eWEEK EDITORS

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Lawyers for Microsoft and the Department of Justice are scheduled to plead their cases this morning before a new federal judge in a hearing that marks the start of the final phase of the landmark antitrust trial. The litigants are expected to shed light on the appropriate punishments they believe Microsoft should […]

Storage leader EMC Corp. will announce a low-end resale deal with computer maker Dell Computer Corp. imminently. “We fully expected that deal wouldve been announced this week,” said industry analyst Steve Duplessie, of Enterprise Storage Group Inc. Dell, of Round Rock, Texas, will exploit its wide sales channel to resell EMCs Clarion systems, “which on […]

As Excite@Home tumbled into bankruptcy Friday, controlling owner AT&T offered to buy its broadband access assets for $307 million in cash. The Chapter 11 filing in San Francisco had been expected for weeks, with the nations biggest broadband service facing a severe cash crunch despite signing up 3.67 million customers by the end of the […]

The two-hour music production, America: A Tribute to Heroes, broadcast by the television networks on Friday, Sept. 21, produced a surge of traffic to the Web site of the same name, according to Nielsen//NetRatings, a Web audience measurement service. The site, at www.tributetoheroes.org, attracted 1.2 million unique visitors from the time of the broadcast through […]

Exodus Communications bankruptcy filing marks the end of exuberance in the last high-growth segment of the Internet era. And if Sprint ends up the new owner of the former Wall Street darling, the deal will also signal the end of the dream of Web hosters as an independent industry. On Wednesday, Sept. 26, Exodus filed […]

The 2nd annual eWEEK eXcellence Awards program puts the products and services released in 2001 to the enterprise IT litmus test: Can it improve performance? Can it create efficiencies? Will it help end users do their jobs better? Will it help retain existing customers and attain new ones? Will it solve a problem without creating […]

If AT&Ts flirtations with BellSouth and Comcast result in a union, it may be the dam-bursting event that powers a flood of mergers between regional Bells, long-distance carriers and their strongest competitors, analysts said. “Its only a matter of time before these Bell/long-distance deals happen,” said Legg Mason analyst David Kaut. “The question is when, […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Microsofts critics are increasing in number. Attorneys general from six states sent a letter to Microsoft stating concerns about anticompetitive aspects of the upcoming Windows XP system. The Sept. 20 letter to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer from Vermont Attorney General William Sorrell was delivered on behalf of attorneys general from Arkansas, Maine, […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly today ordered Microsoft and the government into settlement talks and refused to narrow the scope of possible punishments in the antitrust case. Kollar-Kotelly was polite but firm in her debut hearing on the case, and made it clear that an out-of-court settlement is her preference. In an order today, […]