General Electric, Thomas Edison's 20th century company that brought electricity to America, now wants to bring e-commerce to the world. With that in mind, General Electric Information Services (GEIS) announced here yesterday that the organisation will split into two new companies: GE Systems Services and GE Global Exchange Services.
Bugs, worms - the Internet appears to be a fertile breeding ground for all sorts of cyber nasties. According to several experts, however, the worst species are hoax bugs disseminated by Y2K
Sprint, the season of renewal, was in the air, and Carl Lucas was bored with his job as the senior network engineer for a financial company in San Francisco.
General Electric, Thomas Edison's 20th century company that brought electricity to America, now wants to bring e-commerce to the world. With that in mind, General Electric Information Services (GEIS) announced here Monday that the organization will split into two new companies: GE Systems Services and GE Global Exchange Services.
THE MORNING AFTER Y2K, many IT leaders are waking up to a new fear: dis-intermediation. The dreaded "D" word carries the threat of getting "Amazoned" -- seeing your core business evaporate in the heat of emerging digital marketplaces.
IT PROFESSIONALS are no strangers to waves of change, but there is a new ripple that some say could become a tsunami that engulfs the internal IT development strategy and erases boundaries, leaving behind a new world in which IT is no longer restrained by corporate walls.
Year 2000 viruses proved to be as impotent as the infamous Y2K bug itself. As the long-anticipated date approached, fears grew that hackers would take advantage of the millennium to launch new attacks.
APPLICATION SERVICE provider (ASP) Breakaway Solutions has joined forces with Internet connectivity company InterNAP Network Services, a move Breakaway officials anticipate will give its customers an advantage in leveraging the Internet.
After January 1 comes and goes, and the year-2000 issue is finally behind us, IT professionals should breathe a collective sigh of relief. But no matter how well-deserved, it will be a short respite. If there is one thing about the coming year that CIOs, CTOs, IS managers, and various experts agree on, it is that 2000 will not be a year to sit back and reflect.
Rumors that there is year-2000 trouble in at least one of Pakistan's stock markets remain unsubstantiated.