eWEEK EDITORS

A portal war is brewing. Carriers that want to sell managed and hosting services to business customers buying such mundane connectivity as frame relay see a competitive edge in new reporting and monitoring tools. Teleglobe today plans to announce it will deploy Visual Networks Technologies Visual eWatcher, a tool that will offer customers a view […]

The 9i version of Oracle Corp.s JDeveloper application takes aim at Sun Microsystems Inc. and Microsoft Corp., expanding the software companys offerings in Java development technology and Web services. The Redwood Shores, Calif., company last week launched a beta version of the product, which Oracle officials said will compete with Suns Forte for Java technology […]

Developers looking for a simpler way to design Java2 Enterprise Edition applications, especially for Web services, got an early boost from Oracle as it released its latest development platform to members of its user group. Oracle9i JDeveloper, with new support for J2EE and XML, wasnt expected until later this year, but the 1.7 million members […]

The Internet economy wont start humming again until a better way is found to connect businesses to the backbone — and to make money doing it. While the silica settles, dozens of companies focusing on “last-mile” technologies are jockeying to be the ones whose names are called when the checks get handed out again. The […]

Paul Racicot shouldnt have been so confident. Just 27 hours earlier, Enron had announced that its broadband business had been crushed in the telecom downturn, losing $102 million in the second quarter on revenue of $16 million. That revenue was about one-tenth of the Enron broadband units sales in the year-earlier second quarter. Yet Racicot, […]

Dynamics Deal Defense giant General Dynamics will acquire Motorolas Integrated Information Systems Group for $825 million in cash and debt. The Motorola unit “strengthens our position in communications and information technology for military government customers,” says Nicholas D. Chabraja, General Dynamics chairman and CEO. Free for All — Not Landlords of multitenant buildings have won […]

The legacy of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 now includes not only spectacular bankruptcies, but also indications that it has hampered the competition it was supposed to spur. Covad Communications, the last of the Big Three nationwide wholesalers of DSL service, last week said it plans to reorganize under an unusual “prenegotiated” agreement with bondholders […]

Not long ago, IT administrators looking to outsource servers to a hosting company had only expensive services from a handful of name-brand providers to choose from. But the struggling economy and dot-com crash changed that. These days, enterprises looking for such services can turn to a new crop of smaller, nimbler providers touting price over […]

IBM Digs In IBM is dipping its toes deeper into the ASP market, announcing a far-ranging partnership with asset management software provider Peregrine Systems. A two-part alliance will see IBM develop an infrastructure management practice based on Peregrines technology, as well as a global application hosting business. The ASP service will initially be based on […]

eBay Buys Property Online auction king eBay is staking a real estate claim by acquiring HomesDirect.com. HomesDirect, which came out of Net incubator Idealab, auctions foreclosed property from the Veterans Administration and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Hammer Falling In another sign of consolidation in the online auction space, DoveBid of Foster […]

The worlds first unmanned plane intended as a telecom tower in the sky is attracting interest as a new way to get broadband Internet connections to businesses. Helios, an aircraft resembling a giant wing, was built with funding and research help from NASA, and has flown successfully. Backers claim its transmission services will be far […]