Brian Livingston

Everyone always talks about whether their e-mail will get through, but no one ever does anything about it — until recently. At least two companies are selling access to “whitelists” that promise to get corporate e-mail delivered, bypassing the spam filters now used by Internet service providers (ISPs). Suddenly, this idea is making a breakthrough. […]

If your company allows visitors to search your site for information, you could learn a lot by examining one of the worst user interfaces I’ve ever seen on the Web. The illuminating example I’m going to tell you about is Medicare’s new prescription drug price-comparison engine, which is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health […]

Can you imagine making wireless networking more secure — while at the same time making it easier to set up? That’s the promise of a new technology that’s quietly making its way into everyday products that’ll be available to you in the next few months. Quick and Easy Installation of Secure Wi-Fi Microsoft is backing […]

Imagine you had a Web browser that said when you typed in a new address, “The Internet site you’re about to visit is known to steal credit-card numbers and use them in unauthorized ways.” Now imagine that you can actually use such an application today. It’s already been developed and it’s being distributed — free. […]

As I said in this space last week, spam has grown to dominate legitimate e-mail to such an extent that leaders of the computer industry might actually be forced to make significant changes to the worldwide e-mail system as early as this year. There’s no agreement as yet on what the new standard will be, […]

You probably know that spam is wreaking havok with e-mail systems, but you probably don’t know how unreliable it’s made these systems become. A new report shows that most major Internet service providers (ISPs) shunt into end users’ Junk Mail folders — or simply delete — about one-quarter of the corporate opt-in communications that their […]

How would you like to eliminate the tedious installation of new and upgraded software onto the many PCs in your far-flung company? That’s been the Holy Grail of corporate computing for some time — and now the problems that have kept this from becoming a widespread reality are being solved. How Centralized Software Management Breaks […]

When is a new computer technology like a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma? When it’s a new PC add-in board that’s currently being manufactured in small, pre-production quantities in — of all places — Kiev, Ukraine. I’ve heard rumors of this experimental development project for months. Now I’ve finally tracked down enough […]

Around the world, millions of people are saving sensitive, confidential documents in Microsoft Office and trying to protect them with passwords. A different set of people around the world are using remarkably simple tools to analyze these documents and open them — without knowing the passwords. Are you part of the first group or the […]

What with your corporate Web site and your branded publications of all shapes and sizes, it seems like almost everyone in your company eventually needs to scan documents and insert the images into something. But who’s stuck with having the scanner accessible only from their one PC? And how are they going to get any […]