Internet Emerges as the Most Reliable Way to Communicate
In the hours and days after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, millions of phone lines went silent, but e-mail and […]
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Are You Overspending on That App Server?
To do business on the Web, you need an application server. Too bad you’re probably paying too much for it.
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Cleaning Up Dirty Data
Many companies try to mine their mountains of data for new marketing ventures and better customer information. But are they
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HAL 9000 Is Ready to Take Your Order
In the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, a sentient (if ultimately haywire) shipboard computer named HAL 9000 converses with
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Are Home PCs a Backdoor Into Your Corporate Network?
When it comes to network security, your corporate IT department probably has the company’s computers locked up in the technological
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Need for Speed
So you’ve just finished the big website redesign. Your designers and engineers have put in hundreds of hours, you’ve quelled
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Integrating online and offline business
Integrating online and offline business Harder than it looks, but you really have no alternative. My latest column for Business
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Microsoft suffocating software development?
Microsoft suffocating the software-development ecosystem? Software giant removes Java support from Windows XP. Author and developer Clay Shirky asks PC
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FBI busts Russian programmer
FBI busts Russian programmer For cracking Adobe’s weak PDF encryption scheme. Free-speech activists retaliate Boycott Adobe / Free Dmitri campaign,