eWEEK EDITORS

Noah Garden is in charge of helping Major League Baseball hit a home run on the Internet. The league manages a Web site, MLB.com, as well as e-commerce stores for each of the leagues 30 baseball teams. The league sells more than 6,000 products from its sites, and has begun offering subscription-based audio broadcasts of […]

Palm Inc. went public on March 2, 2000, at $40 per share and hit $150 on its first day of trading. Today, its trading around $7.70. So whered all the investor interest go? Well, a month after Palms IPO, another firm went public at $20 per share. Today, its trading at more than $50—90 times […]

Two conservatives are poised to assume positions of power and influence over technology policy in the Bush administration, and their views could alter debates over online privacy, antitrust and broadband open access. During Senate confirmation hearings last week, law professor Timothy Muris, 51, promised to “study” the privacy issue in greater depth than he has […]

The European Parliament last week adopted several amendments to two controversial environmental proposals to be considered by the European Union — one that would set recycling standards for obsolete electronic equipment and another that would ban the use of some key substances in new electronics. On the whole, the amendments would make the directives more […]

Intel Corp. is poised to flood the market with new chips in upcoming weeks, including its first 64-bit processor, the long-delayed Itanium. Prior to launching the chips, Intel will move to reduce existing inventories by discounting prices May 27 on select Pentium III and Celeron processors up to 38 percent. Under development since 1994, Itanium […]

Most Enterprises Lack Privacy Plans Only one-third of all organizations have implemented a formal privacy plan to date, according to the 12th annual Information Systems and E-Business Spending study conducted by Computer Economics Inc., an independent research company in Carlsbad, Calif. And 23 percent have no plan in place at all. According to the report, […]

In 1865, Chicagos largest banks founded the Chicago Clearing House Association (CCHA) to facilitate the clearing of checks between member and affiliated banks. In theory, its a fairly straightforward process. At the end of any business day, Bank A has accepted $X worth of checks drawn on accounts at Bank B, and Bank B has […]

Suppliers of storage systems are starting to move beyond their old debate over the merits of two technologies — storage area networks and networked-attached storage — and are embracing both. SANs and NAS have distinct profiles and different environments in which they work best. But most experts agree that both will play a role in […]

Crafting a highly interactive Web environment is really like putting the pretzels next to the beer. Thats the philosophy of Jay Diamond, president and CEO of Mediadome. Diamonds idea is that to really engage their most valued users, Web sites need content-placement tools that, in effect, let them put the munchies and the suds right […]

As the use of software components gains more clout in the enterprise, state governments also are getting into the act through a newly conceived private exchange for components. Backed by an organization of CIOs from the 50 states, the National Software Component Exchange will allow states to share software components with one another. The Georgia […]

It may seem like the airline industry is, at best, idling on the tarmac, or worst, in a tailspin. In-flight comfort is at an all-time low. The amount of delays and cancellations gets worse, not better. And airline personnel on the ground seem to have less access to up-to-date flight information than ever before. But […]

In conjunction with its new software licensing programs, Microsoft overhauled its large account reseller (LAR) program. LARs that sell Microsoft products under the companys Enterprise Agreement licensing program will now be called Enterprise Software Advisers (ESA). And Microsoft is taking over the sales function and leaving ESAs with service and support responsibility. Starting Oct. 1, […]