eWEEK EDITORS

The four-bedroom San Clemente, Calif., home that real estate agent Richard Malland lists for $829,000 recently appeared as one of the featured homes on auction site eBay. But that doesnt mean Malland is auctioning the house. In fact, he doesnt even like the term “bid” when it comes to real estate. “When you bid, it […]

Global Spree Global Sports is continuing its push beyond the sporting goods scene, this time striking a deal to acquire luxury goods retailer Ashford.com for about $14.2 million. Global Sports operates the e-commerce Web sites for such retailers as Athletes Foot and The Sports Authority. Last month the company announced it would take over the […]

Seven Ways To Heal America In the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks against America, many of our readers asked us how they could help to heal our country. In response, we offer the following seven suggestions: 1. Leave your biases behind. Americas quest for justice has had tragic results, as bias crimes against […]

What do you get when you place two (or more) honeypots into a network? The answer is a honeynet. The idea of creating a network of lures was the seminal idea behind the Honeynet Project (http://project.honeynet.org), a non-profit, IT security research group started in 1999. The groups charter is to raise awareness of the threats […]

Enrons brief venture into content distribution should serve as a warning to other network-based carriers considering wading into the untested waters of this new business model. “A lot of these guys built out haphazardly, and tried to keep up with competition by anticipating the demand that no one had the tools to forecast,” says Greg […]

In the aftermath of the suicide plane crashes into the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon, its incredibly difficult to concentrate on anything but news surrounding the events. Everything else seems so irrelevant. Yet the stories weve heard about how people involved in the tragedy were able to use their cell phones are remarkable. […]

The Problem A car dealership needs to connect its showroom (an Ethernet network) to its warehouse (a Token-Ring system). The two buildings are separated by railroad tracks so a wired solution could be problematic. Please recommend a secure wireless system that can link the two buildings, which reside about 200 yards from each other. My […]

Spectrum Shift In the wake of the terrorist attacks, the wireless industry stands little chance of gaining control of airwaves held by the Department of Defense, experts said. While wireless carriers have pushed to take over some DOD spectrum for next-generation services such as high-speed data, the Pentagon has argued that could pose dangers and […]

Gauging the return on investment (ROI) on technology used to be a straightforward matter. New IT investments were seen as operating expenses. Generally, their value was measured by the extent to which they reduced operating costs. No longer. E-business and other new technologies such as CRM have added all sorts of variations and complexities to […]

Chief Technology Evangelist Silverline Technologies www.silverline.com Elevator Pitch Seth travels the mobile trade-show circuit for e-biz consultant Silverline, evangelizing wireless app development. Claims to Fame Guru on the confluence of wireless, voice and Net technologies. Areas of expertise include J2EE, .NET, VoiceXML, wireless apps, EAI, B2B integration, content management and electronic commerce. Current Challenge Understanding […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. last week added high-end power to its “meat and potatoes” line of Unix products. The Palo Alto, Calif., company introduced the rp8400, a 16-way Unix server that brings some of the features found in its high-end Superdome system into the midrange segment of its product line. The rp8400, priced at $124,000 for a […]

As millions of Americans turned to the internet for news and information about the Sept. 11 terror attacks in New York and Washington, D.C., data traffic periodically overloaded fiber-optic networks, prompting error messages and long waits to load Web pages. When U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft gave out the Internet address where the FBI is […]