* What's your name again? * Google debuts desktop search app * Ipswitch goes pro * HP could make more of Compaq acquisition, CEO says * Today on Layer 8 * This week’s top 5 stories
GRIC is a wonderful name – if you’re a Slavic warlord. But if you’re a network service provider, the name might scare customers. That’s why the company changed its name to the friendlier “GoRemote.” This week’s Wider Net looks at the process of changing names at GRIC and other companies that didn’t quite get it right the first time. What’s your name again? http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/101104widernetnames.html?net
GRIC is a wonderful name – if you’re a Slavic warlord. But if you’re a network service provider, the name might scare customers. That’s why the company changed its name to the friendlier “GoRemote.” This week’s Wider Net looks at the process of changing names at GRIC and other companies that didn’t quite get it right the first time.
What’s your name again?
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/101104widernetnames.html?net
Google debuts desktop search app
Google’s software takes search technology to the next level: your desktop. It’s free and we show you where to get it. Now what I really need is a search engine for my house, to help me when I misplace something – which is all too often.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/1014google.html?net
Ipswitch goes pro
Ipswitch this week detailed how it has upgraded its network monitoring software with a new user interface, encryption features and more storage capacity.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/1014ipswitch.html?net
HP could make more of Compaq acquisition, CEO says
More than two years after completing its buyout of rival Compaq, HP has not done enough to take full advantage of the acquisition, according to HP’s chairman and CEO.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/1015hpcould.html?net
Today on Layer 8, where it’s all fun and games until somebody loses an iPod:
Survey says U.S. air traffic control network is vulnerable; Google sends HR to India; L.A. cop sued over bootlegs; and enterprise nets are “more exposed than ever”; all this today and more at your home for not-just-networking news.
https://www.nwfusion.com/weblogs/layer8/?net
This week’s top 5 stories so far:
1. Kerry crowd drowns out Bush backers at IT show
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/101104vortex.html?net
2. SCO’s McBride warns of open source ‘wild west’
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/1012etresco.html?net
3. Google debuts desktop search app
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/1014google.html?net
4. Video users saying hello IP, goodbye ISDN
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/101104specialfocus.html?net
5. IBM supersizes storage arrays
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/101104ibmstorage.html?net
