IT Management
ZDNet, 10/3/02: Aligning IT With Business
By Paula Musich
Mercury Interactive Corp. earlier this week outlined a new Business Technology Optimization (BTO) initiative intended to help IT better align its operations with business goals.
The application testing and management provider, as part of its BTO effort, introduced the first tool in a new suite that will help bridge the gap between lines of business and IT operations.
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Microsoft
c|net, 10/4/02: Microsoft-powered phone to debut
By Margaret Kane
Microsoft's wireless phone software will debut later this year in the United Kingdom, a spokesman for mobile services company Orange confirmed Friday.
Orange, a division of France Telecom, will launch phones with the software before the end of the year in the U.K. and release them in other European countries in the following few months, said spokesman Stuart Jackson.
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ZDNet, 10/3/02: Microsoft adds four more security alerts
By Joe Wilcox
Microsoft issued four security bulletins overnight related to its Windows operating system and SQL Server database software.
The company said late Wednesday that a bug in a Windows help file could let a hacker seize control of a person’s computer. The bug affects most currently supported versions of Windows: 98, 98 Second Edition, Millennium Edition, XP, NT 4, NT 4 Terminal Server Edition and 2000. Microsoft reported two separate problems with the help file system, which warranted issuing a "critical" alert.
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Computer Hardware / Networking
InternetNews.com, 10/3/02: HP Continues 'Gig to the Desktop' Push
By Michael Singer
Hewlett-Packard (Quote, Company Info, News) Thursday continued to push its "gig to the desktop" initiative with a handful of new products.
The Palo Alto, Calif.-based computer and printer maker released seven high-performance networking modules for its HP Procurve Routing Switch 9300m series. The devices are equipped with what HP calls "Enhanced Performance (EP) technology-based" and allow for Gigabit port density, wire-speed network traffic accounting and 10 Gigabit Ethernet bandwidth.
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Innovation
Forbes.Com, 10/4/02: Keychain Drives Get Better
Arik Hesseldahl
NEW YORK - One of the more interesting portable storage products to hit the market in the last year has been the keychain-sized flash memory device.
Any of the numerous incarnations available from one company or another are generally the same--some are even made by one company for another who sells them under a different brand name. M-System is a company who makes their own flash memory storage device called the DiskOnKey, which we noted in this space in May, 2001. Its most interesting feature is that it jumps easily from systems that run Windows, MacOS and Linux, as long as there's a USB port to plug into. An ARM7 processor on board detects what kind of computer it has been plugged into and tells the device to behave accordingly.
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Big Ideas
CIO, 10/02: Technology Needs To Change Us
COMPANIES, INDUSTRIES AND the world are continuously remade by technology. A technology that could transform the way your company operates—or put your company out of business—may be in development right now. Yet of the multitudes of products, processes and patents generated each year, only a few have a real impact. Even fewer have a lasting impact. The 20 people honored here for technology development have been chosen because they have the rare ability to develop truly innovative, significant and enduring technologies. But what factors give some technologies staying power, while others come and go? We put the question to Esther Dyson—technology pundit, investor, conference organizer, and all-around mover and shaker. In the quarter century that she has been following technology development, Dyson has developed a theory: Only those technologies with the power to change society are here for the long term; those without that power will soon be gone.
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