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Virginia Power knows how to conserve energy--especially in its IT department. After a hiring freeze last year, the Richmond, Va., utility began relying on contract programmers for 65 percent of […]

Behold, the Renaissance people of the Information Age. As skilled in business as in technology, this new breed of CIOs are thinkers as much as they are doers; as effective […]

Are your Webmasters not speaking the same language as IT execs? Here are some words of advice. What once seemed like the wisest way to get to the World Wide […]

L.L. Bean is well-equipped for its hike into the world of Web pages and CD ROMs. As the company has discovered, it just takes teamwork. It should come as no […]

Client/server deployment requires one piece of hardware you probably won't find in the computer store: a new hat rack. The challenges of setting strategic directions and policies, establishing standard platforms, […]

While the Federal Communications Commission gets down to work on Personal Communications Services, many wireless network providers are building their own skyways on frequencies available now. These networks, such as […]

The tidy electronic spreadsheet has become, in its latest iteration, a jack of all trades: Not only does it crunch numbers, but now users can also create slide shows, use […]

Anyone who owns a video camera knows how quickly the tapes can pile up--and that's just from taping kids' parties and holidays. Imagine the storage crises companies face from taping […]

Vendors will benefit from the new marketing approach, but will users? Shlomo touboul was a man ahead of his time. in the fall of 1995, the future founder of Finjan […]

Irene Dec downs a cup of coffee and heads to the front of the room. There's not a lot of chitchat around the conference table. The 40 people on Prudential […]

For network managers who've struggled through ever more complex solutions to build the perfect WAN, last week's NetWorld+Interop show approached nirvana. With dozens of gigabit routing switches on display, their […]

Despite hardware advances, bandwidth remains scarce. Gigabit Ethernet swich/routers show promise by combining intelligence with speed If you've ever had an x-ray done and taken home the films, hold on […]

Legal, other fields need up-to-date info pronto! That's why they're making a case for centralized contract/relationship management Dan murray's rival lawyers get jealous when he shows up on a new […]

It's an old idea whose time is at hand once again--selling software not as a product, but as a subscription service McAfee Associates Inc. might have lost its billion-dollar attempt […]

Is there truly one client that's tuned for a plethora of computing platforms? Brian Profeta is struggling with some heavy iron--and we don't mean the 15-ton coal mining machines his […]

The Net's hunger for high bandwidth has made an alphabet soup of options If choice is a good thing, being a telecommunications manager must be great. So why are their […]

Need a development head start? Intranet suites get you that and a lot more When Bell Sygma Inc. pilots its intranet this month, Graham Silver will quench his thirst for […]

Mystified by the mass of information unearthed by data mining? Data visualization software puts it all into focus They say a picture is worth a thousand words. To Christopher May, […]

Their products could become the core building blocks of the corporate intranet market. Here's how four little companies are planning to take advantage of this big construction boom It's a […]

It takes too much time to break into the intranet building trades. So Cisco and Informix are bulldozing their way in by Imagine the intranet market as the world's most […]

Wanted: Execs who have bright ideas. The newest career path makes the leap from information to knowledge It had to happen. With the information economy at hand, more companies are […]

Anyone who's searched the Web for information knows what WWW really stands for: World Wide Wait. You'd think that with all the search services on the World Wide Web--and there […]

It's clickorama on the Web, where hyperlinks are breeding like bunnies Call it the Wacky Web: home pages with hyperlinks so numerous that users might as well be on 'Let's […]

Better start figuring in a few factors--especially cost savings--if you want to justify your intranet For Donna Migoni, cost-justifying an intranet isn't a numbers game. In fact, she says, hard […]

The molten demand for IT consulting is driving megaplayers into a merger frenzy. Companies such as Computer Sciences Corp., which has purchased 30 companies in as many years, are buying […]

If time is money, using the Internet can be a fortune lost. Productivity withers when users climb onto the Web at top dial-up speeds of 28.8K bps. Even the relatively […]

John Lindeman stands out in a crowd. At least, he did at a recent IT conference. When the speaker asked how many audience members held the title of chief storage […]

Electronic Commerce NEW YORK--A growing number of information providers want customers to pay to play on their World-Wide Web sites, taking what many observers see as an inevitable but risky […]

A century ago, scientists predicted the primary mode of transportation at the end of this century would be flight. Keen thinking, and to illustrate their brainstorm, they envisioned wires strung […]

Charles Schwab & Co. Inc. this month will become the first major brokerage to offer trading via the Internet--a sign, analysts say, that the Web is open for business. Schwab […]

The moon, it appears, has successfully pulled cyberspace into the gravitational order. Out wanes client/server, in waxes the the World-Wide Web. Blame the moon for this new media mania, or […]

The Wide World of the Web Tune into our three-part series to learn how to become a master of the Web. Driving the Web: A guide to best practices for […]

How can IT executives survive a turbulent business landscape? The answer is to master change, according to an IBM Consulting Group study, to be published this month, that followed 17 […]

The Net is littered with static billboards. But companies are breathing life into sites, justifying ROI. The Wide World of the Web: Tune into our three-part series to learn how […]

With an $80 billion consulting market, PC vendors and software makers are also speaking as service providers. A conflict of interest? As Mike Clark waited over the holidays for his […]

Freightliner hauls out AllPro to keep its big rigs moving on Route 66. Freightliner Corp.'s new Century Class rigs will no doubt wow the trucking world when they roll out […]

If the internet is the cyber frontier, the World-Wide Web is the fastest turnaround artist in the West. A year ago, defiant hackers were flaming businesses that dared post a […]

Like many employees of Reebok International Inc., Peter Burrows is in serious training. He works at it weekdays and weekends. He's working so hard, in fact, he doesn't have time […]

The infoglut has led to information overload. Choosing the right technology can help sift through the deluge. Daily newspapers, hourly newscasts, all-news TV, news ticklers, wire services. Information is everywhere, […]

It was a long road for Ed Sarama, but suddenly the information security chief at JM Family Enterprises is cruising. With the company en route to a network of image-based […]

The scene was like a soft ware vendor's Super Bowl nightmare. Thousands of fans flocking to the Arizona desert to attend SAP AG's recent SAPphire users' conference, drawn as much […]

PHOENIX--Client/server powerhouse SAP AG is talking with Compaq Computer Corp. and several other suppliers of Pentium servers about bundling their systems with a new version of SAP's R/3 3.0 and […]

It's late August, another hot, thirsty day in the sun-drenched summer of 1995. As Glenn Shaw pulls his big rig into the T-Bird Mini-Mart, in Claremont, N.H., he can taste […]

Companies slap shackles on employee usage At Pepsi-Cola North America, workers can easily quench their thirst for the Internet, but that could mean a nasty backwash of viruses and pornography, […]

QVC Inc.'s home shopping channel already offers Windows 95, and that's just the first ripple of the forthcoming Microsoft blitz. That's why Delmonte Corp.'s Ibrahim Moussa has a plan: a […]

Scuttled away in a far corner of the Javits Center's lower level, a handful of business vendors at the recent PC Expo hawked training software and recordable CD hardware to […]

Looking for software that can help you define and evaluate best practices? You won't find it among the familiar providers of spreadsheets and databases. The diverse programs in this new […]

To expedite turnaround time for its planes, Southwest Airlines could have examined the performance of its maintenance crews --or those of other carriers. Instead, the airline went to the Indianapolis […]