Opinion

The e-mail scandal

Your messages have a 1-in-8 chance of never reaching your intended recipients' inboxes

Buggy whips for India

Like the automotive age, the open-source age is inevitable, but Microsoft won't give up easily

The Big Bang

Microsoft may have blurred the messaging, but its brilliant idea processor strikes the right Note

Debugging SOAP

Personal sniffer watches, simplifies, and interacts with traffic

Family quits jobs, pays the mortgage with Web site

Finding a niche and a strategy pays off

Intel raises DP server ante

Fresh workstation and server products unleash power trapped in dual-processor systems

Playing IBM’s game

Competitors rally against Big Blue's dominance on the services court

Crush creepy crawlers

Readers find 'parasiteware' is getting out of hand and begs for a strong dose of bug spray

Interplanetary tango

In today's astronomy headlines, Jupiter is now moving into orbit around IBM

Certifiably certified

Following a coursework paper trail to gain — or judge — security expertise is no cakewalk

It’s a small world

Intel and AMD matches

The disaster of success

When companies fail to adapt to market demands, they lose out ? and so do their customers

XML for the rest of us

Microsoft Office 11's XML capabilities contain the seeds of a revolution in enterprise content management

IBM hides the keys

Embedded Security Subsystem goes beyond software-based security

I see dead companies

With market-dominant Microsoft eyeing the mobile arena, do competitors have a ghost of a chance?

Getting a grip on the hype cycle

IBM turns up its nose at the Tablet, a decision that may someday leave the company singing the big blues

Cost of human error

There's plenty or room for mistakes when deploying SANs, but new tools may help

A vote for fair play

Readers weigh in on the latest vendor registerware schemes, and the best ways to fight unfair practices

Reappearing Ink

IBM turns up its nose at the Tablet, a decision that may someday leave the company singing the big blues

Basics make for mentoring success

CTOs have a responsibility to give back to the community

Newsletters can help (or hurt) your e-business

Subscribe/unsubscribe time a big factor

Jean Paoli on XML in Office 11

Enabling users to use XML properly

Sites against parasites

Services are available to fix Windows malware that you might not even know you have

Stretching middleware

Comprehensive Oracle9iAS release delivers useful enterprise integration functions while remaining cost-conscious

Price of performance

What is lost when server application frameworks focus on run-time speed?

Integrated biz suite

NetSuite 8.0 combines front- and back-office apps, ease of use, and customizability

The enemy within

Sketchy numbers from overseas highlight some core truths about IT security weaknesses

Sharpened clause

Tough times mean tough tactics, as one software purchaser found when he tried to cancel a maintenance agreement

Show us the innovation

Enough talking! Scott and Mario are looking for real action by the storage industry

Still a moving target

The future of Wi-Fi remains uncertain, but an innovative wireless switch from Vivato holds promise

Switching Offices

Microsoft is giving organizations reasons to move from Office to the OpenOffice.org suite

Squirm and squabble

Telco squabble

Turning to services

Services-oriented architectures drive outsourcing of core business processes

Could HSA push IT regulation?

Government touts security information-sharing plan for critical industries

Law and order

Marrying the spirit to the letter of the law produces a victory for Microsoft consumers, if not for competitors

Designing Web services namespaces

Cleaning up with RESTful SOAP

Commission networks plan to meet in New York on Nov. 7

An attempt to foil commission poaching

The SME standard

In a recession, buy like a small company; in times of plenty, buy like a small company

Extending Groove

Groove Web Services will allow PDAs and Web apps to share in Groove collaboration

Back-burner storage

Moving data to secondary resources saves money but keeps information accessible

Parasites in Windows

Without knowing it, you may have installed small programs that can have disastrous effects

Sneakwrapping a virus

If it acts like a virus, it is a virus, even if its creators cloak it in a EULA to legitimize their security breach

Preparing for change

No one knows which platform you'll use down the road, so now's the time to prepare for porting

Follow the money

When innovators with a proven track record start investing their own money in open source, it's time to pay attention

Root of the problem

Dentist visit keeps P.J. from getting a front-row seat at the recent DNS root server attack

.Net’s missing links

Improvements to the Compact Framework notwithstanding, Microsoft's mobile strategy is still a game of wait and see

Spheres of influence

Even the ads have bugs

Coffee, black, no Wi-Fi

When you're away from the home front, wide-area air cards beat out Wi-Fi in keeping you connected

Economic survival lessons from fools

Those who try to sell into a recession with PR alone risk long-term damage

Integrated biz suite