eWEEK EDITORS

Travelers visiting airports, hotels and convention centers are finding a range of high-speed access options offered by specialized service providers, but the trick is to know which types of networks are available where. Companies such as iPass — which offers large corporate customers a universal access interface — and networking giant Cisco Systems have formed […]

Enron has a Texas-size helping of attitude. The Houston energy and trading giant believes it can trade any commodity, any time, and make money doing it. And given Enrons leap to the top of this years Interactive 500, its hard to refute the companys swagger. At least, it was hard to refute it before third-quarter […]

As a former chief financial officer, Doug Maine knows all about return on investment and extracting the maximum value from investments in e-business. That may explain why, as general manager of IBM.com, Maine is running what is arguably one of the most successful and certainly ambitious web-based businesses worldwide — tangible proof of IBM CEO […]

The outlook for communications and computing equipment makers is clouded by the overall economic downturn, and by a severe slump among telecommunications companies that over-invested in infrastructure. While a few companies, most notably IBM, seem to be holding their own, vendors across the technology spectrum are hurting. Intels most recent earnings were down 96 percent. […]

A recent McKinsey global institute study reveals ITs dirty little secret, and an unrelated IBM Research paper helps explain the why of it. The revelation is that IT has been a laggard when it comes to raising U.S. productivity, which nearly doubled between 1995 and 2000. The study is not so interesting for concluding that […]

Oops, They Did It Again Now this doesnt inspire confidence: Microsoft, which should have a little bit of money for R&D, testing and marketing, issued a statement last week saying it made a boo-boo in the browser flap regarding MSN. To recap: When users of non-Microsoft browsers tried to access the redesigned MSN earlier this […]

Intel bases its business on producing PC processors that double in capacity every 18 months. So perhaps a logical explanation for why the company has gone after e-business so eagerly — and aggressively — is that it drafts its e-business blueprints in exactly the same way that it designs new chips. In other words, Intels […]

Intel Corp. has begun producing flash memory chips that it said are generations ahead of rivals products, but the chip makers failure to embrace another type of flash technology may give competitors the advantage in the future. Flash chips are the most popular memory solution for small, handheld electronic devices, and sales of flash chips […]

Dell Computer Corp. is taking a different approach to selling enterprise storage, one that more resembles the way it sells PCs. The Round Rock, Texas, company this week will unveil its first home-grown NAS (network-attached storage) servers, which include Microsoft Corp.s Server Appliance Kit. Dell previously resold devices from Network Appliance Inc. and Quantum Corp. […]

Juan Diaz Pinales made only one demand when he signed on as information security manager of Doral Financial: that he report directly to the CEO. While most I-managers may not make such ultimatums, Pinales said his authority has made a big difference for Dorals security infrastructure in his eight months on the job. The bank […]

The latest software pricing scheme—Microsofts Software Assurance program—has many of us angry at the thought of being held hostage to unfair licensing practices. Its a trick thats already been attempted: Earlier this year, Oracle came under attack when it tried to impose a new pricing mechanism that used a universal power unit, or UPU, measurement […]

At Microsofts Developers Conference in Los Angeles, Bill Gates laid out the companys premises for Web services success. Gates asserted that .Net is built on open standards. The trinity of TCP/IP for transport, HTTP for interaction and XML for meaning has become his belief system. Meanwhile, IBMs involvement has largely allayed developers concerns that XML-based […]