eWEEK EDITORS

Whenever I feel lonely, I just think of all my new friends at Waggener Edstrom. Ive lost exact count, but I know that I spoke to at least eight different public relations people at the firm best known as Microsofts mouthpiece, while reporting a recent story on the transition to software as a service at […]

Baltimore CEO Resigns With its shares battered in recent months, Baltimore Technologies CEO Fran Rooney decided to step down last week “to pursue other interests.” The company, which specializes in security and certificate authority products, says it has cash reserves of about $76 million and it plans to cut costs. Paul Sanders, the companys chief […]

With WebApp, SPSS puts the combined power of statistical analysis and the companys extensive databases into the hands of any user with a connection to the Web. Based on a secure Orion server, WebApp affords full access to SPSS Base and its attendant modules. This model serves distributed users while centralizing processing and data. Relieving […]

CEO, MSNBC.com Age: 44 Degree: Bachelor of science degree and masters in international studies from the University of Washington; studied Chinese at the University of Hong Kong Biggest news story of 2001: “So far it has to be the [Timothy] McVeigh execution. It was our fifth-biggest [traffic] day ever.” Stress reliever: Karate (He has a […]

Once a month or so, volunteers from San Franciscos CryptoRights Foundation travel to Guatemala. There, they teach human rights workers how to secure their computers against hackers, crackers and other species of online vandals. Their students are bright, eager and motivated. How well they learn their lessons will determine if some of the countrys worst […]

Viruses that target mobile devices have surfaced only rarely — but thats about to change. As more people use cell phones and handheld computers to access corporate information, the potential for malicious code to spread rapidly to those devices is expected to increase dramatically. Industry experts point to the way pervasive Internet connectivity changed the […]

Oblix Inc. is putting new features into its NetPoint access management platform. The Cupertino, Calif., company this week will announce that NetPoint 5.0 is built on a Web services architecture and is fully XML (Extensible Markup Language)-enabled, giving users the ability to integrate third-party applications and home-grown software. Oblix is touting Version 5.0 as the […]

Heres a pain everybody can feel: the long, torturous wait for a broadband hookup. Issanni Communications Inc. wants to provide a cure. The Eatontown, N.J., company is rolling out a high-capacity SMS (subscriber management system) that enables large service providers to deploy cable, wireless and digital subscriber line services faster and more efficiently than before. […]

The year was 1995. Consumers were on the cusp of becoming e-commerce slap-happy. Officials at FirstData Corp.—the king of credit card transactions—had two choices: figure out an e-business strategy fast or watch FirstDatas key industry slip through their fingers. The answer was to quickly develop an e-business strategy by partnering with key e-commerce sites. But […]

In April, Bill Conner became Entrusts president and CEO — and hes grabbed the wheel at a shaky time. Despite being a market leader in public key infrastructure (PKI) technology and other security technologies, Entrust had a disappointing first quarter and laid off nearly a third of its work force. Conner, who as Nortel Networks […]

Pure-play internet grocer Webvan Group might be history, but traditional grocery store chains continue to expand their online grocery efforts. Traditional chains have a leg up on Webvan, which spent millions of dollars to create its own network of national distribution centers. The Foster City, Calif., company shut its Web site and fired about 2,000 […]

The European Union wants desperately to transform its 15 member nations into an “information society” capable of not just competing in, but leading the world economy. But manufacturers of computers, cellular telephones and other electronic equipment say that goal will be impossible to achieve unless the EUs copyright laws are changed. At the core of […]