Anne Chen

As standards—and standards organizations—proliferate, IT managers such as Robert Kozak say they must pick and choose carefully where and how much they will participate. Kozak, director of Internet development at W.W. Grainger Inc., and his colleagues decided to focus most of their companys standards attention on the World Wide Web Consortium because that groups open, […]

Its only January and already, theres been enough activity surrounding the notorious Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to last a lifetime. Just this week, Verizon Inc. was ordered to give-up the identity of a customer who reportedly used its network to make unauthorized copies of several hundred songs available online. Then theres the Chamberlain Group, […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. is adamant that its decision to bundle BEA Systems Inc.s BEA WebLogic application server with Solaris 9 in no way signals a lack of commitment to its Sun ONE Application Server. Some analysts and IT managers seem to agree. At TransCanada PipeLines Ltd., IT managers are piloting Sun ONE Application Server 7 […]

At brokerage Terra Nova Trading L.L.C., its now official: Instant messaging, once banned as a threat to security and productivity, has not only been blessed by IT, it is becoming as critical to communications as e-mail. Sure, brokers still scream orders at one another the old-fashioned way. But under the din, traders, customer service agents […]

Ultimately, instant messagings killer application within corporations may not involve communications among colleagues but on-the-fly text messages exchanged among end users and enterprise applications such as inventory control and CRM systems. “The idea of having a field salesperson put an inventory system on their buddy list and then query that system using Instant Messenger is […]

Complaining about the amount of spam in our e-mail in-boxes is becoming a time-honored sport here at eWeek. Launch Microsoft Outlook on any given Monday, and practically every in-box at this magazine is filled with a slew of offers for printer cartridges and online marketing secrets But are we the only lucky ones privy to […]

Domino 6, the first major upgrade of IBMs Lotus Software divisions flagship corporate messaging platform in three years, was worth the wait, say many enterprise Lotus users. “In the past, weve had issues and wanted a more stable environment,” said Matt Henry, technical architect at Kemet Corp., in Greenville, S.C. “This time around, the scalability, […]

Remember Apple Computer Inc.s Newton? How about IBMs TransNote? They were both pen-based handheld devices that were supposed to revolutionize the world of computing and reduce the number of hardware devices wage slaves had to carry around to do their jobs. For a variety of reasons—not the least of which was poor handwriting recognition—the revolution […]

You can throw as much technology as you want at securing your organization but, when it comes down to it, you dont stand a chance unless your end users are aware that what they do—or dont do—has a lot to do with how secure your enterprise is. At the 29th Annual Computer Security Conference and […]

Following slow adoption of Active Directory after its release as part of Windows 2000 three years ago, Microsoft Corp. has been actively urging IT managers to deploy its directory services platform through aggressive pricing, detailed deployment road maps and increased support. And with Microsoft releasing a new capability in AD that will enable organizations to […]