Instant messaging (IM) has shed its image as a toy for teenagers and gained credence as a bona fide business tool. But IM hasn't become as important to companies as some people predicted it would more than a year ago.
Almost a year after the government gave it the green light to launch, Orbitz LLC is again under federal scrutiny following pressure from competitors that say the online site has unfair direct access to airline bargains.
"Can you send me 200 pounds of potatoes?"
One the biggest challenges for IT managers today is demystifying the systems they run and the people who run them to their user population, Eric Dean, CIO at United Air Lines said today.
Galileo International , one of the four major worldwide reservation systems that handle travel industry bookings, is implementing a Unix-based fare-pricing system that will enable it to change and publish fares more cheaply and quickly to meet the demands of travel Web sites.
Intel hopes to put some added muscle behind Web services with its new Xeon server processors.
The formation of Hotel Distribution System LLC (HDS) by five of the world's largest hotel chains has raised fears of anticompetitiveness among some travel agents. However, one industry analyst said those fears are largely unfounded.
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) was developed as a PC-based front end to access X.500-compliant directories. It uses less code than X.500, so it's more viable for client-side applications. LDAP works over TCP/IP and organizes people, devices and applications in a hierarchical tree structure that reflects geographical, political and organizational boundaries.
A conservative Nixon-era economist turned Hollywood celebrity might be an unusual spokesman for a famously liberal software company located in the famously liberal city of Cambridge, Mass. But Ben Stein proved an appropriate messenger to deliver this year's theme of proven return on investment from the Lotus Software Group's collaboration products.
E-mails are messy entities, leaving little bits of themselves all over the network. That's why the attempts of employees in the Houston office of Arthur Andersen LLC to delete e-mails related to failed commodities exchange Enron were futile,"It is impossible that [congressional investigators] cannot find data on those hard drives. There are too many computers involved," said Michael Sanders, a computer forensics expert who specializes in e-mail recovery at New Technologies Inc. in Gresham, Ore. "[They] will find enough information to make a story."
Several of the largest Internet service providers (ISP) have created an interest group to serve as their advocate in the nation's capital.
Several of the largest Internet service providers (ISP) have created an interest group to serve as their advocate in the nation's capital.
Last year was one of the toughest years for job cuts, with nearly 2 million people laid off, according to outplacement firm Challenger Gray & Christmas Inc.
Citing lower holidays sales and the continuing impact of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Travelocity.com Inc. warned last week that its revenue won't meet expectations for the fourth quarter, which ended Dec. 31.
Delta Air Lines Inc. plans to switch off its legacy operating system early next year and finally move its internal fare-searching and ticket-pricing functions to the same software system used by travel site Orbitz LLC.