eWEEK EDITORS

In the last ethics in IT column, I addressed the issue of allowing users to get to sites and services that provide access to legally protected material such as copyrighted music. In response to that column, one reader posed a related but broader question relating to Web surfing. Namely, what, if anything, should an IT […]

Mobile computing is underachieving. this is especially true for North American companies wrestling with incompatible, and often unavailable, packet-based digital radio networks. Sure, mobile e-mail and contact management are useful, but the gee whiz days for those technologies are long gone. Much more is needed. Does your mobile infrastructure help employees know when critical business […]

Amazon Buys Egghead.com Amazon.com is looking to become a bigger player in the online electronics market. The e-tailer has spent $6.1 million to buy the assets of Egghead.com, the online electronics marketplace that—like many of its brethren—shut down and filed for bankruptcy protection earlier this year. Last week, people who went to the Egghead.com site […]

Compaq Computer Corp.s first Itanium-based server, announced in July, still is not ready to ship, despite word from Intel Corp. that it has resolved at least one problem that initially delayed the servers release. Last month, Compaq disclosed that it had held off shipping its new Itanium server, the ProLiant 590/64, due to a performance […]

Looking to succeed where others have failed, Hewlett-Packard Co. last week unveiled a high-density server it contends addresses major customer concerns that undermined earlier rivals efforts to successfully market blade systems. By basing its blades on CompactPCI (a standards-based architecture) and using Intel Corp. processors in a less tightly packed design capable of handling heavier […]

Albert Gidari, partner at the Seattle law firm Perkins Coie LLP and noted for his activity in telecommunications law, jumped all over the Patriot Act when it was passed by Congress in late October. Gidari then issued an advisory Oct. 26 to service provider clients that covered pen register authority, named for the device originally […]

IBM last week became the latest major chip maker to announce a new transistor design for microprocessors that will boost performance and reduce power consumption. The disclosure came less than a week after Intel Corp. revealed a similar research effort aimed at overcoming potential obstacles to building ever-faster and more energy-efficient computer components. The two […]

Slowly but surely, the screws of electronic surveillance are tightening, and in the process, changing the rules of what can and cannot be monitored and threatening to drive upward the costs that carriers charge their enterprise customers. The move to more stringent surveillance became inevitable after Sept. 11, but laws granting access to law enforcement […]

Read this weeks Spencer column.

Advanced Digital Information Corp. is shipping tape libraries for mid-range and data center use with dual 2 Gbps Fibre Channel adapters. “What were announcing is the integration of storage networking within the tape library,” Jeff Eckard, product manager at ADIC, said on Monday. ADIC, of Redmond, Wash., also is now shipping a new management console, […]