eWEEK EDITORS

While there may be demand for video-on-demand, the supply side looks a little thin these days. With the major Hollywood studios casting a wary eye at Web-based distribution of their movies, deals are hard to come by. Just ask Blockbuster, whose video-on-demand trial with Enron Broadband Services landed like a dud last week after a […]

Data warehouses, data mining systems and business intelligence applications stand in readiness to serve e-commerce, but they carry one Old Economy characteristic that gets in the way: The information theyre working with is several days — or, more likely, weeks — behind events. In an online environment, business intelligence users say, that simply wont do, […]

The battle between owners of data centers and companies that want to sell more lucrative Web services is intensifying — and its bound to leave corporate customers caught in the crossfire. As the two kinds of Web service suppliers fight for dominance, customers may feel bullied into choosing sides, as LowestBids.com felt in recent dealings […]

Dot-Commers Haunt Job Sites … The dot-com downturn is contributing to a surge in traffic to the 20 leading career-related Web sites, according to Alexa Research, in San Francisco. According to the research company, the number of hits to Web sites, including Headhunter.Net Inc. and HotJobs.com Ltd., increased 47.7 percent among U.S. users between December […]

Because the relevant working “group” is no longer constrained to those on one companys payroll, groupware systems will need to easily extend to any user with a minimum of hassle. “Increasingly, you dont build [products] within corporate walls, you build them within an extended enterprise, and that requires collaboration capabilities, especially with life cycles of […]

First there was voice over copper. Then there was data over copper in the form of DSL. Now, finally, theres voice and data over copper: Its called Voice over DSL (VoDSL). Simply put, VoDSL is the packetizing of voice via a DSL line, and, thus, a copper wire. The packets can be either of the […]

So it has finally come to this: Krispy Kreme doughnuts. Maybe I should have guessed all along that the sole beneficiary of the current dot-com/telecommunications meltdown would be a purveyor of circular, carbohydrate-laden deep-fried confections. While everybody in the Internet sector is rapidly whirling down the great economic toilet bowl, our friends at Krispy Kreme […]

Fancy white limousines started showing up in Novells parking lot about two weeks ago, but only a handful of insiders knew the company was about to marry Cambridge Technology Partners (CTP). Secreted behind closed doors, top executives were discussing the terms and conditions of Novells proposed $240 million takeover of CTP. Given the troubled state […]

Robert Bowman has gone from PCs to the Padres. Last fall, he left as president and chief executive of electronics e-tailer Outpost.com to head up Major League Baseballs new Internet unit, MLB Advanced Media. Bowmans game plan: to consolidate the leagues 30 individual club sites into a single portal. The division also recently announced a […]

Sex doesnt sell well with GraceNet.net, a self-described “New Girls Network” for women in high technology. The San Francisco-based group—named after computer programming and cryptography pioneer Grace Hopper—is dispensing monthly DisGraceful Awards to advertisers who tend to go over the top. Decembers “winner,” server appliance maker Qsol, ran an ad in the November issue of […]

While the web integrators that made it big off of well-funded dot-coms are sweating the downturn of their customers sector, Predictive Systems remains cool. During the height of the boom, the six-year-old network infrastructure consulting firm never strayed into the Web front end, but instead kept its focus on the IT infrastructure. And its focus […]

Web site performance tester WebHancer Corp. this week will officially launch its flagship enterprise product to give users information about why, not just how, their sites do or do not perform well, officials said. The Ottawa-based provider was slated to launch e-Business View late last year. “Its entirely client-side software sending the data back to […]