eWEEK EDITORS

Alaska Citizens Get Best Online Access Looking for online access to your state government? In the United States, the residents of Alaska have the best Internet access to laws, government officials and other sources of government information, according to the fourth annual Digital State Survey, conducted by the Center for Digital Government, in Folsom, Calif. […]

Cyberspace Chief Named As part of an attempt to beef up national security, President Bush last week created an advisory office to protect the countrys computers from attacks. Richard Clarke, already Bushs national security coordinator, was named special White House adviser for cyberspace security. Clarke is tasked with coordinating efforts to protect IS throughout the […]

Global Crossing today becomes the largest carrier to endorse a new generation of virtual private networks based on Multiprotocol Label Switching technology, even as its competitors voice security concerns and network scientists warn such launches may lead to an Internet meltdown. Claiming to have the most expertise in MPLS, Global Crossing has extended the use […]

Rumor Reality Virgin Mobile has finally found a partner for its mobile virtual network operator service: Sprint. Each company will contribute $50 million to the deal, which will allow Virgin Mobile to sell branded pay-as-you-go wireless service in the U.S. The two companies were rumored to be negotiating for months. AT&T Buys Telecorp AT&T Wireless […]

Call it the Silicon Valley Army knife. Handsprings new line of sleek mobile communicators, called Treo, combines a wireless phone, a handheld organizer and a wireless data device that provides on-the-move e-mail and Web browsing. Treo is scheduled to launch this week. “Its been a customer request for a long, long time,” said Joe Sipher, […]

Large carriers have been launching different virtual private network services for three years now, and failed to spark mass adoption of the technology because they are the wrong companies to bring the technology to businesses, the founders of new VPN startup Virtela Communications said. Taking a page from AOLs play book, Virtela leases the entire […]

Qwest Communications International is moving beyond the 20th-century technology of circuit switching, and is starting to replace gear in its 14-state region with the packet switching technology of the Internet. Qwest becomes the first regional Bell to start the transition toward Voice-over-IP (VoIP) technology, which paves the way for services such as video caller ID […]

The Bush administration is moving aggressively on cybersecurity, calling for a closed IP network for government agencies and appointing a new presidential special adviser for critical infrastructure protection. The General Services Administration last week requested information from network vendors interested in building a protected government network, dubbed Govnet. “Govnet will be a private Internet Protocol […]

With PC processors already running as fast as 2GHz today, the worlds leading chip makers this week will focus their attention on ways to deliver even more performance without running up the clock. Technologies such as Intel Corp.s hyperthreading that advance chip performance beyond just speed will be among those featured at the annual Microprocessor […]

Lucent Technologies executives allegedly engaged in a series of fraudulent financial transactions with Winstar Communications – a company that Lucent heavily financed – to falsify sales and revenue performance, according to new documents filed in a pending class action shareholder lawsuit in New Jersey. Those documents include e-mail messages of former Lucent executives Richard McGinn, […]

When I slapped the brochure for Penton Medias ISPCon/ASPCon/Last Mile trade show on the family dinner table, my wife looked at the front page with an expression of mild interest: “The Last Mile Show. Is that for companies about to go bankrupt?” she asked. First, I laughed hysterically, then I realized she was right. The […]

In recent weeks, issues such as Microsofts anti-competitive behavior have rightly faded to nearly trivial stature. But as our attention gradually returns to everyday concerns, there are recent developments in that case that we find troubling. The appointment of appeals court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly promised a fresh start to the mired litigation. But soon after […]