eWEEK EDITORS

An old battle between retailers and consumer goods manufacturers about who owns the customer has gotten in the way of shared Internet marketing initiatives. While retailers and manufacturers continue to tussle over control of customer information, new Web initiatives such as FamilyTime.com may benefit both sides — as well as customers. Makers of consumer goods […]

ASP spending still on the rise The death of ASPs may dominate the news, but spending on services from application service providers is still expected to rise sharply in coming years. Two IT market research companies released ASP spending projections earlier this month that showed ASPs will increasingly get a boost over the next five […]

Profit Concepts is always looking for the next big thing. The Long Beach, Calif.-based integrator makes a healthy living building J.D. Edwards solutions. But in 1999, the company was hungry to try something new. Thats when Profit Concepts launched a CRM practice to cash in on the booming market for Siebel Systems applications. Today, Profit […]

Terremark Worldwide may run out of cash before its NAP of the Americas has a chance to become the chief Internet power broker in the Americas. But Terremarks financial woes could be a boon for BellSouths Florida Multimedia Internet eXchange (FloridaMIX), which is in a fierce price war with NAP of the Americas for Latin […]

Starstruck Deal EchoStar Communications has poured another $50 million into satellite high-speed Internet access provider StarBand Communications, which also is backed by Gilat Satellite Networks and Microsoft. Early last week, EchoStar abandoned its bid to purchase its larger competitor, DirecTV. Cisco Invests Cisco Systems made its first acquisition in seven months, swapping about $150 million […]

How important is Microsofts ability to bundle technologies into its Windows operating system? Crucial, and its not just Microsoft that thinks so. As Microsoft asked a federal appeals court to reconsider a charge that it had illegally “commingled” its Internet Explorer browser code with its monopoly-making operating system last week, Microsoft said it would not […]

Building local exchange carriers are dropping like flies in the U.S. But interest in wiring commercial and residential buildings and providing broadband access in metropolitan areas is surging in the U.K. and Europe, opening doors for surviving American companies to export their know-how. The European market swell is a pleasing antidote to the painful telecom […]

CEO Relativity Technologies www.relativity.com Elevator Pitch A former VP of IS at Credit Suisse First Boston, Wadhwa says integrators are often out of step with the technical language and issues of the day. He looks to integrator allies that focus on prime contracting, leaving Relativity to manage sales and marketing. Claim to Fame “Having been […]

Floyd Kvamme, a Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers partner, serves as co-chair of the Presidents Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) while also working for the Silicon Valley venture capital firm. His history includes a stint heading sales and marketing at Apple Computer. He was also one of a team that joined National […]

Even with the recent spate of awful financial reports coming from chip makers, IT administrators can expect to see prices for microprocessors, and hence PCs and servers, continue to drop. Intel Corp., despite reporting last week that profits for the second quarter plunged 94 percent, indicated it was determined to continue slashing processor prices in […]

Compaq Computer Corp. last week began its newest push to become a larger player in the service arena by introducing a suite of hardware service programs aimed at decreasing its reliance on PC and server sales. But despite the unveiling of its Computing on Demand initiative, the embattled company still must overcome the perception that […]

Market downturn or not, the drawing power of the “cutting edge” remains a powerful force. No matter what their business requirements, companies want to have the most advanced tools available. Even after the collapse of the dot-com bubble and the end of the notion of “Internet time,” they continue to search for the next “killer […]