Web Services on the real-time internet
The U.S. government may be trying to break up Microsoft’s monopoly through lawsuits, but the real battle over the company’s future is being fought on…
Microsoft gears up to battle java on Wall Street
The World Wide Web didn’t make Windows obsolete and Microsoft won the browser wars-just in time for the next battle, the war over Web services.…
Reaction Mixed as SuperSoes Rolls Out
The SuperSoes trade execution system, which Nasdaq is attempting to roll out for the third time this week-two prior attempts, last July and in January,…
Video Connection Spreading Across Traders’ Desks
Videoconferencing has long been a staple of science fiction, but has taken longer to catch on in the real world than anyone expected. It was…
Peer-to-Peer Appeal for Distributed Computing Efforts
While peer-to-peer systems like Napster are the tech topic of the moment, a close cousin-peer-to-peer distributed computing-has actually shown itself to be more useful. P2P…
Tips for that job hunt
When jobs are more scare, you might have to change your expectations According to Gary Green, looking for a new job has been harder than…
The Bottom Line
Layoffs in the Newspaper Industry What’s ahead in the job market? As the U.S. economy slows down, journalists find their work – and sometimes their…
Tech revolutionizes Russia’s Central Bank
As recently as a decade ago, the Russian banking sector was an antique monstrosity, a huge system of paper-based transactions inherited from the former Soviet…
Making Digital History: Election 2000
As online news sites were recording history this election, they were also making it. Record numbers of people went online for news, marking the first…
Out-of-bounds perks?
When you go out on a limb in asking for new job benefits, it helps if you know just how far is too far
TV Tower Fire Sparks Net Use in Russia
When a broadcast tower fire threw several Moscow TV stations off the air last week, many would-be TV viewers turned to the Internet. In some…
Visa issues 10 ‘commandments’ for online merchants
In an attempt to reduce online credit-card fraud, Visa U.S.A. in San Francisco announced 10 “commandments” for online merchants to guard its cardholders’ information. And,…
Fake bank Web sites trick consumers into giving up personal data
A hacker doesn’t have to break into a bank’s computer to steal account numbers and access codes. It may be enough to set up a…
Structured Financing
Structured financing is a way of borrowing money against an asset or a projected asset without consideration of the creditworthiness of the borrower.
J. P. Morgan IT Exec Loosens Grip on Services
Will turn over firm’s back-office operations to Bank of New York
Larger banks have edge in electronic CRM, report says
Larger financial institutions have an edge over small and nimble Internet upstarts in electronic customer relationship management (CRM), according to a new report released by…
Lloyds Bank to Spend $24 Million on CRM
Lloyds TSB Group PLC has said it will spend $24 million on a customer relationship management (CRM) system designed to integrate customer information from all…
Tightening the Seams
The future is multimedia, and journalists are quickly learning to tailor their work for different mediums Late last year, Chicago Tribune reporter William Gaines got…
The Web Factor
The Internet is changing the playing field for both ad agencies and their clients White the Pioneer Valley still lags behind other areas of the…
Perot attacks campaign finances
DETROIT, Nov. 2 — Reform Party presidential candidate Ross Perot continued to hammer away at campaign finances Saturday, accusing both major party candidates of selling…
Religious warriors ready to avenge human rights abuses
The killing of two Russian border guards has raised tension in a forgotten conflict.
Runaway Russian ‘Slaves’ Plague Caucasus Republic
NAZRAN, Russia, April 10 — Ingushetia has a lot of problems. The war with nearby North Ossetia, a troubled relationship with overlords in Moscow, run-away…
Cossacks Accuse Chechens of Terror Tactics
NAURSKAYA, Russia — Legend has it that in 1774 the women and children ofNaurskaya fought off an attack by the Turks, armed only with pitchforks…
Ingushetia Poll Marked by Violations, Opposition Says
NAZRAN, Russia, Feb 28 — Preliminary poll results on Monday showed that General Ruslan Aushev was headed for re-election as president of the volatile southern…
Ghost of Gamsakhurdia continues to haunt Georgia
Maria Korolov in Jikhaskari finds that sightings of the dead president are a daily occurence
Azerbaijan Army Regroups, Pulls Itself Together
QERVEND, Azerbaijan – Six months ago Azerbaijan’s army suffered defeats so monumental that the president fled the country and a fifth of the Transcausasian republic…
Russians thrown into Tajik breach
Maria Korolov reports from a nervous border post overlooking Afghanistan on how CIS troops are fighting an uphill battle to keep the frontier intact against…
Refugees Flee Torture by Soldiers in Abkhazia
GAGRA, Abkhazia – It is noon in Gagra, Abhkazia, where refugees gather in the courtyard of a former resort hotel converted to wartime use. “They…
Agencies Track Gangs And Drugs By Computer
There are two types of drug dealers: the one who looks like a genteel businessman, living an upscale life in an upscale neighborhood, and then…