eWEEK EDITORS

As the initial shock over the events of Sept. 11 has faded, corporate bankers at Wilmington Trust Corp., as at many enterprises, have returned to something like a normal work routine. Travel-averse employees who embraced Web-based meetings and seminars immediately after the disaster are beginning to return to the skies, particularly to attend important meetings […]

The PR blitz to unshackle Baby Bells ratcheted up last week when a free-market think tank, the Progress and Freedom Foundation, sent out a letter signed by eight prominent economists urging Cabinet officials and the president to drop regulations imposed by the Clinton administration. The Tauzin-Dingell legislation would free Baby Bells from selling wholesale services […]

Freightliner Llc has built a heavy-duty business selling auto parts, but the truck makers efforts were not without a full load of IT issues. To support the parts business, the truck and heavy equipment maker had to link its manufacturing facilities, warehouses and 300 service stations into one large extranet, which was costing the company […]

In the last ethics in IT column, I addressed the issue of allowing users to get to sites and services that provide access to legally protected material such as copyrighted music. In response to that column, one reader posed a related but broader question relating to Web surfing. Namely, what, if anything, should an IT […]

Mobile computing is underachieving. this is especially true for North American companies wrestling with incompatible, and often unavailable, packet-based digital radio networks. Sure, mobile e-mail and contact management are useful, but the gee whiz days for those technologies are long gone. Much more is needed. Does your mobile infrastructure help employees know when critical business […]

Amazon Buys Egghead.com Amazon.com is looking to become a bigger player in the online electronics market. The e-tailer has spent $6.1 million to buy the assets of Egghead.com, the online electronics marketplace that—like many of its brethren—shut down and filed for bankruptcy protection earlier this year. Last week, people who went to the Egghead.com site […]

Compaq Computer Corp.s first Itanium-based server, announced in July, still is not ready to ship, despite word from Intel Corp. that it has resolved at least one problem that initially delayed the servers release. Last month, Compaq disclosed that it had held off shipping its new Itanium server, the ProLiant 590/64, due to a performance […]

Looking to succeed where others have failed, Hewlett-Packard Co. last week unveiled a high-density server it contends addresses major customer concerns that undermined earlier rivals efforts to successfully market blade systems. By basing its blades on CompactPCI (a standards-based architecture) and using Intel Corp. processors in a less tightly packed design capable of handling heavier […]

IBM last week became the latest major chip maker to announce a new transistor design for microprocessors that will boost performance and reduce power consumption. The disclosure came less than a week after Intel Corp. revealed a similar research effort aimed at overcoming potential obstacles to building ever-faster and more energy-efficient computer components. The two […]

Albert Gidari, partner at the Seattle law firm Perkins Coie LLP and noted for his activity in telecommunications law, jumped all over the Patriot Act when it was passed by Congress in late October. Gidari then issued an advisory Oct. 26 to service provider clients that covered pen register authority, named for the device originally […]

Slowly but surely, the screws of electronic surveillance are tightening, and in the process, changing the rules of what can and cannot be monitored and threatening to drive upward the costs that carriers charge their enterprise customers. The move to more stringent surveillance became inevitable after Sept. 11, but laws granting access to law enforcement […]

Read this weeks Spencer column.