eWEEK EDITORS

Amid all the computer integration, sometimes the toughest thing is figuring out which partnerships to plug into. Douglas R. VanDagens probably feels that pressure more acutely than most executives in electronic commerce today. As the lead manager for new business development and strategy at Covisint, the electronic exchange and collaboration platform for automakers, VanDagens is […]

With more than 800 outlets, 11,000 vendors, 190,000 employees and millions of customers, minding the stores can be a big job for The Home Depot. To improve its ability to track the massive flow of voice and data between stores and corporate headquarters in Atlanta, Home Depot recently adopted AT&Ts Integrated Network Connection Service, designed […]

Developers working with an early version of Microsoft Corp.s Visual Studio.Net said new integration tools are easing the conversion of tools and languages to the .Net platform. The early version is part of a set of technologies called Open Tools Platform, which Microsoft announced last week. Also included in the set are two SDKs (software […]

Nasdaqs precipitous drop over the past year has given us all a business refresher course. To wit: Companies that dont make money are not only questionable investments, they may not be around that long. Of course, some people made some big bucks by getting in and out at the right moment. Traditional investors who take […]

Customers are gaining more control over setting up their own broadband services, as smarter devices roll out on the edge of networks. Business managers, by simply pointing and clicking, will soon be able to provision a few more phone lines during a busy time or order more bandwidth for the day that branch offices send […]

IBM is about to jump into the managed services business, moving squarely into the small- and midsize-business markets with services the company insists will extend the reach of its partners rather than create new competition. Big Blue officials say they see a huge opportunity in this market and fully intend to take advantage of it […]

Avner Ronen never intended to be the David to the Goliath called America Online. But the way the native Israeli sees it, his instant messaging company, Odigo, cant stop fighting to interoperate with AOLs client, AOL Instant Messenger. Odigo has 3.2 million registered users, merely a fraction of the 65 million registered users of AIM. […]

Subscribers to WinDough have a right to be disheartened. The online lottery site allows customers to pick seven numbers that they hope will be chosen by the WinDough.com Lotto computer. On March 2, many of us received e-mails announcing our numbers were picked by the computer the day before. Finally, after all those days of […]

Kiss that joke list goodbye: incoming funnies and other nonwork e-mails can now be blocked by your employer. A new e-mail monitoring system from SurfControl that is set for release in mid-April is able to watch incoming e-mail and block commonly reported jokes, hoaxes, spam and image attachments, as well as stop sensitive outgoing data. […]

Apparently the wine industry likes its marketing programs to be aged just like a fine Merlot. Benson Marketing Group, an Internet marketing agency based in Napa, Calif., wine country, is this month and next holding a seminar called “E-mail: The Killer Wine App.” The seminar is designed to help local vintners learn how to “foster […]

Erkki Liikanens name might not be familiar, but his efforts are gaining international attention. Liikanen is the key figure behind the European Unions efforts to modernize its economy and reposition Europe as a leader in the information technology sector. A native of Finland, Liikanen, commissioner of the Enterprise and Information Society directorates, has been the […]

Longtime Verizon Communications District Manager Rick Niblick knew a serious problem when he saw it: Water had permeated an aircore telephone cable that housed 600 copper pairs, serving businesses in a major shopping mall in New Philadelphia, Ohio. Verizon business customers in the mall were wrestling with static on voice lines. Internet connections were being […]