eWEEK EDITORS

Sun Microsystems Inc. and chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. were the latest high-tech companies to warn this week that quarterly earnings will fall below Wall Street expectations. Sun said its earnings were hurt by the economic fallout from the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington. Sun, a leading manufacturer of […]

IBM, in its first significant PC announcement in a year, will introduce five new ThinkPads and three new NetVista models on Tuesday, according to sources close to the company. Just as important, IBM PC Division general manager Jon Judge, the sources said, will try to dispel rumors that IBM might be exiting the PC business. […]

WASHINGTON, .D.C.- Microsoft should face harsh penalties, including mandatory licensing and opening up much of its source code as a remedy for its illegal practices in the marketplace, officials of an antitrust think tank said today. The American Antitrust Institute proposed 10 remedies for the case, which now sits before the U.S. District Court. Next […]

Soon, Qwest Communications will start selling advanced wavelength services in conjunction with its archrival Level 3 Communications. Its a tangled tale that has industry analysts scratching their heads in wonderment. Central to the plan is an unknown startup called Calpoint, with whom Qwest has struck a five-year deal to resell individual wavelengths of connectivity through […]

Ray Lane, former president of Oracle, has taken the chairmans reins of SeeBeyond Technology, a rapidly growing application integration software vendor whose products can coordinate data from many sources. The firm already does a healthy business with the federal government, including federal security agencies. “At Oracle, Ray brought a focus to customer problems and the […]

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. next week will release a new processor to challenge Intel Corp. in the high-end PC market, but the chips debut comes amid an ongoing industry slump and growing concerns about AMDs eroding customer base. In the last two months, PC makers IBM and Gateway Inc. have announced plans to phase out […]

IBM Wednesday added its most powerful Unix server yet to its lineup, a 32-way system featuring its new “server on a chip” microprocessor architecture, the 1GHz 64-bit Power4. The eServer p690, known by the code name Regatta, also features self-healing technologies to reduce system failures and has the capability to be divided into as many […]

Business conferences have felt the ripple effect of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, primarily from the reluctance of some attendees and exhibitors to fly to the locations. Some conferences were postponed, others outright canceled. Mercury Interactive Corp., a maker of network load testing equipment, didnt cancel its user conference later this month, only moved it […]

The American publics scaled-back travel plans could not have come at a worse time for the handheld market. Without a highly mobile work force, the need for handhelds fall off a cliff. “Our worst pre-Sept. 11 scenario is now our best-case scenario,” says International Data Corp. analyst Kevin Burden. Indeed, IDC has scaled back its […]

After months of quiet promotion, IBM today launched its Regatta-based server, a machine it believes will bolster its years-long effort to steal market share from Sun Microsystems in the lucrative Unix server market. The new server, the p690 eServer, is based on IBMs newest chip, code named Regatta. The Power4 microprocessor is based on copper […]