Network World back issues from January 2001:
Power at the negotiating table; The trick is knowing how to handle negotiations from the start.(Industry Trend or Event)
Jan 01, 2001; ... If you're like most network professionals, you view negotiating with vendors the same way you view going to the dentist: painful, but necessary. But the pain from a bad contract can last years and cost thousands, even millions of dollars. In a worst-case scenario, you could wind ...
Top negotiating myths.(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2001; ... "We're giving you our best price." Don't think for a second that you're getting the best price by virtue of your company's size, long-term relationship with the vendor or anything else. A statement like this is meant to discourage you from bargaining down the price, plain and ...
You're going down; 10 surefire ways to lose power.(Industry Trend or Event)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Sometimes losing power is like being in a car wreck that knocks a transformer off a utility pole: Bam! Sparks fly, and the lights go out. Other times it's like you've turned into an aging heavyweight throwing punches that just don't hurt anymore. Losing power at the ...
Power within reach; You might not be a Genghis Khan, but power can be yours.(Industry Trend or Event)(Editorial)
Jan 01, 2001; ... When I was 19, I bench-pressed 200 pounds. That may not sound like a lot if you're the Charles Atlas type. But I had lifted weights for a couple of years and always struggled with that particular exercise - the sine qua non of aspiring middle linebackers. I got the bar off my ...
Power prognositicator; Six top news reporters share their predictions for the year ahead.(Industry Trend or Event)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Handicapping the top guys at WorldCom, AT&T, Sprint While industry pundits can dispute which company - AT&T, Sprint or WorldCom - is in worse shape, the fact is each has a big cross to bear: consumer voice. The question is whether these companies bounce back with ...
Who's running this network anyway?; Mobile devices and multimedia downloads are capturing users attention - and drawing fire from network managers.(Industry Trend or Event)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Like a 14-year-old who shows a bunch of kids how to inhale helium from balloons, some users aren't such great influences on their peers. One employee had been with his company for only two days when he downloaded Napster - and proceeded to teach everyone else in his department ...
Stuck in directory limbo; The struggle to understand directory services begins with knowing Microsoft's Active Directory and Novell's eDirectory, but runs much deeper.(Industry Trend or Event)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Wouldn't it be nice if the choice of a directory service simply boiled down to choosing Novell's eDirectory (formerly NDS) or Microsoft's Active Directory? Pick one, get it up and running, and you're magically there. All of your applications have a place to go for identification, ...
Controlling voice; An IP PBX or a VoIP gateway? Making sense of the voice-over-IP decision.(Industry Trend or Event)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Evolution or revolution? That's the big decision to make as you move down the convergence path toward voice over IP to the desktop. Established PBX vendors such as Nortel Networks are marshalling a gateway-based coalition between the old and new, while Cisco and its IP forces are trying to ...
The fight for fiber and copper; Tables turn as 'Project Pronto' has SBC arguing for new technology and CLECs for the old.(Industry Trend or Event)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Do you have branch offices or teleworkers in the 13 states controlled by mega-Bell SBC Communications? If so, grab your 2001 calendar and put a big red circle around Sept. 1. That's the date the government will begin letting SBC take copper subloops out of service if it has ...
Storage standoff; Network infrastructure, storage start-up and Fibre Channel vendors joust over storage-over-IP standards.(Industry Trend or Event)
Jan 01, 2001; ... A slew of storage-over-IP proposals have obsessed storage vendors for the last year, dislodging conventional ideas of direct-attached storage and splitting partners and competitors alike. Heavy-hitting storage and network infrastructure players are sparring over four proposals ...
Linux against the odds; Linux has gained some heavy backers, but still hasn't broken the enterprise. Will it ever?(Industry Trend or Event)
Jan 01, 2001; ... The Linux open source operating system had a banner year in 2000, gathering one endorsement after another from top industry vendors - IBM, Dell Computer and Oracle among them. But still, even with such heavy backing, Linux remains outside the enterprise doorway. It's not that ...
The power of knowledge; Ideas have become a gold mine. What role should IT play in identifying and enabling intellectual property? A big one.(Industry Trend or Event)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Sir J. Arthur Thomson, famous scientist and author of the 1920s, once said: "The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will." Nowhere is that becoming truer than in 21st century business. By all accounts, the nation ...
Big bandwidth vs. QoS; Is it better to throw bandwidth at the network to handle growing applications needs, or is it smarter to add quality-of-service mechanisms? The debate seems to be fading.(Industry Trend or Event)
Jan 01, 2001; ... In this classic contest between network brawn and brains, it looks like brawn has finally gained the upper hand. Big bandwidth is simple and cheap. Managing bandwidth using quality-of-service (QoS) techniques - while a more elegant approach to network design - suffers from ...
Can your IT department become an OUTSIDE CONSULTING department?; A tempting thought, but difficult to pull off.(Company Operations)
Jan 01, 2001; ... If IT people are your greatest asset, why not hire them out as a consultants? This "shared-services" model, where IT works on internal and for-hire projects, offers advantages yet is difficult to execute, says Don Walker, former CEO of The Information Technology Company (ITCO), ...
The knowledge assessment; How to know what you know.(Industry Trend or Event)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Analysts place failure rates of knowledge management systems at between 20% and 50% of all projects implemented. Keeping your project from becoming such a statistic means understanding how ready your people are to accept this technology. Enter the knowledge assessment, sometimes called a ...
The apps race; Sun and Microsoft are bitter rivals in the distributed network applications market. What are their latest strategic moves?(Product Information)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Sun and Microsoft are putting increasing pressure on enterprise IT managers to choose between Java and .Net, their respective technologies for building Web-based, distributed applications. But not many are ready to settle on either Sun or Microsoft. The reality is they're ...
Power grid 2000.(Industry Trend or Event)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Overcharged by executive ousters and corporate overhauls, the network industry's power grid has been put to the test lately. Some market segments have been on fire and others have gone up in smoke. We've seen power surges, power leaks and total power meltdowns. On the next two ...
Niagara review, how we did it.(Software Review)(Evaluation)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2001; ... How We Did It We tested Niagara 2.50 in our IntraNetWare 4.11 server. Our AMD K6 350-MHz powered IntraNetWare server acts as the e-mail server for our 10-user 100M bit/sec test LAN, which is connected to the Internet via a FreeBSD Unix system acting as a router. In ...
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Super Bowl ads not a super idea.(Industry Trend or Event)
Jan 02, 2001; ... Last winter Autotrader.com, viewed the Super Bowl as a talisman for fame and fortune. The used-car marketer was just one of 17 dot-com, technology or e-commerce companies that bought ads. This Jan. 28 the company is passing on the football fest, preferring instead to widen its advertising ...
Keeping New Year's resolutions, the Web way.(Directory)
Jan 02, 2001; ... Keeping New Year's resolutions, the Web way By Tom Mainelli PC World, 01/02/00 Technology makes our lives easier and better. So it should make keeping a New Year's resolution a snap, right? Okay, that's a bit much to ask of anything. But you can ...
In 2001, watch for faster, cheaper and smaller PCs.(Industry Trend or Event)
Jan 02, 2001; ... In 2001, watch for faster, cheaper and smaller PCs By PCWorld.com staff PC World, 01/02/01 Faster, cheaper, roomier--been there, done that. When it comes to PC predictions, forecasts of greater speed, lower prices, and more storage and memory are getting ...
E-comm picks and pans.(Industry Trend or Event)(Column)
Jan 02, 2001; ... Welcome to the Tuesday edition of NetFlash. During my nice holiday break, I must admit I was not much of a news junky. Sure, I watched the market stumble like everyone else, and I heard about a few shootings and Bush cabinet appointments. But mostly I looked back, and one of the things I ...
Intel expands device portfolio with MP3 player.(Product Announcement)
Jan 02, 2001; ... Extending its push into the consumer electronics market, Intel on Tuesday announced a portable digital music player that boasts 128M bytes of flash memory. Weighing less than four ounces, the Intel Pocket Concert Audio Player can store up to four hours of music or more than 20 ...
What You Didn't Get for Christmas: Viruses.(Technology Information)
Jan 02, 2001; ... At least one antivirus software vendor Tuesday said the holiday viruses it warned about did not show up. Santa left the nasty gifts with his elves. As many businesses were closed between Christmas and New Year, viruses could have struck as offices went back online Tuesday ....
Andersen Consulting rebrands itself Accenture.(Company Business and Marketing)
Jan 02, 2001; ... With the New Year comes a new name for Andersen Consulting, the New York-based firm that will now be known as Accenture. The re-branded organization is intended to better reflect the "network of businesses" that provide "consulting, technology, outsourcing, alliances, and ...
DSL chaos continues.(Company Operations)
Jan 02, 2001; ... The holiday season was anything but merry for the employees and customers of several DSL providers that announced cutbacks or closures. Competitive DSL carriers have been hit hard in recent months. Covad Communications and NorthPoint Communications, two of the largest ...
Global Crossing gets new president.(Company Operations)
Jan 02, 2001; ... Global Crossing gets new president By Denise Pappalardo Global Crossing announced that David Walsh is the company's new presidentand chief operating officer (COO). Walsh was most recently co-chief operating officer at the company. He is responsible for global ...
Study: 210 dot-com companies closed in 2000.(Industry Trend or Event)
Jan 02, 2001; ... The dot-com casualty count seemed like headline fodder for weeks during the latter months of 2000. Now a new study confirms that approximately 60% of the dot-com deaths occurred during the fourth quarter of the year as funding quickly began to dry up. In total, 121 of the ...
IBM inks e-support deal.(Company Business and Marketing)
Jan 03, 2001; ... IBM inks e-support deal By Carolyn Duffy Marsan IBM will announce Wednesday plans to offer automated technical support services via the Internet for corporate customers of its notebooks, desktops, workstations and servers. By June of 2001, IBM's ThinkPad ...
Microsoft, Starbucks team on wireless 'Net services.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
Jan 03, 2001; ... Microsoft, Starbucks team on wireless 'Net services By Laura Rohde IDG News Service, 01/03/01 Internet and caffeine addicts unite. Microsoft and coffee monolith Starbucks Coffee Co. have agreed to jointly offer high speed Internet connections in Starbucks' ...
Yahoo to charge auction fee, ban race-hate items.(Company Business and Marketing)
Jan 03, 2001; ... Yahoo to charge auction fee, ban race-hate items By Rick Perera IDG News Service, 01/03/01 Yahoo Inc. has announced plans to introduce a small fee for its auction service, and to ban from sale items associated with racist or violent groups, effective Jan ....
Linux OS upgrade beta ships to developers, testers.(Technology Information)(Brief Article)
Jan 03, 2001; ... Linus Torvalds failed to make good on his latest promise to deliver the much-anticipated Linux 2.4 operating systems kernel by year's end, but did ship to developers and other beta testers a pre-release of the technology in its place. During this past weekend, Torvalds shipped ...
Suit alleges discrimination at Microsoft.(Company Business and Marketing)
Jan 03, 2001; ... Super-lawyer Willie Gary is the son of poor migrant farm workers from Georgia, but he is a multimillionaire now, and going up against the world's richest man is unlikely to overawe him. On Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., Gary's Florida law firm, Gary, ...
AOL claims members made most online holiday sales.(Industry Trend or Event)(Polling Data)
Jan 03, 2001; ... AOL claims Members Made Most Online Holiday Sales By George A. Chidi Jr. IDG News Service America Online Tuesday claimed that its U.S. members account for 70% of consumer spending online for the holiday season - a claim analysts question. AOL ...
Registry Magic to Turn Cell Phones into Wallets.(Company Business and Marketing)
Jan 03, 2001; ... Registry Magic Tuesday announced a Bluetooth-based payment system that could turn cellphones into virtual wallets. The company's Consumer Payment Network will be fully unveiled next month. Bluetooth is a standard for short-distance wireless communications that allows devices to ...
Napster signs deal with another major label.(Company Business and Marketing)
Jan 03, 2001; ... Napster. Tuesday announced a tie-up with Germany's edel Music AG - one of the world's largest independent music labels - that will give the music-swapping Web service access to edel-owned titles. The move is part of Napster's plan to turn its once free-of-charge peer-to-peer ...
Helping Microsoft not an easy undertaking.(Company Business and Marketing)
Jan 03, 2001; ... Despite Microsoft Corp.'s recent warning of bad financial times ahead, the company's market share in PC operating systems and servers may be expanding, according to new research data from IDC. The data may be used by the U.S. government to underscore its point that ...
Study: 210 dot-com companies closed in 2000.(Industry Trend or Event)
Jan 03, 2001; ... The dot-com casualty count seemed like headline fodder for weeks during the latter months of 2000. Now a new study confirms that approximately 60% of the dot-com deaths occurred during the fourth quarter of the year as funding quickly began to dry up. In total, 121 of the ...
IBM offers 'smart' diagnostic tool.(Company Business and Marketing)
Jan 03, 2001; ... IBM Wednesday announced that new IBM ThinkPad notebooks, NetVista desktops, IntelliStation professional workstations and eServer series computers will be sold with "smart" technology that automatically diagnoses and resolves common software problems. Online support "agents" will ...
Fed cuts interest rates, tech stocks rise.(Industry Trend or Event)(Statistical Data Included)
Jan 03, 2001; ... Fed cuts interest rates, tech stocks rise By George A. Chidi Jr. IDG News Service Remember the technology market crash? You know, the one that carved the Nasdaq index in half like a Christmas ham and started talk about a recession? Well, the market seems ...
The spam-tastic Year 2000.(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
Jan 04, 2001; ... My first workday of each New Year starts with a tradition: deleting last year's e-mail. It's a daunting job considering the backlog of spam and ambiguous e-mail from my boss that I'm still trying to decipher. But deleting e-mail is one of those things you do when you have some ...
Discrimination case seeks billions from Microsoft.(Company Business and Marketing)
Jan 04, 2001; ... Seven African Americans have filed a $5 billion race discrimination lawsuit against Microsoft, alleging that the company has passed them over for promotions, discriminated against them in hiring and firing practices and forced them to endure a "plantation-type mentality" at the company. ...
Web hosting firm loses bid for restraining order against anti-spam group.(Company Business and Marketing)
Jan 04, 2001; ... A U.S. District Court judge in Boston this week turned down a Web hosting company's request for a temporary restraining order that would have required IP addresses held by the firm to be removed from a blacklist maintained by an antispam organization. Redwood City, Calif.-based ...
Newly released CompuServe 2000 6.0 mimics AOL.(Company Business and Marketing)
Jan 04, 2001; ... One of the original e-mail providers, CompuServe, isn't for geeks anymore. A newly unveiled interface gives the venerable service some of the functions of its parent, America Online. The CompuServe 2000 interface transforms the service to an Internet service provider with an AOL ...
BMC raises third-quarter expectations.(Company Financial Information)
Jan 04, 2001; ... Amid a steady stream of profit warnings from software vendors, BMC Software Wednesday had some surprising news. The mainframe and client/server systems management software company raised its forecasts for third-quarter revenue. For its third-quarter of fiscal 2001 which ended ...
Two sentenced in major e-mail spam scam.(Industry Trend or Event)
Jan 04, 2001; ... Two Russian emigres will serve more than 2 years in jail for their part in an e-mail spam scam that clogged U.S. ISPs with more than 50 million e-mails and defrauded victims of more than $250,000. Steve Shklovskiy and Yan Shtok, both 23, were sentenced Dec. 27, 2000 for ...
EBay auction site down for over 4 hours.(Company Business and Marketing)
Jan 04, 2001; ... Would-be auctioneers on eBay's signature Web site Wednesday ran into difficulties as the company dealt with a series of technical snafus Just before noon, company officials posted a message on eBay's announcement board, saying the site went down and that help was on its way ....
Struggling Network Associates taps new CEO.(Company Operations)
Jan 04, 2001; ... Network Associates Wednesday made the most of the new year by hiring a new CEO. The antivirus software specialist announced that George Samenuk will now serve as the company's CEO and president, effective immediately. Samenuk most recently served as the CEO and president of ...
Wireless spectrum auction resumes.(Government Activity)
Jan 04, 2001; ... After a holiday hiatus the Federal Communications Commission is starting up its Personal Communication Service re-auction. The FCC is auctioning off 422 PCS C and F Block spectrum licenses that were returned due to nonpayment. The auction started on December 12, 2000 and ...
E-commerce dispute management protocol announced.(Company Business and Marketing)
Jan 04, 2001; ... The American Arbitration Association and some major industry leaders, such as Microsoft, Wednesday announced a new business-to-business e-commerce dispute management protocol to disarm conflict between buyers and sellers. The protocol is an educational wake-up call and it will ...
Yahoo nazi ban gets mixed reactions.(Company Business and Marketing)
Jan 04, 2001; ... In the battle between U.S. Web portal Yahoo and French courts banning Nazi gear, the Americans have quit the field. Yahoo will prohibit Nazi memorabilia from being sold on its commerce sites, along with Ku Klux Klan memorabilia and other items "associated with groups which ...
Sprint and Palm partner for wireless 'Net access.(Company Business and Marketing)
Jan 04, 2001; ... Wireless carrier Sprint PCS and PDA maker Palm Thursday announced that they will market and sell wireless products for handhelds using the Palm operating system platform. Sprint PCS - the personal communications systems division of Sprint - and Palm will offer a co-branded ...
CA fires employees over sex e-mail.(Company Operations)(Brief Article)
Jan 04, 2001; ... A small group of former employees of Computer Associates contend the business software maker fired them during December for sending sexually explicit e-mail, according to a published report Thursday. A group of at least 10 employees, who worked at CA's Herndon, Va., office, were ...
MP3.com debuts next generation My.MP3.(Company Business and Marketing)
Jan 04, 2001; ... Online music site MP3.com Thursday presented developers and music-industry decision makers with tools for connecting retailers, labels and music playing devices with hardware and software. At the company's "Next Generation of My.MP3" event held Thursday in San Diego, MP3.com ...
HP ships Superdome server.(Product Announcement)
Jan 04, 2001; ... Hewlett-Packard has begun worldwide shipment of its HP 9000 Superdome Unix server, which combines support and services offerings normally reserved for mainframe customers with the option of multiple-choice CPUs and eventually multiple operating systems. HP has positioned ...
Barnes & Noble digital to link writers and readers.(Company Business and Marketing)
Jan 04, 2001; ... Barnes & Noble.com Thursday launched an electronic publishing division that will offer writers editorial support, online sales monitoring and publicity while linking them with readers. "[We] have six million readers, and by working with us and author can make their book ...
CES Preview: Big guns gunning for consumers.(Industry Trend or Event)
Jan 04, 2001; ... Technology companies with established reputations in the commercial market will be courting consumers at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), which begins this Friday in Las Vegas. A number of predominately commercial technology and component suppliers like Intel, 3Com, ...
Angry hacker releases customer data of Wyoming ISP.(Company Operations)
Jan 04, 2001; ... A hacker angry at the outside activities of GlobalCentral.com, a Casper, Wyo., Internet service provider, has released customer information to Computerworld. On Dec. 12 and 13, Computerworld received e-mails containing detailed information about customers signing up for ...
7-Eleven store systems hit by Y2k-like glitch.(Company Operations)
Jan 04, 2001; ... When the new year started, customers at convenience stores operated by 7-Eleven Inc. found that their credit cards were too advanced for the company's point-of-sale systems -- 100 years too advanced, in fact. Dallas-based 7-Eleven confirmed Thursday that it was hit by a Y2k-like ...
President elect Bush talks tech with execs.
Jan 05, 2001; ... Education, trade regulation and Internet privacy issues were expected to be some of the topics that a group of at least 15 U.S. high-tech executives conveyed to President-elect George W. Bush during an economic forum Thursday in Austin, Texas. Many of the leaders, such as Craig ...
Torvalds releases long-awaited Linux 2.4.0 kernel.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
Jan 05, 2001; ... The much-anticipated Version 2.4.0 of the Linux kernel has been released by Linus Torvalds, the creator of the open source operating system. "In short, 2.4.0 is out there," Torvalds wrote in an e-mail to the Kernel Mailing List linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org dated Thursday, 4:01 ...
EToys slashes staff by 70%.(Company Operations)
Jan 05, 2001; ... EToys, once the darling of e-commerce companies, slashed its staff by 70 percent Thursday as it continues to search for a buyer. The company also will shut down its U.K. site Jan. 19 and will soon after shut down its European operations. The news was hardly unexpected, given ...
U.S. to kick off series of safe harbor briefings.(Government Activity)
Jan 05, 2001; ... The Department of Commerce has signed up only 12 companies and organizations so far for its hard-fought "safe harbor" protections on data privacy, but government officials Thursday said they believe a series of planned seminars will increase the number and bolster the protections' ...
Paul Allen's e-commerce firm Mercata to close.(Company Operations)
Jan 05, 2001; ... U.S. e-commerce firm Mercata is to close its doors at the end of this month, the company announced Thursday. The privately-held firm is shutting down because it has been unable to find sufficient financing, Mercata said in a statement. The company Wednesday withdrew its IPO filing. ...