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WAP Technology: Nokia Grows Beyond Being a Technology Company
Nokia continues to strengthen its end-to-end WAP solution by offering a full range of WAP-compliant products including gateways, portals, mobile terminals, and browsers as well as a full range of tools for WAP-based content creation and delivery, end-user application platforms, and systems integration services. Nokia Professional Services is aggressively entering the service solutions market for planning, deploying, managing, and enhancing WAP products. Additionally, Nokia's alliances with many of the world's largest networking and application companies are driving the progress that will make mobile Internet a viable marketplace.
March, 2002
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Guarding the Gate Is Essential for E-Commerce: The Case for Firewalls (Aug 2000)
The ever-expanding Internet creates new opportunities for hackers to disrupt e-commerce daily. Network firewalls can do much to make your e-commerce site less attractive to hackers, though even the best guard dog cannot entirely overwhelm attempts to penetrate your security. This article provides recommendations for evaluating various approaches to firewall technology.
February, 2002
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What Lies in the Future for the Mainframe Market?
Mainframes are widely used to satisfy e-commerce, customer relationship management, ERP, and server consolidation requirements, but recent events presage major changes in past big iron trends. This report outlines the decline in mainframe installations and cost-per-MIPS for the period 1998-2003.
February, 2002
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Peer-to-Peer Continues to Build Enterprise Capabilities (Feb 2002)
Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing, which has received most of its media attention from noncommercial Internet applications, is appearing in viable enterprise applications and gaining maturity through widely supported industry working groups. P2P, in its most basic form, is a decentralized computer network that communicates without the need for a dedicated server.
February, 2002
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How to Make CRM Financially Viable
The purpose of customer relationship management (CRM) is to provide a dialog between your customers and your business. This goal implies that an organization should commit itself to major internal changes because the key to successful CRM implementation is not limited to IT issues. Rather, success depends on interdepartmental cooperation and superb leadership. The main reason that many firms have failed in their CRM deployments revolves around failing to grasp these concepts.
January, 2002
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Public B2B Exchanges Must Look Toward the Future (Dec 2001)
Impact from the soft economy was only one of the hits that public B2B exchanges took over the last six months. Not only have buyers grown more cautious as the economy has headed south, but also the tough business climate has made firms more competitive. Seeking an edge, many companies have been reluctant to accept terms from their suppliers that merely equal those of competitors. Lack of standards that streamline the supply chain are yet another weakness of these electronic marketplaces.
December, 2001
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Microsoft Shifts Strategy
Microsoft's corporate direction is in flux. The government's pending antitrust lawsuit remains a major factor in determining the company's future actions. The U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed that Microsoft was guilty of illegal anticompetitive tactics, but the court reversed the breakup order and further held that bundling of software was not necessarily monopolistic. This article analyzes the possible impact.
September, 2001
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Online Payment Systems Are Essential for E-Commerce Success (Jun 2001)
Website buyers in the US spent over $26 billion during 2000. Computer Economics anticipates that purchases will grow to $36 billion in 2001, and that amount will almost double by 2004. Clearly, there is room for significant expansion of sales in e-commerce. The payment method that e-merchants offer will become one of the keys for success in this market.
June, 2001
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New Storage Options Increase Challenges
Network-attached storage (NAS) and storage area networks (SAN) can readily solve many of the management problems associated with enterprise storage. In contrast to traditional server hosted and SCSI array storage, these approaches offer reduced administration costs and flexibility in storage design and allocation, along with an easy route for expansion.
May, 2001
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The Potential of Bluetooth Wireless Technology (Mar 2001)
By the end of 2001, new devices will permit voice and data wireless links among cell phones, PDAs, laptops, and printers to exchange data at up to 1 Mbps. The emerging Bluetooth technology will be the basis for these Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPAN) among mobile devices located within 10 meters of each other. This report forecasts shipments and revenue from Bluetooth-enabled devices for 2001 through 2005.
March, 2001
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NIST Advanced Measurement Laboratory (Jan 2001)
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), an agency of the Commerce Departmentâs Technology Administration, has embarked upon a $174 million construction project to build one of the most technologically advanced buildings in the world, the NIST Advanced Measurement Laboratory (AML), in Gaithersburg, Maryland.
January, 2001
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Networked B2B Applications Point Toward the Future
A new direction in business-to-business e-commerce is emerging. Integration and collaboration are becoming the watchwords for new B2B ventures. The rationale for bringing suppliers, subcontractors, employees, and customers under a single Internet entity is clear. Returns expected from these collaborations is expected to be many times the investment and the return period will be measured in months, not years.
October, 2000
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Avoiding Internet Addressing Problems in E-Commerce (June 2000)
Just as reassigned or new ZIP codes and area codes inconvenience postal and phone users, shortages in Internet address and a variety of URL intricacies will be confronting e-commerce sellers. Problems revolve around technical limitations with the protocol; practical, legal and economic considerations; and concerns of the international community. Among these issues is the addressing scheme built into the Internet Protocol (IP). When IPv6 becomes available around 2003, the stock of addresses will increase to virtually an unlimited number.
June, 2000
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