A lifetime ago, as a young Wall Street reporter, I would frequently walk through a major brokerage or banking firm on my way to an interview and see a dormant PC on every desk. Most of these machines were not even plugged in; in fact, you would often see phone numbers or names fingered in […]
June 2001 - Vol. 44 No. 6
Features
A report finds that in the first quarter of 2001, a number of computer security issues, including incident and vulnerability reports, will top 2000 figures. The Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center (CERT), a government-funded R&D center based at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, reported receiving 7,047 incident reports, from Jan. 1Mar. 31, putting 2001 […]
In "The battle over the Institutional Ecosystem in the Digital Environment" (Feb. 2001, p. 84), Yochai Benkler essentially claims that peer-produced information products are at least as valuable as commercially available products. This is not true, as today consumers are overwhelmed by the amount of information freely available on the Internet; much of it is […]
Log on Education: Handheld Devices Are Ready-at-Hand
Like its predecessors—the pencil, paper, and calculator—computers must be within arm's reach, mobile, and palm-accessible in order to make a difference in the classroom.
International Perspectives: Wiring the Wilderness in Alaska and the Yukon
Breaking down the partitions that divide the digital world.
Viewpoint: Why Women Avoid Computer Science
The numbers prove women embrace the "precision" of mathematics. Could it be the ill-defined nature of computing is what drives them away?
Current Issues in E-Banking: Introduction
The one-to-one and interactive communication enabled by the Internet offers sellers and providers of services an unprecedented ability to learn about their customers and use this knowledge in their e-commerce strategies. This ability is especially fruitful in the financial services industry, which is quintessentially information-based and within which information technology advances are often first utilized. […]
Financial institutions may need to expand the idea of index stocks to survive in the new economy.
The Challenge of ‘Customerization’ in Financial Services
Companies that ignore customerization are at risk.
Bundling will play an important role in the evolution of e-banking.
Product-Market and Technology Strategies in Banking
Banks have a short time period to either establish themselves on the Internet or risk being overtaken by new entrants.
Technology For Supporting Supply Chain Management: Introduction
Supplying value to the consumer, that is, goods and services, is the essence of business. A supply chain is a network of organizations and their associated activities that work together, usually in a sequential manner, to produce value for the consumer. Customer-facing firms at the retail level, whether large department stores, automobile dealerships, or fast-food […]
Managing Trust and Commitment in Collaborative Supply Chain Relationships
Interaction technology can enhance the interplay between trust and technology.
Supporting Return Flows in the Supply Chain
Overlooked opportunities exist to recover products.
Challenges in the Air Cargo Supply Chain
Dominating the air cargo supply chain will be impossible without true connectivity.
Technology in the Indian Retail Supply Chain
Leveraging information technology for effective retail distribution in India.
Centralization vs. Decentralization of Application Software
Whichever way the IT department chooses, the result should never lose sight of the user.
A New View of IS Personnel Performance Evaluation
For the sake of overall corporate performance, users and IS professionals need "consonance" when evaluating system performance.
Students benefit from learning about testing and the broader issues of verification before they enter the buggy world of software development.
Technical Opinion: Programming Extremism
Extreme Programming, a lightweight OO development process, is the latest eruption between programmers and software engineers.
Inside Risks: PKI: A Question of Trust and Value
On March 22, 2001, Microsoft issued a security bulletin (MS01017) alerting the Internet community that two digital certificates were issued in Microsoft’s name by VeriSign (the largest digital certificate company) to an individual—an impostor—not associated with Microsoft. Instantaneously, VeriSign (a self-proclaimed "Internet trust company") and the entire concept of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and digital […]
