eWEEK EDITORS

Media mogul John Malone need not bid for his former company — AT&T Broadband — to emerge a winner in the hottest cable auction of the new century. Whether Comcast or some other operator succeeds in wresting cable out of AT&Ts hands, Malone, chairman of Liberty Media, will retain a degree of control over content […]

From San Antonio to San Francisco, ISPs that buy high-speed Internet connections from SBC Communications are hopping mad. The Texas- and California-based ISPs, which have been skirmishing with the phone giant for years, are angry about SBCs plans to offer services such as video-on-demand to DSL subscribers on its network — even to subscribers who […]

Another year, another broadband fixed wireless conference. This years Wireless Communications Association annual get-together, held in Boston at the end of June, was a lot like years past, except that this time we had numerous bankruptcies hanging over our heads in addition to the usual complaints about the lack of good gear. Over two days […]

Its midsummer in baseball, and midslump in telecom — time for second-tier teams to acquire talent from cellar dwellers and make a run for the pennant. Thats what Centerpoint Broadband Technologies did 10 days ago, when it announced an all-stock deal to acquire Zaffire, a company with sturdy Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) technology, but […]

Cisco Systems is among the dominant internet brands worldwide, but competing vendors would have you believe that the only way to stand apart from the crowd is to avoid the once-coveted “Cisco-Powered Network” designation. Often copied by competing networking gear manufacturers, the 4-year-old program provides free consulting and marketing help to carriers that purchase more […]

Coming to life Need help livening up the Web site? LiveWave Inc. says it has the answer. The Newport, R.I., company this month rolled out its ConvergenceCams suite of controllable remote video products. Robotic cameras The suite includes robotic cameras, multiformat distribution capabilities such as HDTV and MPEG-2 and numerous online streaming formats. Server components […]

Agilent Technologies Inc. is readying a new version of its Firehunter eCommerce performance management tool that extends monitoring to client-side JavaScript applications. Firehunter eCommerce, which competes with Mercury Interactive Inc.s Topaz and Hewlett-Packard Co.s OpenView Internet services, provides monitoring of different Web services by creating and recording synthetic transactions that are tested against a Web […]

With the benefit of a couple of weeks of perspective, its clear that there was not nearly as much good news for Microsoft as had first met the eye—and as the company would have had us believe—in the recent ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals. Study of the 39,000-word ruling reveals that time and […]

Volkswagen may become the first old Economy company to bring electronic auctions within its own operations on a large scale. The German automaker said it is taking control of its auction process for privacy reasons. The company said it doesnt want to risk exposing its parts contracts and prices on a third partys system. Volkswagen […]

CRM spending is up by leaps and bounds Seventy-four percent of businesses will spend more money on customer relationship management software and hardware this year than they did last year—some by as much as 50 percent—according to a report from Internet research company Jupiter Media Metrix Inc., in New York. Despite the economic downturn, Jupiter […]

Webvan Breaks Down Webvan, the most pro-minent online grocer, has made its last delivery. The company, which has been struggling financially for months after rapidly expanding over the past year, last week shut down operations and indicated it will seek bankruptcy protection. Soon after the announcement, the NASDAQ halted trading of Webvans battered stock, and […]

No one expects to be hacked, of course. But companies can protect themselves — just in case the unthinkable happens. “Cyberinsurance” is the moniker most often applied to policies that protect against losses from such security breaches. Traditional insurance companies, including American International Group, Lloyds of London and The St. Paul Companies, are now starting […]