eWEEK EDITORS

The Internet works against — and for — law enforcement and intelligence agencies. On the one hand, it opens new channels of communication for terrorists and gives them, authorities argue, a leg up in the war against their targets. On the other hand, it has populated authorities databases with reams of information, giving them exponentially […]

Is the Internet “too open” to guarantee acceptable security for the people and businesses that use it? To some extent, it is. But lets not get confused: What must be strengthened are technologies and security practices, not the governments control or oversight over what happens online. The week following the terrorist attacks, amid incessant replays […]

Judy Dixon is an old hand on the web, but www.coke.com brings her surfing to a screeching halt. “I can go nowhere and do nothing,” says Dixon, consumer relations officer of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped in Washington, D.C. Thats because The Coca-Cola Co.s site uses animations written in Macromedias […]

Alaska Citizens Get Best Online Access Looking for online access to your state government? In the United States, the residents of Alaska have the best Internet access to laws, government officials and other sources of government information, according to the fourth annual Digital State Survey, conducted by the Center for Digital Government, in Folsom, Calif. […]

Cyberspace Chief Named As part of an attempt to beef up national security, President Bush last week created an advisory office to protect the countrys computers from attacks. Richard Clarke, already Bushs national security coordinator, was named special White House adviser for cyberspace security. Clarke is tasked with coordinating efforts to protect IS throughout the […]

Call it the Silicon Valley Army knife. Handsprings new line of sleek mobile communicators, called Treo, combines a wireless phone, a handheld organizer and a wireless data device that provides on-the-move e-mail and Web browsing. Treo is scheduled to launch this week. “Its been a customer request for a long, long time,” said Joe Sipher, […]

Rumor Reality Virgin Mobile has finally found a partner for its mobile virtual network operator service: Sprint. Each company will contribute $50 million to the deal, which will allow Virgin Mobile to sell branded pay-as-you-go wireless service in the U.S. The two companies were rumored to be negotiating for months. AT&T Buys Telecorp AT&T Wireless […]

Large carriers have been launching different virtual private network services for three years now, and failed to spark mass adoption of the technology because they are the wrong companies to bring the technology to businesses, the founders of new VPN startup Virtela Communications said. Taking a page from AOLs play book, Virtela leases the entire […]

With PC processors already running as fast as 2GHz today, the worlds leading chip makers this week will focus their attention on ways to deliver even more performance without running up the clock. Technologies such as Intel Corp.s hyperthreading that advance chip performance beyond just speed will be among those featured at the annual Microprocessor […]

The Bush administration is moving aggressively on cybersecurity, calling for a closed IP network for government agencies and appointing a new presidential special adviser for critical infrastructure protection. The General Services Administration last week requested information from network vendors interested in building a protected government network, dubbed Govnet. “Govnet will be a private Internet Protocol […]