eWEEK EDITORS

Within hours of the world trade centers collapse, Sun Microsystems put trucks on the road loaded with server systems to help its New York customers restore their operations. A few days later, it decided to go ahead with a scheduled Sept. 25 product announcement at the Millennium Broadway Hotel in midtown Manhattan: CEO Scott McNealy […]

In lower Manhattan last week, a noisy buzzing sound emanated from the office buildings deep in New York Citys financial district. That sound, the combined hum of hundreds of diesel power generators towed into the city to get businesses back online, signaled that people were going back to work. Multex.com, a global financial services and […]

While Verizon labored to restore telephone service to 10,000 businesses in lower Manhattan this week, the Federal Communications Commission quietly approved its application to compete for long-distance customers in Pennsylvania. The FCC approval means Verizon now can deliver long-distance to 40 states. They include the 36 states that werent in the old Bell Atlantics region, […]

Search engine Google on Thursday announced that it will buy the intellectual property assets of Outride, an online information retrieval technologies developer that was spun off from Xeroxs Palo Alto Research Center. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. In the deal Google will acquire Outrides patent rights, source code, trademarks and associated domain […]

NextWave Communications and the government appear to be near a settlement on $17-billion worth of hotly contested wireless licenses. According to published reports, NextWave has tentatively agreed to sell most of its “third generation” wireless licenses to Verizon, AT&T, Sprint and several other large telephone companies for between $5 and $7 billion. The companies would […]

Verizon Communications latest regulatory approval to sell long-distance services in Pennsylvania gives the regional Bell about half of the lines it needs to take over Web hosting and IT outsourcing firm Genuity. Under the terms of the merger of Bell Atlantic and GTE that created Verizon, Genuity – formerly known as GTE Internetworking – had […]

Think of how your automated teller machine card works: You need cash, so you go to the nearest bank. Doesnt make a difference that you may not have an account there. If the bank is part of that network of banks that link their ATMs – such as the Cirrus network – then your ATM […]

In an effort to appease critics and regulators, Microsoft has announced it will open its controversial Passport authentication service to competing companies. The software company said it would make Passport interoperable to create a true universal sign-in platform. “The challenge of providing universal single sign-in is larger than any one company,” said Bob Muglia, group […]

A consortium of storage vendors has banded together to offer free “best effort” technical support to companies that lost business data in the Sept. 11 World Trade Center disaster. The consortium calls itself the RecoverNY Data Service, and has established a hotline at 1-800-859-8559 and a Web site at www.recoverNYdata.com. RecoverNY provides an e-mail form […]

WASHINGTON – An unlikely political coalition united Thursday against attempts by the government to undermine civil liberties in the name of fighting terrorism. “I think weve all learned the unfortunate lesson … that you cant trust anybody,” said Mort Halperin, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, at a crowded news conference announcing […]

In the first major smart card security deal since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the U.S. Army has announced that it will buy 60,000 smart card readers from SchlumbergerSema, the technology subsidiary of Schlumberger Ltd. Although the purchase is part of the Department of Defenses long-planned smart card implementation program, analysts believe the renewed focus […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In a joint filing today, Microsoft sought to narrow the scope of punishments aimed at it for antitrust violations, while the Department of Justice asked for a speedy resolution to the case. Microsoft and the DOJ sparred in the Joint Status Report over dramatically different interpretations of an appeals courts remand that […]