Stories about: Kodak

If you've been frustrated by pokey performance, misformatted file names, or other anomalies when you try to play a CD packed with MP3s on a supposedly compatible DVD player, the vendors feel your pain--and they're beginning to craft a solution.

The Boeing Co. is changing the way it buys software and is making a product's usability -- the ease with which end users can be trained on and operate the product -- a fundamental purchasing criterion. It's a move the aerospace giant sees as an essential means of controlling IT costs.