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• BT Refuses to Comment on Telefonica Bid Rumors

  British Telecommunications PLC (BT) today refused to comment on reported speculation over the weekend that it would make a bid for Spanish telecom company Telefónica de España SA.

  Written by Douglas F. Gray • 20 March 00 12:01

• X-Community Lets Teams Collaborate

  There is no shortage of ASPs (application service providers) offering space on their servers to store your documents and files. But very few of these services give businesses a compelling reason to subscribe. For example, users are unable to see what documents other team members are using in real time, which often results in duplicate work.

  Written by Mike Heck • 20 March 00 12:01

• Toshiba's Satellite crashes and burns

  PC vendor Toshiba has confirmed that up to 1000 of its locally manufactured Satellite notebooks have been affected by a faulty Celeron chip.

  Written by Byron Kaye • 20 March 00 12:01

• IDC: E-commerce evolution will weed out startups

  The e-commerce bubble is about to burst for dot-coms. So warned analysts from International Data Corp. (IDC) last week, who said e-commerce is entering a new era in which alliances between big companies are forcing startups to turn a profit faster, form alliances or be driven out of the market.

  Written by DeWayne Lehman • 20 March 00 12:01

• CA Extends Its Offer for Sterling

  Computer Associates International Inc. (CA) has extended its offer to acquire Sterling Software Inc. until midnight EST, Monday, March 27 because the antitrust division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has requested additional information and documents as part of its regulatory review of the proposed deal.

  Written by Nancy Weil • 20 March 00 12:01

• Airwave Auction Raises Hackles

  Get ready for the spectrum war - a battle between the biggest cellular carriers, which are lusting after new frequencies, and corporate wireless users, who want a sliver of the spectrum for themselves.

  Written by Bob Brewin • 20 March 00 12:01

• Desperately seeking e-COMM RECRUITS

  Consulting companies concentrating their energies on capturing a chunk of the lucrative e-commerce market are crying out for recruits with e-commerce savvy.

  Written by Sue Bushell and Holly Hubbard Preston • 20 March 00 12:01

• Feds ID Hacker Who Stole 485k Credit-Card Numbers

  Law enforcement officials said they've tracked down a foreign hacker who they allege stole more than 485,000 credit-card numbers and saved them on a U.S. government agency's Web site, the Secret Service said today.

  Written by DeWayne Lehman • 20 March 00 12:01

• Glitches Make MonitorIT a Poor Value

  Enterprises can benefit from large-scale network management software tying its far-flung elements together. But there's still room for inexpensive network monitoring tools. They allow a network manager or technician to keep an essential handful of tools on a laptop and deal with whatever troubles the network might develop. Whether the technician is at a remote site, a client's site, or helping one of your suppliers, using good, portable tools means the network recovers sooner.

  Written by Mike Avery • 20 March 00 12:01

• Largest software merger hits $15 billion

  Merger frenzy continues as i2 buys Aspect Development to boost B2B content

  Written by Eugene Grygo • 20 March 00 12:01

• UPDATE: Worm hasn't turned on Australia yet

  A new worm believed to have infected some IT companies is not expected to proliferate outside the IT industry, according to a security expert from Computer Associates.

  Written by Luisa Bustos • 20 March 00 12:01

• Enterprise Toolbox - Mapping out your e-commerce plan

  There are people who find their way to a physical location by means of a map and there are people who prefer to rely on hunches to get them to the right place. Finding the right road to go down with your e-business strategy is much the same. You might have a pretty good hunch about the direction your company should take; however, a detailed map will help you home in on the best route.

  Written by Maggie Biggs • 20 March 00 12:01

• Sizing Up Voice Over IP

  One key to getting ahead in this business is developing a knack for knowing when to invest in new technologies. After all, early adopters get burned, while laggards get whacked upside the head by more nimble competitors.

  Written by John Dix • 20 March 00 12:01

• Top 10 Printers

  We've seen a number of new monochrome laser printers since we last looked at models in January, and several newcomers gain slots on our Top 10 list. The Xerox Corp. DocuPrint N2125 debuts on the corporate chart in first place with quick text-printing speeds and top-notch letter quality. Two new models from Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.--the QL-7050 and the QL-6100--enter the corporate and small-business/home charts, respectively. Finally, the Brother International Corp. HL-1270N, a networked version of our SOHO Best Buy, lands at number five.

  Written by Dan Littman • 20 March 00 12:01

• Build Automatic Return Addresses in Word

  The envelope and labels dialog box in Microsoft Corp.'s Word 97 and 2000 (Tools*Envelopes and Labels) automatically fills in a return address for you. But where does that address come from? And what if it isn't the one you want to use? You can select it and type in a new address each time you use that dialog box, but if you want to change the default address for some reason (say you move or you've inherited the PC from another employee), you'll have to take a different route:

  Written by George Campbell • 20 March 00 12:01

• Wireless Service Providers Need Speed

  Accessing the Internet using a wireless handheld device offers exactly the same performance you would get sitting at your desktop . . . back in 1993, that is.

  Written by Denise Pappalardo • 20 March 00 12:01

• Linksys Connects, Protects Branch Users

  Perhaps the biggest challenge in supporting a branch office is finding a manageable way to offer it the same networking services that your headquarters enjoy. To set up a LAN with full Internet access and a firewall requires a complicated mix of hardware and software. The cost of installing and managing these systems is unreasonable for a remote office of 10 or fewer people. Link-sys, a brand synonymous with affordable networking, steps up to this challenge with its EtherFast Cable/DSL Router, a tool that provides remote connectivity at a knockout price.

  Written by Steve Jefferson • 20 March 00 12:01

• IBM discovers new way of storing data

  Written by Douglas F. Gray • 20 March 00 12:01

• Telecom Execs Meet with FCC at Networking Forum

  Topics such as interoperability between carriers and the use of wireless networks were among key issues discussed here today at a gathering featuring the telecommunications industry's top executives and the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

  Written by Jennifer Jones • 20 March 00 12:01

• Enterprise Toolbox - Mapping out your e-commerce plan

  There are people who find their way to a physical location by means of a map and there are people who prefer to rely on hunches to get them to the right place. Finding the right road to go down with your e-business strategy is much the same. You might have a pretty good hunch about the direction your company should take; however, a detailed map will help you home in on the best route.

  Written by Maggie Biggs • 20 March 00 12:01