Scot Petersen

OS/2 lives. The erstwhile Windows desktop challenger is due to be shelved in a few years, but copies are still available, and IBM continues to maintain existing installations. Despite its inevitable demise, enterprise users, especially in the financial services and insurance industries, continue to rely on the platform for running business critical applications. Breathing new […]

A Cambridge, Mass., startup is set to deliver an application development solution that turns the thin-client model of Web computing on its head, recalling the day when fat clients ruled the enterprise. Curl Corp., founded out of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology project in 1998, next week will announce its Client/Web platform and components, the […]

Business on the internet keeps growing—and so are consumer expectations of online service and shopping sites. Strangely, however, retail growth online and its credibility are not necessarily in sync with each other. Online retail spending in the United States is expected to hit $47.8 billion this year and is expected to continue to climb steadily […]

You could say its the best of times and the worst of times. You may even agree that its the age of wisdom and the age of foolishness. It has always seemed that way in the business of technology. We were never better off than we were during the late 90s—and never worse off, either, […]

We knew on Sept. 11 that the world had changed and that the effects of the terrorist attacks would be significant and long lasting. We just didnt know by how much and how long. Some people are trying to forget the attacks, but many others can never forget. Count the assembled at the Twelfth Conference […]

SAN FRANCISCO–The Constitution Project today released a nationwide survey of state wiretap statutes, a representative of the organization announced here at the Computers Freedom and Privacy Conference. The survey is the first of its kind and includes all 50 states and the District of Columbia, said Peter Swire, a law professor at Ohio State University […]

If you are wondering what the pioneers of the dot-com era are doing now, heres a story about how one is fighting big business and the government for the personal freedoms of technology consumers. Joe Kraus, co-founder of Excite.com, who left the company in April 2000, is leading DigitalConsumer.org, an organization attempting to stop the […]

Live long enough, and eventually everything will become “classic.” We already have classic rock on the radio, classic TV on cable, classic sports on ESPN (a wonderful thing), classic fashions and classic cars. Now, it seems, the classic business is catching up with high technology. Original versions of Atari games such as Asteroids, Centipede and […]

NEW YORK–Ever since its humble beginnings, Linux supporters and detractors alike have been preoccupied with the open-source operating systems readiness for the enterprise. Those same users no longer have to wait: Linux is here and here to stay. The latest proof is Red Hat Inc.s Advanced Server, unveiled here this week, which officials are calling […]

Back in 1988 presidential primaries, Super Tuesday was introduced as a means for the political parties, particularly the Democrats, to put all their eggs in one basket. Whoever won Super Tuesday, the logic went, would win the nomination and have a good shot at the White House. A funny thing happened on the way to […]