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Mention directory servers to the average person and you’ll get either a blank stare or a knowing look and a yawn. That’s because these servers, which manage lists of users on a computer network, play a decidedly prosaic role within corporate information systems. But as we enter the increasingly inte

Pity the vendors of online collaboration software. Companies such as eRoom, Intraspect, WebEx (WEBX), and even Microsoft (MSFT) (with its SharePoint products) have been trying for years to overcome the barriers of physical distance and eliminate business travel, with software that lets people in dif

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Want to win your next negotiation? Role-playing, that much-maligned management technique, could actually do the trick. From the July, 2002 issue of Business 2.0, page 94 Try this experiment: Mention the term “role-playing” to your colleagues and note whether they a) roll their eyes, b) groan bitterl

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Loudcloud announced this week that it would exit the Web outsourcing business. Does that mean you should think about running your website in-house? Not necessarily. As recently as a year ago, managed service providers (MSPs) seemed to be a pretty good bet. The idea behind them made sense: Instead of

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San Francisco, California, USA –One clear day in September 1927, in a small San Francisco laboratory, abrainy 21-year-old Utah farm boy demonstrated the first electronictelevision broadcast. But the name Philo T. Farnsworth never became ahousehold word. His efforts to bring television to market were

Truant officers in Boston are testing a new system that shows how mobile applications are supposed to work. Elliot Feldman, director of alternative education for Boston Public Schools, has no illusions about his job. Among other duties, he oversees the school system’s truant officers and meets with

One year ago, my wife and I became parents, and decided to share the responsibility of raising our daughter equally. We each work half time, so one of us is always home with our girl. We found out that it’s not so easy to make equally-shared parenting work, even in a progressive place like the […]

Web merchants are flooded with so much information on consumer traffic that they can’t make sense of it all. A new software system might help. When you enter a department store, there’s a good chance that your every move is being watched and assessed. You might think that the same thing is happening