eWEEK EDITORS

Rick Rickertsen began writing his book, Buyout: An Insiders Guide to Buying Your Own Company, before the technology market crashed. So his advice to managers on buying back their companies is littered with terms like “personal fulfillment” and “realizing your dreams.” But while that language no longer resonates in a devastated market, the COO of […]

Laid-off dot-comers should take a lesson from some folks who recently lost their jobs with Nortel Networks. The techies put their collective minds together and built a Web site that highlights their skills and experience. The site, hiretoptalent.com, showcases the workers from five different Nortel locations, and lists them by name and job skills. Clicking […]

Amid widespread criticism that its business model is too narrow to succeed— and in the wake of a lukewarm initial public stock offering— Loudcloud Inc. will try to expand its audience with new MSP offerings due early next month. Loudcloud is expected to announce a technology delivery model, an integration component to its Opsware suite […]

Busy Ballmer That Steve Ballmer sure gets around. Last Monday morning, Microsofts chief executive was on a conference call with eBays Meg Whitman to announce that the popular auction service had signed on as a supporter of its .Net platform — a set of technologies Microsoft is proposing for integrating Web sites, services and devices. […]

Its hard to imagine how running AT&T Broadband could get more complicated. With its parent company splitting into four competing parts, AT&T Broadband is operating in legal limbo, as courts and regulators sort out limits on AT&Ts share of the cable market. Meanwhile, AT&T Broadband Chief Executive Dan Somers must steer the worlds largest cable […]

Melbourne, Australia – the Internets domain-name management body spent a good part of its quarterly meeting here grappling over the terms of its agreement with VeriSign, the biggest player in the domain-name market. In the end, it put a new configuration of that agreement out for public comment and scheduled a vote for April 2. […]

Microsoft Courts eBay Microsoft and online auction firm eBay have formed an e-commerce partnership to gain wider acceptance for their Internet technologies. EBay will support Microsofts software-as-a-service plan, .Net initiative, Passport Internet-authentication technology and Windows 2000 server. Microsoft, in turn,will integrate eBays marketplace technology into some of its online properties. Novells New Network Network software […]

A sad chapter in the history of Digital Subscriber Line service will close this week, when the assets of NorthPoint Communications hit the auction block. Rumors are swirling, not only about what will happen to more than 100,000 mostly business customers, but about which company might purchase the bankrupt company. Potential suitors include Microsoft, Sprint […]

Using technology as old as World War II and as young as last weeks breakthrough, chipmakers are transforming optical networks with devices that slice, dice and relight optical fiber and all its traffic. The companies are not short on astonishing claims: Gemfire has a device that it says can pump erbium atoms onto eight channels […]

With earnings under pressure, Eastman Kodak is launching a major marketing campaign to try to remind the business world that the company has gone digital. This week, Kodak will run print ads in the Financial Times, Forbes, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, as well as television spots in Boston, Manhattan and […]

Only Silicon Valley could have produced TechNet, an amalgam of fund raising and influence peddling born during the infancy of the dot-com boom. Founded in mid-1997, TechNet was different from the beginning — a reflection of its roots in hyperkinetic-yet-casual Silicon Valley, where flux is revered as a bedrock value. The organization aimed to ingratiate […]

LAW Oracle, Ellison Hit by Lawsuits Oracle and its chairman and CEO, Larry Ellison, face more lawsuits that claim he and other company officials artificially pumped up the companys stock by overstating the success of its products, then sold shares just before issuing an earnings warning that sent the shares plummeting. Last week, a San […]