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Anybody who regularly has the stars for a ceiling and the ground for a floor knows that, when camping, its wise to bring the necessities and not much more. Camping World—the worlds largest retailer of recreational-vehicle accessories—followed that advice when the $350 million, 30-store retailer and mail-order company upgraded its IT infrastructure. Camping Worlds IT […]

Comdex may have its Vegas dancing girls and booth babes, but at least one JavaOne partner will take a step toward entertaining its attendees at this years San Francisco event. Flashline, a software component products and services provider, will introduce its remotely controlled Lego Mindstorms JavaOne mascot robot. The robot claps, can follow light sources, […]

Until the late 1990s, Health Plan of Nevada, a health maintenance organization based in Las Vegas, was a happy settler on the frontier of Nevadas HMO landscape. In fact, it was the only real settler in the states HMO lineup, enjoying almost 100 percent market share. But that all changed when outside competitors began to […]

Just when we all thought Nokia was firmly entrenched as leader of the cell phone market, demand for data services from mobile handsets emerges and shakes up the picture. Over the next few years, its likely that a slew of new companies whose names we dont recognize today will usurp Nokias seat of power. Many […]

The Application Service Provider market is starting to take shape, after two years of unbridled hype and too many false starts. Now, the inevitable shakeout can begin in earnest. While the ASP model always held immense appeal as a more efficient way of distributing software and services, it took time to iron out the delivery […]

The biggest player in B2C is the federal government, topping Amazon.com by half a billion dollars last year. Most of that was generated by Treasurys online sales of savings bonds, T-bills, etc. But $300 million found its way into the general fund via federal Web stores. The Government Printing Office sells CDs, manuals, databases and […]

Enhanced routing CommWorks Corp. upgraded its Total Control 1000 transaction gateway to offer enhanced routing, accounting and reporting features. Single-dial access The gateway can handle hundreds of millions of transactions involving the transfer of small amounts of data in a single-dial access session (such as credit card authorizations, debit card fund transfers, health benefit authorizations […]

E-COMMERCEGovernment Is Top E-Tailer Move over amazon.com, theres a new king. A study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project and Federal Computer Week showed the federal government has become the top e-business in the country. The study, released last week, stated that the government generated more than $3.6 billion in sales last year, […]

Cable television still reigns supreme in terms of market share, but DirecTV has put satellite broadcasting on the pay-TV map. “There are over 100 million television-viewing households, and the beauty of satellite is that we have instant reach into all of those markets and households,” says Terry Ferguson, vice president of business development and strategic […]

With the release of its Office XP last week and with its Windows XP expected later this year, its a busy time for Microsoft Corp. Rick Belluzzo, Microsofts president and chief operating officer, spoke with eWeek Senior Editor Peter Galli last week from his Redmond, Wash., office about these releases and Microsofts vision going forward. […]

David Freeman, California Gov. Gray Davis chief energy adviser, has a message for the states big technology companies: Quit whining. California may be facing a summer marred by blackouts, and electric rates for large industrial customers have jumped by nearly 50 percent, but, Freeman said, “Our economy is still doing fine.” And despite claims by […]

Toon Boom Technologies Inc., which made its name with animation on the big screen, is now moving to the World Wide Web, adding to its animation software a new product designed for Web animators. Toon Boom Studio Version 1.0, which will be released in upcoming weeks, includes capabilities to do movie-quality, two-dimensional animations for the […]