Selling outsourcing
Critical business initiatives are only as good as the around-the-clock technical support they get IF HAMLET HAD been a CTO, his famous monologue might have begun, “To outsource or not to outsource?” One of the greatest challenges for CTOs is…
Palm readings and death by XP
STUNNED BY THE show of e-mail support for her pro-Canadian sentiments last week, Amber wonders whether she should start a new crusade. “Political activism could be the distraction from IT that I’ve been looking for,” she claimed. Palm’s OS crusade…
Campfire wisdom
Before you redesign internal relationships, listen to tales that tell the truth about those relationships now MANAGEMENTSPEAK: I propose a series of “discussion meetings” to resolve this issue you have raised. TRANSLATION: By avoiding an agenda, the actual issue at…
Rewarding punishment
Giving Microsoft a foothold in American schools isn’t even a slap on the wrist, it’s a Swedish massage I’VE RECEIVED A number of requests to address the pending (as of this writing) settlement of the civil anti-trust lawsuit against Microsoft.…
PDAs in a pod
Design quirks hinder the Audiovox Maestro, near-twin to Toshiba’s e570, in the fast-paced Pocket PC race WITH THE RELEASE of Microsoft’s Pocket PC 2002 specification, which raised the bar for Windows PDA performance, Toshiba decided the time was right to…
Bosworth’s second take
After being pushed around by Microsoft, a Web services champion seeks a comeback with his own development tools SECOND ACTS ARE rare. The exceptions prove the rule: Richard Nixon in politics, Bob Dylan and Miles Davis in music, Babe Ruth…
Is it secure? I mean IIS
A free program identifies Internet Information Server before you type in your credit card LAST WEEK I wrote about the latest security weakness found in the new Windows XP operating system. (See ” Plug-and-prey fiasco ,” Jan. 14.) XP is…
Data protection
Applian PocketLock offers an easy way to shield sensitive files on Pocket PC devices from prying eyes AS MORE POCKET PC devices are plugged into the corporate network, companies should take security measures to ensure that any sensitive data on…
Who’ll replace @Home?
With the demise of @Home, other broadband providers appear ready to keep customers guessing about their service SOON @HOME WILL be only a distant memory, but you can bet its spirit will live on in the hearts of other broadband…
Burning up the wires
What do enterprises stand to gain by bringing Gigabit Ethernet capabilities to end-user desktops? GIGABIT ETHERNET IS one of those technologies that sounds great on paper but ultimately is hard to justify, especially for desktop systems. Mention “gigabit” and “desktop”…
