eWEEK EDITORS

Microsoft Corp. didnt waste any time in trying to win over ERP customers who might be unhappy with Oracle Corp.s recent purchase of PeopleSoft Inc. On the heels of the announcement of the Oracle-PeopleSoft merger, Microsoft attempted to swoop in. On Dec. 15, the head of Microsofts sales and marketing for North America, Corporate Vice […]

Sprint and Nextel announced their intention to merge today, forming a network embracing 35.4 million subscribers and reducing Americans national mobile network options to four: Cingular, Verizon, Sprint Nextel (“Sprextel”) and T-Mobile. After completing the merger in late 2005, the two companies would spin off Sprints local phone service to become all mobile, all the […]

Our top vulnerability this week is a worm that performs a grab bag of techniques to infect computers. Find out how it does what it does in our Top Vulnerability section. Its a low-key week for threats, so this week were giving you a list of the 12 Most Common Hoaxes as identified by Panda […]

The ZigBee Alliance said Tuesday that it has ratified the specification, paving the way for sensor companies to start making low-power networks a reality. In November, the Alliance promised that the specification would be ratified by the end of the year. Given the number of ZigBee-ready products announced in 2004, the Alliance anticipates seeing ZigBee-compliant […]

At many large IT organizations in the public and private sectors, senior development and system staff members will be retiring in large numbers over the next three to five years. Unless we plan now, IT operations will be at risk. Shrinking IT budgets over the past several years have left many departments running lean on […]

The recent increase in the annual quota for H-1B visas has churned up familiar passions once again. Last month, Congress approved legislation increasing the limit on H-1B visas from 65,000 to 85,000, but that 20,000 increment must consist of foreign nationals who have graduated from U.S. universities with advanced degrees. The measure was, no doubt, […]

Atlanta City Hall unwires this month. Public areas of the citys Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport will go wireless by March. Apartments, hotels, office buildings, and convention centers will also unplug. /zimages/3/28571.gifLooking for a Wi-Fi hot-spot? Click here to use eWEEK.coms Hot-Spot Finder The citys ambitious plan, known as FastPass, will operate as a public-private partnership that […]

Microsoft quietly delivered a first private beta release of Windows Server “R2” to the first of about 1,000 testers Wednesday, company officials confirmed Friday. Meanwhile, Microsoft is soliciting a wider pool of beta testers for a second R2 beta, which it is planning to deliver in the second quarter of 2005, said Bob Muglia, senior […]

Microsoft Corp. is readying a Tablet PC game software development kit and a new Tablet-PC-specific game, both meant to attract new developers and users for Tablet PCs. The Redmond, Wash., software maker is co-developing both the SDK and the new game, called Arcs of Fire, in conjunction with software partner 3 Leaf Development. 3 Leaf […]

A recent poll conducted by Unstrung.com shows that the hotspot market may have topped out and could be in serious trouble if efforts are not made to reduce tariffs and expand 802.11 coverage areas. Twenty eight percent of respondents to the November poll, 802.11 Hotspots: A Burst Bubble?, said they believe hotspot services have limited […]

Californias Health and Human Services Agency will spend $691,000 to notify some 1.4 million people that their personal information may have been stolen in an August attack on a computer belonging to the University of California-Berkeley. Shirley Washington, a spokeswoman for the agency, said the mailing effort—set to begin this week—was necessitated by the ineffectiveness […]

Joel Short, co-founder, senior vice president and chief Technology officer of Nomadix, died November 21 in Los Angeles. He was 34. Short founded Nomadix with Dr. Len Kleinrock in 1998. The company manufactures gateways and provides solutions to the Wi-Fi public access market. Short served as vice-chair of the Wi-Fi Alliances Wireless ISP Roaming (WISPr) […]