eWEEK EDITORS

Old fogies – those of us over 21 – never experienced the Internet during our formative years, which makes it difficult to predict where the Internet or its successor will take us. So Wetzel Consulting went to the experts, asking kids ages 12 to 18 how they use the Internet today, how they want and […]

A federal bankruptcy court has revived three lawsuits accusing ICG Communications of racial discrimination and corporate misconduct in the companys Southern California offices. Three suits, covering nine plaintiffs, were filed two years ago against ICG by Manning, Marder & Wolfe of Los Angeles, a firm that normally defends corporations over employment issues. But the lawsuits […]

A child born eight years ago has never known a world without a World Wide Web. A 7-year-old came into this world along with the first online banner ad. Six-year-olds were born the year the Federal Networking Council bestowed the official definition “Internet” on a rapidly branching series of networks blooming with thousands of services. […]

BEA Appoints New CEO Application server market leader BEA Systems got a new CEO last week. The company looked in-house to replace Bill Coleman, BEAs chief executive since it was founded in 1995. Albert Chuang, who co-founded BEA with Coleman and has served as president and chief operating officer for the past two years, is […]

Senior Americans are flocking to the Internet. And given their leisure time and purchasing power, its time to crank up the bandwidth at Web sites devoted to health care, genealogy, travel, photography, e-mail, investments, scuba diving and about 1,000 other pursuits. “Its been incredible,” 71-year-old retired social worker Elinor Sheldon said of her forays onto […]

Sendy Lopez buys hundreds of dollars worth of books and CDs through the Internet, both for herself and her Hispanic friends. They turn to her for help because they dont have access to the Internet or they cant read English or theyre uncomfortable making an electronic purchase. “There arent enough sites in Spanish,” said Lopez, […]

The Sept. 11 terrorist attacks will result in a boost to the roughly $40 billion the federal government spends each year on IT, with Web-based initiatives expected to gain a higher profile. “In the wake of the tragedy, well see more focus on Web-based access to anything,” said Zip Brown, vice president of the eGovernment […]

Its not unusual for people in the technology business, especially consultants and sales types, to log 100,000 or more miles a year on airplanes. But given the recent disasters in New York, Pennsylvania, and Washington, D.C., a number of IT vendors and consultancies report that some of their people are unwilling to fly. Meanwhile, a […]

Cable & Wireless this month becomes the first major communications carrier to integrate edge computing technologies into its network as it relaunches Digital Island, the Web hoster and content distribution network it recently acquired. The move puts Cable & Wireless into direct competition with companies such as Akamai Technologies, and demonstrates for the first time […]

Novell Sues Microsoft Novell has filed a lawsuit against Microsoft alleging that Microsoft made false and misleading statements about Novells latest network operating system, NetWare 6. According to Novell, Microsoft sent a cereal-box-shaped mailing to Novell customers that says in part: “As a result of the recent Cambridge Technology Partners merger, Novell is shifting its […]

Cable & Wireless CEO Graham Wallace is bullish about the companys future in advanced managed hosting. He expects corporations will continue to use the Internet for more applications and will outsource management of the lions share of their Web-facing infrastructure. Having moved all of its hosting assets under the umbrella of Digital Island, its newest […]