eWEEK EDITORS

Bookworms bootleg, too Music enthusiasts are not the only ones swapping bootlegged copies of their favorite artists work on the Net. A study by Envisional released last week found that book lovers have made 7,267 pirated e-books available for free download on the Web. The most-pirated author in the report by the U.K.-based software company […]

BlueStar Communications may be bankrupt – and blamed, at least in part, for the demise of Covad Communications, the largest wholesaler of DSL – but a key executive of the Tennessee company is back in a saddle, with a new DSL play and the enthusiastic support of his former customers. Cliff Duffey, BlueStars former chief […]

Intel Phones Up Intel advanced its “post-PC” strategy, announcing a partnership with Symbian to codevelop tools for writing applications that run on Intel chips and the Symbian OS, which was designed for smart mobile phones. Intel and Symbian — a consortium that includes Ericsson, Nokia and Psion — plan to port the Symbian OS to […]

Air Battle The Federal Communications Commission has agreed to take comment on a plan that New ICO said could save the mobile satellite sector by allowing operators to build land-based systems that would extend their signals throughout cities and into buildings. But mobile wireless operators promise a fierce battle for the spectrum needed. Profits in […]

Server sales are shifting toward smaller, denser units as shipments slow down, according to new figures from IDC. Until the current slowdown, server sales were growing by double-digit figures, but growth stalled in the second quarter and sales were flat, IDC representatives said. Compaq Computer regained its wide margin of leadership as its market share […]

The iPlanet division of the Sun Microsystems/Netscape Communications alliance is pushing integration, not just for its customers, but also within its product line. The result is middleware that shares underlying components, works together better and generates a smaller footprint on the hardware server, said Sanjay Sarathy, director of iPlanet product marketing. IPlanet Integration Server Business-to-Business […]

The once unstoppable, well-oiled machine of the networking industry has gotten a major overhaul. Ciscos sweeping reorganization acknowledges converging lines of business, and thus aligns resources by technology rather than by market segment. Executives are playing musical chairs in the biggest structural shuffle in four years. Cisco is centralizing its engineering and marketing organizations under […]

The last thing the U.S. needs is another underused high-speed test bed network designed to look for the next great Internet application, right? But link computers at four major research institutions via an ultra-high-speed broadband network, and you might get a glimpse of the real future of the Internet. The National Science Foundation earlier this […]

Bad ideas, like Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act, dont go away on their own. They need to be defeated. Were glad to see there are signs of this happening, but more needs to be done. UCITA, as it stands now, is an unacceptable vendor power-grab. It must be brought in line with existing consumer protection […]

Its distressing, this 21st-century American economy, with its simpering stock market, its lust for layoffs, its warehouses larded with vestiges of that sad relic variously championed as the Information Economy, the New Economy and the Digital Economy. The 21st-century American economy shrinks from its predecessors naiveté. “Buffoon!” whispers the Very Scary Economy, shaking its head. […]