eWEEK EDITORS

Protecting cyberspace figures prominently into the work of the new Office of Homeland Security. Just one day after former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge started his cabinet-level tenure as the head of the new office, he announced that Richard Clarke, a longtime political operative for past presidents, will serve as Special Advisor to the President for […]

New database monitoring software from BMC Software Inc. solves a common pet peeve: it not only alerts users of problems, it actually suggests solutions. DBXray, which the Houston-based company launched on Tuesday, also is built to minimize performance degradation on the database and links into existing IT monitoring software, said Jonathan Priestley, director of product […]

IBM on Tuesday used the unveiling of several new PCs and services to tout itself as the only full-service computer maker, while mocking its rivals for focusing either too much on cost or being too consumed with merger activities. Although Jon Judge, general manager of IBMs Personal Computing Division, didnt address his competitors by name […]

Partners of data storage leader EMC Corp. are selling anti-virus software for the companys network-attached storage devices in what EMC officials said is a preventative move. The partners—Computer Associates International Inc., McAfee Corp., Symantec Corp. and Trend Micro Inc.—have each built a version of their anti-virus programs for EMCs Celerra NAS file server. Don Swatik, […]

Terrorists struck at the heart of the United States because Americans had grown “lazy, soft and indulgent,” former Defense Secretary William Cohen told 2,000 people at the 104th annual convention of the U.S. Telecom Association in Phoenix on Monday. “We had become a land of lotus-eaters,” Cohen told the gathering. “We had grown lazy in […]

The latest entrant to the Border Gateway Protocol routing management game is vendor netVmg, launching its product line this week with its first customer, Sony, already on board. NetVmg offers enterprise customers who buy several high-speed data lines an appliance that picks a routing path that fits that enterprises bandwidth budget and connection quality parameters. […]

Having introduced a high-end server at the end of September, Sun Microsystems moved to more firmly nail down the low end of its product line with a Control Station for server appliances. The Sun Cobalt server appliances unit unveiled the $4,999 Control Station capable of managing hundreds of Cobalt Web servers, caching servers, load balancers […]

WASHINGTON, D.C.-The U.S Supreme Court has rejected a Microsoft appeal to have the case thrown out for judicial bias. Microsoft had hoped to avoid facing a definitive remedy judgment as the case enters its final phase in the U.S. District Court of Appeals. The Supreme Court made no comment in rejecting the appeal, which hinged […]

RealNetworks has a new partner to help it get its streaming audio and video technology into the market: Compaq Computer. The two companies are expected to announce a multiyear agreement that will see Compaq bundle RealNetworks RealSystem iQ technology — including its RealSystem Server 8 and Proxy 8 — with its ProLiant server and AlphaServer […]

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Tuesday released what it says is the fastest PC processor on the market. However, the Athlon XP 1800+, a 1.53GHz chip, clocked 470MHz slower than its top rival from Intel Corp. That apparent paradox highlights the difficult marketing challenge facing AMD. The Sunnyvale, Calif., company will try to convince consumers that […]

AT&T Wireless bought affiliate TeleCorp PCS in what may be the first of other similar acquisitions by AT&T Wireless. Sprint PCS, which also has an affiliate program, may not start scooping up its partners anytime soon. AT&T Wireless on Monday said it would acquire the remaining 77 percent of TeleCorp PCS that it didnt already […]

Hewlett-Packard on Tuesday, Oct. 9, introduced a slew of new products and services for enterprises and wireless operators, aimed at tapping into the mobility marketplace. HP believes that its addressable market in the mobility space will grow to $80 billion in 2004. “Our opinion is that mobility is the next step along the evolution of […]