New Trucking App from Qualcomm Tracks Untethered Trailers
by Alex Woodie

Qualcomm is best known as the high-flying developer of advanced technology used in millions of cellular phones around the world. But the roots of the San Diego, California, company's success lie in a much less glamorous industry: interstate trucking. Since 1988, Qualcomm has been developing systems that combine cellular, satellite, and IBM midrange technology to track and monitor trucks, and last month the federal government gave Qualcomm the go-ahead to field-test its latest product, an untethered-trailer tracking system. READ MORE >

EDI Providers Move to Support UCCnet with New Products, Services
by Alex Woodie

EDI software providers EXTOL and Sterling Commerce last week launched their solutions for UCCnet, the initiative to synchronize product data between retailers and manufacturers. EXTOL announced a new solution called EXTOL UCCnet Integrator, which connects its EDI users to UCCnet's own software package, called Data Synchronization Services, while Sterling Commerce has partnered with a third-party software developer, HAHT Commerce, to connect its users to the UCCnet GLOBALregistry. READ MORE >

PowerTech Expanding Reach of Network Security Product
by Dan Burger

Perimeter security doesn't work. But wait. Don't unplug those firewalls and routers and throw them in the closet. You can't do without them. You do need perimeter security to build a good security model. But if that's the only kind of security you have, the fact is, there are tons of people getting inside of the firewall. And you need to let them in to do business. Trouble is, that pokes a lot of holes in the perimeter security model. READ MORE >

IBM 6400 Line Matrix Printers Get Faster, Smarter
by Alex Woodie

IBM rounded outs its 6400 family of line matrix printers last week with the introduction of two new top-of-the-line models, the i2s and the i24. The two new printers are faster than the previous standard-bearer in the 6400 family, the Model i15, and bring new features to IBM's Printer Management Utility for the 6400, including the capability to send an e-mail alert when certain events occur, such as a ribbon that needs changing. READ MORE >

Robot/REPORTS Takes to the Web
by Alex Woodie

Your company may have much to gain by moving to an electronic archiving system. Did you know that for every 12 filing cabinets added to an organization, one additional employee must be hired, on average, to maintain them? This statistic, from a study by PricewaterhouseCoopers (now an IBM consulting division), seems right up Help/Systems' alley, and a new release of that company's OS/400 report management system, Robot/REPORTS, make its distribution and archiving capabilities even easier to use. READ MORE >

News Briefs and Product Shorts

BOSaNOVA Puts the Function Back in the F Keys, with New 122-Key Keyboard . . . WorksRight Supports New 5-Digit MSA Codes with New ZIP/CITY Release . . . Group 1 Offers Address Verification as a New Web Service Named LESLIE . . . ROI's New Tectonic Division Launches Construction Software Suite . . . Amway's New CRM Initiative Plugs into AS/400, Tracks Affiliate Sales . . . Geac Integrating EDI, Barcode Software from Harmon, Lynch & Young into System21 . . . READ MORE >

Correction

The article "CrossWorks New 'IRE' to Assist in RPG-to-Java Translation" originally misspelled the name of Jon Richter, CrossWorks' vice president of business development. The error has been corrected. Guild Companies regrets the error. [Change made 8/27/03.]

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