eWEEK EDITORS

The management of rich media is so important that IBM and Arthur Andersen both have built global practices to develop processes and structures to deliver it. But what tools are being used to build processes and frameworks? Who are these digital librarians? Divide the practice into two groups: the integrators (Arthur Andersen, Concero, IBM and […]

Mondosoft, a Danish company that makes a remotely hosted search engine for large Web sites, is doing a little searching of its own these days. Having made a name for itself by directly selling its service to some big clients, including the Oakland Raiders and The Washington Times, Mondosoft Inc. is on the prowl for […]

One of the biggest problems for merchants facing Internet fraud is that criminals are getting more sophisticated and there are very few cops on the beat to catch them. “The Internet gives these criminals anonymity, and the international angle makes it very difficult to prosecute these criminals in jurisdictions outside of the U.S.,” said Mark […]

Maybe the problem with all those failed dot-coms is that they tried too hard. It turns out that at least one way to succeed as a retailer on the Internet is to let your customers do most of the work, not keep any inventory in stock, and sit back and watch the money roll in. […]

Oil Exchange Closes Oil and gas giant Chevron is closing its online oil marketplace after less than a year. The company says it will discontinue Silicon Valley Oil, the spin-off it had launched to operate the marketplace. Chevron says the spin-off was unable to sign on new customers at a rate needed to sustain long-term […]

Your clients burgeoning digital assets are worthless, unless they can be retrieved and put to use. Retrieving them requires a solid process to store, name and index those assets, much the same as finding a book at the neighborhood library requires a card catalog. While Dewey hasnt evolved into the digital age, digital asset management […]

Bea Systems Inc. is moving into the business-to-business integration and application arenas with three new products for its WebLogic application server. Set to roll out the products at its user conference in Dallas this week, BEA is playing catch-up with some customers. Edward Pick, chief technology officer of B2BGalaxy.com Inc., which builds B2B networks, said […]

One of the latest cyberscams involves international thieves using stolen credit cards to buy goods from U.S. Internet merchants. The crooks are setting up stateside addresses to receive the stolen property and then forwarding the goods overseas, primarily to Asia, Europe, Latin America and Russia. Just about every major Internet retailer has been hit, costing […]

The typically staid wireless telecom crowd at the 3GSM World Congress last week was wowed by images of futuristic mobile devices helping run businesses and homes. But later, wireless technology leaders warned that such gee-whiz applications are years away. Business applications will be developed before mass-market uses for new technology, and in the U.S., widespread […]

Day in Court Today, it begins again. Microsoft will ask a panel of seven judges to reverse U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Penfield Jacksons order to split the company and declare his finding that the company violated antitrust laws null and void. Dividing the company into disparate pieces always seemed a long shot. But now […]

Use of mobile Web services limited … Just 7 percent of u.s. adults say they or someone in their households use Internet services accessed via a mobile phone, according to a recent telephone survey of 1,022 randomly selected households done by research company Taylor Nelson Sofres Intersearch, in Horsham, Pa. Only 4 percent of those […]

In a speech to the European-American Business Council last March, European Commissioner Erkki Liikanen touted Europes lead in wireless technologies and predicted that the Continent could leave the U.S. in the dust, rolling out third-generation wireless networks. A year later, 3G spectrum has been auctioned in Europe, and mobile phone users there still outnumber U.S. […]