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  • E-Pluribus Unum

    Posted April 3, 2001 - 1:12 pm

    E-government for the people, high-performing work environments

  • Impact of Bush IT advisory panel remains unclear

    Posted March 30, 2001 - 4:25 pm

    President Bush named a prominent Silicon Valley venture capitalist to co-chair an advisory committee on science and technology, but it's not certain how much influence the panel will have on government IT policies.

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    Is "Antitrust" for real?

    Posted March 20, 2001 - 11:25 am

    There's been a lot of buzz on the Net recently about a movie that opened across the country January 12. The villain in MGM's "Antitrust" is based on the man so many love to hate, Bill Gates. Adding to the buzz -- at least among the open source crowd -- is the fact that Linus Torvalds, Jon "maddog" Hall, and Miguel de Icaza were all involved in the making of the movie.

  • Benchmarks and UCITA

    Posted March 12, 2001 - 5:37 pm

    The debate over benchmark restriction has become part of the spirited discussion around the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act, a proposal to create uniform state laws that govern contracts for software and digital content.

  • Congress moves to roll back new ergonomic standards

    Posted March 12, 2001 - 5:02 pm

    Congress this week voted to undo a new set of workplace ergonomic regulations that were aimed partly at reducing the repetitive-motion injuries that afflict many computer users.

  • FBI: No Net user is immune to online fraud

    Posted March 7, 2001 - 5:54 pm

    The widespread adoption of new technologies has created new opportunities for fraud that any Internet user is susceptible to, a situation made worse by ignorance about the issue, according to a new study released this week.

  • Antitrust battle: Is history repeating itself?

    Posted March 7, 2001 - 2:53 pm

    Before Microsoft even existed, IBM dominated the computer business so completely that the only way to open markets to competitors was a set of restrictions stemming from a decades-long antitrust battle.

  • GAO: Adopting PKI security will be tough for government

    Posted March 7, 2001 - 1:19 pm

    The General Accounting Office (GAO) said in a new report that the federal government has to overcome several challenges before it can implement the public-key infrastructure technology needed to deliver effective online services.

  • Retail energy exchanges light up the Web

    Posted February 26, 2001 - 4:02 pm

    In the midst of energy market upheaval, a crop of Web-based business products and services have emerged, claiming to reduce the complexity of deregulation and manage the pain of skyrocketing energy prices.

  • Privacy protection perceptions

    Posted February 22, 2001 - 12:12 pm

    What detail of your private life would you least like to see splashed across the Internet? Or added to a database, linked to your name and sold in a mailing list? Policies that govern how security is implemented will determine the future of privacy more than privacy laws or IT itself.

  • Tax moratorium helps ISPs, does little for e-commerce

    Posted February 21, 2001 - 3:48 pm

    A new push began this month in Congress to extend legislation that is widely known as an Internet tax moratorium. But despite that moniker, the initial legislation hasn't had a significant impact on e-commerce except in one area: It stops states from imposing sales tax obligations on Internet service providers (ISP).

  • The feds take a baby step toward telework

    Posted February 13, 2001 - 2:40 pm

    Is your company keen on telework? If not, would a tax break make the difference?

  • FCC clarifies limit line sharing order

    Posted February 13, 2001 - 2:19 pm

    Alternative local carriers intent on selling plain-vanilla voice service and looking for a partner to offer DSL to sell to the same end users can take heart from a ruling from the Federal Communications Commission.

  • All hail Greenspan

    Posted February 12, 2001 - 4:42 pm

    I'm creating my own church: The Greater Church of Greenspan.

  • Pepco lights up

    Posted February 12, 2001 - 2:53 pm

    Potomac Electric Power Company (Pepco) is no longer a hometown utility selling a single commodity. The Washington-based company is now a competitive enterprise offering an array of energy and telecommunications products and services in an expanding marketplace. Pepco is reshaping its business, divesting itself of its power-generation business, and focusing on transmission and distribution.

  • Next FCC wireless license auction value pondered

    Posted February 7, 2001 - 5:39 pm

    AS THE MARCH 6 date for the Federal Communications Commission auction of the 700MHz wireless spectrum auction looms closer, it appears to be taking on less, rather than more, significance.

  • Collocation is running out in some telco central offices

    Posted February 1, 2001 - 10:16 am

    Numerous companies are so busy building out new spaces to collocate service-provider gear for fast-growing IP services that it's easy to forget that collocation began in good old-fashioned telco central offices

  • The stories that made IT headlines in 2000

    Posted January 5, 2001 - 12:26 pm

    BOSTON -- LOOKING back, 2000 was the year when common sense made a comeback.

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