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In the late 1990s, companies such asIBM and Ariba began rolling out the first global B2B networks ...

The business-to-business market was the darling of e-commerce pundits way back in the early '90s when companies began to get serious about using the Web to do business. B2B e-commerce was expected to lead the way into a brave new online world of business communications, management and international trade ...

Wireless networking continues to make inroads in metropolitan and rural areas across the U.S. as the development of 802.1x technologies and associated standards forges ahead. Wireless broadband and VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) have both gained momentum and are moving inexorably forward. It's now possible to connect to the Internet and a variety of voice and data networks in spaces large and small, public and private...

As the nature of Internet threats has morphed, IT systems professionals and security providers have adapted their response tactics ...

Recognizing the mutual benefit that accrues to helping their online merchants succeed, e-commerce hosting companies, along with e-tailers themselves, are driving demand for software applications that can help them better manage and grow their businesses ...

It's a sad fact of life for today's information-driven organizations that the nature of security threats is continuously shifting and evolving. Intrusion mechanisms such as worms, Trojans and rootkit exploits continually evolve into more-developed forms, and wax and wane in terms of number and frequency of attacks ...

It wasn't so long ago that technological or economic reasons -- or both -- stood in the way of many people who aspired to launch a retail business online. That's changed drastically in a short span of time. Professional quality e-commerce hosting services, along with a growing range of easy-to-use software tools, have come within the reach of even those with modest budgets...

The adaptation of technologies that were once exclusive to big science and the military for commercial public use has become a characteristic of our times. Notable among them are global positioning systems (GPS) and geographic information systems (GIS), both of which have been growing in adoption as their technological evolution continues ...

With the ongoing development of wireless telecommunications and shared application and data resources, the practice of integrating geographic information systems (GIS) with conventional data analysis and decision support systems is on the rise ...

In days of old, before consumers were able do all their holiday shopping without leaving their homes, before the days of television commercials, and yea, even before the heyday of the venerable department store, there was the Fuller Brush man. And the Hoover Vacuum Cleaner man. And, of course, the milkman ...

Researchers have long recognized that representing large and diverse data sets visually and spatially offers the potential for improving both comprehension and ease of use. With the confluence of work in geographic information systems (GIS), enterprise data systems and distributed computing, this potential is being realized across a wide range of industries -- from manufacturing, logistics and operations research to resource management, public planning, healthcare and financial services...

The business of providing small businesses with e-commerce hosting and support solutions is growing fast. The large-enterprise market is crowded, and competition is fierce. That has led an increasing number of e-commerce platform providers to enter the small and medium-sized business end, where they are looking to establish footholds ...

Want to be your own boss? Got an itch to try your hand at e-commerce but don't consider yourself a techie? Maybe you've got an eye for style, the next big fad, or just useful products. Or perhaps you have the pulse of a particular space, as well as the sales and marketing savvy to put an idea to lucrative use -- but technophobia has forestalled your plans...

The size of an organization's data mountain can be expected to double roughly every five years, which can be an overwhelming prospect. For the firm that has implemented effective data management procedures, though, there's gold in them there hills.Part 1 of this three-part series explores new methods for organizing, accessing and using the wealth of information stored in most companies' data vaults...

These days it seems that science fact is at least as amazing as science fiction. In a few short generations, actual developments in the real world of computing and information systems, biotechnology, nanotechnology and robotics have surpassed the imaginary leaps of early sci-fi authors such as Jules Verne, Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein both in terms of technical possibilities and societal ramifications...

As data warehousing continues to take hold as a powerful tool of modern business, developers are hard at work trying to build applications that will move the technology to the next level. Part 1 of this three-part series looks at how some developers are attempting to fuse two seemingly disparate worlds of data collection and retrieval -- business intelligence (BI) and geographic information systems (GIS) -- to create the multidimensional data warehousing model of the future. This installment examines some of the problems associated with that endeavor, along with some approaches toward solving them...

Since the technology of data warehousing has risen to become common currency, it has been at the epicenter of leading-edge advances in database, data analysis and decision support systems theory and practice -- and for good reason ...

IT and business managers are spending an increasing amount of time and money trying to predict what kind of return they can expect on theirsoftware investments, because their multi-networked, online working environment requires them to continually invent new approaches, asPart 1 of this two-part series makes clear ...

A major auto manufacturer spends four years and more than US$200 million to install a Web-based enterprise resource planning system (ERP) from an industry leading developer, then pulls the plug and goes back to its legacy system ...

Consumers and small businesses just can't afford to let their network and computer guards down these days. With the growing number of mobile and wireless technologies available to them, and with cybercrooks becoming better organized, focused, and more willing to share resources, the digital world can be a hostile place ...