Outsourcing
Press Release, 2/12/03: AlphaNet Solutions Announces FlexiMon(SM) Services for Flexible IT Services Monitoring
CEDAR KNOLLS, N.J., Feb. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --AlphaNet Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALPH), a leading IT professional services firm providing a full range of outsourced IT operations and learning solutions, announces the availability of FlexiMon(SM) Services, innovative end-to-end IT services monitoring, including automated problem identification, real-time end-user experience monitoring, and customization capabilities required to effectively monitor today's complex IT infrastructures.
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Security
Information Week, 2/11/03: Letters: Readers Take Peers To Task On Security Readiness
By Mitch Wagner
Readers took issue with our defense of systems administrators who failed to install the patch for SQL Server 2000 that allowed the Slammer worm to spread. We said in our newsletter that Microsoft puts out too many patches to keep up; readers said that keeping up with patches is simply a part of the systems administrator's job.
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Federal IT
TechWeb, 2/11/03: Billions Wasted On Redundant Federal IT Spending Feb. 11, 2003
The administration's IT guru says billions are squandered on unnecessary systems and services.
By Eric Chabrow
The federal government might be squandering as much as one-fifth of the nearly $60 billion it allocates for IT on redundant systems and services.
"There's a significant amount of redundant spending," Mark Forman, associate director for IT and E-government at the Office of Management and Budget, said at a news conference on Tuesday in Santa Clara, Calif. "Maybe it's as high as 20% of the budget. We don't have an analysis to that level of detail."
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Mobile
News.com, 2/11/03: New BlackBerry joins RIM pickings
By Richard Shim
Armed with a grant from the Federal Communications Commission and a new lower-priced BlackBerry device, Research In Motion is looking to target the large consumer market.
The Waterloo, Ontario-based company received approval Jan. 23 from the FCC for a device called the BlackBerry 6225, according to an FCC application filing. The device is a combination cell phone, organizer and two-way messaging device that operates in the 900MHz and 1900MHz radio frequencies for Global System for Mobile Communications and General Packet Radio Service cellular networks in the United States, according to the filing. The device comes with a built-in keyboard.
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Intel
Computerworld, 2/11/03: Moore: Innovation key to keeping his law alive
By Stephen Lawson, IDG News Service
The steady growth in the density and performance of microprocessors described by Moore's Law may go on only for the next eight to 12 years with today's conventional technology, the author of that law said Monday.
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