eWEEK EDITORS

At its annual Faculty Summit in Redmond, Wash., next week, Microsoft will show off the fruits of some of its latest research projects. At the same time, the software kingpin will highlight new programs it is instituting to build its base of academic developers and users. In part, Microsoft is stepping up its academic outreach […]

With the release of the much-anticipated PEG-UX50 handheld this fall, Sony executives have stopped playing fetch with their Aibos long enough to recognize that handhelds are ideal for communications. In doing so, the company has followed the design advice I recently laid out for makers of these devices. By adopting a landscape form factor, the […]

Enterprise Storage Research Study Reports SANs Moving to Middle Market Storage networking vendors may want to take a close look at catering to midsized corporations, which are on track to rapidly increase their adoption of SANs over the next three years, according to a recent survey by Infonetics Research Inc. The survey said use of […]

Yahoo Performs Overture Yahoo made its boldest move yet in consolidating the Web search space last week when it announced plans to buy Overture Services in a cash and stock deal valued at $1.63 billion. In the deal, Yahoo will get Overtures paid search business, which lets advertisers buy placement on search results Web pages. […]

In the technological and legal scramble to make the Internet more secure and reliable, we offer a simple suggestion: Try IPv6. The basic protocol of the Internet, the long-in-the-tooth IPv4, mocks attempts to guarantee availability, integrity or privacy of data. IPv4 is intrinsically vulnerable to all manner of mischief: an unacceptable crack in our crucial […]

DoCoMo Eyes 5-Fold Rise in 3G Phone Speed NTT DoCoMo plans to adopt a communications method in 2005 to raise the data transmission speed of its FOMA 3G mobile phone service by more than five times, President Keiji Tachikawa said Thursday. At the moment, FOMA service offers a maximum communications speed of 384 kbps. A […]

Internet Explorer may have eaten up the browser marketplace, but Im always seeing new third-party opportunities the platform creates. Im a big fan of the Google Toolbar and IE Booster.. The value of others, though, is doubtful. Consider Winferno Softwares tool Secure IE 2003. According to the company it “works as a replacement shell for […]

Following the introduction of ViewSonics Airpanel line in January, Philips Electronics recently released the DesXcape 150DM, the second and far harder-to-pronounce major product for the U.S. market based on Microsofts Smart Display platform. Founded on Windows CE and aimed at the home market, a Smart Display provides a tablet form factor that connects wirelessly to […]

Virus Several security firms have identified a new worm that poses as a critical software patch from Microsoft or an antivirus update from Symantec Corp. The worm, which for the moment goes by multiple name, including W32.Gruel@mm and W32/Fakerr@mm, modifies a slew of system settings in Microsoft Windows machines and attempts to delete a host […]

Enterprise Storage Legato Shareholders Sue to Stop EMC Deal Legato Systems Inc. of Mountain View, Calif., announced Wednesday that it had been served with two lawsuits filed against the company and its board of directors in connection with the recently announced agreement that EMC Corp. would acquire the company. The two suits were both filed […]

74% of CIOs say speed to market is critical in their industry 69% of CIOs say they can respond to changing conditions faster than competitors 69% say improving response time has led to reduced costs 55% say their budgeting procedures help rapidly change IT investment priorities 35% say they failed to respond fast enough to […]