eWEEK EDITORS

Back in the days of postcard Web sites, a load balancer sitting in front of a firewall was often more than enough to ensure the sites availability. But times and vendors have changed. Eric Giesa, F5 Networks director of product management, reflected on the changed dynamics that now shape the race for quality on the […]

Economic heat dries up IT salaries Layoffs arent the only things IT professionals need to contend with these days. After soaring for several years, the growth rate for IT professionals salaries has moderated, according to a salary survey from Matrix Resources Inc., an IT staffing provider based in Atlanta. Salary increases for IT professionals during […]

TaylorMade-Adidas golf is trying to hit a long drive by investing $10 million in an Internet-based supply chain project. And if it sinks the putt, the Carlsbad, Calif., company believes it will be able to achieve more than $50 million in cost savings and new sales next year through the streamlined supply chain. The project, […]

Sing It Supremes Microsoft asked the U.S. Supreme Court to throw out Judge Thomas Penfield Jacksons ruling that it illegally abused its monopoly power, charging that his clandestine press interviews during the trial proved judicial bias. The Department of Justice Aug. 10 asked that the appeals court not delay seeking penalties from Microsoft while the […]

How would you feel if you knew your credit card number was revealed to hundreds of hackers in a chat room? About 300 credit card holders found out exactly what that felt like a few weeks ago. These people booked vacations online, in this case to Chicago. What they didnt know is that the site […]

Leading Economic Indicators I cant tell if this is good news or not. Russ Curtis, CEO of JustTechJobs.com, says the number of job seekers registering on his online job site has “diminished greatly in the last two months.” That decline — about 75 percent fewer people registered in recent months as compared with February and […]

Eric Schmidt is such a huge fan of Google that hes decided to run the company. Google picked Schmidt as its CEO, after hunting for almost two years. He comes to the search engine company after four years as CEO of Novell, where some observers criticized him for weakening Novells position in the networking software […]

Intel Corp. CEO Craig Barrett earlier this month hit an optimistic note in an otherwise dour period for the PC industry, saying several times during a business tour through Asia that the embattled industry has bottomed out and is poised for a rebound. But the bright outlook contrasts with the bleak forecasts presented in recent […]

System vulnerabilities — holes through which intruders may crawl inside your servers — are cropping up at a rate six or seven per day, a pace that strains the resources of most system administrators, security experts say. Many such vulnerabilities are minor enough that I-managers can wait for them to be fixed in the next […]

IT managers and users alike who were affected by the Code Red worm have gone through the latest round of requisite security “lessons learned.” Those include: Stay on top of security news, install your patches, monitor server activity and err on the side of caution. And its working. The scheduled recurrence of the worm this […]

Watch out, online merchants: here comes the law. Legal challenges and legislation are poised to patch a key chink in the armor protecting people from identity theft: There are no legal consequences for companies that fail to protect personal information, such as credit card numbers. Hackers and identity thieves can be prosecuted — if theyre […]

Pamela Fusco had no idea what she was getting into when her company decided to go through an SAS70 audit of its security practices and procedures. Director of systems security operations for Web hosting provider Digex Inc., Fusco figured she would meet with the outside audit team once a month or so, answer a few […]