eWEEK EDITORS

Access denied Responding to the ever-increasing number of Web site defacements, WatchGuard Technologies Inc., of Seattle, this week will release a product designed to prevent attackers from gaining access to Web server content. Rules for protection Known as AppLock, the software automatically searches for Web content on the server and walks the administrator through a […]

After a five-month delay, the Bush administration has nominated John Marburger to become director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy. The OSTP chief has direct oversight of the federal funding of key university research and development areas, including optics, lasers and advanced networking. He or she also serves as the presidents key science […]

To protect enterprises from network downtime, RiverSoft Inc. has updated its IP network management software. The third iteration of the product, called Network Management Operating System and Fault Manager 3.0, was crafted to alleviate the problem of network downtime. The software from RiverSoft, of Richmond-upon-Thames, England, performs real-time updating of a networks topology and automatically […]

Executive Vice President of eCommerce, Mellon Financial Age: 54 Degree: Bachelors degree from University of California at Los Angeles. Masters degree and doctorate in semiology from UCLA and attended the Graduate School of Management at UCLA Car: Doesnt own one; lives and works in New York City Stress reliever: Writing poetry and traveling Janey Place […]

Perhaps the best way to manage a network teeming with PCs is not with more software or administrators but with a garbage truck. Many companies are hoping to save money and headaches by getting rid of the complicated, often obsolete PCs on every desktop and returning to centralized computing. eWeek Labs believes that, when properly […]

At Flutter.com, online betting is personal. The U.K.-based wagering site has developed a person-to-person model that allows bettors to place wagers on any eventuality they think has a chance of coming to pass — from the victor of the next horse race to where the Dow Jones Industrial Average will close tomorrow, or even which […]

The future crept up on me, slithering with purpose and stealth through the tall grasses as I scanned the horizon. I hunted for fat news stories to bag, but I overlooked the horrible fanged fiend in the weeds at my ankle. It sprang. Im stung. Ive had nightmares ever since. The sinister future that pumped […]

1911 — United States v. Standard Oil Co. Courts break company into dozens of pieces after trial that shows a wide variety of illegal practices. Supreme Court rules company violated antitrust statutes by doing things that could not have made any economic sense other than the destruction of its rivals. Government attorneys said Microsoft engaged […]

Within the legal community, Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson messed up for sure. He shot his mouth off, and now the U.S. Court of Appeals, with which the judge was annoyed for overturning his original injunction to stop Microsoft from tying Internet Explorer to Windows, has fired back. The 17 pages (the ruling as a whole […]

For months, even years, the experts said it could not be done. Antitrust laws, they said, could never react quickly enough to stop Microsoft from brutalizing the competition. But the sweeping, 125-page ruling handed down by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has changed that thinking, probably for good. Open […]

Microsoft has won a stay of execution in the U.S., but a European Commission probe into its market practices could have a very different outcome. The European Commission has two investigations of the company under way, both focusing on allegations that Microsoft is attempting to use its monopoly of the desktop operating system (OS) to […]

Whats the difference between two and three? In the case of competitive cable it could be life and death. As their counterparts in the telephone business drop like flies after hovering around the honey pot of local competition, upstart cable competitors are managing to survive in one-on-one combat with entrenched operators despite similar financial constraints. […]