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Editor's List: What's Hot and Not in 2004?: Page 3 of 3

NWC editors offer their thoughts on what technologies, people and companies they think will be both "hot" and "not" commodities in 2004.
January 10, 2004
  • Hot: diversification
  • Not: monopolies

Steven J. Schuchart Jr., Associate Technology Editor

  • Hot: Information Lifecycle Management--But does it sort my laundry too?
  • Not: HSM rebranded as Information Lifecycle Management--Stop with the
    marketing speak and give customers what they want, not what you have.

Dave Molta, Senior Technology Editor

  • Hot: Smartphones with integrated voice and data capabilities. You'll pay
    handsomely for this new techno-status symbol, and you will again in a
    year or so when it is embarrisingly obsolete.
  • Not: Enterprise adoption of 802.11a. Are we doomed to cram an insatiable
    appetite for bandwidth into slow-speed legacy 802.11b WLANs?

Bradley F. Shimmin, Director of Internet Operations

  • Hot: The mobile Photo/PDA/PC/GPS/Leatherman/LEDflashlight/phone phone -- But where's the RFID disabling EMP burst mode?
  • Not: Technolitigation -- "Dear Darl, Enough already!"

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