eWEEK EDITORS

The era of purely static, passive network defenses is slowly coming to an end. Certainly, firewalls and authentication tools will remain a critical part of any sound security strategy for the foreseeable future, but it is clear that they are no longer enough. Given the amount of internetworking demanded by modern applications and the potential […]

Hand Over Hand Palm has introduced the m125, a new low-end handheld priced at $250; aimed at first-time buyers it includes an expansion card slot. Handspring, meanwhile, has rolled out two new Visor handhelds: Visor Pro, a rechargeable unit with 16 megabytes of memory priced at $300, and Visor Neo, an entry-level model priced at […]

Civil liberties advocates are gearing up to force a long fight — instead of a quick surrender — over a proposal by the Department of Justice to vastly expand its wiretapping and surveillance capabilities. The proposal puts the Internet and other communications technologies in the crosshairs of the governments new war on terrorism. If Congress […]

Spending on e-business to rise … While tech spending is slumping overall, companies are beginning to appear more willing to spend dollars on e-business. AMR Research Inc., of Boston, found that U.S. companies plan to increase their overall spending on e-business initiatives by an average of 11 percent in the third quarter. AMR, which announced […]

Computer makers this week will ship the first consumer PCs featuring Microsoft Corp.s newest operating system, but hopes that Windows XPs arrival would rekindle sagging PC demand apparently have been dashed by recent events. The terrorist attacks in New York and Washington and the increasingly dour economic news have all but assured that PC demand […]

In 1991, Microsoft Corp. was a tenth of its current size, with sales just crossing the $1 billion mark and about 5,000 employees. Its key products then were DOS, Windows 3.0, Word and Excel. Its research department was just getting organized as a separate unit. Today, Microsoft Research alone has a core staff of more […]

A week after the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, the head of Hewlett-Packard Co. returned to the task of trying to persuade nervous investors, skeptical analysts and doubting users of the merits of her companys proposed purchase of Compaq Computer Corp. But the challenges facing Chairman and CEO Carly Fiorina—significant as they were […]

Firms Launch Relief Effort In the wake of the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, Microsoft and Cisco last week led an effort to create an umbrella Web site to connect those organizations with people who want to help. Other key organizers of the American Liberty Partnership, at www.libertyunites.org, include Yahoo, eBay, AOL Time […]

Surrender even a sliver of civil liberties, and youve given the terrorists exactly what they want: a paranoid, unpleasant America. That is the pivot of the argument civil libertarians are now making as they steel themselves for inevitable battles on Capitol Hill about how to fight terrorism. I dont know whether to embrace their argument […]

The terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon have woken us up to the fact that we are at war. It is a war of freedom vs. totalitarianism and terror. In that way it is similar to previous wars we have fought, but that is perhaps the only similarity. In a war, […]

The first and perhaps most important step in constructing a network security strategy is understanding precisely what must be defended, and what it must be defended against. Every enterprise is different in this regard; one companys survival may rely entirely on keeping certain information secret, while another may be indifferent to data security so long […]

VeriSign likes to refer to each of its two main data centers as “the Fort Knox of the Internet” because of their tight security and restricted access. But if it was said with a smile before, the analogy became morbidly serious after Sept. 11. In the days following the worst terrorist attacks ever against the […]