eWEEK EDITORS

The idea of mobile virtual network operators or resellers is hot, especially amid the swirl of rumors that Virgin Mobile is this close to signing a deal with a U.S. operator to begin marketing a wireless service here. But a less-often-told turn to the story is the potential that wireless data adds to the reseller […]

Golden Chutes Lucent Technologies paid sacked CEO Richard McGinn $5.5 million in severance after he failed to engineer a quick turnaround of the troubled gear maker, and agreed to pay former Chief Financial Officer Deborah Hopkins $3.3 million, the company reported in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing. McGinn was replaced last October by his […]

If bookmakers gave odds on what would be the next big thing in the technology market, one of the big favorites would have to be customer relationship management (CRM). Reasons: By one estimation, the market reached $6.4 billion last year and is growing at a 50 percent-plus compounded annual rate even in the current economic […]

Intel Corp. will announce the release of a 2GHz Pentium 4 processor to kick off its Developers Forum next week in San Jose, Calif. The chip maker is also expected to promote several upcoming processors, such as its second-generation Itanium chip, code-named McKinley, and a mobile processor, code-named Banias, scheduled for release in 2003. The […]

Intel Corp. is warning computer makers to steer clear of a new chip set that could enable the manufacturers to build less expensive Pentium 4-based PCs by enabling them to use a less costly high-speed memory technology. Intel contends that the products manufacturer, Via Technologies Inc., has not secured the necessary licensing for its Apollo […]

TyComs timing couldnt be worse – or better. The submarine network supplier – turned operator – last week cut ribbons on its $4.4 billion global undersea network, vowing that a year from now it will be the largest such network in the world, connecting 30 cities over 56,000 mostly nautical miles. By then, it will […]

Plans to deploy virtual private networks using a new technology have sparked recent controversy, with the debate illustrating the need for technology managers to tune in to different ways carriers propose using Multiprotocol Label Switching. MPLS is an advanced way of managing Internet traffic by letting carriers merge different types of data traffic over one […]

Online smut still sells, but not nearly as well — or as easily — as it used to. In early 1997, Interactive Week published an in-depth exposé on the industry and found a vibrant marketplace booming with traffic, profits and big plans. More than four Internet years later, the market has shifted radically from what […]

Wall Street is jumping into trading bandwidth as the latest commodity to be bought and sold on open markets. Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co. and Cantor Fitzgerald both recently entered the bandwidth trading business, and The Goldman Sachs Group may join the fray. So far, the trading of bandwidth — and the promotion of […]

PC builders need freedom to maneuver during the coming winter holiday season. We urge Microsoft not to burden OEMs with a massive, generic Windows XP configuration that could easily intimidate prospective PC buyers by imposing too many ties to unproven Web services. If Microsoft overplays its hand, the result could easily be disappointing PC sales […]