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Focuses on the Enterprise Vault for Microsoft Exchange system, an information archiving and retrieval tool acquired by KVS PLC from Digital Equipment Corp. Information on the key business needs addressed by the system; Advantages of using the system; Cost of the system.

Provides information on start-up software company Asera Inc. and its technologies. Services offered by the company; Component of Asera's eBusiness Operating System; Customers of the company; Number of employees.

Offers a look at the Web site analysis software business of Watchfire Corp. Two main products offered by Watchfire; Fund of the company; Customers and partners of Watchfire.

Presents news briefs on high-technology firms in the United States as of March 5, 2001. Estimated growth in the public-key infrastructure market by 2004 according to IDC; Acquisition of Network Solutions Inc. by VeriSign Inc.; Products and services offered by Entrust Technologies Inc.

Features Xcert International Inc., an independent and public-key infrastructure (PKI) company. Characteristics of the PKI tools of the company; Companies that use the company's PKI tools; Professional services offered by Xcert.

Deals with the iWork Business Integration Suite from iWork Software LLC, which automatically converts transactions within a manufacturing supply chain into XML documents. Claims on the software; Expected revenue for 2001; Opinion on how the software operates.

Provides information on the business of Netegrity Inc. that authenticates user access to Web portals. Performance of Netegrity in the market; How the authentication system works; Customers and partners of the company.

Focuses on the smart network adapters from San Jose, California-based Alacritech Incorporated. What Alacritech claims about its network adapters; Advantages from using the company's smart network adapters; Competitors of Alacritech.

Presents information on e-Security Inc. and its Open e-Security Platform. Features of the platform; Capabilities of the product; Services offered by the company.

Comments on the effects of the ruling of United States Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson to break Microsoft Corp. into two companies on the middleware of the company. Definition and importance of middleware; Risk faced by business enterprises building infrastructure around Microsoft's plans; Microsoft.Net initiative of the company.

Reports that Q-PC Real Car Computing company is offering personal computer available for cars compatible with the Windows 98 computer operating system.

Reports on the Release 1.1 of Candle Corp.'s EBA Service Monitor, a Web site monitoring tool. Features of EBA; What differentiates the product; Initial price of the product.

Predicts the use and popularity of storage networking. Core issues facing a certain company in storage retrieval systems; Outlook for networked storage; Development of switches and software for network storage devices.

Presents some year 2000 action items that information technology professionals could accomplish. Factors to consider in looking for solutions for the year 2000 (Y2K) computer problem; One way to determine the performance of a company's help center; Cost consideration of the Y2K problem.

Focuses on the marketing strategy of Microsoft Corp. for its software products. Reason of many companies for buying all-Microsoft products; Advice for business enterprises buying the products.

Details the plan of Novell Inc. to leverage the strength of its Novell Directory Services software. Features of the software; Capabilities of the software.

Focuses on the two standards released for pocket computers. Factors that make the Palm operating system a licensable operating system; Growth of PalmPilot market.

Deals with the challenges in designing a Web site. Problems that may result for throwing more servers in the middle tier of the site.

Comments on the use of thin-client computing system by health maintenance organizations (HMO). Benefits of the computing system for the health industry; Reason doctors are hesitant to adopt the technology; Technology developed by Asterion.com company; Estimated number of physicians who signed up with Asterion.com.

Provides information on enterprise portal, an enterprise system that lets an employee use a Web browser to get all the corporate information. Challenges faced in using the portal.

Reports on the robot from the United States-based Pioneer robotics team, that was presented to Ukraine, where the Chernobyl nuclear reactor failed in 1986. Robot's use of 3-D virtual reality.

Focuses on the effort to test a virtual control tower at United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California. Use of a Silicon Graphics Inc.'s Onyx2 supercomputer; Potential benefits of the virtual control tower.

Focuses on former Bell Laboratories researcher Arno Penzias' warning to software developers at the 1999 Software Development West conference to prepare for an environment in which every electronic device is networked. Continuous decline of the size and price of computer components.

Interviews Ken Krueger, information technology manager at MCI WorldCom Inc. about how his application programming interface (API) buffer has saved money and time for MCI. How Krueger was able to arrive on the decision in using API; Information on the buffer being developed for the company; How the buffer works; Registry cost and maintenance of the buffer.

Focuses on the termination of information technology positions and contracts with outside software developers by Fidelity Investments Inc. Comments from Fidelity spokeswoman, Anne Crowley; Number of employees affected with the company's reduction plan; Explanation from Larry Tabb, a securities and investment practices analyst at Tower Group Inc.

Deals with the implications of the Crouch-Echlin Effect, a glitch of the year 2000 millennium bug, on personal computers when the date changes from 1999 to 2000. Causes of the Crouch-Echlin Effect; How personal computers will be affected; Comments from Stephanie Moore, an analyst at Giga Information Group in Westport, Connecticut; Investigations of Compaq Computer Corp. on the bug.

Looks at the focus of Andrea Anania as chief information officer of Cigna Corp. How Anania started in Cigna; Challenges to be faced by Anania; Plans of Anania for the information technology group of Cigna.

Reports on the steady funds for the euro and the year 2000 computer systems problem. Reason for the stable budget of information technology (IT) services; Expected decline in spending for networks; Preparation made by several IT companies for a possible downturn; Purpose of some companies for not cutting IT spending.

Deals with the effect of cost cutting on the information technology (IT) services. Common tactics of cost cutting; Reason for the boost in enterprise resource planning (ERP) spending; Effect of a tight budget for IT.

Provides information on the advanced middleware application of the Gartner Group Inc. presented at the ITxpo. Focus of the advanced middleware; Middleware tools showcased at the Gartner event; Starting price for middleware products.

Discusses the plans of Bill Gates, chief executive officer of Microsoft Corp., to embed database functions into the Windows operating system. Concerns of users and analysts on the database; Description of the database functions; Gates' comments on the antitrust case against the company.

Reports on the teaming up of Electronic Data Systems (EDS) Corp. with Chordiant Software Inc. to offer large companies a better way to track and serve their customers. Idea behind customer relationship management; Integration of Centrobe's, a business unit within EDS, dbIntellect data mining tools with Chordiant's Customer Communications Solution software; Why Thomas Cook Global Services chose Chordiant software.

Discusses the efforts of the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to determine the life saving medical devices affected by year 2000 date conversion problems. Number of foreign and domestic companies that supplied information; Web sites for the list of year 2000-compliant devices.

Reports that Oberon Software Inc. has licensed its Prospero application-integration software tools to New Era of Networks Inc. (Neon). Information on IBM Corporation's MQSeries message-oriented middle software; Similarities between Neon's MQIntegrator and MQSeries; Advantages of the products.

Focuses on the entry of CompuBank N.A. in the online banking industry. How the bank plans to win customers; Accessibility of CompuBank in the Internet; Market for online banking.

Deals with a plan for a standard interface for Intel-based Unix servers. Companies pushing for the standard; Implementation schedule.

Focuses on the court battle between Microsoft Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. involving Java. Comments from Ron Rappaport of Zona Research Inc.; Background on the dispute between Microsoft and Sun.

Reports on the plan of Procter & Gamble (P&G) Co. to supercharge its growth which may centralize its information technology organizations. Information on what the Global Business Service organization of P&G will provide; Net earnings of P&G; Consequence of P&G Organization 2005 initiative.

Reports on Dell Computer Corp.'s performance in the second quarter of 1993. Delayed and canceled computer notebook products; Profits; Revenues; Sales.

Reports on Wang Laboratories Inc.'s patent infringement suits against Microsoft Corp., Watermark Software Inc. and Imagery Software Inc. Microsoft's Object Linking and embedding; Document-management terminal; Office-automation system with integrated image management.

Reports on International Business Machines (IBM) Corp.'s filing of a lawsuit against disk-drive vendor Conner Peripherals Inc. for patent infringement. Comments of industry observers and other companies; IBM's approach toward collecting patent royalties; Effects of vendors' paying of royalties to IBM on the prices of computers.

Reports on Duck Corp.'s TeleMotion algorithm. Multimedia personal computer (PC) users' call for full-screen, full-motion video; Availability of TrueMotion codec; Intel Corp.'s Indeo; SuperMac Technology's Cinepak; Ability of Comprehending technology to allow users to manipulate three-dimensional images in real time; Release of Windows and Macintosh versions of TeleMotion.

Discusses IBM Personal Computer Co.'s Visual Products unit. Lines of computer monitors; Technological developments on monitors; Computer monitor market.

Reports on IBM Corp.'s restructuring of its North American sales organization to help it focus on vertical markets. Plans to cut the amount of administrative staff and office space required by the sales force; Focus on multimedia and imaging technologies.

Reports on IBM Corp.'s subsidiary Ambra Computer Corp.'s hiring of other companies as a marketing strategy for attacking the direct-response personal computer (PC) market. Number of Ambra's actual marketing staff; Virtual corporation; Comments of computer industry analysts.

Reports on the performance of IBM stock for the week of July 19. 1993. Share value; Restructuring cost; Attribution to weak markets in Europe.

Reports on Bachman Information Systems Inc.'s termination of its employees. Lower than anticipated sales for fiscal 1993's fourth quarter, ending June 30; Restructuring charge the firm will take as a result of the layoofs; Third quarter sales ending March 31.

Reports on Powersoft Corp and Gupta Corp.'s second quarter sales. Powersoft's PowerBuilder application-development tool; Sales in the second quarter of last year; Earnings for the quarter ending June 30, 1993; Gupta's sales for the second quarter as compared to the same period of last year; Buy recommendation for both firms; Gupta to focus on the tools and data-access market; Powersoft's enhancement of PowerBuilder.

Reports on the sales reorganization efforts of IBM Chairman and CEO Louis Gerstner. Creation of marketing specialists; Focus on vertical markets; Pressure to reverse a string of unprofitable quarters.

Reports on CompuAdd Corp.'s petition for bankruptcy protection. Settle claims from landlords and other creditors; Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection; Liabilities and assets; Shortfall representation; Bill Hayden, chief executive officer; Unsuccessful out-of-court settlements.