eWEEK EDITORS

Air Battle The Federal Communications Commission has agreed to take comment on a plan that New ICO said could save the mobile satellite sector by allowing operators to build land-based systems that would extend their signals throughout cities and into buildings. But mobile wireless operators promise a fierce battle for the spectrum needed. Profits in […]

Server sales are shifting toward smaller, denser units as shipments slow down, according to new figures from IDC. Until the current slowdown, server sales were growing by double-digit figures, but growth stalled in the second quarter and sales were flat, IDC representatives said. Compaq Computer regained its wide margin of leadership as its market share […]

The iPlanet division of the Sun Microsystems/Netscape Communications alliance is pushing integration, not just for its customers, but also within its product line. The result is middleware that shares underlying components, works together better and generates a smaller footprint on the hardware server, said Sanjay Sarathy, director of iPlanet product marketing. IPlanet Integration Server Business-to-Business […]

The once unstoppable, well-oiled machine of the networking industry has gotten a major overhaul. Ciscos sweeping reorganization acknowledges converging lines of business, and thus aligns resources by technology rather than by market segment. Executives are playing musical chairs in the biggest structural shuffle in four years. Cisco is centralizing its engineering and marketing organizations under […]

The last thing the U.S. needs is another underused high-speed test bed network designed to look for the next great Internet application, right? But link computers at four major research institutions via an ultra-high-speed broadband network, and you might get a glimpse of the real future of the Internet. The National Science Foundation earlier this […]

Its distressing, this 21st-century American economy, with its simpering stock market, its lust for layoffs, its warehouses larded with vestiges of that sad relic variously championed as the Information Economy, the New Economy and the Digital Economy. The 21st-century American economy shrinks from its predecessors naiveté. “Buffoon!” whispers the Very Scary Economy, shaking its head. […]

Bad ideas, like Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act, dont go away on their own. They need to be defeated. Were glad to see there are signs of this happening, but more needs to be done. UCITA, as it stands now, is an unacceptable vendor power-grab. It must be brought in line with existing consumer protection […]

Venture capitalists are tossing money at contenders building products that send voice over broadband technologies, even as regional Bells hold their noses — and their wallets — in reaction to technology thats as tasty to them as cannibalism. Last week, Santera Systems announced that it has raised $110 million from venture companies that like its […]

Microsoft got a new judge for the next phase of its antitrust trial the same day it handed off the final version of its disputed new Windows XP operating system to PC manufacturers. District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly was selected Aug. 24 by lottery to consider remedies against Microsoft and whether the company illegally tied […]

Will Work for Money One of my favorite flicks is Sullivans Travels, a 1941 Preston Sturges classic. In it, Joel McCrea plays a slapstick movie director named Sullivan who decides to leave Tinsel Town and journey out into the Depression Era countryside to research the real world. Needless to say, Sullivan finds it an eye-opening […]

IBM is piling up the partners — more than five dozen of them already this year — in its effort to increase profits from its booming services business. Big Blue has signed alliances with 61 software companies this year, a sharp increase over the 50 alliances it inked in all of 2000. The company expects […]

Internet Security Systems is commonly mentioned as one of the premier managed security services providers (MSSPs). It is one of the most profitable security companies in the industry, and has developed some of the best-known security software on the market. President and CEO Tom Noonan recently spoke with Senior Writer Brian Ploskina. Is it possible […]