eWEEK EDITORS

Microsoft Corp. this week officially started the process of driving interest in its next-version Windows client operating system, code-named Longhorn. The Redmond, Wash., software titan turned its attention to the developer community in the hopes that they will start building a wealth of new applications to run above the operating system. Craig Mundie, Microsofts chief […]

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) announced Tuesday that more than 1 million units were shipped per week worldwide during the third quarter. According to the SIG, Bluetooth is becoming increasingly popular in mobile phones, PDAs and other consumer electronics. The organization expects the rate of adoption to increase, as auto makers get into the […]

ORLANDO—Storage administrators will soon become “the owner of knowledge” within their enterprises, EMC Corp.s Mark Lewis, executive vice president of open software operations, said Tuesday here at the Storage Networking World show. Storage vendors are moving the spotlight towards information life-cycle management this week. In addition to EMC, Hitachi Data Systems also made annoucements on […]

Instant messaging is no longer a quick way to communicate memos, ideas or questions in the business world—its now a way to receive real-time information that you customize for your use. For example, the Wall Street Journal made news summaries and stock quotes available to millions of instant-messaging users. You can use IM to send […]

For any organization, updating or implementing an enterprise application is a daunting task. Donna Karan International Inc.s Carol Knouse is facing that challenge and more as the company seeks to update many of its legacy systems and integrate new technology. This is all part of a quest for faster time to market, a companywide mandate […]

Hewlett-Packard learned many important lessons from its integration of Compaq, including the need to be able to adapt rapidly to change, said CEO Carly Fiorina. “The company that thinks its done, is done. Darwin said its not the most intelligent or strongest that survive, but those that adapt the most readily to change,” Fiorina said […]

Knownow is using its publish-and-subscribe technology to enable delivery of real-time information and chat sessions to users of mobile Pocket PC devices. LivePDA, which the company will make available this week, provides an event routing platform and APIs that a developer can use to extend business applications to mobile users. The software delivers updated data […]

While some would have us believe that computer hardware at its core is no more than a race to commoditization—best exemplified by the prevalence of industry-standard, high-volume microprocessors—a visit to the recent Microprocessor Forum in San Jose, Calif., offered abundant proof otherwise. The maker of the largest family of industry-standard microprocessors, Intel, chose not to […]

Propelled by its controversial SiteFinder service, VeriSign recorded the largest gain in visitors to its Web sites last month. The number of unique visitors to VeriSigns sites, led primarily by its SiteFinder site, which appears when users mistype a Web address or enter a nonexistent one, jumped 540 percent last month compared with August, according […]

When Scott Charney joined Microsoft Corp. as the chief security strategist in April 2002, Trustworthy Computing, Microsofts security initiative, was still in its infancy, and many skeptics were questioning the companys true commitment to security. Now, the plan is nearly 2 years old, and while Charney has made a host of changes, few of the […]

Microsoft last week announced it is giving its Most Valuable Professionals access to the more than 100 million aggregate lines of Windows source code., which includes all versions, service packs and betas of the Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 products. MVPs, who are chosen for having a “unique set of expertise and […]

Storage switch makers, standards bodies and others are busy trying to solve the problems associated with managing wide-area storage networks. For large enterprises, moving stored data across borders and oceans is a major challenge, especially for time-sensitive applications and utility computing, industry observers say. In response, switch leader Brocade Communications Systems Inc. is planning to […]