How classmates.com got its 1.5 million paying members
Online advertising pays off for profitable Web business This week’s E-Business Secrets continues my report on the secrets I learned from my private conversations with speakers at the Global eSubscription Symposium, sponsored by the Sandlot Corporation in Salt Lake City…
Interview: An insider’s view on storage
Venture capitalist Jo Tango of Highland Capital Partners discusses trends, industry myths WITH HIS FOCUS on storage, the datacenter, and distributed computing investments, Jo Tango, general partner with venture capital firm Highland Capital Partners, sees IT from a unique vantage…
Interview: StorageNetworks exec on the importance of listening to customers
CEO Peter Bell discusses the advantages of being a pure-play storage software vendor PETER BELL, CEO of StorageNetworks, knows his company is in the right market at the right time. While a recent wave of storage hardware vendors such as…
Lumigent upgrading SQL Server problem tracker
LUMIGENT TECHNOLOGIES ON Monday plans to release Log Explorer Version 3.0, which allows users to identify causes of problems in Microsoft SQL Server databases and recover data. The product uses the SQL Server transaction log to audit database activity and…
CTOs prepare for an economic upturn
Craig Goren has two things that top his to-do list — when the economy picks up. First, he wants to “throw a big ‘we survived’ party for the team,” and second, he wants to “initiate some of the technology ‘science…
Mastering the moment
In a pressure-cooker economy, CTOs are being paid well to maintain control over IT spending and to align technology and business goals About two months into his job as CTO of Oxygen Media, Curtis Brown made a dramatic presentation to…
A title by any other name
Recruiters go head to head on the CIO-CTO debate THE DOT-COM ERA saw the growth of the CTO title, because Internet technology was so clearly entwined with the prevailing business model. Post-meltdown, CTOs are still in demand because corporate executives…
Tough times
The recession hit the IT industry hard, making for a difficult year. Still InfoWorld readers have held fast and are cautiously preparing for a better, but not stellar, IT job market JEFF SKRYSAK FEELS pretty lucky these days. He’s two…
The next big thing: Tools IT can use
Vendors need to produce enterprise software that is easy to deploy and maintain EVERYBODY IN THIS industry seems to be waiting for something that may never happen again. That thing, of course, is a general turnaround in the economy that…
Draconian DMCA
In practice, the law shuts down ISPs instead of offering protection against copyright infringement by their users IN SPITE OF the many controversies surrounding the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act), its defenders continue to insist it works the way Congress…
