eWEEK EDITORS

The kind of person who sees code in his or her dreams has little choice but to follow the computer science path, but may get only a stressful, mediocre, insecure way of life out of it (Stan Gibsons Outsourcing & Services, “The India Bubble: Govt Has Role to Play in Outsourcing Issue.”) If large corporations […]

Although I agree with your conclusions concerning vendors responsibility to reveal security flaws in their products, contract extensions are both unlikely and would complicate vendor/client relationships (Editorial, “The Right to Know,” Aug. 15). Such terms would have to be painstakingly detailed, delaying sales and deployments alike. I fear the ultimate solution will be litigation, specifically […]

Virtual Earth Puts A New Spin On Maps Beta 1.0 of Virtual Earths namesake service has been released to the public. (You can check it out at virtualearth.msn.com.) This direct competitor to Google Earth claims to offer the ability to turn PCs into “location-determining devices” via Wi-Fi access points and/or reverse IP. There are limitations […]

eWEEK Labs tests of Beta 1 show that Microsoft is going in the right direction with Windows Vista, but there are several things that arent in the beta–and arent necessarily planned for the release version–that would make enterprise IT managers lives a lot easier and their organizations a lot safer. Michael Caton Given the security […]

They dont call it the “bleeding edge” for nothing. Developers who have been working with the growing number of Community Technology Preview (CTP) builds of various Microsoft products are finding out the hard way what being an early adopter means. Testers (and Microsoft employees themselves) have run into difficulties when attempting to keep track of […]

Advanced Micro Devices on Tuesday announced the Mobile AMD Athlon 4000+ CPU, which will be designed into the new AMILO A1667G notebook from Fujitsu-Siemens, shipping in September to European customers. The Mobile AMD Athlon 64 processor 4000+ is priced at $382 in 1,000-unit quantities, and is available worldwide, the company said. “Since 2003, AMD has […]

Microsoft is set to release an early build of a key enabler of its promised push e-mail solution by the end of this week. On Aug. 19, Microsoft is set to post for download a first CTP (Community Technology Preview) build of Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack (SP) 2, according to a blog posting from […]

LaCie Beefs Up Mobile Hardware Security LaCies Safe Mobile Hard Drive, which shipped last month, blends sleek data portability with biometric protection. The diminutive, 8.11-ounce Safe Mobile Hard Drive can hold as much as 80GB of data, and it doesnt need external power to function, giving users one less AC adapter to drag around on […]

One of Microsofts stated goals for Windows Vista is enabling streamlined deployment. Microsoft Corp. wants corporations and consumers to be able to roll out Vista more quickly, reliably and cheaply than they have been able to do with previous versions of Windows. On the corporate side of the house, Microsoft is planning to release a […]

We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately. —Benjamin Franklin Last months mistaken execution of a London commuter by British security forces holds a management lesson worth learning for all kinds of organizations—from governmental to corporate to professional practices. The security personnel appear to have carried out their orders by the […]

I am in complete agreement that a spyware law must be passed (“We Need a Spyware Law,” June 20) and if there can be any positives in the recent high-profile identity theft cases, maybe it will spur Congress to act. We want our computers back! Victor Massey

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act was not intended to provide benefits to corporate bottom lines, but to provide benefits to stockholders and other users of financial reports (“Sarbanes-Oxley: In Search of Payback,” Aug. 8). SarbOx was created to limit the damage caused by the Public Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 which (as believed by many experts) […]