InfoWorld articles from May 2001

InfoWorld archives from May 2001

Motorola, Conexant forge multi-year broadband agreement.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 7, 2001... MOTOROLA SIGNED A multi-year agreement to jointly define, develop, and manufacture equipment for broadband communications devices with chip maker Conexant Systems, the companies announced. Conexant will supply standard cable modem chipsets...

Hitachi unveils Linux, wireless Net appliance.(Hitachi Flora-ie 55m)(Product Announcement)
May 7, 2001... HITACHI HAS UNVEILED a new tablet-type Internet appliance based on Transmeta's Crusoe microprocessor and the Linux operating system, which also features support for wireless networking. The Flora-ie 55mi, which is available in Japan, has at...

Hong Kong considers tighter telecom merger laws.(Government Activity)
May 7, 2001... HONG KONG'S telecommunications regulator, voicing its intent to keep competition thriving in the territory, proposed tighter legal restrictions on mergers among carriers. The Office of the Telecommunications Authority (OFTA) issued a...

Third party offers RAM expansion to iPaq users.(Portable Computer Enhancements)(Product Announcement)
May 7, 2001... PORTABLE COMPUTER Enhancements (PCE) announced that it will install RAM upgrades on Compaq's iPaq handheld computer. The upgrades will double the IPaq's memory capacity from 32MB to 64MB of RAM and will be installed internally. The internal...

MessageVine in deal with T-Online.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 7, 2001... MESSAGEVINE, MAKER of instant messaging systems for PCs and wireless devices, has reached a deal worth more than $1 million to license its software to T-Online International, the Internet subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom (DT). MessageVine's...

Motorola offers preconfigured protocol software with PCI cards.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 7, 2001... MOTOROLA WILL OFFER pre-configured communications protocol software with its PMCs (PCI mezzanine cards) along with operating system drivers that allow original equipment manufacturers to sell the software to service providers without extra...

Texas Instruments, HTC ink 3G deal.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 7, 2001... HIGH TECH COMPUTER (HTC), the Taoyuan, Taiwan-based manufacturing company behind Compaq's successful iPaq PDA (personal digital assistant), has tapped Dallas-based Texas Instruments (TI) to provide low-power OMAP (Open Multimedia Applications...

Vodafone announces Google deal, location-based services.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 7, 2001... STANDING ON THE corner of Main Street and looking for a restaurant? On the bus and desperate to find out about practically anything? If you've got a mobile phone from Vodafone, your problems could be solved, thanks to two announcements made by...

Wireless LAN market to exceed $4 billion.(Industry Trend or Event)
May 7, 2001... FALLING PRICES AND new technologies that continue to make wireless LANs speedier will bring a surge in corporate use. Total revenue in that market will reach nearly $4.6 billion by 2005, according to new research from Cahners In-Stat Group, in...

Be in the world, find a mentor, and above all, communicate.(Industry Trend or Event)
May 7, 2001... I LIKE TO ASK my new employees, "Why are you working in IT?" The typical answer is, "I like technology, and I want to be CTO." This is a valid reason to work in any field; you like what you do, and you want to make it to the top. Speaking from...

IS SURVIVAL GUIDE: Peer-to-peer may be the rebirth of the fat client, but that doesn't sanctify it.(Industry Trend or Event)
May 7, 2001... "If you were supposed to understand it, we wouldn't call it code." -- from a Federal Express promotion, reported by IS Survivalist Matthew Persico IMITATION, I'M TOLD, is the sincerest form of flattery. Given the occasional criticism...

WIRELESS WORLD: 3G wireless technology promises much but thus far delivers little.(Technology Information)
May 7, 2001... I HOPE I'M NOT being too hardheaded -- a real testa dura, you might say -- but when you get two examples of the same thing in the same week you begin to see the handwriting on the wall. Example 1: At e-Link 2001, an e-commerce conference...

ENTERPRISE STRATEGIES: Server appliances can ease your IT burden, but first look carefully.(Technology Information)
May 7, 2001... WHY ISN'T OUR VPN up and running yet? Is processing overhead for SSL transactions miring our throughput capacity? How much longer will our newest partner have to wait for access to our network? These are just a few of the questions you can...

WINDOW MANAGER: To get a Windows graphics tool that's mini, here's how you can use Desktop.ini.(Product Support)
May 7, 2001... READER SCOTT COTHER would like to use the tiny preview pane available in Windows Explorer in Windows 2000. It uses Web View, which I initially found annoying enough to turn off, but Cother has a good use for it. He creates subfolders under...

THE OPEN SOURCE: Petreley joins the ranks of the 'regular-income challenged'.(Industry Trend or Event)
May 7, 2001... A COUPLE OF WEEKS ago Bob Lewis announced in his column that he was laid off (aka downsized, riffed, cost-synergized, liberated from the shackles of financial security, add your favorite insincere equivalent of "spoot-canned" here). Well, move...

SECURITY WATCH: A U.K. government spin-off might have a solution to e- mail virus propagation.(Product Development)
May 7, 2001... EVERY TIME WE hear about another e-mail virus outbreak, it should remind us of how easy it is to build software that's easy to use but horribly insecure. E-mail viruses can be particularly upsetting when a virus uses your address book to...

E-BUSINESS MATTERS: Cutting back on e-business in a bad year gets the most out of your initiatives.(Industry Trend or Event)
May 7, 2001... A MAJOR RADIO STATION in my local market announced last week that it will stop broadcasting music via its Web site. The effort, a loss leader with no short-term prospect of making money, is not likely to be resurrected anytime soon. This...

TO THE EDITOR.(Letter to the Editor)
May 7, 2001... Sales tax and the Internet JUST TO CORRECT what may be a popular misapprehension reflected in the "Rudy Park" cartoon on April 23 (see page 76), the Internet Tax Freedom Act notwithstanding, sales transacted through electronic commerce are...

NET PROPHET: It's here: Vendaria brings the infomercial online to sell consumer products.
May 7, 2001... IN THE WORLD of consumer products, telling or showing customers how a product works is an important part of the sales process. Maybe that is why so many exercise equipment manufacturers rely on infomercials to sell their stuff: Infomercials...

FROM THE EDITOR IN CHIEF: Deploying your CMS without Web services is a useless half-measure.(Technology Information)(Editorial)
May 7, 2001... Whether you call it data, information, or content, one thing is clear: We're drowning in it. Everywhere you look across the enterprise, pockets of information exist that are inaccessible to most people in the company. And yet many people could...

NOTES FROM THE FIELD: Layoff rumors continue as Windows Me fails to impress some customers.
May 7, 2001... NO MESSAGES, NO calls, no nothing. Life as a bachelor is a lonely experience. Randi's still on her spontaneous vacation to Australia with a "friend" -- I'm still not sure if she's met another guy. Oh well, at least my local video store is open...

THE GRIPE LINE: When should the burden of informing customers of a hacker break-in begin?
May 7, 2001... WE ALL WORRY enough about the possibility of a hacker somehow getting hold of our account information from a service provider, so the last thing we need is another worry. But here it is: If your data is compromised, will your service provider...

FROM THE NEWS DESK: Latest IT mantra: Make more with less.(Industry Trend or Event)
May 7, 2001... Whether or not your business is hitting the skids financially, chances are good that your IT budget is facing more scrutiny. The economic downturn, which has shown some signs of leveling off, has raised the specter of budget cuts. But...

Code resurrection: A new gospel.(Technology Information)
May 7, 2001... Reuse, the Holy Grail of application development, is finally coming into its own IF A CAR COMPANY discovered that it was rebuilding all the pieces of an engine from scratch every time, even though it had a warehouse of the necessary parts...

ACQUISITION: PeopleSoft buys software vendor Skills Village.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
May 7, 2001... PeopleSoft last week bought Skills Village, a supplier of contract service management software. The deal has PeopleSoft paying $33 million for the privately held company, PeopleSoft officials said. By acquiring Skills Village, PeopleSoft will...

LAYOFFS: Loudcloud to cut its work force by 19 percent.(Company Operations)
May 7, 2001... E-COMMERCE hosting company Loudcloud last week announced plans to lay off 122 workers, or 19 percent of its work force, in a bid to break even. The move comes just two months after its IPO fell short of expectations. Loudcloud officials...

CONSOLIDATION: PSINet names new CEO, prepares to restructure.(Harry G. Hobbs)(Company Operations)(Brief Article)
May 7, 2001... PSINET LAST WEEK announced that Harry G. Hobbs is to take over as CEO and outlined plans for a restructuring committee aimed at helping the Internet services company see a way out of its financial hole. The Ashburn, Va.-based company was...

Borland enters Web-services fray with other tools vendors.(Delphi 6.0)(Product Announcement)
May 7, 2001... WHEN BORLAND ANNOUNCES the latest incarnation of its Delphi RAD (rapid application development) environment this week, the company will focus on the toolkit's tighter integration with its Kylix Linux tools and on the product's cross-platform...

THE BUG REPORT.(FILESYS.NLM module of Novell's Netware 5.1)(Product Information)(Brief Article)
May 7, 2001... Novell The FILESYS.NLM module of Netware 5.1 may be greedy and consume an increasing amount of memory, according to the company. Check this by going to Monitor, System Resources, Alloc Memory. Note the bytes in use throughout the day/week. If...

Harnessing the power of the infrastructure.(interview with George Orlov, CTO of Callisma)(Industry Trend or Event)(Interview)
May 7, 2001... A network consulting CTO lends advice to customers seeking to make enterprisewide IT improvements AS IT INFRASTRUCTURE has risen to new prominence in the age of the Internet, so too has the role of the Chief Technology Officer at network...

Getting personal on multiple CRM channels.(Industry Trend or Event)
May 7, 2001... Personalization moves beyond the Web to call centers and enterprise systems MANY ENTERPRISES have longed to use multiple channels to offer more personalized customer service. In particular, companies would love to offer the level of...

Business partnerships go plug-and-play.(Technology Information)
May 7, 2001... Hyperpartnering gives companies the ability to remove or add partners on the fly FOR COMPANIES to exploit the full potential of business-to-business commerce, they must be poised to react to business opportunities at Internet speed,...

Portals play key role as intranets and extranets evolve.(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
May 7, 2001... INTRANETS AND EXTRANETS, which provide views of corporate data to employees or external partners, respectively, are now sharing the spotlight with another much-ballyhooed technology: portals. Whereas intranets and extranets are seen as a...

Lucent, Siebel team for service providers.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
May 7, 2001... Lucent Technologies and Siebel Systems are partnering to provide service providers with a solution that allows them to capture a single view of customers. The recently signed agreement will lead to an integrated offering that brings together...

Datasweep, J.D. Edwards strike a supply-chain deal.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
May 7, 2001... Datasweep and J.D. Edwards have formed a partnership to deliver integrated supply-chain solutions to manufacturing companies in the electronics, optical component, telecommunications, contract manufacturing, and medical device industries. The...

Agile Software, webMethods ally.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
May 7, 2001... Collaborative e-commerce software vendor Agile Software is partnering with webMethods to allow other e-commerce application vendors to connect Agile's offerings to business applications, exchanges, or custom-built systems. In the deal,...

Ariba reaffirms e-procurement future at show - Ariba aimed to boost its image among users with new partners, executives.(Industry Trend or Event)
May 7, 2001... E-PROCUREMENT IS becoming viable as a long-term solution for the business-to-business realm, but significant hurdles remain before confidence will return to the embattled sector, according to industry observers. Mountain View, Calif.-based...

Managing suppliers may generate cost savings.(Hyperion's Essbase and SAS Institute's SAS SRM Solution 2.0)(Product Information)
May 7, 2001... AS A SLOWING economy and the drive to outsource all but a company's core technology puts the cost of buying goods under scrutiny, managing the supplier relationship may supplant e-procurement as the key strategy to reduce spending. ...

HP partners with webMethods.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
May 7, 2001... Hewlett-Packard and business-process automation software provider webMethods plan to codevelop software that will improve business interactions on the Internet by finding and correcting problems in application connectivity. The HP OpenView...

AIIM show yields partners and products.(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
May 7, 2001... Vendors used the Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM) 2001 conference last week to detail partnerships and product tweaks. Open Text demonstrated its new Livelink Wireless technology, an extension of its Livelink enterprise...

PwC adds integration and analytics arm.(PricewaterhouseCoopers)(Company Operations)(Brief Article)
May 7, 2001... PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) is building a unit to focus on helping customers integrate and analyze their enterprise applications for a big-picture view of how their organizations are operating. PwC plans to call the unit iAnalytics -- the i...

Users chew on sweet deals - Server vendors roll out services red carpet in price war.(Industry Trend or Event)
May 7, 2001... IT PROS LOOKING to take advantage of heated competition in the Wintel server market can expect more than just lower prices in 2001. In fact, low prices, heightened service offerings, and other deal- sweeteners from the top four Wintel...

Vantum offers streaming video.(Product Development)(Brief Article)
May 7, 2001... Vantum, based in Boulder, Colo., will introduce a line of active video appliances that can record and stream video over IP networks. The devices use programmable image rules to integrate analysis and control into video and audio streaming for...

Enterasys unveils wireless LAN platform.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
May 7, 2001... Aiming to help enterprises migrate wireless LANs to forthcoming higher- speed standards, Enterasys Networks, in Rochester, N.H., plans to take the wraps off a wireless access platform with an upgradable architecture that has the capability of...

Agere touts network products.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
May 7, 2001... Agere Systems, a spin-off of Lucent Technologies, will unveil a set of new networking products from its ORiNOCO unit. The company's offerings will include a new AP (Access Point) Density feature that will allow network managers to deploy...

Tivoli pushes WebSphere links for e-business infrastructures.(Industry Trend or Event)
May 7, 2001... THE KEY ANNOUNCEMENT at Tivoli Systems' user conference in San Francisco last week was the availability of Tivoli Manager for IBM's WebSphere application server, which underscored the vendor's assertion that e-business infrastructure management...

Voice over IP gets the call - Drive to cut costs, leverage infrastructure revives interest.(Industry Trend or Event)
May 7, 2001... IP-BASED NETWORKS are emerging as important cost savers as IT managers try to hold down their expenses in a slowing economy. VOIP (voice over IP) technology in particular is finally picking up steam after much experimentation, largely because...

Microsoft opposes open-source ethos.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
May 7, 2001... Microsoft is preparing to expand its "shared source" initiatives through which partners are allowed a peek at the company's prized Windows source code, but the company remains opposed to the open-source ethos -- and it particularly scorns the...

Dell to recall Inspiron notebook batteries.(Product Information)(Brief Article)
May 7, 2001... Dell last week announced a large-scale recall of batteries used in its Inspiron notebook computers because they can overheat and may catch fire, the company said Thursday. The direct seller will contact customers who bought Inspiron 5000 and...

Lacking funds, SpaceWorks closes shop.(Company Financial Information)(Brief Article)
May 7, 2001... SpaceWorks, a sell-side business-to-business e-commerce player with high-profile customers such as BFGoodrich and Maytag, shut down operations last week after two institutional investors backed out of a fifth round of financing, according to a...

Oracle details 'final pieces' of 9i database.(Product Development)(Brief Article)
May 7, 2001... Oracle on Thursday discussed what it calls the final pieces of its forthcoming 9i database, which promise to make the software more self- tuning and to reduce associated maintenance costs. When 9i ships, it will include memory management,...

Web services ripe for CRM - Emerging model seen as natural fit for customer service.(Industry Trend or Event)
May 7, 2001... AS COMPANIES continue to enhance their CRM (customer relationship management) strategies with more automation and collaboration, many are finding that emerging Web-services technology holds the key. "People are stepping outside their...

N+I eyes low-cost networks.(NetWorld+Interop 2001)(Industry Trend or Event)
May 7, 2001... AT THE NetWorld+Interop 2001 conference this week in Las Vegas, Web acceleration devices and performance monitoring tools will grab the spotlight for pledged capability to streamline costs and operations. The recent sharp drop in the...

The right tools will tame the enterprise VPN.
May 7, 2001... Solid but expensive hardware solutions abound, but the tricky part is managing one BUILDING enterprise-class security goes far beyond anti-virus, firewalls, and VPNs, yet many organizations are still struggling with the last element in...

SOHO VPNs bring secure connections to all.(small office, home office; virtual private networks)(Industry Trend or Event)
May 7, 2001... Falling broadband access costs and decreasing hardware prices have caused CTOs to rethink company policy on virtual private networks for homebound employees BECAUSE VPNS WERE once prohibitively expensive and relied on dedicated lines, they...

Strategy: Building a wireless infrastructure.(Industry Trend or Event)
May 7, 2001... A well-thought-out strategy is key to any major network change -- especially a wireless one, which can touch many different aspects of a business organization THE ADOPTION OF any new technology can be a nerve-wracking experience, both for...

Get a handle on handhelds as critical biz tools.(Technology Information)
May 7, 2001... Harness the power of mobile devices by implementing a full-fledged management program WITH THE INFILTRATION of handheld devices into enterprise operations, IT organizations face new challenges. Although the devices offer workers more...

Tools ease mixed-vendor VPN configurations.(Cisco 3000 VPN Concentrator, NetScreen-100)(Evaluation)
May 7, 2001... NetScreen and Cisco IPSec VPN solutions trounce Windows 2000 Server in our interoperability tests BECAUSE THEY eliminate the high costs associated with dedicated leased lines, VPNs are becoming increasingly popular as a means of providing...

VPNs securely deliver the goods.(virtual private networks)(Industry Trend or Event)
May 7, 2001... A carefully planned VPN offers an affordable, safe way to connect dispersed networks IMPLEMENTING A WAN -- a link between two or more remote networks -- used to be an expensive, complicated undertaking. Companies with branch offices might...

Low-end VPNs secure networks affordably.(virtual private network)(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
May 7, 2001... At little to no cost, VPN software challenges the functionality of hardware options BUDGETING FOR a new VPN can be more daunting than learning the technology. Even relatively small companies must shell out many thousands of dollars to link...

VoiceGenie clearly speaks with VoiceXML.(VoiceGenie VoiceXML gateway device)(Evaluation)
May 7, 2001... VoiceXML Gateway gives Web applications automatic speech recognition and text-to-speech capabilities using existing Web servers TELEPHONE VOICE services for traveling professionals or for customer- service applications are becoming more and...

JOB TITLES: Web developer.(Industry Trend or Event)
May 7, 2001... According to the Information Technology Association of America, demand for Web developers will decline from 161,301 in 2000 to 120,982 in 2001. Compensation Salary Average salary: $92,833 Percent who do not feel fairly...

Taking stock of option repricing.(Industry Trend or Event)
May 7, 2001... As if handling your stock options wasn't complicated enough, now companies are offering employees repriced options A SINKING STOCK MARKET has left many employees holding underwater stock options -- options that cost more to exercise than...

Filmmakers prepare to take their festival bicoastal.(Manhattan Short Film Festival)(Company Business and Marketing)
May 7, 2001... Manhattan Short Film Festival chooses GeoVideo's fiber-optic network to broadcast live event MANY BUSINESSES have been frustrated in their attempts to derive benefits from videoconferencing over the Internet, mostly due to the poor...

Most likely to succeed.(succession planning)(Industry Trend or Event)
May 7, 2001... Rather than worrying about who wants their jobs, some IT managers are systematically developing successors JOAN SCHAFFER HADN'T completed one week in her new job with Capital One when she was told to choose her successor. Succession...

The politics of value.(chief technology officers and chief information officers)(Industry Trend or Event)
May 14, 2001... CTOS AND CIOS STRADDLE THE LINE between technical expert and adept corporate politician: They must move the company forward technically and adeptly communicate the value of IT to senior management. Being a corporate politician consumes a...

The true value of IT.(information technology)(Industry Trend or Event)
May 14, 2001... From the very beginning, the value of information technology has been questioned -- and it's still being questioned. InfoWorld's True Value of IT survey provides some answers IN TODAY'S CHALLENGING TIMES, value is more important than ever....

Making the case for IT.(InfoWorld commissioned a study of 100 top-level business executives and 100 top-level IT executives at companies of all sizes)(Industry Trend or Event)
May 14, 2001... DURING THE PAST 10 years, IT spending has accelerated dramatically, ending with two years of almost excessive Y2K and e-business investment. At the same time, productivity in the U.S. economy has boomed, and there is growing consensus among...

Joining forces.(InfoWorld survey of business executives and IT executives)(Industry Trend or Event)
May 14, 2001... BUSINESS EXECUTIVES AND IT executives are finally playing well together. That's the definitive finding of InfoWorld's survey of 100 IT executives and 100 non-IT executives. Overwhelmingly, the executives on both sides said they were...

Integrating network management.(Industry Trend or Event)
May 14, 2001... New tools combine hardware and application monitoring AS CORPORATE NETWORKS (and the traffic they carry) continue to grow in complexity, so does the need for management tools that combine infrastructure and application monitoring...

Nasdaq takes stock of integration.(alignment of business and IT)(Company Operations)
May 14, 2001... THE RIFT, or communication gap, between IT and businesspeople has long been blamed for late, overbudget, or off-target IT projects. Successful e-business implementations have helped better align IT with business goals, but today's competitive...

Managing the culture.(Michael Oeth, CTO of LivePerson)(Company Operations)(Industry Trend or Event)
May 14, 2001... Dealing with people is as much a part of a CTO's job as overseeing technology MANAGING CORPORATE CULTURE can be as important to being an effective CTO as managing technology, and one of Michael Oeth's primary tasks as CTO of LivePerson has...

Schwab's leap of faith.(Charles Schwab; David Pottruck, CEO of Schwab, and Dawn Lepore, CIO)(Company Operations)(Interview)
May 14, 2001... FINANCIAL SERVICES GIANT Charles Schwab is a leader in online trading and benefited greatly from the early adoption of online services for its customers. InfoWorld Features Editor Owen Linderholm spoke to David Pottruck, CEO of Schwab, and Dawn...

Maneuvering past Goliaths.(Company Operations)
May 14, 2001... Touting their flexibility, smaller professional-services firms are surviving among industry stalwarts AS BUDGET CUTS FORCE IT leaders to grab the best deal for their dollar, smaller professional-services firms are proving their value to...

ENTERPRISE STRATEGIES: ERP faces rocky road.(Industry Trend or Event)
May 14, 2001... Enterprise resource planning needs to improve its integration with services-oriented architectures THE SWELL OF attention garnered by Internet-based initiatives such as collaborative commerce and services-oriented architectures left ERP...

SURVIVAL GUIDE: Evolution be damned.(digital exchanges)(Industry Trend or Event)
May 14, 2001... MANAGEMENT SPEAK: Obviously... TRANSLATION: I don't know why it's true, but I need you to agree to it so I can get what I want. -- IS Survivalist Jeff Atkins, who obviously understands how to interpret the utterances of management....

SECURITY ADVISER: Block that e-mail!(Product Information)
May 14, 2001... Anti-virus software is necessary but not sufficient to prevent email abuse; regional security efforts start well LAST WEEK I probably put myself on the hit list of most anti-virus vendors when I spoke of SyBard/Mail, a product due later...

THE OPEN SOURCE: Absent-minded errors.(Product Support)
May 14, 2001... Careless mishaps don't need to be terminal, they need a Palm terminal and a good getty program I HAVE ADMITTED several times in this column that I can be absent- minded and careless. At least I meant to. Regardless, this tendency got...

WINDOW MANAGER: Go clean your cache.(a problem with Internet Explorer and Outlook Express)(Product Support)
May 14, 2001... Internet Explorer and Outlook Express need some help cleaning up hundreds or thousands of leftover disk files READER WILLY CHAPLIN found a problem with Internet Explorer and Outlook Express that I'm sure affects many other readers. Here's...

WIRELESS WORLD: Help may be on the way.(Technology Information)
May 14, 2001... Nonprofit hopes to provide emergency-response personnel with data to boost survival rates TAKE 21ST CENTURY technology and apply it to public safety, and it will produce data that will fundamentally change the way emergency medicine is...

NET PROPHET: Going multichannel.(Industry Trend or Event)
May 14, 2001... Studies show multichannel offerings increase sales: The challenge is to improve the total customer experience across all channels MAYBE IT WAS the moment when you found your favorite long-lost childhood toy on eBay or the day your first...

TO THE EDITOR.(Letter to the Editor)
May 14, 2001... Our commitment to IT MORE THAN ONE year ago we at InfoWorld Media Group began reconsidering our presentation and design. After 23 years in the IT media business, we had built a strong bond with the technology leaders who rely on our...

THE GRIPE LINE: MS incites UCITA breach - MSN users in Maryland are in violation of Microsoft terms of use as well as UCITA laws affecting that state.(Government Activity)(Brief Article)
May 14, 2001... IF YOU'RE AN MSN user who happens to live in Maryland, you've been violating Microsoft's terms of use for over six months now, as well as the laws of your state -- laws that, not coincidentally, include the Uniform Computer Information...

NOTES FROM THE FIELD: Readers hot and cold over Me.(Product Information)
May 14, 2001... I'VE THOUGHT about calling the missing persons bureau, but somehow it doesn't seem worth it. Randi's gone. It's a hard thing for a tough-minded guy like me to understand, but if she's somehow managed to find a better guy in Australia (is...