Opinion

Putting G before A

Apple surprisingly deploys the unofficial 802.11g Wi-Fi standard for its future wireless offerings

The missing link

You'll be able to grab a great phone/PDA/Internet device this year, but it's useless without converged services

With a silver spoon

Hitachi Global Storage Technology is off and running, but it could face family feuds

There’s life left in IIS

New tools mean reports of Internet Information Server's death have been greatly exaggerated

Don’t pass this along

Intuit's TurboTax comes with a little surprise for those who attempt to use it on more than one computer

How strong is the new commission network agreement?

Some feel the standard is too vague and open to abuse

The name game

Should the URI namespace be opaque?

Patch and probe

Readers suggest several new fixes that can help you deal with a plethora of problems

Let the battle begin

Now that open source is clearly at the center of Microsoft's radar, things are going to get ugly

Consolidation fallout

Take inventory now of the technologies, suppliers, and partners you can't live without

Blades with an edge

RLX Technologies sharpens blade attack with high density and top-notch management

Tales of the tape

The tape market shrinks, but not the tape. Brother, can you spare a terabyte?

Journalism 101: You had to be there

Reporting in the age of the Internet gives rumor and innuendo undeserved play

Good news, bad news

In retrospect, you had it easy last year when it came to security. Don't plan on it happening twice

Come together

With hot and cold running applications, Steve's two jobs converge as Apple strikes back at Microsoft's Office empire

Collaboration cure

Tablet PC hands users a whole new way to work interactively

The lord of mobility

If Microsoft's long-term vision becomes reality, then one wireless platform shall rule them all

Eternal vigilance

With the new year, many threats to our digital rights from powerful interests loom on the horizon

Key to Wi-Fi security

Wireless authentication may change the outside-the-firewall mind-set

Managing it all

Security event management solutions ride the data influx to spot potential threats

Foreign relations

Whither WorldCom

Managing in a slow economy

How CTOs can gain business momentum during hard times

The results are in: Readers hop on mom-and-pop sites

There is strong support for larger businesses too

Revisiting the scriptable DOM

We can work across browsers and operating systems

Taking a balanced look at standards

Standards are fine, but don't discount the important role of disruptive technology

More e-mail scandal

A new study shows one in four requested e-mails aren't making it past certain spam filters

D-word dissection

Naysayers call open-source technology destructive, but it actually is disruptive — and in a positive way

Not enough disruption?

The Test Center debate team homes in on technology that didn't make the list

Coming of Cometa

Will Cometa's nationwide wireless network put the grassroots Wi-Fi genie back in the bottle

Data, data everywhere

Security managment information overload is putting Wayne in a Coleridge state of mind

Brain dumping

The information locked in your brain today could be invaluable in 10 years — but will it still exist?

Avoid contract traps

Readers give tips on their successful strategies for battling vendors' "evergreen" maintenance clauses

Network effects

Wireless, 10GbE, and virtualization extend enterprise boundaries

At your own service

With self-service CRM, answers are but a click — or a word — away

Wild predictions 2003

Stolen identity

Open for business

Office 11, Mac OS X, open source fuel shift from proprietary wares

The backup mantra

Say it with us now: I resolve to do better backups, I resolve to do better backups…

And the winner is …

In this pageant, the runway is the intersection of technology, the marketplace, and public policy

The disruptive Web

Blogs, Web services, and digital identity combine for new possibilities

The failure of trickle-down technology

There's an information crisis in government and nonprofits

Nobody expects the spontaneous integration

Coordination of distributed resources doesn't have to be hard

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Farewell, for now

P.J. clears his desk for the holidays, revisits certification programs, and points policy writers to help

Putting XP in the zone

ZoneAlarm, by default, doesn't stop Windows XP from phoning home, but that may be OK

Spell it out for me

Better communication with potential customers tops storage wish list for 2003

The silent treatment

Even when an evaluation of its product offers praise, Microsoft's EULA has the power to silence

Right to the point

Point of activity is a fine concept, but without reliability, the rewards of wireless are elusive

High fidelity XML

Hailstorm may have gone the way of the LP, but the man behind it is still whistling a familiar tune

Annual scorecard

Though the penguin didn't soar quite as high as predicted, Russell fared well in his 2002 forecast

Prowling around

Microsoft and Big Mac