eWEEK EDITORS

Communications Workers of America executives in Washington say the union is continuing to negotiate with the proposed buyers of the Lucent Technologies fiber optic plant in Norcross, Georgia, over existing contract agreements and other issues. But union workers at the plant – who will end up among the statistics in a massive workforce reduction still […]

Like many of its management service provider brethren, Loudcloud Inc. has been hampered by initial hype followed by a disappointing reality. In fact, late last month, the Sunnyvale, Calif., company reported a second-quarter loss of $76 million. But around the same time, Loudcloud announced a partnership with Denver-based Qwest Communications International Inc. Loudcloud officials said […]

VP, Corporate Development Edgewater Technology Elevator Pitch Focus is Maineros watchword at Edgewater Technology, a publicly traded holding company (symbol: EDGW), formerly known as StaffMark. He emphasizes the companys concentration on midmarket companies in the $50 million to $700 million revenue range. Vertical-market focus also is important; Edgewater pursues health care and financial services, among […]

The question of who, exactly, is delivering Internet service to cable customers is knotty at best, because many cable companies offer Internet service under different guises and with multiple service delivery partners. Even customers of high-speed access over cable who responded to our survey werent completely clear on who their providers are. When analyzing the […]

Internal Revenue Service deadlines are bad enough without having to worry about the status of your account, typos in your forms and whether the post office will get your payment in on time. The notoriously bureaucratic IRS hopes to fix some of that with a new Web site that lets businesses and consumers file returns […]

IBM to Expand eBay Auctions IBM and online auction leader eBay are strengthening their already close relationship. IBM, which is selling computers and servers on eBay in a pilot project that began earlier this year and already has an established presence within eBay Stores, will expand what it sells on the site, both at auction […]

Online Design Covisint, the online exchange for automakers, will begin using real-time collaborative design and project management tools from software vendor MatrixOne. The new offering is designed to help car companies reduce the amount of time it takes to bring their products to market by allowing them to instantly distribute engineering specifications and other information […]

Less than two months after Enron announced its broadband unit suffered a second-quarter loss of $102 million, the Houston-based energy giant has quietly rolled that business back into its wholesale trading arm. No press releases or other announcements were made about the move, said Terrie James, an Enron Broadband Services representative, because “it was internal […]

Recently, it seems as if theres a wireless LAN (WLAN) everywhere you look, and under the circumstances, its not surprising. With the emergence of IEEE 802.11 as the de facto standard for wireless networking, and the free fall in hardware prices over the last year, wireless deployments have become extremely inexpensive and easy—well within the […]

Note to I-Managers: dont get too excited about Pocket PC 2002. Even Microsoft admitted the upgraded software, scheduled for release around years end, isnt the answer to enterprise users prayers — though some observers wonder why not. Pocket PC 2002 focuses more on consumer-oriented bells and whistles, such as changeable skins and multimedia capabilities. It […]