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" Technology will only get worse. One day, they'll need passwords - whereas we respond to voice commands!"
Information Technology
NETTING A CATCH
YOUR computer has the requisite RAM and processor, enough free disk space and your modem is state-of-the-art. Yet, Net-surfing is often a painfully slow experience.
TIP OFF
Internet Explorer users need not type in the entire Web address in the address bar. Instead, just key in the domain name and type Ctrl Enter. For instance, if you want to view www.cnn.com, just type in `cnn' and use the short cut. The browser will fill i
n the rest and take you to the desired site.
Exorcising the terror on the Net
Any individual with a laptop can wage war. The monetary damage can be devastating, and worse, it can take place in nanoseconds.
Presenting new ideas
REMEMBER those ``acetate'' sheets, otherwise called transparencies, that made life easier for you eight years ago? You looked truly professional, carrying in some 20 such sheets, into a meeting with your chairman, managing director and executive director
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The terror on the Net
The destabilisation of the stock markets by the scrambling of trading records, or trashing of financial networks by hackers, have yet to plague this nation. We have not yet seen wholesale electronic theft of funds to support terrorist operations or rerou
ting of arms shipments through electronic means. But, the threats remain ...
The noise in the e-marketplace
THE B2B (business-to-business) e-commerce is poised to leapfrog to a mindboggling sum by 2004. According to the Forrester Research study, the B2B e-commerce is expected to surge to $2.7 trillion in 2004.
Weaving a new Web
Once we take a decision, and if we truly believe that it is the right one, let us find out what needs to be done further. Let us not find out why it has not worked out in the past -- it does not matter.
B2B: Three degrees of separation
A licensing revenue model that does not ask for a transactional percentage is critical to the success of a service such as Ariba.
HIPPA -- Hitting it off with IT
HIPAA calls for standardisation of electronic records of patient health, administrative and financial data.
E-strategy key to success
Confused positioning, and the proliferation of applications has had a direct impact on the revenue streams and profits from e-commerce.
CyberQuest
1. What is common to Blackout, Festering Hate and Elk Cloner?
Getting IT Right
High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) is the integration of all components contained in high-end workstations, supercomputer systems, high-speed networks etc, that perform special purpose experimental processes. The integrated components p
erform high-end scientific calculations, and are mainly used for weather forecasting. Its has a very high implementation cost.
