eWEEK EDITORS

Its as big as the pocket PC device, but it wont run on the Microsoft Corp. platform of the same name. Casio Inc. this fall will begin shipping the Cassiopeia Pocket Manager BE-300, a color personal digital assistant with a rechargeable lithium-ion battery, 16MB of RAM and 16MB of flash ROM. While it is the […]

Softswitches today are like the PCs of the 90s: their introduction not only improved the way people live and work, but changed the entire infrastructure so that its more efficient and easier to use. And if the softswitch is the PC, which in many cases it literally is, then the old Class 4 and Class […]

ColoWatch, a new managed service provider that aims to furnish enterprise customers with both up-to-the-minute information about performance of their Web sites and maintenance help if the digital corporate facade develops a crack, is expected to officially launch today. Backed by $2 million in seed capital from unidentified Asian hardware makers, angel investors from the […]

Americas big railroads may have been slow to adopt the Internet, but they are gaining steam. Over the past year, The Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway, Norfolk Southern Railway and Union Pacific Railroad have rolled out a variety of Web initiatives designed to reduce costs and give their customers better service. While the initiatives […]

Rumors Not True Market-battered Level 3 Communications says that it has banked enough money to carry it until it reaches “free cash flow break-even” in early 2004. Responding to rumors that it will be the next to file for bankruptcy, Level 3 says that it had about $4.5 billion in cash and available funds at […]

Two unlikely wireless license winners — retired mail carrier Vincent D. McBride and emergency room physician Scott Reiter — want their money back. They both won spectrum in the federal governments auction that ended in January, but havent yet received their licenses and might not ever get them. Theyve begun to scrutinize the auction process […]

New analysis software set to be launched by Microsoft Corp. in the fall is aimed at nontechnical staff whose enterprises use Microsofts SQL Server but who dont need the advanced functions of third-party tools. The Data Analyzer software, part of the Redmond, Wash., companys Office XP series, will be sold as an independent product, not […]

Not all cheeseburgers are created equal. Just ask the management team of Red Robin International Inc., a privately owned, 170-restaurant chain that spent years trying unsuccessfully to come up with the right recipe for quickly assembling menus that appealed to consumers in a variety of geographic areas. Red Robins problem was a common one: Sales, […]

Its the data, stupid. The stunning collapse of satellite telephony provider Iridium and the financial troubles of its competitors, Globalstar and ICO Global Communications, spotlight the limitations of a business plan weighted heavily toward voice. But satellite-based mobile communications companies wised up quickly and have begun to hone in on lucrative data services. Data connections […]

Adaptec Inc. strengthened its role in the storage connectivity market with its $150 million acquisition this month of Platys Communications Inc. By buying the Santa Clara, Calif., company, Adaptec will receive expertise in the storage-over-IP niche, specifically for SANs (storage area networks), Fibre Channel switches and NAS (network-attached storage) hardware, Adaptec officials said. It was […]

Scansoft Inc.s OmniPage Pro 11, with its ability to parse PDFs and flow text from one column to another, is a worthwhile upgrade. The softwares new OCR capabilities will free users from the chore of searching printed documents by hand and, of course, save rekeying of the printed page. And it will save documents as […]

As the unsolicited commercial electronic mail act of 2001 (H.R. 95) works its way through the federal legislative process, many of us wonder if it will have any perceptible effect on the slew of unsolicited garbage that flows into our e-mail accounts each day. Maybe the best way to judge the effectiveness of this bill […]