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IDC Sees More Strong IT Spending in 2006

Fueled by purchases that accelerated in the second half of last year, worldwide IT spending in 2006 will cruise upward at a healthy rate...

Stolen Fidelity Laptop Exposes HP Workers

Financial services giant Fidelity Investments confirmed that a laptop containing the personal information of almost 200,000 Hewlett-Packard employees was stolen from its property. The Boston-based...

Aliens Land in Texas

The aliens have landed in Round Rock, Texas. No, not a group of Bostonians looking bewildered at the strip mall and Wal-Mart that must...

Mr. RFID Discusses RFID Security

BOSTON—I caught up with Kevin Ashton just as he was getting back into Boston following a red-eye flight. Kevin is currently the vice president of...

The Real RFID Security Issue

BOSTON—Are RFID systems secure? This is a good question and one that should be asked before your company jumps on the RFID bandwagon. The question...

IBM Inks Procurement Outsourcing Deal with Solectron

Piggybacking on IBMs global procurement centers and expertise, Solectron has signed a deal with IBM to handle its procurement processes. Solectron and IBM declined to...

Readers Respond: Indian Education: A Weak Link?

It is a sad state of affairs, as I see management moving work to India despite an obvious lack of engineering skills there ("Indian...

RFP: OS Virtualization

In an effort to trim costs, streamline hardware inventory and boost server utilization, companies are looking to consolidate applications onto fewer machines. Operating system...

RIM Isnt Sleeping with the Fishes

We live in a civil society governed by laws—laws designed to protect the innocent from being preyed upon by the wicked. For example, what if...

Pyrotek Finds Hot Security Fix

The sun may have set on the British Empire, but such is not the case for Pyrotek, a company that has grown at a...