eWEEK EDITORS

Hoop Streams The National Basketball Association broadcast its first live, streaming video of a game online this month in conjunction with RealNetworks. Under a partnership with the league, RealNetworks streams audio-only feeds of NBA games to subscribers. Both companies expected the broadcast to draw a worldwide audience for the Dallas Mavericks-Sacramento Kings game. IBM: Just […]

Software developers next month will see a new UML tool designed to allow them to collaborate with colleagues. Startup CanyonBlue Inc. last week unveiled Cittera, an Internet-based collaborative Unified Modeling Language tool that aims to compete with Rational Software Corp.s Rational Rose. Venu Gopal, chairman of CanyonBlue, said that while there has been a lot […]

The information technology boom and bust of the 1990s is leaving a lot more than worthless shares and frustrated investors in its wake; it is producing a mountain of electronic waste as technological advancements make computers and other devices containing toxic products obsolete at a constantly increasing pace. Governments around the world are taking note, […]

In a big push to reach a broad range of partners, Sun Microsystems is rolling out major enhancements to its certification program, beefing up its compensation model, and creating a go-to-market strategic playbook for it partners. Company president and COO Ed Zander and top executives will announce the initiatives to more than 500 service provider […]

I attended Ciscos partner summit during the first week of April. So did about 3,000 Cisco partners from 77 countries whose firms represent “the vast majority” of Ciscos revenues, according to Tom Mitchell, senior VP of worldwide channels. But those attendees amounted to only 1 percent of all the employees of Ciscos 40,000-plus partner firms. […]

The inside word at IBM is that enterprise resource planning—ERP to most of us—is hot again in the middle market. Even top execs at Big Blue were shocked. But what surprised them isnt that the market has legs. No one in the upper reaches of the companies that stand to gain from this technology ever […]

No news was good news for many consulting and service provider stocks, which have recovered some of their recent losses. The rebound lifted our index 9.5 percent for the week ended April 11, its first increase this month. “I like to think were nearing the bottom, if not there already,” says Gary Dean, an analyst […]

Just because the chief strategy officer represents the latest executive trend, it doesnt necessarily mean you should hurry off and hire one from outside the company or promote someone from within. Failing Internet consultancies, for example, are generally way too far gone to concern themselves with the nuances of corporate strategy. Michael Treacy, the CSO […]

As the number of new computing devices and new data formats grows, so, too, is demand for ways to create content once and repurpose it for multiple platforms without duplicating their work for each medium. Adobe Systems Inc. may have one answer. At the Seybold Seminars Boston conference last week, the San Jose, Calif., company […]

The U.S. is in danger of losing international rights to choice locations for satellites that could be used to deliver broadband data services nationwide. Experts blamed licensing delays, technical indecision and the state of financial markets. If U.S. companies that hold licenses to the orbital “slots” dont have operational satellites in orbit by deadlines ranging […]

Livingston, Texas — population 6,000 — is a rural stretch of land located somewhere between Houston and nowhere. But here, in the heart of the Great Piney Woods of East Texas, the future of high-speed communications is now. Converged services like data, telephone and digital-quality television are traveling over a unified copper backbone. Though you […]

To the Plate The collapse of DSL provider NorthPoint Communications is giving last-mile service providers a chance to prove their mettle. Optical Internet Protocol network provider Yipes Communications says it got Houston management consultants King Capman & Broussard and Chicago-based LETCO hooked up within three days. LETCO signed on with Yipes after learning their local […]