eWEEK EDITORS

The reluctance of businesses to jump into wireless technologies during the economic slump is hurting leading wireless application companies. 724 Solutions, which targets financial institutions with wireless applications, recently laid off 350 workers. OmniSky recently cut its work force by 100, and other players have also had to reduce their numbers. Wireless application developers must […]

Recent breakthroughs in digital technology could light a new path for the nations movie theater operators, after thousands of screens were darkened by bankruptcy. While excess theater capacity looms as the immediate problem, the major theater owners also need more entertainment fare and greater flexibility to survive in a media-saturated world, experts said. For those […]

On the heels of a product announcement from rival MySQL AB, NuSphere Corp. plans to up the ante in future versions of the open-source MySQL database. The Bedford, Mass., company last month launched version 2.3 of its NuSphere MySQL Advantage, with new features focusing on security. Next up is an as-yet unnamed version launching in […]

Qwest Communications Internationals announcement that it is using Nortel Networks products to build a new packetized network in a 14-state region is a signal that the telecom recovery has begun, that packets are the future and that reports of Nortels death are greatly exaggerated. Bill Lesieur, director of the market-research firm Technology Business Research, said […]

IBeam Broadcasting, one of the pioneers in Internet streaming services, has run out of cash. Marking another casualty of the tech economy slump, the streaming media hosting provider filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Thursday, Oct. 11. At the same time, iBeam said it has signed an agreement with network operator Williams Communications, under […]

Netizens will lose some of their privacy rights and businesses will find it harder to curb the snooping appetites of authorities under antiterrorism legislation that Congress expects to send to the president next week. After nearly a month of tense negotiations and high-wire political gamesmanship, the House and Senate late this week passed similar but […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Under court pressure at home to settle its long-running antitrust case with the Department of Justice, Microsoft may face an even tougher and costly battle in its fight against the European Union. EU investigators may seek a massive fine from the software giant and demand that it drop some features from Windows […]

Microsoft is fleshing out its web-services lineup to include not only consumer offerings, but a set of developer services, code-named Iris, that will be licensed — and, in some cases, hosted — by Microsoft. The company already has announced its consumer web services — .Net My Services (formerly code-named Hailstorm). Microsoft has begun delivering to […]

Qwest Communications International is leading the change among regional Bell operators to introduce IP telephony as a de facto standard in communications, a move that paves the way for futuristic voice applications and which materially changes the economics of telecommunications. The Denver-based carrier announced on Oct. 10 that its customers in Boise, Idaho, customers phone […]

Rolling out seven new models across its NetVista and ThinkPad lines, IBM this week tried to squelch rumors that it will vacate the PC business. Perhaps more demonstrative of IBMs allegiance was the release of a service that helps IT manage PC software images. Together, the announcements suggest a PC strategy that remains laser-focused on […]