Conversion Tools Bring AS/400 Apps to Handhelds
To be a competitive executive in the advertising industry, Jeff Shaw needs to constantly review and edit graphical designs and advertising copy on the road.
Stories by Matt Hamblen
Analysts: AOL-NTT DoCoMo Wireless Deal Makes Sense
A deal is reportedly in the works between America Online Inc. and NTT DoCoMo Inc. in Japan to jointly develop wireless Internet services in Japan.
Commanding the Wireless Helm
Wireless computing may be in its early days, but it's bearing down on enterprises like a tidal wave, say information technology managers and analysts. Smart phones, wireless laptops and wireless handhelds are pouring into Fortune 1,000 companies, whether IT shops are prepared or not.
Making Savvy B2C Connections
The hottest market for wireless applications is the business-to-consumer space, as evidenced by retailer Best Buy in Minneapolis and The Sabre Group Holdings Inc., a business travel services company in Fort Worth, Texas.
Utility Buys Canned App as Deregulation Looms
When Fiona Taylor started working at BC Gas Inc. in Canada four years ago, she and her co-workers had their work cut out for them.
Panel wrestles IT's hire and retain problem
A panel of IT leaders wrestled with the two-headed monster of hiring, then retaining IT workers, and they ended up calling for a shift in fundamental human resources management techniques to help change the internal cultures of companies.
Compaq and IBM to sell each other's storage gear
Compaq Computer and IBM yesterday announced a long-term, $1 billion agreement to sell each other's storage software and hardware.
Palm Nears Release of Link to Notes
Palm Inc. officials said last week that they still plan to target handheld computers and related applications at enterprise users, as announced last fall. Some 80 percent of the 7 million devices in circulation are used in the workplace.
Panel Provides IT Hiring and Retention Tips
A panel of information technology leaders today wrestled with the two-headed monster of hiring and then retaining IT workers, and they ended up calling for a shift in fundamental human resources management techniques to help change the internal cultures of companies.
Premier 100: Palm focusing on enterprise users
Palm last fall said it would start targeting handheld computers and related applications at enterprise users. And on Monday, at the Computerworld Premier 100 IT Leaders Conference here, Palm officials said they're not deviating from that plan.
Internet, e-commerce key topics at Premier 100
Will only the paranoid IT leaders survive? For the most part, yes, said several high-level IT managers who are attending the first Computerworld Premier 100 IT Leaders Conference starting today in Palm Desert, California.
Procter & Gamble Plans Big Online Energy Buy
Cincinnati-based Procter & Gamble Co. plans to use online marketplace EnergyGateway.com LLC to solicit bids for more than $100 million worth of natural gas for its manufacturing plants over the next year, the two companies announced today.
Utility Sees Big Payoff From IT Investment
After a 1994 merger of two Midwest utilities created Cinergy Corp. in Cincinnati, the mad pace toward gas and power deregulation in Ohio began in earnest.
Intranet Enables More Competitive Energy Bids
In the electric-utility world, deregulation has forced business and technology managers to innovate and find ways to compete as they never have before, observers say. In this environment, information technology managers such as Brad Black at Duke Energy North America in Charlotte, North Carolina, are like kids with new toys in a sandbox.
Is there a WAP-zap coming?
Smart phones and other devices using the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) for Web browsing are drawing considerable attention, but analysts differ on what's really in store for the WAP market.