Anne Chen

For most it buyers and vendors, making sense of the various 2003 IT spending reports has been about as easy as reading tea leaves. Depending on which research company you ask, IT spending budgets for next year are everywhere from modestly positive to downright flat or even gloomy. As a result, it can be tricky […]

How does a 20-person online gaming company deliver without going broke when giant Fortune 500 clients ask for customized training tools that integrate seamlessly with the clients CRM and other enterprise applications? For Kevin Rivard and James Clarke, chief technology officer and chief operating officer, respectively, at Los Angeles-based YaYa LLC, the answer was to […]

As CIOs prepare their 2003 budgets for review by their CEOs this month, it seems that theyre all running into the same conundrum: Should a company invest in technology and innovation during belt-tightening times in preparation for an elusive economic recovery? After all, the bad news just seems to keep on coming. As corporation after […]

This past week, Ive gotten so much reader mail responding to a special report on spam that eWeek Labs published last week that its become obvious Im not the only one inundated by bogus medical offers and promises of lower mortgage rates. The message from these readers was certainly loud and clear: Enterprises are drowning […]

How to Slam Spam Are you sick and tired of the daily ritual of wading through and deleting dozens of unsolicited e-mail messages offering the usual assortment of bogus medical cures and doubtful financial schemes? Well, youve got nothing on Max Levchin, chief technology officer at PayPal Inc. Not only has Levchins e-mail account accumulated […]

Get spammers back by charging them for unsolicited, commercial mail! Too good to be true? Well, this isnt one of those crazy, get-rich-quick schemes that show up daily in your in-box. Banking on the fact that few enterprises sending commercial mail want to be associated with spam, IronPort Systems Inc., in San Bruno, Calif., has […]

If only passing effective anti-spam laws were as easy as slashing your mortgage or losing weight by responding to unsolicited e-mail. But apparently, its not. Although legislators and regulators continue to work hard at passing and enforcing laws banning unsolicited or fraudulent commercial e-mail, experts say their efforts may be too little, too late. Even […]

Its not often Bill Gates applauds an application that users say works better than one of his companys programs. But last month, the chairman and chief software architect of Microsoft gave the nod to DateLens, a scalable calendar user interface that runs on devices including the Pocket PC, Tablet PC and Windows desktops. Created by […]

There isnt a day that goes by when Im not cursing Cingular Wireless—my mobile phone provider—for the dropped calls, lack of service and undecipherable monthly bills. So lets just say it was with a degree of hope and a healthy dash of skepticism that I attended the rollout of Sprints nationwide 3G network yesterday. Beginning […]

In this period of shrinking IT budgets and slow enterprise software upgrade cycles, Oracle Corp. could use more customers like Rick Fletcher, director of database technology at automobile research site Edmunds.com Inc., in Santa Monica, Calif. Just three weeks after Oracle began shipping Release 2 of Oracle9i last month, Fletcher was using the new database […]

As third-party developers and vendors of handheld devices beef up encryption and password management technologies, Palm OS, Pocket PC and other handhelds are becoming more secure. But, experts say, IT managers should not rely on the availability of improved software alone to secure handheld devices. To be sure, users should be required to install anti-virus […]

REDMOND, WASH.—Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates today responded to critics who call his companys .NET initiative incomplete and lacking innovation by acknowledging that it will take at least four or five years before the promise of .Net is realized. “.Net is not an overnight thing,” Gates told 325 university faculty members as […]