eWEEK EDITORS

Intellectual Property The Federal Communications Commission is considering proposals promoted by the entertainment industry that would help block Internet piracy of entertainment that is digitally transmitted. Due out later this month, the rule would revolve around the “broadcast flag” which would involve the use of computer code embedded in digital TV signals to be read […]

Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday will release Office System 2003, the upgrade to its Office XP suite of desktop productivity applications. Given that the Redmond, Wash., software titan is unlikely to release the next version of its Windows client, code-named Longhorn, for another three years, the pressure is on to drive sales of Office. Kurt DelBene, […]

Mobile Mobile phone operators say it is only a matter of time before the wireless world is hit by the same sorts of viruses and worms that attack computer software. Chris Bray, from IBM, said that while wireless technology is becoming more advanced, the number of potential threats is also increasing. “Theyre getting to a […]

Certance LLC will launch a virtual tape appliance for the small- and mid-sized business (SMB) market in early November, officials said Friday. Certance, formerly Seagate Removable Storage Solutions, will announce the product Monday with a list price of $1,499, said Mike Lakowicz, vice president of product strategy, in Costa Mesa, Calif. “Its a market thats […]

Microsoft announced a deal with Network Associates via which McAfees antivirus and personal-firewall services will be part of the MSN 9 (now called “MSN Premium”) broadband service. MSN Premium is in beta and due to ship “this winter,” which company watchers have interpreted as Q1 2004. In other MSN news, Microsoft is set to begin […]

On the heels of announcing its $1.7 billion acquisition of Documentum Inc. this week, storage giant EMC Corp. today reported $1.51 billion in revenue for the third quarter of 2003, with $159 million in profit. Read about EMCs plans to acquire Documentum. Revenue is up slightly from $1.48 billion last quarter and $1.26 billion a […]

Question from psaltz“Help. I have a Linksys BEFSR41 Router (updated to latest 1.45.7 firmware) – Wan is cable with fixed (not static but effectively so) address. PC on lan is Win XP pro – an incomming VPN connection is set up. I can connect to VPN from lan side (another Win pro PC) with no […]

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer made a lot of security promises at the companys partner conference last week. On Wednesday, Microsoft began making good on some of his commitments. On Wednesday – it usual security patch day — Microsoft rolled out the first of what it has said will be monthly security update announcements. Going forward, […]

Microsoft made it official on Wednesday that it is adding three more Windows Server editions to its product family. New members of the family include a Standard Edition of Windows Server 2003 for Intel Itanium Systems; a Standard Edition of Windows Server 2003 for 64-Bit Extended Systems (a k a for AMD 64-bit servers); and […]

This was one of the first notebooks to move to the 802.11g wireless standard. Though incompatible with our standard PC-based wireless tests, in informal testing its signal reached up to 140 feet, and its DVD playback lasted 2:22, which is enough for most movies. This system isnt really meant to be carted around daily. As […]

EMC Corp. will acquire Documentum Inc. for approximately $1.7 billion, officials announced Tuesday. After two years of buying startups, todays deal is EMCs second billion-dollar acknowledgement to users in three months that EMCs own software cant do it all. Its the biggest acquisition in EMCs history, topping the $1.3 billion spent on Legato Systems Inc., […]

Gateway Inc. on Wednesday will launch several entry-level tape autoloaders. Later this year, the company will announce storage management software, officials said on Tuesday. The new products follow on the heels of an August announcement, when the Poway, Calif. company re-entered the enterprise storage space, after a brief 2001 network-attached storage offering. Whats behind Gateways […]