eWEEK EDITORS

SUNNYVALE, Calif.— Internet giant Yahoo Inc. is unveiling a new search site that promises to provide a more precise guide to neighborhood businesses, making the latest in a series of attempts to improve the World Wide Webs focus on local information. Sunnyvale-based Yahoo is touting the site, http://local.yahoo.com, as a major leap ahead in an […]

NEW YORK (AP)— Popular community Web site craigslist has begun to charge a $25 fee to post employment advertisements on its New York and Los Angeles sites to cover the costs of its planned expansion. The New York area accounts for about 30,000 of the more than 100,000 total new job listings the Web site […]

ATLANTA— Cox Enterprises Inc. announced a $7.9 billion proposal Monday to buy all outstanding publicly held shares of Cox Communications Inc. in a bid to take the cable-television provider fully private. Atlanta-based Cox Communications is the nations fourth-largest cable company with about 6.3 million customers. The proposed move would make Cox Communications a subsidiary of […]

Microsoft Research is ponying up $1 million in the form of a request for proposal (RFP) for the development of academic curricula focusing on Microsofts Trustworthy Computing security initiatives. Microsoft Research (MSR) also is issuing an RFP for the development of Tablet PC-related curricula. And it is launching what its calling the “Phoenix Academic Program,” […]

Siebel continues to dominate a CRM market that is expected to grow steadily toward the $11.4 billion revenue mark by 2008, according to a report by IDC. New statistics from IDC project that the worldwide CRM-applications market will reach $11.4 billion in revenues by 2008, experiencing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 8.9 percent […]

Fujitsu Ltd. and TDK Corp. last week announced an agreement in the magnetic hard disk drive head business that would combine the Philippines drive assembly operations of both companies. The joint venture to build hard disk drive heads calls for TDK to take a 66 percent stake and Fujitsu the remaining 34 percent. Both companies […]

Venture capital investment in data-storage startups for the first two quarters of 2004 totaled $225.8 million, according to a report from Ernst & Young and VentureOne. Investment for all of 2003 was $223.75 million. VCs spent $691 million on information technology equipment in the first half of 2004. Read the full story at Byte and […]

Addonics Technologies Inc. last week announced a portable DVD±R/RW burner that can backup data from 10 different flash memory cards onto DVD or CD discs. The device can also playback images and DVDs to a TV. The 1.5 pound device will sell for $319.99. Read the full story at EMediaLive.com

The latest version of PeopleSofts supplier-relationship management tools is, in the words of one user, “damn good”; customers say the software provides access via a Web browser and is generally easier to use because it requires fewer clicks to place an order. But never mind that: The sword hanging over PeopleSofts head is an unwanted […]

When it rumbled into the health-care information technology market four years ago, Siemens Medical Solutions promised to redefine the way hospitals create and use information. But the diagnosis of the German giants efforts so far has been mixed. The companys Soarian medical information system does everything from storing electronic patient records to processing bills. The […]

Microsoft acknowledged earlier this week that it wont ship its new 64-bit Windows server versions until mid-2005. But that doesnt mean Microsoft is content to leave the 64-bit market to Solaris and Unix customers, according to officials with the Redmond, Wash., software vendor. Microsoft is putting the finishing touches on what its calling the “x64 […]

The U.S. Senate this week voted to delay by one year the looming Oct. 26 deadline for Visa Waiver Program (VWP) countries to begin issuing machine-readable passports. The House of Representatives has already approved a one-year extension. According to the U.S. Department of State, neither the United States nor any of the larger VWP countries, […]