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of tools the MyFi Satellite Radio Satellites, models, visit https://xmtradeseparate dictionary of the Network; Play a PC’s Networks, radio.metrononline.com. acronyms to read this Music on Your Stereo; and Audits handbook—it’s designed Display Digital Photos on The Delphi MyFi™ is the Most people think net- for home users, not net- TV; Play Video Games first portable handheld works are more esoteric work engineers. Basically, Across the Network; Net- XM2Go satellite radio. than the machines they the book is divided into work Your TiVo; and Set Connected to XM’s Ulti- link up. But now that you two parts. First is “Plan- up Remote Access.” mate Playlist, the personal ning, Buying, and Setting Sounds a little overwhelm- radio has access to more up the Network, where ing, but the instructions than 130 digital channels. you learn about compo- are step by step. You can You can listen live to nents and networking preview a sample of the broadcasts or use the software: Choose Between book (Chapter 15) to get a “time-shifting memory” Wired, Wireless, or sense of its readability at mode. You can store up to Hybrid; Set up an Ether- www.oreilly.com/catalog/ five hours of XM’s content net Network; and Set up homenettmm/chapter/ by setting a button—it and Secure a Power Line index.html. works even when the unit Network. Then there’s isn’t turned on. The six- Putting the Network to Linksys, a division of line illuminated LCD dis- have computers scattered Work: Name PCs and Peo- Cisco Systems, Inc., play will show the channel around the house, it might ple on Your Network; Des- has put together an presets (up to 30 of these) be a good time to investi- ignate What You Want to entire line of prod- as well as run a stock or gate getting them to talk Share with Others; Create ucts for home and sports score ticker. The to each other, especially if and Manage Accounts; small office net- built-in XM antenna lets you want all of them Use Macs and PCs on the works with an you use the radio at home, online and haven’t bought Network; Create User emphasis on simple work, in the car, or on the a printer for each one. So Accounts and Groups; installation and go. The integrated battery where do you start? Well, Print Across is rechargeable, and the there’s a variety of all-in- MyFi includes home and one kits, but this is proba- vehicle accessory kits. bly one project for which There’s a built-in wireless you do need the manual. FM transmitter that will Luckily, O’Reilly has just make any FM radio an released its Home Net- XM Radio. For informa- working: The Missing The Wireless-G tion on the two MyFi Manual. You won’t need a Network Kit for Notebooks 54 STRATEGIC FINANCE I September 2005 Tech Forum Entering Stage Three N Michael Castelluccio, Editor I A FEW YEARS AGO AT A TECHNOLOGY EXPO in New York, business sector. There the rewards were especially gener- Linus Torvalds was asked what he thought was next for ous, and good programmers were protected assets worth computing. At the time, Torvalds’s Linux operating system their weight in gold (or stock options). Through the boom was really beginning to take off, and many expected the years, the photos of CEOs in the business magazines answer to be about the Open Source software movement. began to look more like college yearbook pages than Instead, the young Finn described what he saw as the Forbes or Time. After the bubble burst, universities found three stages of computer evolution. Stage one was all it increasingly difficult to recruit future programmers. The about operating systems, management of memory, hard- bloom was definitely off the code. ware drivers, file systems, and interfaces—the nuts and Stage three, Linus explained, would involve a shift over bolts, motherboards, and monitors. from the business and other practical apps to entertain- Stage two shifted over to the applications developed for ment. Computers would develop the capacity to deliver computers—software that evolved into complicated lists digital music, movies, photography, and the Internet. With of instructions, millions of lines of code, offering solutions the advantage of hindsight, we could add communication for all those using the hardware—especially those in the in the form of speech and instant continued on next page security. The packages are website, www.linksys.com. Integration of Audit Soft- for wireless, wired, and While there, visit the ware and Audit Software combination networks. Learning Center. Industry Trends. The The Wireless-G Network second part, Software Kit for Notebooks is an The 2005 Buyer’s Guide to Categories, includes Risk all-in-one, high-speed Audit, Anti-Fraud, and Management, Continuous Internet-sharing solution. Assurance Software by Controls Monitoring, It includes an Internet- Dean Brooks, Mort Gold- Data Analysis, Work sharing Wireless-G Router man, and Richard Lanza Collaboration & Manage- and a Wireless-G Adapter will help auditors in five ment, and Employee that plugs into your lap- key ways. The book looks Assessment Tools. Part top. The router lets you at the audit software mar- three is Implementation share a DSL or cable ket as a whole, analyzing & Best Practices, and it modem Internet connec- more than 100 vendors. It includes Best Practices by auditors, fraud examiners, tion with all of your sets realistic priorities Software Category, Best risk managers, process computers—wired and concerning what you need Overall Practices, Vendor managers, executive wireless. You can add and when to buy it along Selection Criteria, and financial management, IT wireless connections with with training and the Benefits of each Software managers, and software wireless adapters for number of licenses to Category. The Vendor vendors. More than half either desktops or laptops. purchase. It saves you the Section is last, with 100 the products listed were Security is provided by time you would have to full-page vendor profiles first released no earlier 256-bit encryption, and invest in evaluating ven- arranged alphabetically. than January 2002. Open the setup is accomplished dors and products, and it The products are divided Source programs that are by following wizards that helps in planning long- into five general cate- able to compete with lead you step by step. You term strategies. The book gories and 24 subcate- commercial software are can download a PDF of is divided into four sec- gories. The Guide is also included. Go to the entire Linksys line of tions. First there’s an designed specifically for www.auditsoftware.net home products at the Overview that includes internal and external for more information. September 2005 I STRATEGIC FINANCE 55 continued from p. 55 The Nokia 770 messaging to that list. At the time of Internet Tablet (left) Torvalds’s colloquium, stage three and PalmOne’s had only appeared as small eleva- LifeDrive Mobile tions out on the horizon. Manager (below) Are We There Yet? There are indications everywhere that we have arrived at Linus Torvalds’s entertainment era for computing. It And they would synchronize with your was the iPod that recently reversed PC to provide a backup similar to the fortunes of one of computing’s what your IT department managed on giants, Apple, not a new laptop or tapes for the network at your office. Unix-based operating system. The Fast forward to today, and it’s appar- number of companies providing busi- ent we’ve emerged from the dull green ness and financial software shrinks cocoon into a colorful play world. The monthly, and Microsoft is struggling PDA multitasks as an MP3 player, mightily to take over a piece of the camera, photo album, movie player, television world. DVD sales and game console, e-book reader, Internet Sure, it can be used as an auxil- rentals are closing theaters, and digi- module, and contacts manager, calen- iary hard drive hooked up to your PC tal cameras have brought many of dar, notepad, task organizer, calculator, via a USB port, but it will also down- the standby Kodak film types to the PowerPoint player, Excel reader, Word load a card’s worth of digital photos edge of extinction. processor, and so on. Memory has from your camera—to view, edit, and For a convenient snapshot of the been increased, built-in card readers then send on or keep in albums. shifting course of computing, we expand storage, and the processors According to Palm, “The LifeDrive could look at what’s happened to the are very impressive. mobile manager lets you easily carry PDA over its life span. The two photos above show the all the essentials of your busy life”— At birth, the personal digital assis- latest PDA from PalmOne and a essentials that go well beyond docs tant could manage a contacts list, a Nokia Internet “tablet.” If you’re and e-mail. calendar, a calculator, and a memo thinking laptop tablet, the Nokia is The Nokia 770 Internet Tablet will pad. The screen was a green LCD, actually much smaller. It measures be released soon in a number of and the input was by stylus with a 3" 5.5". The name of the Palm countries. It is capable of three print style called Graffiti. Apple’s device is revealing: It’s called the hours’ browsing time on a charge, Newton was eclipsed by Palm’s hand- LifeDrive Mobile Manager. and connection can be broadband helds and the Handspring version, So what can a LifeDrive computer over WiFi, or Bluetooth, or wired up.