Stories about: Levi Strauss

The mainframe may be a dinosaur, but it is a carnivorous one. That was IBM's message Tuesday at a press event in San Francisco where it launched its new line of mainframe computers, the first model of which is called the z990 -- code-named T-Rex.

What detail of your private life would you least like to see splashed across the Internet? Or added to a database, linked to your name and sold in a mailing list? Your concern could become a source of amusement to your grandchildren, because by then, "privacy as we know it won't exist," predicts Nick Jones, a London-based research director at Stamford, Conn.-based Gartner Group Inc.

Are Tiffany's and Cartier about to be challenged by IBM? The company once famous for its white shirt-black tie uniforms is leaping into the world of fashion with prototype digital jewelry that could be either the best thing in nerdwear since pocket protectors or one of the most annoying inventions of our time.

Tom Brailsford had a good idea for a technology project, but he couldn't get it done. Not without a little backdoor help from his IS department.

The latest in fashion gadgetry will hit boutiques in Europe later this month. For about US$900, plugged-in consumers will be able to purchase a jacket equipped with a remote-controlled mobile phone and an MP3 player.

Vendors are shouting from the rooftops that this is the year of the SAN. But users are barely whispering their support for storage-area networks (SAN).

Vendors are shouting from the rooftops that this is the year of the SAN. But users are barely whispering their support for storage-area networks (SAN).

Say goodbye to the traditional business day. Now that networks are central to companies and the Web provides a 24-hour link to customers, suppliers and employees, IT professionals are needed around the clock. In a market already painfully thin on IT talent, what's a network executive to do?

Nuforia, an interactive marketing company, said today that it plans to acquire online marketing shop Red Sky Interactive in a private deal.

Let's say you collect caps. Baseball caps, college team caps, sportswear brand-name caps, visors. You know that Lids, the hat specialty store in the mall, will give you one hat free for every seven you purchase. So you visit your nearest Lids store. You buy two. You hit the Lids in another mall. You pick up two more. But you still want three others that you couldn't find at either retail outlet. Not to mention the freebie.

Sharon McCracken still remembers her stomach lurching as she heard the news: Her boss wanted her to receive professional coaching. That was one way to spoil a lunch.