Articles by Nancy Cohen

Whether you call it "Voice over Internet Protocol," or a trendier "Voyp" you're joining a widening group of vendors, industry watchers and analysts who see VoIP as SMBs' telephony technology of the future The key reason most businesses are so interested in VoIP is the cost savings that come from communicating over an Internet connection, and that i...

Whether you call it "Voice over Internet Protocol," or a trendier "Voyp" you're joining a widening group of vendors, industry watchers and analysts who see VoIP as SMBs' telephony technology of the future The key reason most businesses are so interested in VoIP is the cost savings that come from communicating over an Internet connection, and that i...

Every business manager can remember some hellish, hair-pulling scene resulting in missed deadlines and dead-in-the-water deals all in the name of IT gone wrong: Printers wouldn't talk to computers; a virus choked up network traffic for days; servers crashed; or a traveling rep didn't have the right tools to access office data that could have turned a prospect around. One can compose a very long list of IT crises that involve hardware, software applications -- and all the cards and wires in between...

Enrico Pesatori knows a thing or two about business strategy. He has been admired for his self-sustaining executive track record at Digital Equipment, Compaq and BlueArc. Now, as chairman and CEO of Penguin Computing, he's out to make the company a leader in high-performance computing servers, systems and cluster-management software When the compan...

What began as an MIT group project in a Somerville, Mass., garage four years ago has evolved into a unique and successful developer of RFID, sensing and embedded computing technologies. In August, 2000, the original five founders of ThingMagic, all armed with MIT Ph.D.s, came up with an idea for a solution to a problem assigned by the Cambridge-based Auto-ID Center. Since then, the company has begun to seal its place as the supplier of one of the hottest RFID readers available...

Call it the Pleasure PC. Digital Living Space. Or, as Microsoft would like you to think of it, Media Center. Vendors and analysts have been flagging a new era for home PCs, and there is more than just talk in the air Dell, Gateway, and other computer makers are busy touting PCs optimized for entertainment. Intel has developed chipsets with the new ...

AT&T acknowledged today that it is testing alternative operating systems to the Windows platform it now uses, but said the review is not specifically related to security concerns Mike Dickman, AT&T spokesperson, said reports suggesting AT&T might be considering scrapping Microsoft Windows for Linux are "Fiction. Out of context." He said that AT&T h...