Anne Chen

IBMs ThinkCentre S50 Desktop, which takes advantage of the newly launched Intel 865G “Springdale” chip set, was built with low maintenance in mind. Released in May, the S50, which starts at $729, features a tool-free chassis design and is held together by thumbscrews. Components inside the machine, such as the hard drive, are mounted in […]

After years of helping consumers pack more efficiently for their camping trips, The Coleman Company Inc. decided to do some packing of its own—by consolidating using virtual machines in its data center. The move allowed Shawn Kaiser, network engineer at Coleman, to reduce his data center footprint from approximately 40 servers to two large, eight-way […]

The Catalyst Conference, which focused solely on directory services just four years ago when I attended my first one, has become the place for identity management announcements and demonstrations of specifications and their interoperability. The conference, held in San Francisco this year, did not disappoint. While identity management was the headliner at this weeks conference, […]

ZyXelS B-4000 wireless service gateway is targeted at organizations looking to deploy public WLANs. The B-4000, which was released last month, combines an 802.11b wireless access point, router, four-port switch and wireless service gateway. The gateway, which ZyXel says can support 100 users simultaneously, is appropriate for use in public retail locations such as coffee […]

With so much—and such disparate—geo-spatial and location information available, standards are key to the interoperability and wider use of geographic information systems technology. The Open GIS Consortium, an international standards body comprising 258 companies, government agencies and universities, aims to address these connectivity issues. Founded in 1994, the Open GIS Consortium has a membership that […]

For Erich Seamon, location is everything. Last year, as most IT organizations were cutting budgets, Seamon, geographic information systems manager for the city and county of San Francisco, was moving forward with a project to integrate the City by the Bays geographic information in a standard fashion online. The result: City employees and San Franciscans […]

By now, it should be obvious that identity management and Web services are closely related. In order for Web services to flourish, good identity-based mechanisms are necessary. It should come as no surprise, then, that the theme for this years Burton Group Catalyst Conference is “Enterprise Identity Management: Creating a Secure Business Context.” The conference, […]

Convenience, low cost and increased productivity are driving users to wireless hot spots: Armed with little more than a laptop, an inexpensive wireless card and perhaps a credit card to access fee-based hot spots, users can jump onto a wireless hot spot and gain access to e-mail and other corporate resources. Public WLAN Best Practices […]

Last fall, Ameritrade Holding Corp. closed its $1.29 billion acquisition of Datek Online Holdings Corp., creating the worlds largest online brokerage company in terms of daily equity trades. While studies have shown that more than 70 percent of mergers fail, Ameritrade, in Omaha, Neb., recently reported continuing growth in its core online brokerage account base. […]

The recent arrival of narrow-bezel LCD monitors from Eizo Nano Technologies and Sony Electronics earned awe and envy from the usually hard-to-impress denizens at eWEEK Labs. The trend in narrow-bezel LCD monitors allows workers such as engineers, developers and graphic designers to replace bulky, real-estate-hungry CRT monitors with stylish displays that take up little space. […]