eWEEK EDITORS

As Medieval legend has it, Camelot was the castle from which King Arthur reigned over and protected England. Todays Camelot provides a hands-off tool that allows I-managers to reign over and protect network resources from the dangers of real life. But unlike the storied Knights of the Round Table, who defended Camelot from outside attackers, […]

Without compelling content, consumer broadband is little more than an empty pipeline whose most impressive features are faster downloads and “always on” capability. After the early adopters, the next wave expected to pay premium rates for high-speed connections were those seeking streaming entertainment, which is virtually unavailable over dial-up networks. That idea drove the creation […]

As the United States escalates its war on terrorism in Afghanistan, the Department of Defense is accelerating an initiative aimed at replacing complex and inefficient procurement and logistics systems with collaborative, Web-based supply chain management procedures and software. The effort, DOD officials said last week, could cut DOD procurement and logistics costs by hundreds of […]

Sun Microsystems initiative to provide an open source set of building blocks for peer-to-peer computing is gaining some traction, but it still lacks enthusiastic support of large enterprises, according to industry executives. Suns Jxta Project, short for “Juxtapose,” was launched in April and has since signed up 6,700 developers. Sun has 20 of its own […]

Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Sun Microsystems – having already jaw-boned each other on the respective merits of their high-end Unix servers – shifted their sights last week to entry-level Unix servers and started all over again. The battle on the low-end Unix front will be fought over customers such as Dennis Steiger, chief of Internet engineering […]

Its been an interesting year for communications services. Many companies got better connected to their customers, others managed to hold the line and some, unfortunately, got hung up. It should come as a surprise that during the period described by many as high-tech nuclear winter, big telephone companies had a field day. Revenue from old […]

The pure online food and drug companies learned a valuable lesson in 2001: that you need a buddy to survive in the real world. A perfect example is Peapod. The online food company was bought by Ahold, a U.K.-based conglomerate that ranks as the second largest retailer in the world. As Ken Cassar, senior analyst […]

A new company led by famed Web pioneers Jim Clark and Krishna “Kittu” Kolluri is scheduled to introduce today its first product, designed to significantly reduce the cost and complexity of deploying secure remote networks for employees and partners. Neoteris produces network appliances that simplify the process of deploying a virtual private network for accessing […]

The Federal Communications Commission may boost the amount of wireless spectrum that an operator can own in a single market, and may agree to drop the cap altogether — but not without a fight. When the panel meets this week, observers expect it to increase the spectrum limits, from 45 megahertz to 55 MHz, and […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The little-used dot-us domain will be opened to the general public next year, giving American companies and individuals new alternatives to Internet addresses in the already heavily populated dot-com name space. Under a two-year contract announced last week by the Department of Commerce, NeuStar, a Washington, D.C., company, will open the registry […]