoodAlliance and Gofish.com announced details of an e-commerce initiative last month. Gofish will offer operations and procurement exchange platforms for indirect purchasing to alliance members, which represent some of the largest seafood...

Siebel partners with Documentum.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
March 5, 2001... Siebel Systems has signed Documentum as a premier partner in its Siebel Alliance Program and will integrate Documentum's 4i eBusiness Platform with Siebel eBusiness Applications to offer an out-of-the-box e- business and content management...

OUTSOURCING: United States increases offshore outsourcing.(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
March 5, 2001... Companies in the United States will spend more than $17.6 billion on offshore outsourcing in 2005, tripling the current spending amount, according to a study released last week. U.S.-based companies spent only $5.5 billion on offshore...

LAYOFFS: 3Com cuts 1,200 jobs, refocuses.
March 5, 2001... 3COM, CITING the U.S. economic downturn and turmoil in the telecom industry, said last week that it would cut 1,200 employees or approximately 10 percent of its staff. The affected workers include full-time regular employees and contracted...

BANKRUPTCY: eToys to close site, file for bankruptcy.(Company Financial Information)
March 5, 2001... ETOYS PLANS TO file for bankruptcy protection and close its Web site by the end of this week, the company announced last week. The decision was based on its conclusion that its outstanding liabilities of $274 million as of Jan. 31 substantially...

Blue Martini readies channel solution for b-to-b partners.(Product Announcement)
March 5, 2001... E-COMMERCE SOLUTIONS provider Blue Martini Software this week will take the wraps off the latest version of its channel management technology, Blue Martini Channels, which aims to help companies drive sales through partner portals and online...

THE BUG REPORT.(Product Information)(Brief Article)
March 5, 2001... Microsoft: Domain controllers on Windows 2000 Server, Advanced Server, and Datacenter Server are vulnerable to a DoS (denial of service) attack. A stream of invalid service requests can take up most of the server's CPU time, slowing down...

First virus infects peer-to-peer communications systems.(W32/Gnuman.worm aka Mandragore)(Product Information)
March 5, 2001... FILE SWAPPING ON the Internet hit a sour note last week with the appearance of a virus that attacks users of the Gnutella file-sharing service. Several anti-virus vendors say that it is the first virus to affect peer-to-peer communications. ...

Caw Networks tests Web apps.(Caw Networks WebAvalanche)(Product Announcement)
March 5, 2001... WITH EVER more complex Web applications, businesses now need to stress test an application in a way that realistically reflects the unpredictable nature and the varied access modes of the Internet. That's the premise of the WebAvalanche...

Content management grabs attention of b-to-b players.(Industry Trend or Event)
March 5, 2001... AS SUPPLIERS AND distributors wake up to the important role content plays in fueling online marketplaces, vendors of content management systems for product distribution are ramping up functionality aimed at easing the process of getting product...

Toward a 'federated' DB2.(IBM's plans)(Company Business and Marketing)
March 5, 2001... DB2 to provide links to Sybase, MS database offerings FURTHERING ITS federated approach to data management, IBM is working to broaden an optional feature in DB2 7.1 Universal Database (UDB) that extends IBM's DataJoiner to Sybase's database...

Intel keeps its chin up despite slowdown - Manufacturing advances to lead to reduced chip costs and enhanced p-to-p computing.(Company Business and Marketing)
March 5, 2001... CRAIG BARRETT, Intel's president and CEO, offered his company's solution to the current economic slowdown at last week's Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Jose, Calif. "New products and innovation will drive us out of this recession,"...

Judge rebuked during Microsoft appeal.(Company Business and Marketing)
March 5, 2001... THE JUDGE WHO found Microsoft guilty of antitrust violations and ordered the company split in two was on trial as much as the software giant in last week's appeals hearings. As a result, many observers now believe Microsoft likely will win its...

Microsoft updates BackOffice Server.(Microsoft BackOffice Server 2000)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
March 5, 2001... Microsoft has released BackOffice Server 2000, its software suite aimed at branch offices, corporate departments, and midsize businesses. The server suite includes standard editions of Windows 2000 Server, Exchange 2000 Server, SQL Server 2000,...

Sun enhances Java connectivity.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
March 5, 2001... Sun Microsystems has announced the release of the first public beta version of Connector Architecture for its Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) platform. The J2EE Connector Architecture is designed to provide a plug-and-play architecture between...

Startup to offer components toolset.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
March 5, 2001... Startup Avinon later this month will deliver a design tool for IT or business professionals to build applications based on application components or Web services. Building off the Web services infrastructure from platform providers Microsoft...

Nokia fills out 'appliance' line with dedicated VPN offering.(Product Announcement)
March 5, 2001... NOKIA LAST WEEK extended its line of security appliances with the release of a dedicated gateway for VPNs that can support throughput speeds as fast as 220Mbps, company officials said. Industry analysts said that, at those speeds, the Nokia...

Supply chain hits high gear.(Industry Trend or Event)
March 5, 2001... Drive to efficiency attracts top vendors A BEVY OF big-name business-to-business players has rushed to battle on the burgeoning supply-chain management and collaboration front, but, ironically, the leading contenders in the brewing war are...

Check Point 12 VPNs.(Company Business and Marketing)
March 5, 2001... Offerings aimed at easing VPN policy management IF THE EXPANSION and increased complexity of VPN remote activity is giving blurry-eyed network administrators a headache, Check Point Software Technologies has a possible cure. In an...

InfoWorld names Rhyins new publisher.(Company Operations)(Brief Article)
March 5, 2001... InfoWorld Media Group has named Andrea Rhyins as its new publisher. Most recently vice president and associate publisher at Red Herring, Rhyins will oversee InfoWorld, CTO, InfoWorld.com, and InfoWorld events. "Andrea brings years of technology...

Microsoft releases XML kit, specification.(Brief Article)
March 5, 2001... Microsoft has released a beta version of its XML for Analysis software development kit and an updated XML for Analysis protocol specification, giving developers tools needed to write XML-based applications aimed at spurring the deployment of...

Oracle among those with economic woes.(Company Financial Information)(Brief Article)
March 5, 2001... Oracle joined a growing list of companies facing an economic slowdown last week, with WorldCom and Sapient also affected. Oracle announced that its revenue for the third quarter ending Feb. 28 will rise about 9 percent, less than the 15 percent...

Napster to block song access.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
March 5, 2001... Music-sharing service Napster on Friday revealed a plan that appears to block its users from accessing more than one million digital music files from its service. The plan was announced in a San Francisco U.S. District Court by Napster attorney...

Privacy: Legislators explore business impact.(Government Activity)
March 5, 2001... AS CONGRESS GEARS up to act on the simmering issue of online privacy, lawmakers last week zeroed in on pragmatic concerns about the potential costs the new regulations would incur for businesses. Lawmakers assembled a panel of policy...

Teamwork is the key to remote development - Inspiring trust and maintaining motivation are critical for a distributed development team.(Industry Trend or Event)
March 5, 2001... AS EVERY IT professional knows, it's getting harder and harder to find qualified developers. That's why so many companies are turning to virtual development teams -- geographically dispersed groups of coders who collaborate in the development...

Requirements set the mark.(Column)
March 5, 2001... Good software development depends on good requirements management. Take a collaborative approach to gather and refine requirements, and your software projects will finish on time and within budget MY GRANDMA never sends me e-mail anymore....

WebSphere keeps the world of e-commerce turning.(Evaluation)
March 5, 2001... Multicultural support, seamless integration bolsters e-commerce initiatives, both domestic and foreign IN THE MIDST of an economic cooling, it can be pretty difficult to justify updating an existing commerce infrastructure. Nevertheless,...

Online customers demand more.(Industry Trend or Event)
March 5, 2001... Improved customer service for holiday season 2000 was not quite enough to meet growing expectations of online shoppers "HELLO? Is anyone out there?" That's precisely what many consumers muttered during the 1999 holiday season as they tried...

Putting storage where the requirements are.(Evaluation)
March 5, 2001... NAS and SAN devices can easily coexist, adding flexibility over legacy solutions Snap Server 4100 is an inexpensive NAS (network attached storage) unit that can add as much as 240GB of file storage capacity. Companies looking to overcome...

INDUSTRY OUTLOOK: ASPs.(Industry Trend or Event)
March 5, 2001... Meta Group predicts most ASP (application service provider) startups will not survive in the long term; by 2006 ASPs will be considered part of the mainstream outsourcing market. Industry statistics Employment Total U.S. civilian...

The education of e-business leaders.(Industry Trend or Event)
March 5, 2001... Critical observations on leadership in the dot-com era Things aren't easy these days for leaders of the digital economy. Layoffs and shutdowns hit the news everyday. Since the firm of Challenger, Gray, and Christmas began tracking dot-com...

Get a handle on 'noncompetes'.(Company Business and Marketing)
March 5, 2001... Understanding the elements and the legality of the agreement can help determine negotiation tactics IN A TIME when business success rides on finding new ideas and unique approaches to solve existing problems, protecting a company's...

AT&T, BT Concert joint telecom venture on path to collapse.(Company Operations)
March 12, 2001... CONCERT COMMUNICATIONS, the joint-venture telecommunications carrier established by AT&T and British Telecommunications (BT), is failing, and the partners are locked in talks about how to salvage the operation, according to a recent report in...

Cisco CEO links GDP growth to Net.(Industry Trend or Event)
March 12, 2001... CISCO PRESIDENT and Chief Executive Officer John Chambers described a link between gross domestic product growth and capital spending on Internet infrastructure in his address to Oracle AppsWorld attendees at the Morial Convention Center in New...

DoCoMo gets serious about i-mode security in cell phones.(Company Business and Marketing)
March 12, 2001... NTT DOCOMO has begun embedding digital certificates into its cell phones with an eye on improving security for its 19.5 million i-mode wireless Internet users. The company confirmed that root digital certificates supplied by VeriSign and...

Smaller players heat up wireless market.(Company Business and Marketing)
March 12, 2001... TWO SMALLER COMPANIES have infiltrated the wireless content-delivery market with technologies they say could bring the hype about wireless networks closer to reality. Luxxon, in Mountain View, Calif., and BroadCloud, in Austin, Texas,...

Microsoft signs more Stinger smart phone partners.(Company Business and Marketing)
March 12, 2001... MICROSOFT HAS signed agreements with Japan's Mitsubishi and the U.K.'s Sendo to manufacture mobile phone handsets using its Stinger operating system, the company announced. Sendo unveiled a prototype of its Z100 smart phone at the GSM World...

MANAGEMENT BRIEFING: E-mail and the Internet are changing the labor/ management power play.(Industry Trend or Event)
March 12, 2001... WHAT ROLE WILL unions play in the New Economy, and what role will the New Economy play in unionization? With the dot-com heyday behind us, a slower economy upon us, and the dreams of many optionaires and aspirants squelched, how will the power...

IS SURVIVAL GUIDE: Business-to-business can benefit from the miscues of b-to-c vets.(Industry Trend or Event)
March 12, 2001... MANAGEMENTSPEAK: We strive to be the industry leader. TRANSLATION: We strive to copy our competitors, but on the cheap. -- This week's anonymous contributor is now an industry phrase leader. ...

WIRELESS WORLD: It's a deafening sound: Bluetooth and wireless Ethernet rush into a noisy head-on collision.(Technology Information)(Column)
March 12, 2001... DON'T TALK TO me while I'm in the shower. What has that got to do with wireless? Bucketsful. After two years of being told time and again by various members of the Bluetooth consortium that collisions between Bluetooth (the local wireless...

WINDOW MANAGER: Learn faster ways to explore your network, burn CDs, and fix cluttered e-mails.(Product Support)(Tutorial)
March 12, 2001... READERS PROVIDE me with the most useful secrets for this column and for my new "E-Business Secrets" newsletter (see below). Keep sending those tips in, and you may see yourself here soon. Browse Windows 2000 and 98 faster. Reader John Kehoe...

THE OPEN SOURCE: HP could become an open-source hero, if only it had the nerve.(Product Development)
March 12, 2001... HEWLETT-PACKARD HAS decided to stop development on its HP OpenMail server after it releases Version 7.0, although HP says it will continue to support customers of versions 6 and 7 for the next five years. No doubt HP hopes its customers will...

SECURITY WATCH: Cryptography tools abound, yet we rarely use them. Are they really only for crooks?(Technology Information)
March 12, 2001... I WAS THINKING ABOUT cryptography the other day while reading about the rift between Phil Zimmerman and Network Associates over just how much of the PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) source code will be published. For crypto fans, this is the...

TO THE EDITOR.(Letter to the Editor)
March 12, 2001... More sold than bought MR. ELLISON'S REMARKS are interesting in James Evans' article "Oracle stock hit after earnings warning" (see www.infoworld.com/printlinks), but let's take a closer look. Ninety institutional investors with holdings...

FROM THE EDITOR IN CHIEF: Ignore talk of Net doom and gloom as the industry grows more sophisticated.(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)(Column)
March 12, 2001... The Internet is everywhere and touches everything. The problem is that once something becomes ubiquitous, we have a tendency to take it for granted. And that would be a dreadful mistake given the unrealized potential of the Internet. When you...

E-BUSINESS MATTERS: Effective warranties and guarantees boost business for savvy dot-com retailers.(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
March 12, 2001... WHEN IT COMES TO warranties and guarantees, the Internet presents some excellent opportunities to assure your customers that your company stands by its products and that consumers won't get stuck with something they don't like. But if your...

NET PROPHET: Amazon/Wal-Mart pact may signal the highway to success for pure-plays.(Company Business and Marketing)
March 12, 2001... A FEW WEEKS AGO, I wrote about options for the king of pure-play consumer e-commerce, Amazon.com, to get into the physical-store business (see Net Prophet, Feb. 26). During the past few months, the retail industry has come to realize that those...

NOTES FROM THE FIELD: Lab honcho tells inside story of SQL tests and the wrath of Redmond.(News Briefs)
March 12, 2001... WITH YAHOO THE latest dot-com to suffer the consequences of the New Economy downturn, it's hard to know just whom you can believe in anymore. "Will the Yahoo stores still be up and running, Bobby?" Randi asked me. "I have my eye on a new...

THE GRIPE LINE: Don't blame the vendor: Web shoppers are not always innocent victims.(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
March 12, 2001... WE'VE HEARD A lot of complaints from online shoppers about the various indignities they suffer at the hands of e-tailers. But it appears that these Web retailers have a few beefs of their own about online shoppers. As we run an equal...

FROM THE NEWS DESK: Is 'Web services' more than a catchphrase?(Industry Trend or Event)(Editorial)
March 12, 2001... It is tempting to say that the current vendor interest in Web services, or e-services, is another attempt to sell more complex software to simplify the complexity of building enterprise IT systems. After all, past attempts to devise an...

Web services.(News Briefs)
March 12, 2001... The ASP is being replaced by the Web service provider. How come? WEB SERVICES MAY be the El Dorado of the software industry. Just as Sir Walter Raleigh and countless prospectors looked for the city of gold, vendors and corporations alike...

Peering into the next wave of Internet apps.(Company Business and Marketing)
March 12, 2001... XDegrees' Internet services allow users to open up their machines to simplify file and resource sharing MANY AMBITIOUS IT projects on the Internet have a CTO at the core of their operations. XDegrees, a startup company building a new type...

Pioneers push app distribution alternatives.(Product Information)
March 12, 2001... A few vendors are exploring options for extending applications across the Internet THE DEMANDS FOR improving the speed, performance, and availability of e-business transactions on the Web often run in direct opposition to the Internet's...

Technology helps CFOs expand their roles.(Industry Trend or Event)
March 12, 2001... The Net's speed and better software tools allow execs to move far beyond 'bean counting' TAMARA MACDUFF HAS seen the CFO job description change quite a bit during her time in the business world."The role of the CFO is not just as number...

IBM offers e-commerce packages.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
March 12, 2001... IBM has announced agreements with five software services companies to deliver e-commerce solutions to target markets. IBM signed deals with Enterpulse, Eviciti, MCBA, Rare Medium, and Web Emporium, which will craft IBM WebSphere-based solutions...

Cvent, StarCite team for online meeting, event planning.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
March 12, 2001... Cvent, an ASP (application service provider) for online corporate registration and Internet marketing tools, and StarCite, a meeting and planning management software vendor, have partnered to offer integrated services. StarCite will integrate...

PwC, VerticalNet form partnership.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
March 12, 2001... PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and VerticalNet Solutions have joined forces in a partnership that will provide PwC's application integration services to VerticalNet customers using that company's direct procurement software solution suite. As...

THE BUG REPORT.(Product Information)
March 12, 2001... Cisco Systems: Because of an undocumented ILMI (Integrated Local Management Interface) community string, both Cisco's IOS 11.x and 12.0 software have a security hole that may allow unauthorized viewing and modifying of some SNMP objects. Cisco...