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Diagnosing health care IT A few weeks ago I stirred up a heap of contention with my column “RIP, electronic medical records?” about the battle at Kaiser Permanente over its pioneering health care digitization megaproject. The comments posted on the column by readers were like an instant replay of the finger pointing and armchair quarterbacking that’s apparently been going on inside that organization -- an interesting skirmish that showed the passion flaring on all sides of this issue. RIP, electronic medical records? And so the story of the largest, most visible attempt to digitize health care delivery in the U.S. has finally been told on page one of the Wall Street Journal. And it ain’t pretty.  April 26, 3:00 a.m. PDT What the enterprise can learn from consumer technologies Today’s corporate end-users are far more tech-savvy than their productivity with IT tools indicates. After all, screen-deep in IMs, widgets, and elaborate consumer Web apps, they’re proving themselves well-versed in the production and distribution of content as facilitated by the consumer Web 2.0 craze. April 9, 3:00 a.m. PDT Exclusive: Coral8 presents a sea of CEP opportunity As event-driven architectures continue to proliferate in the business landscape, a company’s agility and ability to drive big wins are becoming increasingly burdened by indecipherable data and unrecognized signals. That’s where CEP (complex event processing) comes in. CEP solutions continuously troll your real-time data streams in search of defined event patterns, then fire off alerts to your enterprise systems to automate a follow-on process or corrective action. April 2, 3:00 a.m. PDT Kill trees, roll tape Early advocates of a pervasive online culture cast the stereotype of mainstream media outlets as closed-minded, slow, dictatorial, William Randolph Hearst-style machines bent on shutting out differing viewpoints and smaller voices. More sober minds saw traditional media less as an enemy of free expression than a horse and buggy. However, advancing technology is only an enabler of societal evolution. By itself, technology does not spawn evolution on a societal level. That requires need and availability. January 24, 3:00 a.m. PST Office SharePoint: The best reason to upgrade? Far more flexible and powerful than the InfoWorld Test Center anticipated when we first took it into the lab, MOSS (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server) 2007 oozes customization. With that name, you may be thinking basic Office extensions — some networked content, update control, and more advanced file sharing. Not so. January 22, 3:00 a.m. PST Germany wants EU police to share personal data European Union justice ministers are meeting this week in Dresden, Germany, to discuss a package of measures that could give police and other security forces in the region unprecedented access to a range of individuals' personal data. January 16, 7:53 a.m. PST Putting data to work for the bottom line Quick. When was the last time you remember being pleasantly surprised by how effectively a company used data about you to improve your customer experience? We all remember back in the ’90s the wow of going to an ATM and seeing our actual name on the screen for the first time. We all remember the first time we experienced collaborative filtering from an e-commerce site — “if you liked this, you may also like … .” October 27, 3:00 a.m. PDT IT by the book Can something that’s been kicking around for more than 15 years qualify as an overnight success? It certainly feels that way with ITIL, a collection of nine books that lays out a blueprint for IT service management. In the United States, at least, ITIL has recently catapulted itself from a respected, if somewhat obscure, treatise for governance geeks to a mainstream discipline. October 23, 3:00 a.m. PDT Researchers look to semantic Web to drive Internet Hundreds of researchers and computer scientists are plotting the Internet's next course in Edinburgh, Scotland, this week, pouring over research papers and discussing ideas that include how to organize the Internet's growing mass of data. May 24, 8:40 a.m. PDT IBM talks up master data management in WebSphere IBM came out with a new version of its WebSphere Product Center middleware Wednesday, emphasizing its enhanced master data management capabilities. May 3, 2:37 p.m. PDT Accessing the web of databases I've just posted the fourth installment in my new series of Friday podcasts. It’s an interview with Kingsley Idehen, CEO of OpenLink Software. OpenLink’s flagship product is a universal database and application server, Virtuoso, which I last wrote about in 2003. May 3, 3:00 a.m. PDT Sleazy software company plays the extortion game Sometimes you bring disaster on yourself. Other times, the horror comes out of nowhere, and by the time you realize you’re in trouble, there’s nothing you can do about it. My year of the living dead began midmorning on Dec. 7, 2003, a day that will certainly live in infamy in my small company. That was the date we fell victim to a fraudulent patent infringement lawsuit. May 2, 3:00 a.m. PDT Set my data free Last weekend I helped a friend categorize her Schedule C expenses. All of her business income is in QuickBooks, but the expenses aren’t. I would have to reconstruct those from bank and credit card records. Although this friend has online accounts at both institutions, my Spidey sense was tingling: I knew there was going to be trouble. April 12, 3:00 a.m. PDT How to exit a doomed IT project I work for a large trucking company in Chicago. These days I’m head of information services. But many years ago, right after I was hired as one of the low-end IT guys, I was asked to take on a month-long, “quick-hit” project using Microsoft Access and Oracle to capture shipment data and analyze it. I named it CTA/PTA, for Cycle-Time Analysis and Post-Trip Analysis. April 11, 3:00 a.m. PDT Reinventing the intranet In an interview long ago, Marc Andreessen told me about the moment he knew Netscape’s business plan would succeed. That plan, as you may recall, was modeled on Gillette’s: give away razors (browsers and mail/news clients) and sell blades (enterprise servers). For Andreessen, the magical moment came when, shortly after the word “intranet” was coined, he heard it echoing all around him in a restaurant. April 5, 3:00 a.m. PDT Novell steers Linux to the virtualized datacenter At Novell’s annual gathering of the faithful in Salt Lake City, the company had plenty of news to share, including a new mobile server for GroupWise based on Nokia Intellisync, upgrades to Novell’s SSO (single sign-on) and storage management software, road map information for OES (Open Enterprise Server), and a partnership with Dell, which soon offer an edition of Zenworks Linux Management to server hardware customers running Red Hat or Suse. March 24, 3:00 a.m. PST Study: Computing and natural sciences to merge If scientists are to make progress understanding complex phenomena ranging from tracking avian flu to predicting climate change, computer science will need equal standing alongside the natural sciences such as biology, according to a new report released Wednesday. March 22, 4:37 a.m. PST Bring business analysis to streaming events It’s no secret to IT people, or any business executive worth his Beemer, that an amazing wealth of actionable business intelligence is coursing through enterprise applications, databases, and even system logs nearly every moment of every day. The problem has not only been plucking the meaningful events from the unimportant ones but also finding the often seemingly unrelated patterns between them, and doing so before it’s too late to make a difference -- before the supplier raises the price, the shopper leaves the Web site, or the scammer transfers the funds. March 9, 3:00 a.m. PST Microsoft receives 5,000th patent Microsoft has been granted its 5,000th patent in the U.S., the company said Tuesday. The new patent covers technologies that allow users to tune into Xbox 360 games like they would watch a sporting event, it said. March 7, 4:33 a.m. PST Filling the void left by baby-boomer techies The big exodus is getting closer and closer. The baby boomers are about to retire in droves. Every day 10,000 baby boomers turn 50. In the next 10 years, 43 percent of the workforce will be eligible for retirement, while the next two generations are about 15 percent smaller. February 28, 3:00 a.m. PST IT's input on outsourcing Few words strike fear into the hearts of IT pros like "outsourcing" and its closely related foreign cousin, "offshoring." For many, the "O" words are simply euphemisms for layoffs, an all-too-common occurrence. Worse, the corporate appetite for outsourcing continues to grow. February 27, 3:00 a.m. PST Can Google gain a foothold in the enterprise? Google's got its eyes on your corporate data, and if its ability to parlay its whip-smart Web search technology into a vast empire of consumer services is any indication, you may be Googling enterprise apps and data sooner than you think. February 17, 4:15 p.m. PST PartnerWorld: IBM to unveil Tivoli Express mid-March IBM Corp.'s Tivoli Software unit will unveil its Express family of systems management products aimed at small and midsize businesses (SMBs) in mid-March. February 17, 1:46 p.m. PST China sets national R&D goals for next 15 years China's State Council, the country's top bureaucratic body, has published medium- and long-term research and development (R&D) goals intended to turn the country into a technology powerhouse by 2020, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Thursday. February 9, 4:48 a.m. PST Subpoena of search engine records irks users The news that major search engine operators Yahoo Inc., Microsoft Corp.'s MSN division and America Online Inc. complied with a U.S. government subpoena that Google Inc. is resisting has prompted strong reactions from Internet users on both sides of the issue. January 20, 2:10 p.m. PST Family-friendly enterprise calendaring When Ray Ozzie posted an announcement to his Weblog about Microsoft’s proposed SSE (Simple Share Extensions) for RSS and OPML (Outline Processor Markup Language), I was delighted. On the technical front, it’s great to see the synchronization DNA of Groove and Lotus Notes finding its way, at last, onto the Web. But on the social front, it was a milestone, too. January 18, 3:00 a.m. PST Wikipedia, competition, and the future By the time you read this column, Wikipedia will be celebrating its fifth anniversary. It’s been a wilder ride than anybody could have imagined, and it’s gotten even more so lately. In a widely cited incident, John Seigenthaler, Sr., a prominent journalist, publisher, and political figure, reacted with justifiable horror when he learned that his bio entry in Wikipedia falsely implicated him in the assassination of Robert Kennedy. January 4, 3:00 a.m. PST Wanted: Methods for moving mountains of content See correction below January 2, 3:00 a.m. PST Document management systems go to court Two proposed amendments to the federal Rules of Civil Procedure, if passed by Congress, will have a major impact on corporations and their IT departments. One expert I spoke with called the situation a legal Chernobyl. December 27, 3:00 a.m. PST Why data synchronization still matters The physics of data management used to dictate that your data could be either consistent or highly available but never both at the same time. The discipline of data synchronization sits uncomfortably on the horns of this Heisenbergian dilemma. As times change, though, so do the trade-offs associated with synchronization and its uses. November 30, 3:00 a.m. PST The two-way data web Two years ago, I gave the keynote address on the opening day of XML 2003. The next day, Adam Bosworth delivered a weirdly complementary keynote, in which he began to lay out an idea he’s been developing ever since, first at BEA and now at Google. The idea, in a nutshell, is that the truly scalable databases of the future will be more like the Web than like Oracle, DB2, or SQL Server. November 23, 3:00 a.m. PST Beyond office document formats Let’s cut to the chase in the Massachusetts/Microsoft brouhaha over office document formats. One possible outcome: Microsoft Office gains support for the OASIS OpenDocument format, either from Microsoft or from the open source community. Another outcome: Microsoft tweaks its Office XML licensing to conform to the definition of openness that governments are rightly insisting on. November 9, 3:00 a.m. PST Re-engineering life interruptions As Web services automate the work performed by millions of workers, where will these folks go next? Not to worry. People are the exception handlers in all automated workflows, and intelligence and judgment won’t be automated anytime soon. What does worry me, though, is how we’ll connect people and services. Managing that scarcest of resources, our attention, is a huge challenge. October 26, 3:00 a.m. PDT Managing metadata When we talk and write about IT issues, we use certain words to mean many different things: "Platform," "architecture," and "integration" are among the worst offenders. But the most overloaded term in the IT lexicon may well be "metadata." October 20, 3:00 a.m. PDT The importance of interaction data The twin themes of this year's Accelerating Change conference were AI (artificial intelligence) and IA (intelligence amplification). On the AI track, people talked about making systems smarter. On the IA track, people talked about harnessing collective human intelligence. The tension between the two groups struck some sparks. October 12, 3:00 a.m. PDT Is PLM software IT's new darling? The Economist’s quarterly technology issue just came out, and i started flipping through it with the disdain I usually reserve for the dumbed-down technology primers you typically find in an American news magazine. Those Brits, however, do a good deep dive. There’s nothing like seeing this slightly stuffy, slightly hip mag get down and dirty with topics like mash-up Web sites, traffic jam analysis, online-tagging trends, and the search-vs.-folders debate. September 30, 4:00 a.m. PDT Dirty words, take II My column "IT's Seven Dirty Words" -- a subjective list of terms that shouldn't be repeated in polite IT company -- generated piles of e-mail from readers who were quick to add a few choice words of their own. In the interest of sharing, let me reproduce a few of their suggestions. September 5, 4:00 a.m. PDT IBM's new search framework and the blogosphere You can find Irving Wladawsky-Berger’s fingerprints on most of IBM’s key initiatives: on-demand, open source, Linux, autonomic, and grid computing. So when he launched his blog in May, I became a charter subscriber. August 17, 5:00 a.m. PDT Farewell, CTO Connection If you haven’t checked out this week’s columns yet, let me be the one to break the bad news: Chad Dickerson is hanging up his InfoWorld CTO spurs and heading off to Yahoo, where he’ll be toiling away in the brave new world of search. August 8, 5:00 a.m. PDT Open source business intelligence Customers and ISVs face steep fees when licensing existing BI software, so it's only logical that work on BI within the open source community is heating up. First out of the gate was the Eclipse Foundation, which has made BI one of its seven top-level projects. The Foundation released Version 1.0 of its BIRT (Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools) in June, under its own, Open Source Initiative (OSI)-approved Eclipse License. August 8, 5:00 a.m. PDT What's really driving BPM Among the many great quotes in David Margulius’ BPM in the trenches is one from Mike Barnett, who describes the rise of BPM as “a near revolution of management against IT to get more control over the rules that control the enterprise.” June 27, 5:00 a.m. PDT Taking charge of the enterprise information lifecycle There’s a stage in the life of a new technology in which half the world thinks it’s a whole new paradigm and the other half thinks it’s all hype. Half says it will never happen whereas the other half says, “We’re doing it now.” And even the most improbable vendor claims to have strategies and products to support it. So it is with ILM (information life cycle management). June 6, 5:00 a.m. PDT Paving the information footpaths I’m sure there are dozens of versions of this story, but I heard it from Larry Wall, the father of Perl, and it goes like this: Instead of laying down sidewalks, the builders of a new university campus waited for footpaths to emerge on the lawns. Then they paved the footpaths. Larry designed Perl around this idea of structure emerging from use, but that was an unusual case. We typically lay down the sidewalks first, and when footpaths emerge we profess surprise or try to ignore them. May 4, 5:00 a.m. PDT What TimeDance got right Most of the meetings I schedule cross organizational borders and doing so is always a painful process. Everyone feels the same pain to one degree or another and has felt it for years. Ad-hoc collaboration across borders is at the core of the agile enterprise’s mission, but we still lack the tools to do it easily and effectively. April 27, 5:00 a.m. PDT Optimizing your enterprise through statistical analysis “Every company is trying to be more competitive with the same money and fewer people. The pressure is on. But what do you do when you run out of obvious things you can do with common sense? Turn to extras. This is high-tech stuff.” April 26, 5:00 a.m. PDT Has blogger backlash come too soon? It was bound to happen. Blogger backlash has set in. April 5, 5:00 a.m. PDT Software AG, Rivet Software collaborate on XBRL Software AG and Rivet Software have entered into a partnership to provide one of the industry's first software offerings for recording, storing and transmitting business and financial information based on the evolving XBRL (Extensible Business Reporting Language) standard, the companies announced Tuesday. March 29, 6:30 a.m. PST Enterprise collaboration with blogs and wikis This article has been modified from its original version. Certain quoted material has been removed because its veracity could not be confirmed. March 28, 6:00 a.m. PST Data-centric architectures Enterprises have always been concerned with data quality and integration. But the interest in improving data and content management is clearly on the rise, as companies are increasingly focusing on unifying their enterprisewide data and on designing architectures to maximize the usefulness and accessibility of that data. March 11, 3:00 p.m. PST EU ministers sign off on proposed patent law BRUSSELS -- The European Union (E.U.) has taken a step closer to agreeing on controversial new legislation that could make it easier for technology companies to patent their inventions in Europe. The development came as a blow to critics of the proposed law, who argue that it could drive small software developers out of the market. March 7, 7:39 a.m. PST Whatever happened to yesterday's hot technologies? Remember push technology? Or virtual reality for the Web? Or Microsoft Bob? Some ideas are probably better left consigned to history. And yet the roadside of the information superhighway is littered with ideas that sounded promising but never quite made it to revolution status before dropping off IT’s radar. February 25, 3:00 p.m. PST Putting Web analytics to the test What do enterprises ask of Web analytics packages? Here's a list of requirements vendors most often see in RFPs (requests for proposals). These specs formed, in part, the testing checklist for this roundup and can help you decide what's most important in your solution. February 18, 3:00 p.m. PST Let's hear it for screencasting Last January, when I first wrote about the medium that I’ve since come to call screencasting, it seemed an odd-enough topic that I felt obliged to justify it to my editor. February 11, 3:00 p.m. PST Open source documentation On Christmas day, after the potlatch subsided, I headed out for a run. When I flicked on my MP3 player, however, I heard ... nothing. Glancing down at the display of my Creative Nomad MuVo TX I saw an unwelcome message: "File system error." Grrr. January 7, 3:00 p.m. PST IT and business align around rules and patterns Aligning technology and business — what a concept. Everyone is talking about it, but to put things in perspective, I imagine the day after the wheel was invented the wife of the inventor got sick and tired of watching her husband roll it down the hill all day. She probably said, “Cyxny, honey, why don’t you make another one and put them on the cart?” November 12, 3:00 p.m. PST Join the CTO club In my years writing this column for CTOs, the positive e-mail I’ve received often boils down to a simple message: At last, someone out there understands what I’m going through professionally each day. Most CTOs don’t have others in their companies who can relate to the unique demands of their work. October 15, 3:00 p.m. PDT Why can’t Johnny compute? When I suggested in a recent column that a problematic 5 percent of employees account for 75 percent of the IT support burden, I expected a wave of “right on!” letters from IT support staffers. After the column was published, the letters did come — most of them disagreeing with my premise, with one reader suggesting that the real whiner was yours truly. I still think it’s outside the realm of overextended IT departments to provide training on basic computing skills (which I defined as “managing and finding files, and basic working knowledge of suites such as MS Office”). But my thinking was adjusted a bit by the thoughtful feedback. October 8, 3:00 p.m. PDT Sarbanes-Oxley will require a message-storage rethink The November 2004 compliance deadline for Section 404 of Sarbanes-Oxley is fast approaching. By that time, companies with valuations of $75 million or more must prove that their internal controls and audit trails are sound and that their processes are capable of producing certifiably correct data. June 11, 3:00 p.m. PDT Sun blogs show uncensored public face On the morning of April 15, as Sun Microsystems was preparing to announce its quarterly earnings and a major executive management shuffle, the company was hit with a denial of service (DOS) attack that came within four minutes of blocking it from posting the news to the Sun.com Web site on time. June 4, 6:15 p.m. PDT This year's heroes of IT In literature and film, heroes are hard to miss. They stride through nearly every scene of the summer potboiler Troy, for example. Real-life heroes are fewer in number and harder to spot. Yet their impact on history can be as profound as that of great warriors, as this week’s cover story shows. May 21, 3:00 p.m. PDT Exterminate IT management detritus With coming of daylight-saving time, spring cleaning has entered my thoughts, and I’ve begun thinking of ways to clear out the bits of IT management detritus that seeped into my work life during winter. I’m feeling like Capt. Willard in Apocalypse Now, except the mysterious winding river is my desk, and if I do find my own Kurtz somewhere underneath it all, his dying breaths in this case will likely be, “The clutter! The clutter!” I have decided that I need a strategy to terminate disorganization with extreme prejudice. If my strategy is to succeed, I must focus on leveraging emerging technologies to make IT management more efficient -- and on some mundane, practical matters, too. April 16, 3:00 p.m. PDT SiteScape updates collaboration offering SiteScape on Monday rolled out an updated version of its Web-based collaboration product dubbed Enterprise Forum 7.1. April 12, 6:00 a.m. PDT Capitalizing on communication Valdis Krebs is a pioneering social network analyst whose software product, InFlow, maps relationships in organizations and helps teams improve their effectiveness. Gerry Falkowski recently retired from IBM Consulting and now teaches at the University of Minnesota. Krebs and Falkowski have worked together for over a decade, using social network analysis to improve communication in enterprises. InfoWorld Test Center Lead Analyst Jon Udell spoke with them about their insights into enterprise social networking. March 26, 3:00 p.m. PST Windows XP update to block pop-ups by default Service Pack 2 for Windows XP, in addition to providing a host of security enhancements, will block pop-ups in Internet Explorer (IE) by default, Microsoft said Wednesday. March 17, 4:36 p.m. PST Content-aware searching When I'm deeply engrossed in R&D, as I have been lately, I can become obsessed. So take what I’m about to say with a grain of salt, but I really think I’m on to something — namely, content-aware search. January 30, 3:00 p.m. PST Blaze Advisor 5.1 shines for developers and business analysts For any large company struggling to maintain large, complex Java applications that involve thousands of business rules, Blaze Advisor 5.1 should prove exceptional. It is easy to learn and most business analysts will understand it without trouble. January 16, 3:00 p.m. PST 2003: The news in review The economy grabbed a lot of headlines in 2003, but competing for space in the IT arena were lawsuits, acquisitions, security issues, and technology upgrades. December 22, 6:00 a.m. PST Computers that mimic intelligence In the 1950s AI researchers figured that if a toddler can learn to speak and understand, it should take only about five years to teach a computer the same skills. Fifty years on, there’s been little progress, so I won’t even try to guess when, if ever, software will emulate or embody the linguistic talent at the core of human intelligence. Of course we don’t want rivals that can ace the Turing test. We want agents that can help us manage communication, organize tasks, analyze data, and perform transactions -- the very functions Apple famously imagined in its 1987 concept video, Knowledge Navigator. December 12, 3:00 p.m. PST Pros and cons of invisible IT With pieces running in the Harvard Business Review titled "IT Doesn't Matter" and all the talk about the commoditization of IT in the press, you would think that IT has gotten almost to the point of electricity -- just plug something into it, and it works. In some basic operational areas, IT has gotten substantially easier. July 25, 3:00 p.m. PDT IBM boosts portal IBM has released new WebSphere Portal collaboration features, based on technology from the company's Lotus software line. Demonstrated earlier this year at the company's Lotusphere conference, the new features will be included in future releases of WebSphere Portal, and are available now to licensed users as a free download. May 15, 10:53 a.m. PDT KnowledgeBase.net unearths corporate data treasures Effective, automated knowledge management has become hugely critical to enterprise survival. Without it, business call centers lose valuable productivity and customer satisfaction suffers. The face of the problem has grown in orders of magnitude as the sheer volume of digital information has exploded along with the variety of knowledge file formats, delivery channels, legacy systems, and IT platforms that must be supported. KnowledgeBase.net Enterprise Edition 3.0 goes a long way toward solving the chaos by providing a scalable solution for self-service customer support, help desk, document management, and project management applications, as well as contact center and FAQ management. March 14, 3:00 p.m. PST Technical trends bode well for KM A dozen years ago, former Lotus CEO Jim Manzi used to make extravagant claims for the ROI of Lotus Notes. It might as well be infinite, he would enthuse, because there was no way to quantify the productivity gains flowing from better use of the assets lodged between people's ears. March 14, 12:00 a.m. PST Knowledge managing Knowledge management has never been so clearly a superior investment as it is now in this permafrost economy. March 14, 12:00 a.m. PST Altio makes front-end integration smarter EAI has a reputation as a necessary evil for the costly task of integrating years of legacy applications and valuable data. As enterprises seek to expose these old resources via new technology, including Web services, the rift between functionality and the limitations imposed by current browser-based technologies is ever more obvious. February 21, 12:15 a.m. PST Empowering human capital Two months ago, IBM dropped the quiet bombshell that it would invest $1 billion over the next three years on research and development in services technology. At the time, this seemed like a drop in the bucket of IBM’s total planned $17 billion R&D spending over three years. But the announcement has generated heightened awareness among other services organizations of the importance of leveraging technology to reduce costs and improve service. And if IBM’s services technology R&D vision plays out, its cost could represent the company's best-ever investment of $1 billion. February 10, 2:00 p.m. PST RFID is about to explode To better understand the scope of RFID (radio frequency identification) technology, let's take a look at The Gillette Company, based in Boston , and one of its distribution centers. The Chicago-based center is a 532,000-square-foot site with a 50,000 pallet capacity and approximately $60 million of inventory at any one time. January 31, 3:00 p.m. PST Pro- or convergence? Convergence means many things to different people. Is IT headed toward a Nirvana where IT staff never have to configure another desktop or printer? Will digital identity provide a foundation for companies to securely manage their intellectual property? Or is this all a bunch of hooey that marketing and public relations people spew forth to keep their jobs? Test Center Technical Director Tom Yager and Senior Analyst P.J. Connolly share their thoughts on the convergence phenomenon. January 31, 3:00 p.m. PST See SPOT run At the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) earlier this month, Microsoft introduced SPOT (Smart Personal Object Technology). SPOT uses FM subcarrier technology for what Microsoft calls a one-way Direct Band Network, which will create “smart objects.” Onstage, Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates displayed a variety of watches that can do everything from setting themselves to receiving weather alerts, stock prices, and calendar updates. January 24, 12:00 a.m. PST > Business > Data management |
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