eWEEK EDITORS

Forget location. If theres a 21st century axiom for the commercial real estate industry, its broadband, broadband, broadband. The commercial real estate industry is, in many ways, still mired in old ways of doing things. But market demands from both business and consumer customers for high-speed Internet access are pushing property owners to equip their […]

The trend by software companies to pump ever more dollars and energy into their online resources is taking hold as developers flock to the sites. Oracle Corp. is continuing to expand its developer site. The Redwood Shores, Calif., company recently added online training and seminars. Meanwhile, ActiveState Corp. launched last week an online site for […]

Im a passenger in a car, cruising around town and Im bored. So I pull out my nifty cell phone and start shopping. I find an album I must have now and make the purchase — never mind that I have to wait a week for it to arrive in the mail. Sound believable? I […]

If the cost and complexity of the customer premises equipment needed to make voice-over-DSL happen are a hindrance, then the folks at Occam Networks have an idea: Get rid of it. Today, VoDSL service uses an integrated access device to convert voice into packets on the customer premises and to send those packets out over […]

British megacarrier Cable & Wireless has been expanding its Internet Protocol portfolio and getting out of circuit-switched networks since its 1998 acquisition of MCI Communications backbone from WorldCom. The company has been mentioned recently as a potential buyer of Exodus Communications. Cable & Wireless CEO Graham Wallace spoke with Senior Writer Max Smetannikov last week. […]

For nearly two years, companies have bragged about the prospect of delivering broadband Internet access over the electric lines hooked to nearly every home in America. And though that promise has amounted to little more than hype here, consumers in Brazil, Germany and the Republic of Korea are beginning to use power line communications technology. […]

Cisco Systems galloped like a racehorse for 10 years. Bred for speed and growth, it never slowed its breakneck pace. When the racehorse crashed into the wall last week, announcing $2.5 billion in excess inventory and revenue 30 percent lower than the previous quarter, critics mused that it was a shame that Cisco wasnt part-plowhorse, […]

Acting CEO, Covisint Age: 46 Education: Bachelors from Central Michigan University, MBA from Eastern Michigan University and completed the International Executive Program at the International Institute for Management Development Car: Chevrolet Corvette Stress reliever: “Golf. I absolutely love golf. I try to play every single day.” Enrico Digirolamo has had an interesting career, working in […]

If you dont know what InfiniBand is, dont worry. Within three years, you probably wont be able to avoid it. By then, every server sold will likely be InfiniBand-capable and the new data exchange standard will be part of the fabric of faster, better networks. InfiniBand, short for “infinite bandwidth,” promises to radically change how […]

E-business is taking root faster than many people ever thought possible, and its raising eyebrows in places where people least expected it to hit. Consider what happened at Toshiba America Information Systems, for example. The company recently won a major contract from a Fortune 500 company for 20,000 notebook computers. But the customer also demanded […]

Marking a dramatic shift from its focus on Unix-based systems, Hewlett-Packard Co. last week announced plans to add 21 Intel Corp.-based Web server appliances to its stable of products over the next two months. The move is a continuation of HPs efforts over the last two years—such as its recent bulking up of storage system […]

Enterprises Tune in to Video Apps The picture may have turned fuzzy for many consumer- focused streaming video dot-coms, but enterprises are tuning in to the technology. Enterprises are projected to spend $2.8 billion on streaming video by 2005, up from $140 million last year, according to a report this month by Jupiter Media Metrix […]