- Tue Nov 26 2002 Commentary: Three tiers for broadband
To satisfy consumers' increasingly diverse needs, providers need to let go their dial-up focus and move from one-speed-fits-all to tiered broadband services.
- Tue Dec 9 2003 Commentary: HP gets organic
In a consolidating IT industry, Hewlett-Packard is charting a path toward the Adaptive Enterprise, its name for a new set of IT and business capabilities that has captured the industry's attention.
- Mon Mar 10 2003 Commentary: Spending less on CRM consultants
Executives say that when it comes to their efforts in the area of customer relationship management, they're satisfied with consultants but plan to spend less.
- Mon Aug 4 2003 Commentary: Dances with penguins
Financial services firms should stop playing the wallflower, get on the dance floor--and enjoy the benefits of Unix reliability at Intel prices.
- Mon Oct 20 2003 Commentary: Facing the music
Apple's Windows music store leads its rivals in ease of use and distribution. Together with Musicmatch and Napster, it will catapult legitimate music downloads into the mainstream.
- Mon Jan 27 2003 Commentary: Cranking up IP telephony
Despite the hype and the marketing dollars, Internet telephony vendors from Siemens to Cisco still haven't cracked the code of selling to big businesses.
- Mon Jan 13 2003 Commentary: Digital denial
The entertainment industry is full of so-called "rebels" who pray for the status quo. But digital media will transform the music and film industries--whether they like it or not.
- Tue Feb 18 2003 Commentary: This is not your teen's IM
Real-time chat is simply the first application to exploit "presence." Tomorrow's presence-enabled applications will bear as much resemblance to the first version of AIM as a Handspring Treo does to an old Western Electric phone.
- Wed Nov 20 2002 Commentary: The dark side of the Web
Web services are a part of a shift from a Web of people to a Web of things, populated mostly by systems and machines locked in lights-out data centers.
- Mon Nov 4 2002 Commentary: Lights, camera--cable
Movielink, a joint venture of five Hollywood studios, is taking another step toward online delivery of movies. But video on demand--over cable--is where the action is.

