Compare the vastness of the Internet with the microminiaturized world of subatomic structures, and you will get an idea of the potential that nanotechnology holds for industrial profit. Some analysts are predicting nanotechnology will become the biggest boost to the technology industry since the Wor...

Federated Identity Standards: Confused?

March 25, 2004

Business is becoming increasingly virtual and decentralized, while real-time relationship management with employees, contractors, partners, suppliers and customers is becoming ever more crucial. Even within a single company, password-protected applications reside on different platforms, in separate ...

Starbucks and HP: The Future of Digital Music

March 22, 2004

Last week I flew down to the launch of the new Starbucks music service and got far more out of the event than a cup of coffee and some free music. I got a sense of why Starbucks is as successful as it is and why HP is suddenly emerging as the company to beat in the technology space. I also went away...

The Shapes of Things To Come

February 21, 2004

Beige boxes may still be the norm for lots of desktop computer equipment, but people have been fooling around with design ever since they began making machines. While computer design has, by and large, stuck to the basic need for a protective enclosure, there have been some outstanding ideas and som...

Saving Legacy Systems with Automated Software Transformation

February 12, 2004

Many an intergalactic sci-fi flick has showcased the "instant translator" -- the clever box that makes earthling speech intelligible to alpha-centaurians, and vice versa. Now something similar is helping Australian organizations bring legacy applications and enterprise knowledge up to date. Perhaps ...

Preparing for the Superworm at the Front Lines

February 6, 2004

Imagine a war in which the combatants are invisible and the weapons they bear are hidden in trickery and stealth. Now picture that war being waged on a battlefield consisting not of desert fields but of thousands of ragtag computers in bedrooms, dens and corporate cubicles across America. These batt...

Warping Space and Time: NASA Puts Einstein on Trial

January 24, 2004

On April 20, a NASA rocket will lift off from Vandenburg Air Force Base carrying one of the most remarkable physics experiments ever attempted. Gravity Probe B will try to answer questions raised by Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, proposed in the early years of the 20th century. Whether Gra...

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