IT Management
Computerworld, 11/8/02: Investing now for the upturn later
By THOMAS HOFFMAN
BOSTON -- Companies that successfully emerge from the current economic slump will be those that focus on technologies such as Web services and "adaptive" supply chain networks and closely align their IT managers with business unit and marketing leaders, said analysts at Forrester Research Inc.'s Executive Strategy Forum here this week.
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Microsoft
Business Week, 11/8/02: Microsoft earns security badge
By Alex Salkever
When a perennial computer-security punching bag gets an exemplary grade for security, you have to scratch your head.
But that's precisely what happened when Microsoft announced on October 29 that its Windows 2000 Pro software line had received the so-called Common Criteria certification, an internationally recognized standard for secure design and implementation of info-tech products. Fourteen Western countries are now signatories of the Common Criteria, which is widely considered the gold standard of security certifications, the big kahuna that carries the most weight.
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eWeek, 11/8/02: It's Official: No Longhorn Server On Tap
By Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft Watch
Microsoft has decided to skip a Windows server release to coincide with the Longhorn client and instead jump directly to Blackcomb, company officials confirmed Friday.
Until recently, Microsoft has been talking up plans to synchronize its Windows server and client releases, starting with the next major version of Windows, code-named Longhorn.
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Wireless
ZDNet, 11/8/02: Woo wireless with e-mail
By Rich Castagna
Now playing on a handheld near you--Return of the killer app.
It's been said that e-mail made the Internet, and while that might tend towards the hyperbolic and fly in the face of Al Gore's personal history of the Internet, its significance can't be taken lightly. And now--with the Internet having become a pervasive part of our lives in such a short time--e-mail is poised to do the heavy lifting again to help firmly establish wireless data communications.
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New York Times, 11/12/02: A Networked World's Final Frontier: The Airplane
By SUSAN STELLIN
On a recent flight from New York to Oakland, Calif., Madeline Duva worked her BlackBerry pager with the intensity of a pinball player, right up until the second of four announcements from the flight crew reminding passengers that all electronic devices must be turned off.
Ms. Duva, a vice president with a San Francisco financial-data company, Sector Data, complied with the request, but said the communications blackout during the six-hour flight left her worrying about a last-minute directive to a colleague. "Now I'm sitting here and I'm thinking, `I hope that order went in,' " she said.
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