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Think Globally, Act Locally

By: Dylan Tweney
Issue: November 2001
Adding foreign language versions of your website can easily pay for itself in fresh leads and revenues.


Most websites take a Model T approach to overseas marketing: You can access them in any language you want, as long as it’s English.… Read the rest

What’s Going On Down at the Plant?

New real-time computing technologies can link manufacturing plants with other divisions of the company — and help stave off supply-chain disasters.


During the past decade, corporations have put immense amounts of cash and effort into IT projects with alphabet-soup acronyms, like enterprise resource planning (ERP), supply-chain management (SCM), and customer relationship management (CRM) systems.Read the rest

Putting Your Web Servers Under Lock and Key

The events of the past month have made many companies nervous about their Internet security. It’s about time.


If you believe that your computer systems are vulnerable these days, you’re not alone. In the month since the terrorist bombings, many businesses (and individuals) have adopted a heightened interest in security, online as well as off.Read the rest

How to Beat Corporate Alzheimer’s

For as long as people have been keeping records, they’ve struggled to find efficient ways to file their work. Ancient Assyrians, who scratched records on clay tablets, stored documents in pigeonholes in the walls of libraries, writing a list of each room’s contents on the wall — a kind of primitive database.Read the rest

Cleaning Up Dirty Data

Many companies try to mine their mountains of data for new marketing ventures and better customer information. But are they finding gold in there — or garbage?


Information is power, as the saying goes, and if that’s true, bad information is worse than no information at all.Read the rest

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 astronauts. Computers today aren’t smart enough to second-guess our actions (thankfully) or to carry on long, rambling discussions. But speech recognition software has gotten good enough to be adopted by major companies ranging from Merrill Lynch and T.Read the rest

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 equivalent of a medieval fortress. Your systems are likely ensconced behind a firewall, with antivirus monitoring software patrolling the perimeters and an array of additional security measures fending off unwanted intruders.… Read the rest

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 three rebellions in the IT department, and you’ve put the site through extensive QA testing. Now you’re ready to switch on the site and pop open the bubbly, right?Read the rest

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