eWEEK EDITORS

In the aftermath of the suicide plane crashes into the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon, its incredibly difficult to concentrate on anything but news surrounding the events. Everything else seems so irrelevant. Yet the stories weve heard about how people involved in the tragedy were able to use their cell phones are remarkable. […]

The Problem A car dealership needs to connect its showroom (an Ethernet network) to its warehouse (a Token-Ring system). The two buildings are separated by railroad tracks so a wired solution could be problematic. Please recommend a secure wireless system that can link the two buildings, which reside about 200 yards from each other. My […]

Spectrum Shift In the wake of the terrorist attacks, the wireless industry stands little chance of gaining control of airwaves held by the Department of Defense, experts said. While wireless carriers have pushed to take over some DOD spectrum for next-generation services such as high-speed data, the Pentagon has argued that could pose dangers and […]

Chief Technology Evangelist Silverline Technologies www.silverline.com Elevator Pitch Seth travels the mobile trade-show circuit for e-biz consultant Silverline, evangelizing wireless app development. Claims to Fame Guru on the confluence of wireless, voice and Net technologies. Areas of expertise include J2EE, .NET, VoiceXML, wireless apps, EAI, B2B integration, content management and electronic commerce. Current Challenge Understanding […]

Gauging the return on investment (ROI) on technology used to be a straightforward matter. New IT investments were seen as operating expenses. Generally, their value was measured by the extent to which they reduced operating costs. No longer. E-business and other new technologies such as CRM have added all sorts of variations and complexities to […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. last week added high-end power to its “meat and potatoes” line of Unix products. The Palo Alto, Calif., company introduced the rp8400, a 16-way Unix server that brings some of the features found in its high-end Superdome system into the midrange segment of its product line. The rp8400, priced at $124,000 for a […]

As millions of Americans turned to the internet for news and information about the Sept. 11 terror attacks in New York and Washington, D.C., data traffic periodically overloaded fiber-optic networks, prompting error messages and long waits to load Web pages. When U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft gave out the Internet address where the FBI is […]

The era of purely static, passive network defenses is slowly coming to an end. Certainly, firewalls and authentication tools will remain a critical part of any sound security strategy for the foreseeable future, but it is clear that they are no longer enough. Given the amount of internetworking demanded by modern applications and the potential […]

Hand Over Hand Palm has introduced the m125, a new low-end handheld priced at $250; aimed at first-time buyers it includes an expansion card slot. Handspring, meanwhile, has rolled out two new Visor handhelds: Visor Pro, a rechargeable unit with 16 megabytes of memory priced at $300, and Visor Neo, an entry-level model priced at […]

Spending on e-business to rise … While tech spending is slumping overall, companies are beginning to appear more willing to spend dollars on e-business. AMR Research Inc., of Boston, found that U.S. companies plan to increase their overall spending on e-business initiatives by an average of 11 percent in the third quarter. AMR, which announced […]