eWEEK EDITORS

Qwest Communications International is moving beyond the 20th-century technology of circuit switching, and is starting to replace gear in its 14-state region with the packet switching technology of the Internet. Qwest becomes the first regional Bell to start the transition toward Voice-over-IP (VoIP) technology, which paves the way for services such as video caller ID […]

Global Crossing today becomes the largest carrier to endorse a new generation of virtual private networks based on Multiprotocol Label Switching technology, even as its competitors voice security concerns and network scientists warn such launches may lead to an Internet meltdown. Claiming to have the most expertise in MPLS, Global Crossing has extended the use […]

When I slapped the brochure for Penton Medias ISPCon/ASPCon/Last Mile trade show on the family dinner table, my wife looked at the front page with an expression of mild interest: “The Last Mile Show. Is that for companies about to go bankrupt?” she asked. First, I laughed hysterically, then I realized she was right. The […]

Lucent Technologies executives allegedly engaged in a series of fraudulent financial transactions with Winstar Communications – a company that Lucent heavily financed – to falsify sales and revenue performance, according to new documents filed in a pending class action shareholder lawsuit in New Jersey. Those documents include e-mail messages of former Lucent executives Richard McGinn, […]

In recent weeks, issues such as Microsofts anti-competitive behavior have rightly faded to nearly trivial stature. But as our attention gradually returns to everyday concerns, there are recent developments in that case that we find troubling. The appointment of appeals court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly promised a fresh start to the mired litigation. But soon after […]

Living in Denial Now, admittedly, most of the 900 attendees had drifted off to golf course dreamland by the time Kurt Rosenthal, Cisco Systems product marketing manager, reached the full-on sales portion of his 7 a.m. presentation — “IP Services: The Path to Profitability” — at the U.S. Telecom Association Convention & Exhibition in Scottsdale, […]

Government Gets Secure U.S. government agencies will begin deploying more secure authentication technologies as a result of a partnership between RSA Security and Maximus, a large government services firm. Using digital certificates and smart cards, agencies will begin implementing “two-factor” identification requiring both a password and an additional authentication method such as a smart card […]

Windows XP is set for an extravagant New York City launch on Oct. 25, but the debate over the security of an element called “raw sockets” in Microsofts latest operating system release will rage for quite a bit longer. Steve Gibson, an independent software developer who has written several security programs, has been waging a […]

With the recent surge in charitable donations around the country, I wonder if this penchant for giving will spill over into PC philanthropy, i.e., sharing unused computing power and hard disk space for the benefit of medical and other research. There are already several projects out there that allow you to do this, often simply […]

It should have been an easy contract for IBM to win. And in years past, it probably would have won the deal. But in late August, Firemans Fund Insurance Co. awarded a 10-year, $350 million outsourcing contract to Canadian integrator CGI Group, not IBM Global Services. CGI won even though Firemans Funds data center in […]