eWEEK EDITORS

Just months after celebrating a hard-fought congressional vote to expand trade with China, technology and Internet companies now fear they could be the next victims of the political fallout from increasing tensions over the spy plane collision and President George W. Bushs offer to sell Taiwan a huge arms package. Lawmakers next month must decide […]

A European Parliament Committee is expected to take up legislation in coming weeks that would require companies to include privacy-protection technology in their products. The controversial provision is included in proposed revisions to a 1997 European Union law outlining privacy protections in telecommunications. The parliaments citizens freedoms and rights committee is expected to vote on […]

Joining the frenzy for all things peer-to-peer, ChainCast Networks officially unveiled its streaming technology last week at the National Association of Broadcasters conference in Las Vegas. ChainCasts technology, in theory, enables media companies to stream live broadcasts more cheaply than with current Webcasting methods, by pushing bandwidth consumption out to the very edge of the […]

Web software vendor Macromedia is planning to kick off a partner road show in May to debut the latest version of ColdFusion and a new lineup of Macromedia products. Macromedia ColdFusion Server 5.0, which was released officially today, is the latest version of the Web application server by Allaire Corp., which was acquired by Macromedia […]

A dynamic Web site comprises a number of different elements, any one of which can act as a bottleneck and slow down or stop traffic. Tracking down a problem to a specific piece of your Web site is the first step toward fixing it. Bandwidth By some counts, the majority of all Web site performance […]

As the blue-green algae of the telecom food chain, chipmakers get rocked by bigger waves than do systems vendors, service providers or carriers — and are the best harbingers of downturns and recoveries. The ebb and flow of news from the semiconductor companies last week revealed that weakness is already giving way to new strength. […]

Frank Briamonte is pretty upbeat – for a guy whose job it is to be spokesman for Lucent Technologies Inc., that is. After all, how happy would you be if your employers stock took a deep-sea dive, sinking to $7.43 on April 12, down from a 52-week high of $67.18? Luckily for Briamontes wallet, Lucent […]

Investor sentiment about IT services stocks is beginning to turn positive, as an increasing number of companies report decent Q1 earnings and deliver mildly optimistic forecasts for future performance. “People are starting to look beyond the valley to the next six to nine months when IT spending will return,” says Christopher Penny, an analyst at […]

Supply chain software developer WorldChain Inc., of Fremont, Calif., last week appointed Robert Evans as chairman of its board. Evans, who is currently a venture capitalist with Valent Group, was chief operating officer of supply chain giant i2 Technologies Inc. Before that, he was president and COO of Aspect Communications Corp. until Dallas-based i2 purchased […]

Commerce One is taking drastic measures to align with its vendor partners in these desperate times. The e-marketplace software maker is reorganizing its sales and marketing operations to mimic the structure of SAP, its top tech partner. The pair already work together on product development and sales, with the ERP vendor driving 30 percent of […]

The tunnel keeps growing darker for the big three long-distance carriers, but there is a light at the end of it. While long-distance telephone revenue continues its sharp plunge and the top companies continue their vicious price competition, the push toward data and broadband offers promising results, new first-quarter results show. The fast-growing data business […]

Dell: Top PC Dog Dell Computer was the No. 1 PC vendor worldwide for the first quarter of 2001, beating out archrival Compaq Computer, which has consistently held the top sales position for seven years, according to research firm IDC. For the quarter, Dell had 13.1 percent and Compaq held 11.9 percent of the worldwide […]