Christopher Lindquist
Cleaning with green tea
Scientists discovered a new use for green tea that could ultimately lead to hard drives that are far less toxic than those currently produced.
Model hacker behavior
Forget about patches. Researchers at the Florida Institute of Technology are looking for ways to fight hackers by modeling their methods, or "exploits."
Cheap storage and special delivery
Disk storage as cheap as tape? Web content management without IT? You bet, or so these companies hope.
Seeking search nirvana
Inquira seeks search ideal: tool that can automatically extract just the right answer from nearly any available data source with minimal human intervention.
DSL's Not Dead Yet
Digital Subscriber Line growth may be sluggish in the United States, thanks to technical issues, the economic slowdown and frighteningly high customer acquisition costs. But the high-speed service isn't yet ready to go the way of...
Mobile devices won't replace PCs, analyst says
By now you've undoubtedly heard the news: Portable devices such as phones, pagers and computers with mobile modems will quickly surpass desktop PCs as the Internet access devices of choice. "Mobile Internet Access Devices: Surfing...
Mobile Internet Access Exploding
BY NOW YOU'VE undoubtedly heard the news: Portable devices such as phones, pagers and computers with mobile modems will quickly surpass desktop PCs as the Internet access devices of choice. "Mobile Internet Access Devices: Surfing...
CRM Primed to Take Over
A recent report, "Customer Relationship Management: Year 2000 Edition," by Boston-based Aberdeen Group, indicates that the total customer relationship management software and services market will expand from just over $8 billion in...
Be It So Resolved
FEW WILL EVER CLAIM that the year 2000 was boring. What began with the overblown threat of global IT destruction in the mandibles of the Y2K bug ended with the actual annihilation of countless tech companies -- particularly those of...
Getting Together to Get Creative
COLLABORATIVE PRODUCT COMMERCE (CPC) -- using the Internet to build a more efficient product development process by providing companies and departments with fast, convenient access to relevant information -- is on the cusp of a...
Google digs deep
Millions of pages of information that once remained hidden inside the Web have now been uncovered, thanks to Google.com. The service recently unveiled technology that allows it to index PDF-format files. Better yet, it can convert...