eWEEK EDITORS

Unified messaging is gaining traction, allowing you to hear e-mails and listen to voice mails through an e-mail client. But why stop there? A new technology from LifeFX Networks Inc. could change the face of e-mail forever. Its called Facemail, basically a digital stand-in that reads your e-mail to you, complete with winks and grins, […]

One year ago, Webconferencing upstart Mshow.com was reveling in top-line growth and earning the sort of attention Hollywood media machines enjoy. What a difference 12 months make. In January, the company cut a quarter of its staff, leaving about 160 employees in its Denver headquarters and Austin, Texas, operations center. Last month, Bob Ogdon, Mshows […]

Its amazing how fast a new application can be orphaned by a struggling company. Due to the onslaught of new servers and operating systems, legacy applications now have the shortest life spans Ive witnessed in the last 20 years. Case in point: Our 4-year-old, $400,000 court reporting system has turned to garbage. In its day, […]

Now that Apple has released its long-awaited Mac OS X operating system, whats next? Is the company on the verge of going the way of Silicon Graphics, as Michael Dell stated in his self-serving comments in a recent issue of Business Week? I dont think so, but then, I never did. I wish I had […]

Peer-to-peer software companies are beginning to roll out new trading, collaboration and content management applications as the technology looks to prove itself in the world of business-to-business computing. But unlike previous debuts of new Internet technologies, which were initially greeted with unbridled enthusiasm, P2Ps proponents are battling unflattering comparisons to the rise and fall of […]

When Groove Networks released its software and announced three large customers earlier this month, it kicked off business for one of the most watched companies in the unproven peer-to-peer software market. “There isnt a lot of P2P deployed, particularly in the B2B space,” says Andrew Mahon, director of strategic marketing at Groove. But Groove believes […]

It must be getting tougher to get attention in these difficult times. Check out the latest e-mail release from High Road Communications, representing PlateSpin Inc: Subject: Viagra for Service Providers: Raising Efficiencies. The first line of the press release advised that “Service providers are dropping like flies.” The rest of the piece—about PlateSpins remote monitoring […]

Wireless application enablers Air2Web Inc. and Aether Systems Inc. are each readying upgraded development offerings that focus chiefly on increased mobile commerce security and simplified device-specific development issues. Air2Web, of Atlanta, has a broad plan for upgrading its subscription-based mobile development solution, DevCenter. In addition to a new security and authorization feature, various revisions due […]

As it kicks off its newest technology initiative, Sun Microsystems is training gunfire on one of its oldest enemies: Microsoft. Sun this week expects to launch Jxta, an open source project to develop infrastructure software for peer-to-peer applications. What does Sun hope to accomplish with Jxta? Perhaps nothing more than to establish a beachhead against […]

Bragging and Texas go together like enchiladas and hot sauce. So, its not surprising that the states capital happily ticks off its list of superlatives — Its the “Live Music Capital of the World”; it has the worlds largest urban bat colony; and, by the way, the dome at the Texas State Capitol Building is […]

Orbitz Takeoff Cleared Orbitz, the travel exchange proposed by most major airlines, is gathering velocity. The Department of Transportation says it will not try to block the service. Orbitz already has signed up three major hotel partners, Hyatt Hotels & Resorts, Marriott International and Wyndham International. Online Buying Stalled Businesses stilll have big plans to […]

It always feels different when things hit close to home. Take, for instance, the dot-com carnage taking place these days, with companies shutting down and employees being escorted out into the street by security personnel. Those of us still gainfully employed can only look on in muted horror, seek assurances that our own job is […]