eWEEK EDITORS

Last week marked another milestone for the future of XML. In addition to the release of the World Wide Web Consortiums XML Schema, the scores of companies involved in the UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery and Integration) project announced that the business registry for Extensible Markup Language-based Web services is now live. “Its an essential part […]

It turns out that the vanguard of e-marketplaces may not be a flashy upstart dot-com, but the U.S. Navy. The service has named 21 contractors to compete for contracts on its first e-marketplace — a bazaar that will focus only on services. The Naval Sea Systems Command, or NavSea, quietly opened SeaPort at www.seaport.navy.mil several […]

With the launch this week of its updated thin-client computing platform, Tarantella Inc. hopes to draw on its years of mainframe experience to offer enterprise users better scalability, drive mapping and local printing. Tarantella Enterprise Version 3.1, to be announced at the NetWorld+Interop trade show in Las Vegas this week, includes improved packet prioritization to […]

The Internet was built by ivory-tower engineers and it shows: the smartest networks are as dumb as a bucket when it comes to making a buck. More and more managers in charge of developing Internet Protocol-based services are discovering that data networks carrying IP traffic dont have what it takes to provide billable information. Moreover, […]

Fantasma networks boasted some of the best minds in the world of ultrawideband technology. Backed in part by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, the company dreamed of creating a new kind of wireless data network on the cutting edge. Last month, Fantasma closed its doors. The reason: The company could raise no more money because the […]

Business customers can expect a new communications tool to hit their desks starting this summer — an Internet Protocol telephone. Large enterprise carriers, including AT&T, Cable & Wireless and WorldCom, are getting ready to roll them out, and so are more nimble, vertically integrated carriers, such as Allied Riser Communications. While phone calls over the […]

Cisco Systems last week introduced seven telephony products that will make possible a fully converged network of data, voice and personal services for enterprises and universities. “This past quarter, weve seen more orders than we ever had before for Internet Protocol telephony,” said Bob Erdman, director of product management at Cisco. “Customers are doing their […]

Do one thing, and do it well: thats supposed to be the mantra that drives the design of portable digital devices. Well, heres a happy exception to that rule. The Samsung Uproar — a combination wireless phone and MP3 audio player — does two things, and it does them both very well indeed. The Uproar, […]

Remain Seated President George W. Bush last week said he expects to extend Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powells term until June 30, 2007, and put the FCC nominations of Kathleen Q. Abernathy and Kevin J. Martin before Congress. Profit Up, Payroll Down Corning, the biggest maker of optical fiber, lowered its 2001 profit and […]

Microsoft Corp.s FrontPage 2002 and NetObjects Inc.s Fusion MX are competent, expanded products that, although of the cookie-cutter school of Web site creation tools, will be valuable to small companies that need to create and post entire sites quickly. FrontPage and Fusion do well in setting up an entire site, managing links and assets, and […]

If youre fortunate, upper management has involved you in plans to acquire another company. This process—usually referred to as due diligence—gives you, as IT manager, a chance to learn about another companys environment and technology. As a result, youll be able to report to your companys management on a variety of areas, such as what […]

Anyone can tell you its risky to put a bank branch with unlocked doors next to a freeway on-ramp. It doesnt take long for would-be robbers to notice the combination of an attractive target and a ready means of escape. Something similar is happening as Net-based businesses are generating an ever-larger revenue stream, while the […]