Cade Metz

Theyre everywhere we look, carrying the cables that bring us telephone service, electricity, television feeds, and Internet access. Utility poles have become part of the landscape. They line nearly every highway and side street in the country, and you pass them nearly every time you take a drive. But who ever gives them a second […]

During the typical holiday season, with high school and college students on vacation and when people generally have more time on their hands, far more viruses are let loose on the Internet. But this holiday season may have been different. According to Bill Wall, chief security engineer with Harris Corp., which provides online security for […]

Hewlett-Packard is being coy about its plans for CES, the annual Consumer Electronics Show, opening in Las Vegas on January 7. Jeff Hopper, marketing director for HPs digital imaging organization, will tell you that CEO Carly Fiorina will use her CES keynote speech to discuss “big breakthroughs in HPs digital imaging vision,” but he wont […]

Late last week, Dell Computer decided to discontinue its only Itanium-based workstation, the Precision 730. Dell being Dell—one of the most prominent names in the hardware business—many industry pundits saw this as a sign that Itanium, Intels six-month old 64-bit processor, was falling below expectations. Rumors have swirled that sales arent meeting the forecasts set […]

Microsoft Passport debuted in 1999 and is currently used by 200 million people. The Liberty Alliance Project, proposed by Sun Microsystems this past September, is merely an idea. And yet, as the two were pitted against each other last week—on opposite sides of a debate concerning the best way for users to identify themselves as […]

Recently, the Computer Event Marketing Association (CEMA) took an informal poll of its 600 members–event management and marketing professionals who frequent IT industry trade shows. The CEMA poll asked whether, in light of the September 11 terrorist attacks, people would be attending fewer shows than normal over the coming months. 50 percent of the respondents […]

Someone is always criticizing Microsoft. In late September, two public interest groups, Consumers Union (CU) and the Consumer Federation of America (CFA), released a joint report claiming that the Microsoft Windows XP operating system, due for official release on October 25, will violate antitrust law just as blatantly—if not more blatantly—than older versions of Windows […]