IM: Indispensable or nuisance?

Opinion
Oct 23, 20062 mins

See no evil?

‘Net Buzz: IT pros on IM: Indispensable or nuisance? 10/21/06

This exercise started with the assumption that I’m a dinosaur in my steadfast refusal to use instant messaging. E-mail, the phone, shouting and getting off my butt work fine 99.9% of the time and I’m not taking on another distraction to grab that …

Backspin: The Year of Sleaze? 10/21/06

What is the matter with our industry? It seems every day the sleaze quotient increases!

Johnson: Next-generation WANs: no more tiers, 10/20/06

In case you missed the memo, MPLS now is the technology of choice for WAN underpinnings.

Bradner: To Microsoft, to license means “to restrict,” 10/20/06

It’s been a long time since I read through a Microsoft software license so I do not know when they started using the English language (rather than level-23 legalese), but it sure is a nice thing. This license is very easy to read and understand, but …

Editorial: Moving to thin clients across the board, 10/20/06

What do you do when two-thirds of your company’s employees work in remote locations that don’t have IT support?

Gearhead: More Web OSs and one in particular, 10/20/06

Last week we started to discuss Web operating systems (otherwise called Webtops). To briefly recap, these systems emulate a Windows multiapplication operating-system environment using AJAX or flash applications executing in a Web browser, sometimes …