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IT WAS 1967. Students were protesting an unpopular war. Beatle John Lennon was on the cover of the first issue of Rolling Stone. And Patrick J. McGovern started Computerworld, a [...]

Even the best IT leaders have made blunders in their careers--in fact, those lessons often forge stronger leaders. These are some of the decisions that our Premier 100 IT Leaders [...]

Pop quiz: Which came first, the wired LAN or the wireless LAN? Today, we tend to think of wireless LANs and wireless connections to the Internet as exotic, new applications, [...]

You've found an application service provider. You've talked about money, goals and partnership, and you're ready to sign up for a long-term commitment. But have you worked out the prenuptial [...]

Although Microsoft isn't dominating the enterprise market now, you can't rule it out in the next five or 10 years either, given the company's tenacious ways. In recent speeches, CEO […]

There could be 1.3 billion subscribers to third-generation (3G) wireless networks in 2010. That's the optimistic case in one market research forecast. Or there could be only 744 million 3G [...]

History books routinely describe the delivery of the Univac I to General Electric Co.'s Appliance Park in 1954 as the first installation of an electronic computer at a business. But [...]

The trucks rolled up to the brand-new, ultramodern factory in Louisville, Ky., one day in January 1954. Now, 47 years later, no one seems to remember the exact date. There [...]

When Joseph Glickauf returned from the messy laboratory of ENIAC inventors J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly, he felt he'd seen the future. His notes from the Philadelphia visit had [...]

The PC-based GeoVoter system in Darryl Howard's office is getting a workout before next week's elections. As executive director of the Oregon Republican Party in Salem, Howard is a leading-edge [...]

Washington Microsoft Corp. last week urged the U.S. Supreme Court to let the lower appeals court do the heavy-duty work of clearing the "underbrush" of messy issues in its antitrust […]

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) made it clear last week that it's still learning about business-to-business e-commerce exchanges - and that it's in no hurry to regulate the fledgling [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and leading Internet advertising networks such as DoubleClick Inc. are negotiating an industry self-regulatory scheme aimed at addressing privacy concerns about consumer […]

Labor experts are predicting that turmoil from the high-profile antitrust case may give competitors an opening to steal Microsoft Corp.'s top-notch software engineers and other employees. 'With the government's recent [...]

It may have been a bellwether event for the Internet broadcasting industry: On April 28, thousands of fans of Philadelphia's hottest rock disc jockey not only heard his radio show […]

The emergence of a single European currency and pan-European marketing is expected to be a boon for cross-border electronic commerce in Europe, according to a report by Stamford, Conn.-based Gartner […]

Year 2000 and euro conversion. They seem like the evil twins of the millennium, costly technology projects full of heads-down, back-office code tweakery and testing. But there's an important difference: […]

Generalizations that all IT workers are socially challenged nerds aren't accurate, according to a new study of IT professionals' 'emotional intelligence.' The preliminary study by Multi-Health Systems, Inc. in Toronto [...]

If it isn't an El Nino-induced power outage, it's a construction backhoe that rips out a bundle of fiber-optic cables, or 760 end users who suddenly sign up for PointCast [...]

AT MICHIGAN.GOV, citizens can find licensed day-care providers, reserve a campsite, renew licenses and get alerts about road closures delivered to their wireless devices. That helps to explain why Michigan [...]

EDITOR'S NOTE WHEN YOU HEAR IT managers complain about storage problems--whether they involve maintenance, adding disk drives, provisioning, load balancing or backup--their beefs all fall into one broad category: storage […]

EDITOR'S NOTE I QUIETLY CHUCKLE to myself when someone talks about "the wireless enterprise" as though there's some monolithic definition of what that is. The fact is that wireless applications […]

EDITOR'S NOTE MY OWN career plan is called 'stumbling forward.' I just walk through career doors that, through pure luck, happen to open at the right time. It's worked OK [...]

EDITOR'S NOTE ONCE, I WAS TRYING to interview a CIO in his office, but his phone kept ringing every few minutes with sales calls. He'd pick up the phone, bark [...]

EDITOR'S NOTE LET'S TAKE IT BY THE NUMBERS: When Sage Research asked 104 executives which technology areas are the greatest sources of pain in their organizations, they ranked security No. [...]

UNCLEAR ON THE CONCEPT? We explain on-demand computing in plain English and explore the three-way split among users: Some are doing it, some are examining it, and some are extremely [...]

WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY--with its incompatibilities, security holes, dead zones and fuzzy ROI--has got to be the most immature and frustrating field for IT managers. But it's also the most exciting. Almost [...]

Restoring Data Tapes After the Coffee Spill As your store's night manager is driving home with the backup tapes, he has to slam on the brakes. Hot coffee spills onto [...]

You glide into your office building on Monday morning, Jan. 3, 2000, confident that your information systems have been prepared for the 00 date. But the elevator won't budge. The […]