eWEEK EDITORS

Everyones looking for a way to get the Internet closer to consumers and businesses. But the “last mile” presents some formidable obstacles. Now we hear that two companies have teamed up to build an innovative, albeit unpleasant, way of delivering bandwidth: via the sewer. CityNet Telecommunications and CableRunner N.A. have partnered to build a last-mile […]

“Hey, you write about computers. Whats a good stock to buy?” If my portfolio went up every time someone asked me that question, my 401k wouldnt be taking such a hit these days. But the truth is, Im no better off than you, so my answer is always the same. “Cant help ya.” Even if […]

Web hoster DataReturn will announce a new high-reliability service with Microsoft this week, amid hoopla interpreted by many as a way to raise DataReturns profile, possibly leading to a partnership or an acquisition. The Texas Web hoster is adding services based on Microsoft software and its own know-how, which DataReturn CEO Sunny Vanderbeck said will […]

Much is being written about President George W. Bushs first 100 days in office. Well join the chorus but from the point of view of IT. The Bush administrations top priority has been its income tax cut plan. In principle, we see nothing to dislike here. Cutting taxes has always tended to aid in capital […]

What would you say if your firm made $22.4 million, but overall, lost $130.9 million in the first quarter of 2001? Somehow, it seems to us that the adjective “excellent” doesnt fit here. But thats just the term that OpenTVs CEO, James Ackerman, used to characterize the companys performance, which saw revenue double but losses […]

Apparently there is an inverse relationship between the health of a company and the hoopla it demonstrates at its user conference. For example, take B2B companies. Theyre all suffering right now, some more than others. But youd never be able to figure that out from recent trade shows. Last month, money-losing rivals Ariba and Commerce […]

Hes a happy penguin, designed to look like hes “just polished off a pitcher of beer and had the best sex of his life.” But what in the world does that have to do with open source software code? Not much, really. He just seemed like the appropriate mascot at the time, according to the […]

By June 21, federal Web Sites must comply with a new regulation mandating easy access by the disabled. The problem: Agencies arent sure how to do it. President Bill Clinton punted the details of implementing the 1998 law, an amendment to Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act, to a small, independent federal agency called the […]

Call it service economics. When the stock market gyrates up and down with the kind of sudden jolts that weve been tracking for the better part of a year, its time to bet heavily on vertical markets. In comparison, when the market shows steady growth, its time to test new technologies that can span many […]

The U.S. government could soon operate a plethora of new reverse auction e-marketplaces — if internal turf issues can be resolved within the General Services Administration. The Federal Technology Service, a division of the GSA, the governments main procurement arm, wants to set up pilot e-marketplaces that will run reverse auctions for a broad range […]

Studios have cleared one of the many hurdles involved in distributing movies over the Net by agreeing to a payment structure for writers in the motion picture, broadcast, cable and new media industries. Under the negotiated contract, writers will receive 1.2 percent of the fee a content exhibitor pays the license holder of the movie […]

What PC makers had hoped would be a temporary drought is turning into a drawn-out famine. PCs are just not selling as well as they used to, and the prolonged sales slowdown is inflicting severe pain on the industrys biggest players. PC sales to both consumers and businesses for the first quarter were even worse […]