Anne Chen

After leading Sun Microsystems Inc.s Sun Laboratories for three years, Jim Mitchell, vice president and Sun Fellow, is moving on to run the companys High Productivity Computing Systems Research and Development program. A founding member of Sun Labs in 1988, Mitchell successfully meshed innovative research with product development, including the releases of Java and Jini. […]

Providing Americas future business leaders with IT support means offering the latest and greatest in mobility. At Cornell Universitys Johnson School of Management, that means an upgrade to Microsoft Corp.s Exchange 2003 for its new mobility enhancements. “Staying connected while on the road interviewing for jobs is critical to students here,” said Kevin Baradet, chief […]

LA JOLLA, Calif.— instant wireless network to Tapwave Inc.s Zodiac mobile content device, which merges the capabilities of the Palm operating system with high-performance graphics chips suitable for gaming. Some of the technology demonstrations, however, showed just how fragile—and frustrating—wireless connectivity can be. Early in the show, Firetide launched its HotPoint wireless mesh router, which […]

ClearOnes Max table-top conference phone will allow you to move your conference call down the hall—while the call is still in session. Hoping to beat the ubiquitous Polycom at its own game, ClearOne has armed its $699 Max with a 150-foot wireless signal range. Phone conversations are secured by the 2.4GHz digital spread spectrum. I […]

While the music industry grapples with the issue of pirated music, many studios in the movie industry have turned to CinemaNow Inc. for online distribution of their films. Armed with a proprietary DRM (digital rights management) system called PatchBay, CinemaNow owns the digital distribution rights to more than 1,200 feature films worldwide. The company, which […]

The Internal Revenue Service is as serious about auditing its computer systems as it is about tax returns. So when the W.32Blaster worm and subsequent attacks wreaked havoc on computer systems across the world, the federal agency was prepared: The IRS used autonomic computing software to distribute the appropriate Microsoft Corp. patch to more than […]

Two years ago, few enterprises would admit they were running Linux. Today, there are few organizations that are not piloting or using the open-source operating system in some fashion. To get an idea of how the operating systems role is developing in organizations, we revisited two of our Linux case-study subjects from last year: Jefferson […]

As mission-critical, Web-based applications proliferate in the enterprise, organizations are rushing to deploy tools that better monitor and manage performance across a distributed infrastructure. McKesson Corp., a $50 billion pharmaceuticals company in San Francisco, needed a comprehensive solution that could handle the load of measuring and managing the availability and performance of its Supply Management […]

While everyones still talking about the potential of wireless technologies, Rod Adkins, general manager of IBMs pervasive computing division, is in the trenches, helping the Armonk, N.Y., company develop wireless solutions for its customers. A major initiative at IBM, pervasive computing extends e-business to new devices. Adkins is charged with integrating IBMs technology, software, hardware […]

IT budgeting has been a zero-sum game for the past few years as CIOs search high and low for technology investments that will drive down costs while driving new business. As CIOs budget for 2004, the focus will continue to be on cost cutting. Keeping an eye on economic volatility and uncertainty through next year, […]