eWEEK EDITORS

Slower than expected cell phone sales toward the end of last year led to unusually high handset inventories and a backup in distribution channels, a phenomenon that is crippling cell phone manufacturers. And that backup of phones in inventory and the supply chain may slow the progress of the wireless industry — which means users […]

Its hard to find a new company name. Seems everything has been trademarked or copyrighted, and industry is rife with M&As creating a new brand around the merged entity. Want to avoid mouthful names like PricewaterhouseCoopers and Cap Gemini Ernst & Young? Here are some suggestions for catchy combos from recent M&A activity: > WesAPS—as […]

Lost Lead Singapore, usually pegged as a leader in the race to roll out third-generation wireless technology, cut the opening bid in its April cellular license auction from $85 million to $56 million, and pushed back the deadline for deployment by a year to Dec. 31, 2004. The opening bid was set last year, before […]

Although the collapse of dot-com retailers helped send the economy into a spin, we all knew it had to happen. And Lehman Brothers Holdings bond analyst Ravi Suria played a key role in introducing a dose of reality back into the marketplace. While most Wall Street analysts sang the praises of Amazon.com, boosting the companys […]

Times may be tough for some systems integrators, but outsourcers say they can help. By partnering with a specialist for tasks ranging from hosted infrastructure to Web-based desktop management, an integrator can offer cost savings to its clients IT departments. These partnerships also can help struggling service providers to expand their customer bases. Partnering wasnt […]

George Paolini is regarded inside Sun Microsystems as an executive with “a quiet demeanor,” and not the type that has always gotten ahead there. But Paolini, more than any other individual, has been responsible for putting the Java technology building process on an even footing and building confidence among Suns competitors that it will work […]

Wall Street may not be interested in funding e-commerce technology research and development at the moment, but The World Bank Group is. At the World Banks annual meeting last summer in Prague, the Czech Republic, the international lending giants members were treated to a demonstration of a prototype collaborative commerce Web site that might actually […]

Ariba and i2 technologies seem set upon ending their marketplace software alliance with a pair of acquisitions that are aimed at attacking one anothers markets. The deals would not only seal the fate of their rocky partnership, but ratchet up the pressure to fill out their range of products. That ultimately could help businesses that […]

While observers were quick to predict the demise of Napster after last weeks preliminary injunction, the terms could have been a lot worse for the music swapping service. Unlike the initial injunction issued in July and stayed on appeal, the new order doesnt hold Napster solely responsible for stopping all unauthorized trading of copyrighted files. […]

You may have never heard of Flextronics or its globetrotting chief executive, but youve probably bought something the company made. In 1994, Michael Marks took the reins of Flextronics, which was then a small contract manufacturer pulling down less than $100 million per year, and turned it into a global manufacturing behemoth that expects to […]

Loudcloud tested the initial public offering waters and they are . . . tepid. After repricing twice and delaying for 24 hours, stock of the managed service provider gained only 6 percent on its debut Friday, March 9, and then quickly settled back to slightly above $6 per share — its original asking price. The […]

Managed hosting company Intira Corp. will announce a partnership with Deloitte Consulting this week, with the promise of helping to bring high-end enterprise customers improved time to market, better Web site and applications reliability, and better technical support. As part of the deal, Deloitte, of New York, will take approximately a 10 percent equity stake […]