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...tight security at AIT sounds more MP than M.B.A., there's a good reason. The private company--which provides Web-hosting services largely through resellers, maintaining 180,000 Web domains for 32,000 clients, including Microsoft--was founded in 1996 by CEO Clarence Briggs, 42, a tightly wound, 13-year veteran of the Army who served in Panama and the Gulf War before a knee injury ended his career. More than 80% of AIT's 160 employees also have military backgrounds, including a number who joined right after a stint at nearby Fort Bragg. Seven of the eight senior executives...
...lousy way to absorb information from the Net. Stop me if you've heard this one before, but that may be about to change. Opera, the tiny Norwegian upstart whose PC browser has in the last 18 months lured some 12 million customers away from products like Microsoft's Internet Explorer, is about to release a new browser that - they swear! - will revolutionize Web surfing on small screen phones. The latest version of its mobile browser, which will be announced this week, transforms data so that a mobile-phone user can download pages using the same format as the World...
About 100 firms, from Microsoft and Morgan Stanley to ESPN and the CIA, fielded questions from throngs of well-dressed job-seeking undergraduates yesterday at the Office of Career Services’ (OCS) 21st annual Career Forum...
...washed cottages nestle between rice paddies and corn fields, where teams of farmers still work with hoes and sickles. Hardly a tractor can be found, though truckloads of soldiers ramble down the narrow roads. At the Grand People's Study House in Sinuiju, students stare at computers equipped with Microsoft Internet Explorer, but with no connection to the Web, they listlessly surf the library's own site. At one dimly lit lecture hall, students learn English by repeating phrases their teacher recites in praise of the Communist leadership. "All the people would unite single-handedly behind the great leader...
...market for integrated messaging software like IBM's Lotus Notes and Microsoft's Exchange, which include a bundle of collaboration tools from IM to group folders and calendar sharing, is $2.6 billion a year, according to research firm the Radicati Group, based in Palo Alto, Calif. That market is expected to grow to $4.4 billion by 2005. Software vendors are also selling pieces of these collaboration packages as stand-alone products, which IDC's Robert Mahowald says will further expand the market for corporate IM and related applications. "If I am a small company," Mahowald explains, "I can buy only...