eWEEK EDITORS

This months Anti-Napster appellate court ruling struck a sour note for many businesses interested in new technologies. The legal precedent will affect the ability of consumer electronics companies to innovate and the need for service providers to police their subscribers activities, experts said. Users of various technologies may suffer if new products are limited and […]

Business-to-business marketplaces are struggling not just because few companies are buying through them — suppliers are reluctant to join for fear of becoming indistinguishable from their competitors. It is the latest problem exchanges are experiencing, as they try to pool a large enough group of buyers and sellers to become successful marketplaces. And it is […]

Whats the most popular search entry on the Internet? A study says the word “sex” is the Big Kahuna, to nobodys real surprise. But in a real shocker, the new Alexa Research study found that many surfers dont realize they can simply type the name of their destination into the address field of their browser. […]

Yahoo! Execs Say Adieu Two of Yahoo!s top international executives are leaving the company. Fabiola Arredondo, managing director at Yahoo! Europe in London, resigned earlier this month. Arredondo, who joined Yahoo! in 1997, will leave to pursue other business interests, according to the company. Meanwhile, Savio Chow, vice president and managing director at Yahoo! Asia, […]

IBM has good news to share with its allies at its PartnerWorld conference this week in Atlanta. The current alliance strategy is working—so much so, in fact, that the company is firing on almost every cylinder for the first time in decades. There are five basic drivers behind this top-to-bottom turnaround. First and foremost, IBM […]

Ohms Law. Moores Law. Parkinsons Law. Theyre all critical to running a high-technology enterprise. But the most important law, by far, when it comes to ensuring the long-term success of a solutions provider, is Murphys Law. Assume, as a matter of course, that on any given customer engagement, everything that can go wrong, will go […]

As the world of managed security grows, Christopher Darby, CEO of @stake Inc., in Cambridge, Mass., has decided to play the cards he was dealt and not join the application service provider rush. Instead, Darby intends to continue preaching the gospel of security as a process to @stakes high-end clients and fine-tuning the companys services […]

That the latest security land mine facing it managers has been found among existing wireless networks shouldnt come as a surprise. After all, the Wired Equivalent Privacy algorithm, part of the 802.11 wireless LAN standard, was not designed as a strong security measure by todays standards. Nevertheless, we wonder why finding the holes took so […]

Before calling in the experts to perform a vulnerability assessment of an enterprise network, there are a few basic steps IT managers can take to improve security. • Keep current with updates to security software—especially Secure Sockets Layer, virus protection, operating system patches and digital certificates. IT managers often overlook this simple security measure. • […]

Proposed efforts by the state of South Australia to crack down on offensive content online have underscored concerns among some Australians that such initiatives may be painting Australia as anti-Internet, and may discourage foreign investment. The proposed legislation for the state of South Australia, which includes the city of Adelaide, would let police take action […]

A new type of network service provider may soon emerge to rival Internet service providers and application service providers, selling storage as a utility over a network link to storage facilities offering terabytes of space. They owe their rise to simple economics: Customers can save a significant amount of money by contracting for storage with […]

Plumtree Software Inc. and Microsoft Corp. will join forces to offer a scalable portal that will provide organizations partners, employees and customers with personalized access to enterprise applications and Internet services. The companies will integrate Plumtrees Corporate Portal 4.0 with Microsofts SharePoint Portal Server. They will sell the combined offering bundled with Microsofts SQL Server […]