Ten-cent pieces of wireless equipment are being deployed by the billions To better understand the scope of RFID (radio frequency identification) technology, let’s take a look at The Gillette Company, based in Boston , and one of its distribution centers.…

One of the unexpected benefits of PVRs (personal video recorders) is that parents can build private collections of child-friendly programming. With a PVR, kids can surf unsupervised through dozens of virtual channels, complete with program guide, without mom hovering to…

An open letter to the ABA’s House of Delegates concerning their impending vote on UCITA My regular readers, who have heard far more about UCITA (Uniform Computer Information Transaction Act) than they or I like, will have to forgive my…

Make sure potential investments are on target Current economic conditions dictate that we make prudent technology investments, and CTOs are under increased pressure to show measurable, near-term ROI.  Achieving the desired results can be like navigating a minefield. There are…

Make sure potential investments are on target Current economic conditions dictate that we make prudent technology investments, and CTOs are under increased pressure to show measurable, near-term ROI.  Achieving the desired results can be like navigating a minefield. There are…

Remote backups can be an elegant alternative to maintaining expensive and hard-to-control graveyard shifts We can all agree that the cost of personnel is the most expensive item in any storage budget — and with good reason, we may add,…

ReplayTV adds LAN and Internet streaming, making a case for PVRs in corporate conference rooms PVRs (personal video recorders), such as Sonicblue’s ReplayTV 5040, change the nature of television watching. Combining a digital TV tuner with a large hard drive,…

Devices, data types, people, and channels coming together As with standards, the problem with convergences is that there are so many to choose from. When the subject is digital convergence we often start with devices and media, which leads to…

The importance of tests and metadata  SOA (service-oriented architecture), we agree, is the way of the future. We’ll build loosely coupled Web services now and wire them up into composite systems later. The benefits are clear: scalability, OS and language…

Sendoalleges software vendor plundered secrets — Bob Brewin, Computerworld Microsoft. must file a reply on Monday in a lawsuit filed last month against it by Sendo Ltd., a Birmingham , England-based mobile phone developer. Sendo formed a partnership with Microsoft…