CenterBeam
The Deseret News, 2/16/03: 21 new patents include water purifier
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Multiple storage class distributed nametags for locating items in a distributed computing system. Glenn Ricart, Salt Lake City; Carlos A. Nevarez, Orem. Assigned to Novell Inc., Provo. Filed Feb. 4, 1999. Patent No. 6,510,450.
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Outsourcing
CFO, 2/14/03: Outsourcing: Buyers Calling the Shots
Customers continue to wield their buying power for all it's worth.
Is it time to renegotiate your outsourcing agreements?
"Pay as you go" may not replace the "one size fits all" outsourcing model for several years. But even if it's not time to buy your IT infrastructure services the same way you buy your heat or electricity, you should be shopping hard, negotiating hard, and benchmarking the terms of your agreements.
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IT Management
CIO, 2/14/03: Centralizing vs. Decentralizing IT
By Jan Duffy
"Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic."
Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
IT leaders, IT suppliers, and IT-related services providers may well begin to sound like Tweedledee in their confusion about the flavor of the day in IT organizational structure. The IT centralization versus decentralization debate is not a simple one. At least three distinct elements are associated with the debate: control, physical location, and function. For the discussion to be reasonable and produce a satisfactory outcome, it is absolutely essential that everyone understand which of these three elements is in play and which are not. Otherwise, there is every possibility for misunderstanding, and, even worse, a decision could be made with which no one identifies.
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Wireless
Infoworld, 2/14/03: It's too early for 11g
A few wireless vendors have decided to get a jump on the competition by releasing 802.11g equipment prior to the specification actually being ratified. By keeping their options open via software, these manufacturers hope to snap up a large chunk of the available 11g market now while still offering their customers full 11g compatibility, once the spec is approved, via firmware upgrades. This gave us a chance to get an early look at 11g, in the form of two consumer kits, before enterprise gear is widely available.
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Mobile
The New York Times, 2/17/03: BlackBerry Battle Could Reverberate
By TERESA RIORDAN
A LITTLE-KNOWN Virginia company fired a new salvo last week in a lawsuit that threatens to take away one of the prized possessions of the technologically astute: the little messaging device known as the BlackBerry.
The BlackBerry, produced by Research in Motion Ltd. of Waterloo, Ontario, is one of several hand-held devices on the market that allow a person to send and receive e-mail without being hooked up to a cable or phone line. But it has been praised for being especially nimble and is the device of choice not just among many high-tech business people but also members of Congress and certain Hollywood stars (Matt Damon and Pamela Anderson among them, according to one report).
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Eweek, 2/14/03: Network Interruption Cause of BlackBerry Outage
By Carmen Nobel
A network interruption caused wireless e-mail customers across the country to experience service interruptions on their BlackBerry devices on Thursday.
Several customers experienced long delays in receiving e-mail on their devices, and several others found that the e-mail they sent from their pagers was returned to them. Research in Motion Ltd., in Waterloo, Ontario, makes the BlackBerry devices and server software.
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Microsoft
The Wall Street Journal, 2/14/03: Microsoft Replaces Patch For Flaw in Internet Explorer
REDMOND, Wash. -- Microsoft Corp. is issuing a new patch for its popular Web-browsing software because an earlier one broke a function that let users enter Web sites where they had previously registered.
A patch for Internet Explorer versions 5.01, 5.5 and 6.0 was initially posted Feb. 5 to fix security flaws that could allow an attacker to access users' information or otherwise take control of their computers.
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