Mobile
Computerworld, 8/5/03: Q&A: IBM's Brian Connors talks about Wi-Fi trends, plans
'Wi-Fi is happening -- it's not a matter of if or when,' he says
By MARYFRAN JOHNSON
A future built around pervasive wireless communication ranks high on IBM's list of the most important trends in "on-demand" computing, right up there with autonomic, or self-healing, networks, ever-speedier processors and modular hardware and software designs. "Wireless is very, very big for IBM as a growth area, but it's much more than just integrating Wi-Fi radios into ThinkPad [notebooks]," said Brian Connors, chief technology officer of IBM's Personal Computing Division. "It's very strategic for us in productivity and ease of use, as an enabler for access to anywhere-anytime information."
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C|net, 4/5/03: RIM loses patent-infringement ruling
By Richard Shim
A judge has ruled in favor of holding company NTP in its patent-infringement case against BlackBerry maker Research In Motion, awarding monetary damages and fees.
The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Richmond, Va., ruled late Tuesday in the case brought against Waterloo, Ontario-based RIM. It awarded NTP $53.7 million.
The court also granted an injunction preventing RIM from making, using, or offering to sell handhelds, services or software in the United States. The injunction will remain in effect until the date of expiration of NTP's patents, the latest of which is May 20, 2012. The court then stayed that injunction, pending an appeal by the Canadian company.
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Microsoft
C|net, 8/5/03: Microsoft adds P2P tools for Windows
By Martin LaMonica
Microsoft is beefing up the peer-to-peer capabilities for its Windows XP operating system.
The software giant recently released a development kit for building peer-to-peer applications and an update to Windows XP that adds support for the Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) networking protocol.
As previously reported, both of these Windows XP tools are aimed at simplifying the creation of peer-to-peer applications. The tools are available for download from Microsoft's Web site.
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TechRepublic, 8/6/03: Upgrade strategies for Windows 98 clients
Brien M. Posey MCSE
I've always maintained that prior to Windows XP, Windows 98 SE was one of the best versions of Windows ever released. Even so, Windows 98 is coming to the end of its lifespan, and if you haven't already done so, it's time to begin seriously looking at upgrading to a new operating system. Soon, Microsoft will completely discontinue support for Windows 98 and most future applications will not run on it.
Because of this, I want to try to clarify Microsoft's rather confusing product lifecycle policies, which deal with the manner in which products are supported after a product is phased out. The product lifecycle policies were designed to standardize the lifecycle of most Microsoft products and to offer some degree of predictability as to what happens when a product is phased out.
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IT Management
Optimize, 8/03: Should You Be A Chief Creativity Officer?
An interview with creativity consultant and author Jeff Mauzy
Is there room in the IT organization for corporate creativity? Jeff Mauzy thinks so. He's co-author of a new book, Creativity, Inc.: Building An Inventive Organization (Harvard Business School Press, 2003). Mauzy and co-author Richard Harriman are consultants at Synectics Inc., which specializes in fostering business innovation. Mauzy is also chairman of Inventive Logic Inc., a start-up that develops software for idea generation and problem solving. He also lectures on creativity at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Mauzy spoke recently with contributing editor Peter Krass.
Q: Why does anyone need creativity in today's business-technology environment?
A: We tend to look at what I call "big C" creativity-like, have we invented the new G4 lately, or are we knocking the socks off our competitors in the market with something new and exciting. Everybody's looking for the big breakthrough. Meanwhile, they're going about their lives, making up each day as they go along, as the market shifts, as the office environment shifts, as the politics in the office shifts. And they're applying "little C" creativity all the time. But they look at this "big C" breakthrough and think, "I've never done that; I'm not very creative," and they lose heart. Instead, if people can learn to focus on the small stuff, they'll recognize themselves as creative beings and creativity as being a part of everything. If we recognize that, just like fitness, this is all the time, everyday, then when it comes time to apply creativity toward major change, we're more fit and able to do it.
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