eWEEK EDITORS

Its been an interesting year for communications services. Many companies got better connected to their customers, others managed to hold the line and some, unfortunately, got hung up. It should come as a surprise that during the period described by many as high-tech nuclear winter, big telephone companies had a field day. Revenue from old […]

The pure online food and drug companies learned a valuable lesson in 2001: that you need a buddy to survive in the real world. A perfect example is Peapod. The online food company was bought by Ahold, a U.K.-based conglomerate that ranks as the second largest retailer in the world. As Ken Cassar, senior analyst […]

A new company led by famed Web pioneers Jim Clark and Krishna “Kittu” Kolluri is scheduled to introduce today its first product, designed to significantly reduce the cost and complexity of deploying secure remote networks for employees and partners. Neoteris produces network appliances that simplify the process of deploying a virtual private network for accessing […]

The Federal Communications Commission may boost the amount of wireless spectrum that an operator can own in a single market, and may agree to drop the cap altogether — but not without a fight. When the panel meets this week, observers expect it to increase the spectrum limits, from 45 megahertz to 55 MHz, and […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The little-used dot-us domain will be opened to the general public next year, giving American companies and individuals new alternatives to Internet addresses in the already heavily populated dot-com name space. Under a two-year contract announced last week by the Department of Commerce, NeuStar, a Washington, D.C., company, will open the registry […]

Senior FBI officials – responding to reports to the contrary – said they have no plans to expand packet data wiretapping capabilities beyond what is already authorized in the 1994 Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act . Rumors spread throughout the telecommunications industry last week, based in part on comments by a Washington, D.C., insider […]

An alliance between mammoth systems integrator Unisys and Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide will bring broadband Internet connections to hotel rooms nationwide, signaling new life for an industry beaten down by bankruptcies, low customer acceptance and service disconnects. The companies today will announce the partnership, which joins Unisys Room Connect program for hotels and Starwoods […]

Hundreds of illegal copies of Microsofts new Windows XP operating system – and instructions on how to bypass its copy-protection scheme – are already floating around the Internets peer-to-peer networks. Hacking tips being shared on P2P networks purport to work around the very product-activation measures that Microsoft built into Windows XP to prevent such piracy. […]

By nearly every account, except that of Microsoft and the Department of Justice, the proposed settlement of their antitrust case falls far short of what the companys competitors and critics were hoping for when the landmark action began in 1998. If approved, few expect the deal to dramatically alter the competitive landscape for computer software, […]

Reportedly close to a settlement of their landmark antitrust case, lawyers for Microsoft, the Department of Justice and 18 state attorneys general go to court this morning to report on their progress. Newspapers reported Thursday that the the DOJ and Microsoft had reached a tentative agreement that would leave Microsofts market might essentially unchallenged. And […]

WASHINGON, D.C. – Microsoft Corp. today agreed to a broad range of restrictions – including a panel of full-time monitors with full access to its code and its books — to settle antitrust charges and end its long-running court battle with the Department of Justice, the government announced. The settlement, presented this morning to U.S. […]

Charles James should hang his head in shame. The assistant attorney general of the Department of Justices Antitrust Division has thrown over what was still a strong government case against Microsoft for political and economic expediency. The 21-page proposed settlement would give Microsoft numerous opportunities to duck, weave and confound the intent of the agreement […]