Opinion

Memo to Bill Gates

It's time, Bill, to commit to the common good by fighting those who would lock the Internet door shut

WLAN overboard

Instability, shortcomings plague Orinoco Wireless LAN Manager

Appmail pulls it together

Zaplet Appmail System 2.0 puts a familiar, e-mail face on collaborative business processes

And access for all

Engineering accessibility into products, sites, and organizations is just good business sense

How classmates.com got its 1.5 million paying members

Online advertising pays off for profitable Web business

Taking the A train

D-Link Systems' Air Pro wireless LAN hardware offers blistering speed and all the limitations of 802.11a

My workplace or yours?

CleverPath Portal 4.0 scores with flexible deployment for IT and easy content sharing for end-users

From Peru, with love

A Peruvian congressman dismantles Microsoft's arguments against an open source-friendly bill

Return of the P.J.

Secure instant messaging gives everyone (even wary IT managers) what they want

Stop the war

Hollywood and Silicon Valley need to stop digging deeper trenches and figure out where they have mutual interests

SMS standing tall

Short messaging service is aptly making the transition from a consumer service to a business solution

ONE up on .Net

Solaris 9 is dressed to kill – .Net, that is. Sun's generosity is laudable, but watch out for the fine print

All my children

Lost tribes

Now search this

There?s a new way to query Window Manager columns, and that?s just the beginning

Leap of faith

Disk storage technologies help storage administrators trust their tape backup routines

Draconian DMCA

In practice, the law shuts down ISPs instead of offering protection against copyright infringement by their users

The next big thing: Tools IT can use

Vendors need to produce enterprise software that is easy to deploy and maintain

Factiva: 8,000 publications, 1.5 million subscribers

Filling a need to find facts quickly and easily

Open opportunities

Attention software vendors: Companies are serious about moving to open-source desktops

A license to kill

User agreements in Windows XP and Muvee AutoProducer call for updated explanations

‘Cheap and easy’ IP

Protecting your Fibre Channel storage network from the ruins of the Internet

Riding the tiger

Disruptive technologies are actually constructing new models of networking infrastructure

Solaris ups the ante

Version 9 of Sun's flagship OS boosts security, reliability, manageability

Sun to fight them on the beaches

Losing my religion

When it comes to IT decision-making, an ounce of pragmatism is worth a pound of principles

Unfairly used

Lobbyists for media and high-tech corporations are vying for the Congressional mandate to control copy protection

Making new friends

Linux firewalls

Inexpensive and effective, Linux options are worth a closer look for basic features and functionality

Apps on the edge

Moving applications from the datacenter to the edge has its challenges — but a layer of business logic is already making its way to the network perimeter

The seamless edge

Mobility keeps sessions going even when users are on the move

How to get 700,000 paid subscriptions to your site

High conversion rate means more subscribers, increased revenue

The swelling bubble

Customer expectation for wireless will dictate whether or not promising technologies will thrive

A patch of one’s own

Readers describe their experiences with patch-automation tools from Microsoft and others

The Honeynet Project

Honeynets and honeypots are sweet research resources for busy bees with security in mind

The spy who loves you

Some 'free' Internet services come with the kind of surveillance you may not want

Hyperlinks matter

Network effects depend on putting the Web back in Web services

Why we still like Ike in the digital era

The federal drive to build our highway system in the 1950s is a worthy model

Reference protector

Network sentinel technology stores e-mail, IMs, and more so you don't have to

Tricks are for kids

Bite spam back

Companies can fight unsolicited e-mail on the cheap, but should also donate time and assets to the cause

Dance with a dragon

Mozilla RC 1 is on the loose, and the much-anticipated browser is showing promise

Save the whalestorm

Hailstorm's future within Microsoft is cloudy, so it's no wonder the rest of us are feeling confused

Getting the best value out of your pay-per-click ads

Positioning your ads can be complicated, but pays off

Opening the desktop

The OpenCD project could bring mature open-source apps to a Windows desktop near you

Secret identity

Once you get caught in the digital-era Web, you may want to spin off a few superhero alter egos of your own

Storage help is just on the horizon

Microsoft and other vendors are exploring storage virtualization options

IDSes evolve to better bolster defense

Remote controllers

Cisco 3000 and Zone Labs Integrity enforce remote access security

Is speed everything?

Storage Performance Council's new benchmark tells only part of the tale

Wanting too much