Fix it sooner, not later
CTOs must communicate the high cost of making changes at the end of a project cycle IN A RECENT staff meeting, one of the engineers on my team related a story in which the business users of a product he…
New faces for PCs
Innovative designs from Compaq and Fujitsu make tablet concept easier to swallow MICROSOFT’S LONG-PROMISED Windows XP Tablet PC Edition is officially launched. More than a dozen computer makers are producing tablet PCs, including several Taiwan-based OEMs. Major tablet PC vendors…
KonaWare empowers mobile workers
Execs discuss the market for mission-critical mobile apps STARTUP KONAWARE, FOUNDED a year and a half ago, supplies a framework for deploying and managing applications that connect mobile workers to enterprise data. CEO Jim DiSanto, President Gary Portney, and Vice…
Product Snapshot: Phaos Liberty Toolkit
Phaos Technology banks on the Liberty Alliance Project November 8, 2002 — With its recent release of the Phaos Liberty Toolkit 2.0, Phaos Technology continues to demonstrate its commitment to the Liberty Alliance Project’s vision of network identity. Version 2.0…
Effort on the edge, Part 1
Does the JCP adequately balance innovation with maintenance of Java’s standards? Consider the familiar pattern: As a technology matures and as organizations increasingly invest in that technology, the need to preserve its common standards and practices also increases. The status…
Java Product News (updated November 8, 2002)
Insignia adds MIDP 2.0 support; Cape Clear previews Generation 4; and more Insignia adds MIDP 2.0 support November 8 — Insignia Solutions has released Insignia Mobile Foundation 2, its Java-enabling software for mobile devices, which now supports the recently approved…
Profiling CPU usage from within a Java application
Roll your own CPU usage monitor using simple JNI November 8, 2002 Q: How do you determine CPU usage in Java? A: So, here is the good news and the bad news. The bad news is that programmatically querying for…
Uniting and dividing at the same time
Religion is a two-edged sword While I was standing on the street pondering this column the other day, a strange thing happened. Well, I wasn’t only pondering the column. I was watching a parade. Parade-watching, however, is a low-bandwidth activity…
Designing Web services namespaces
Cleaning up with RESTful SOAP As we reported last week [1], Groove Networks showed me its much-anticipated SOAP API, which will be called Groove Web Services, and it’s a beautiful thing to behold. Credit for the design goes to Peter…
Commission networks plan to meet in New York on Nov. 7
An attempt to foil commission poaching Representatives of online networks that funnel commission payments from e-commerce merchants to numerous affiliate sites will meet in New York on Nov. 7, according to the meeting’s facilitator, to discuss “shopping plug-ins” — small…
