eWEEK EDITORS

The recent news stories of rising unemployment rates hit my family very hard a few weeks ago when PricewaterhouseCoopers laid me off. The Fed may be insisting that we arent in a recession, but that is little solace when you have just moved to a new state, have few friends or local contacts, and suddenly […]

A researcher at the University of California at San Diego has documented that denial-of-service attacks are commonplace on the Internet, with an average of 4,000 occurring each week during a recent three-week study. As if to underscore the point, one of the most prominent security sites in the U.S., the Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination […]

Eva Chen has been in the anti-virus game longer than some of the aspiring virus writers who keep her busy have been alive. In the 13 years since she helped found Trend Micro Inc., Chen, the chief technology officer of the Cupertino, Calif., company, has been at the forefront of the battle against malicious code. […]

Rick Fleming vividly remembers the look on the executives faces. The officials already knew that their credit union had some Internet-related security problems. But when Fleming, vice president of security operations at Digital Defense, showed them a slide of the computer screen used by the credit unions tellers — a screen that was obtained by […]

I recently read “White-collar sweat-shop: The Deterioriation of Work and Its Rewards in Corporate America” (Norton & Co., 2001). Author Jill Andresky Fraser, finance editor for Inc. magazine, spent the past four years compiling statistical and anecdotal evidence for a horror tale worthy of Stephen King. Contrary to politically correct opinion, we are not better […]

1. Aside from intimate knowledge of your clients business, be prepared to offer a detailed analysis on cost savings for technology—and to have your work audited when the project is finished. 2. Writing contracts for projects based on ROI requires you to understand a cause-and-effect relationship from technology. Make sure you clearly establish a baseline. […]

Asked to describe his new CEO, Chris Formant, iXL Enterprises chairman Bert Ellis falls back on a favorite joke: There were twin brothers, one a pathological pessimist and the other a cockeyed optimist. With Christmas approaching, a child psychologist suggests giving the pessimist a roomful of expensive toys to raise his spirits, and the optimist […]

Like the leaders of many other technology companies, i3solutions Inc. CEO and co-founder Scot Johnson once thought the company had come up with an airtight legal document that would prevent any former employee from competing against the business. After all, a signature seals the deal, right? Wrong. Over time, numerous conferences with lawyers specializing in […]

Some cable companies want to provide voice communications for their customers, but they dont want to get into the telephone business. How is that possible? Through voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP), theres no need to tap into the public switched telephone network (PSTN) and, thus, no need to become a phone company. The problem is that quality […]

New Guy Ciena has named Gary Smith its new CEO. Smith, 40, was previously the telecom companys president and chief operating officer. In its latest earnings announcement, Ciena beat estimates, with revenue of $425 million and an operating profit of $19 million. Intel Goes Macro Intel this week is expected to start shipping its newest […]

The consolidation that the market has been waiting for in the Internet consulting space is picking up momentum, as evidenced by the recent acquisitions of Mainspring by IBM and Proxicom by Dimension Data. The current state of depressed stocks has made former highfliers reasonable acquisition targets. And with their stocks under water, solutions providers are […]

A new class of Internet monitoring tools debuting this summer will enable enterprise Webmasters and service providers to gain better insight into whats wrong with major Internet service providers and backbone connections to the Internet as well as how to make them better. Four companies—Keynote Systems Corp., Matrix.Net Inc., Mercury Interactive Corp. and Segue Software […]