eWEEK EDITORS

After years of struggling to convince Internet executives to think multimedia, streaming media companies say interest in their products is at an all-time high. The reason: Corporations are seeking ways to save money on business travel and keep their employees safe, while still communicating important company, sales, marketing and training news. “Streaming has come up […]

AOL, Enron and IBM jumped into the online energy retailing business last year, but it looks like their creation, The New Power Co., is running out of juice. Declining cash reserves and an increasingly competitive market may spell doom for the company. New Powers goal is to capture residential and small-business customers in states that […]

The resale deal between EMC Corp. and Dell Computer Corp. announced last week, which is aimed at low-end and midmarket businesses, is indicative of future arrangements EMC will make to cut costs and expand into more niches. The five-year, multibillion-dollar pact gives EMC a new outlet for its low-end Clariion systems, which company President and […]

When Network Associates Inc. announced earlier this month that it was preparing to sell its Gauntlet firewall software business, it signaled an end to the companys attempt to position itself as a one-stop shop for security. The firewall wasnt selling well and turned out to be a loss leader on NAIs balance sheet. But industry […]

As fears spread about anthrax-contaminated paper mail, secure e-mail is finally arriving. The technology to make e-mail encryption a reality for businesses has often been criticized for being too difficult to implement, manage and teach to employees. But the dream of secure e-mail is more alive today than ever, as technology emerges that takes the […]

All of us, at some point in our lives, have blamed someone else for a mistake we made. But in the end, we realized what we did was wrong. Microsofts security team apparently has no such instinct to own up to its sins. Scott Culp, manager of Microsofts Security Response Center — notice Microsoft has […]

Just 18 months ago, the worlds two largest PC chip makers reaped record profits as they raced neck and neck to ship the fastest processor and lay claim to an unofficial speed crown. But now, Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. are locked in a price war that is inflicting pain on both sides. […]

Defeating a web site attack by spending a few hours patching and testing may give you the feeling of winning—but only until you stop and think of how many such grueling exercises youve been through and how many more you will have to endure. Is there a way to end this cycle of futility? That […]

Efforts to develop real-time, web-based surveillance systems for evidence of biological and chemical terrorism are gaining steam and urgency because of the recent anthrax attacks around the country. The federal government last year committed more than $48 million to several different biosurveillance projects under the auspices of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the […]

In an attempt to add value to the hardware it sells, Compaq Computer today, Oct. 29, starts shipping the Altiris eXpress Compaq Client Mgmt Solution to make the client hardware it ships easier to manage remotely. Compaq hardware devices – from the iPaq Pocket PC to its standard laptop and desktops – will ship with […]

A new software agent could be the silver bullet that provides end-to-end quality of service for content delivery on the Internet. The Broadband Content Delivery Forum, which represents the efforts of 60 companies including Lucent Technologies and Sprint to make content distribution over public and private data networks more efficient, was set to unveil the […]

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