IT Management
CIO, 4/03: CIO Survey
THIS YEAR'S STATE of the CIO 2003 survey reveals a very different set of challenges confronting our readers and a new set of priorities for IT leaders. Even as companies continue to struggle with a sputtering economy and weak corporate performance, and CIOs continue to wrestle with budget cuts and scarce resources, the demands the enterprise places on IT have been ratcheted up. Today, CIOs are being asked to cut costs, increase productivity, and find new ways to generate revenue and profits. In this dollar-anxious environment, alignment between business and IT, between the CEO and CIO—always important—is more critical than ever.
What's Changed
Last year, chief information officers told us that the biggest hurdles they needed to overcome were inadequate budgets and a lack of time for strategic thinking (see last year's State of the CIO issue at www.cio.com/state). CIOs reported that their energy went into staffing their departments, retaining employees and implementing new technologies, such as wireless.
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Mobile
Computeworld, 4/8/03: Wireless vendors plan low-cost, high-speed metropolitan networks
By Bob Brewin
Major chip and wireless equipment manufacturers today announced plans to back development of standards-based wireless metropolitan-area network (MAN) products that can provide 70Mbit/sec. of broadband data over a 30-mile range to customers -- and the equipment needed to access the service could be as cheap as today's wireless LAN access cards.
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c|net, 4/8/03: New Palms feature Intel chip, camera
By Richard Shim
Palm is getting ready to launch two handheld devices, one with built-in wireless and the other with a digital camera, sources say, features that mark company firsts for the industry leader.
The Milpitas, Calif.-based handheld device maker will introduce the latest editions in its Tungsten and Zire product lines toward the end of April, according to sources familiar with the company's plans.
The enterprise-focused Tungsten C is expected to be the first Palm handheld to come with built-in 802.11b wireless networking and the first Palm device to use an Intel XScale processor. Targeted at consumers, Palm's new Zire 71 is expected to feature an integrated camera.
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Personal Computing Business
ZDNet, 4/8/03: HP unveils 'lean, mean' budget PCs
By Ian Fried
Lowering the bar on the price of an entry-level PC, Hewlett-Packard on Tuesday introduced a line of build-to-order models that start at just $319 after a $50 rebate.
For that price, customers get a Compaq Presario S3000V desktop computer that includes a 2GHz Intel Celeron chip, 128MB of memory, a 40GB hard drive and a CD-ROM drive. What they don't get is a monitor, which is sold separately.
"That's really the most aggressive thing I've seen," said IDC analyst Roger Kay. "That's a lean, mean price."
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