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DEUTSCHE BAHN AG, the company that manages Germany's railway system, has successfully migrated its 55,000-user Lotus Notes system to an IBM mainframe running Linux, IBM announced earlier this month. That […]

AN INTERNATIONAL consumer privacy group last week launched a boycott of U.K.-based retailer Tesco PLC over its increasing use of radio frequency identification tags on individual products, such as DVDs […]

SOFTWARE AG in Darmstadt, Germany, announced plans earlier this month to acquire Sabratec Ltd., a software company based in OrYehuda, Israel, for about $7 million. Software AG said it's especially […]

ABOUT 27% of European online shoppers have made purchases at Web sites outside their home countries, according to a recent survey of 22,907 European consumers by Forrester Research Inc. in […]

TAIPEI ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC., Lenovo Group Ltd. and Dawning Information Industry Co. last week won a contract to supply 26,000 AMD-based computers for newly wired classrooms in the Chinese […]

THIS ISN'T GOING TO BE CHEAP OR EASY. For large corporations, switching to a voice-over-IP (VoIP) system could require an investment of $20 million to $40 million or more, according […]

As a location for IT outsourcing, Bangalore, India, is still the place to be. "It's far from past its prime," says Eugene Kublanov, a vice president at neoIT Inc., an […]

IBM last week said it will acquire KeyMRO, a company based outside Paris that operates an e-procurement marketplace. The deal is aimed at boosting IBM's ability to provide outsourced procurement […]

EDITOR'S NOTE Radio frequency identification technology, or RFID, will eventually help prevent inventory snafus and provide more visibility into the supply chain. But so far, the road to RFID nirvana […]

WIPRO INFOTECH, the Wipro unit that provides outsourcing services to companies based in India, last week announced a seven-year contract to handle all IT operations for Yes Bank Ltd., a […]

BANGALORE, INDIA MICROSOFT CORP. will hire several hundred staffers over the next 12 months for the software development and support operations at its new 28-acre campus near Hyderabad, India, CEO […]

EDITOR'S NOTE YOU KNOW about offshoring's political and employee backlash [QuickLink 47609]. You know about the security and privacy concerns over outsourcing IT [QuickLink 49098]. But there are other dangers, […]

WHEN IT CONSULTANCY Alinean LLC came out with corporate rankings based on its new IT benchmarking metric, the top companies were Fannie Mae and Pioneer Natural Resources Co. But Wal-Mart […]

THE BOOK: Got Game: How the Gamer Generation Is Reshaping Business Forever, by John C. Beck and Mitchell Wade (Harvard Business School Press, 2004). Conventional wisdom holds that gamers--those who […]

ITALY'S BANKS are missing out on online opportunities because Italian consumers are far more reluctant to use online banking than other Europeans are, according to a recent report by Forrester […]

EDITOR'S NOTE WELCOME to the 'verticalization' of customer relationship management. Some CRM vendors offer as many as 20 different versions of their products, each geared to a different industry. Plus […]

We tend to think of instant messaging as the not-very-important electronic chatter of teenagers and white-collar workers. But an innovative auto-racing team is proving that chat can be a powerful […]

EDITOR'S NOTE LAST YEAR, we boldly predicted a Web services tsunami [QuickLink 38153], with XML and SOAP changing a wide swath of IT development. OK, so it's really more like […]

CAMERA PHONES have been a huge success--IDC estimates that more than 600 million will be in use by 2007--because people can easily send and receive snapshots. What does this have […]

The most useful parts of recent business and IT management books THE BOOK: Information Nation: Seven Keys to Information Management Compliance, by Randolph A. Kahn and Barclay T. Blair (AIIM, […]

EDITOR'S NOTE IT WAS AN EXCITING TIME when I got my MCI Mail account more than 10 years ago. But today, provocative headlines say that e-mail is dead or dying […]

If you've ever relocated a data center or moved a headquarters, you know how much the IT group and the facilities management group need to work together. The two departments […]

EDITOR'S NOTE WHEN IT COMES to information consumption, IT journalists and IT managers aren't all that different. We both plow through Web sites, articles, reports, vendor pitches, conference presentations--and, most […]

THERE'S POLICE TAPE across the front of your headquarters one morning because suspicious white powder was found inside. Do your employees know what to do? What if you can't reach […]

ARE YOU OVERSPENDING ON DISASTER RECOVERY? I know it seems like a ridiculous question. How could you be? Newspaper headlines throw more risks--and regulators throw more requirements--in your face almost […]

AT A TIME WHEN corporations are increasingly reliant on technology, boardrooms are seriously deficient in IT knowledge and experience. Only 5% of the world's largest companies have CIOs on their […]

AN ESPECIALLY DIFFICULT challenge is figuring out how to get the business to pay for necessary upgrades of IT infrastructure when that infrastructure isn't particularly exciting compared with competing business […]

Medical staffers at Children's Hospital Boston are far more interested in treating children than in learning new IT procedures, which they avoid like the plague. But the IT department recently […]

EDITOR'S NOTE SPECIAL REPORT THESE ARE CHALLENGING times for IT project managers. The business wants new systems built yesterday to meet customer demands. IT projects have to be run through […]

CONVENTIONAL WISDOM holds that CIOs should make sure IT spending is properly aligned with business strategies, and if it isn't, then it's the CIO's fault. But that thinking is actually […]

THE BOOK: Services Blueprint: Roadmap for Execution, by Ravi Kalakota and Marcia Robinson (Addison-Wesley, 2003). Take today's buzzwords--e-business, Web portals, the real-time enterprise, adaptive supply chains, enterprise application integration and […]

SLAMMER. Bugbear.B. Blaster. Sobig.F. 2003 was the worst year for virus outbreaks in the 20-year history of computer viruses, declares a report by F-Secure Corp. in San Jose. It was […]

Have trouble visualizing your network? IPsonar software, from Lumeta Corp. in Somerset, N.J., not only maps the network and its perimeter; it also finds 'leaks' that could be serious security […]

No. 1 by Far Cisco dominates the enterprise network hardware market. Cisco Systems Inc. 55.1% 3Com Corp. 4.7% Nortel Networks Ltd. 4.2% Hewlett-Packard Co. 4.1% Avaya Inc. 1.3% Market-share leaders, […]

A system for monitoring the reliability of networking equipment in the field. This 'field availability monitoring system' is attached to switches and routers that have been installed at customer sites […]

50 YEARS AGO: * Western Electric's No. 28 tele-typewriter becomes commercially available. * The Bell System puts a hands-free Speakerphone into limited production. * AT&T offers a long-distance 'Integrated Data […]

SURE, THERE ARE other enterprise networking issues, including Gigabit Ethernet and voice over IP. But talk to network managers these days and they'll say the No. 1 thing keeping them […]

SOME IT JOB SEEKERS don't handle the pressure of a job interview well. And some don't handle the pressure of a skills test very well. So RightNow Technologies Inc. in […]

THE U.S. DEPARTMENT of Homeland Security is gearing up to install a huge biometric border-control system to check the identities and visas of the 500 million foreigners who enter the […]

World's Tiniest Drive Holds 46B of Data Hitachi Ltd. has unveiled a 4GB version of its Microdrive miniature hard disk drive, which is expected to sell for about $500. The […]

IT'S CLEAR that data storage is more important than ever. Take a look at these factoids (surely headed to a PowerPoint slide near you): * Globally, there was a 30% […]

EDITOR'S NOTE I'M PREPARED FOR THE BACKLASH from daring to run a special report on offshore outsourcing. The O-word always triggers a stream of e-mail invective from displaced IT workers. […]

Hundreds of pages of complex telecommunications bills land on the desk of some overworked IT staffer every month. And if they 'look normal,' they get paid. But auditors say those […]

SOMETIMES the results from data analysis are just plain absurd. Web logs show that one of the most common search phrases entered at Computer-world's Web site one week was 'Ryder […]

EDITOR'S NOTE THE TRADE PRESS is very, very good at reporting what the leading-edge users are doing. When Unilever said it would move to Linux in a big way, for […]

IT WAS A COLD, clear day in Washington on Jan. 8, 1982, when Charlie Brown and Bill Baxter held a noon press conference to announce an antitrust trial settlement that […]

A 5GB Hard Drive Debuts for Mobile Devices Need to carry a few thousand graphics, audio or text files on the road? Tokyo-based Toshiba Corp. recently unveiled a portable 5GB […]

EDITOR'S NOTE WE'RE HEADING TOWARD 'the death of the centralized, monolithic data center as we have come to know it.' Wow. That e-mail certainly got my attention. The writer went […]

Keep an Eye on Key-Chain Fobs In a few years, it's likely that a traveling executive will be able to show up at a conference, take a tiny memory device […]