Stories by: Kim S. Nash

Pamela Rucker doesn't want to spend money with IT vendors that waste water or energy, or that have large carbon footprints. After all, she says, as vice president of IT for environmental services firm PSC, it would be hypocritical to not hold vendors to high standards.

Boston Scientific wants to tear down barriers that prevent product developers from accessing the research that went into its successful medical devices so that they can create new products faster. But making data too easily accessible could open the way to theft of information potentially worth millions or billions of dollars. It's a classic corporate data privacy problem.

You see it. You want it. You buy it. That's what e-commerce sites are banking on this holiday shopping season.

Security analysts warned this week that another worm is hunting the Internet for Linux systems left unprotected against several well-publicised vulnerabilities, including one commonly found in Version 7.0 of Red Hat's Linux release.

People make a beeline for websites that offer free computers, but Paul Kirk couldn't give away 800 Pentium PCs late last year.

Microsoft is expected to make a splashy, tie-it-all-together electronic-commerce announcement this week, orchestrated to show big corporate users that its products can handle high-traffic Web sites.