eWEEK EDITORS

Chip maker advanced Micro Devices Inc. got a big boost for its HyperTransport technology this month when more than 100 computer and communications companies pledged to support its adoption. HyperTransport, formerly code-named Lightning Data Transport, is a new architecture designed to dramatically boost data transfer inside PCs as well as networking and communications devices. The […]

Theres nothing like serendipity. So thought Clarity Systems principal Bill MacMullin when he came across Collective Communications Corp. at a conference last August. MacMullin, a professional-services consultant, had been working with client ICU Medical Inc. since October 1999, upgrading and improving the companys mobile communications system. ICUs 35 U.S. salespeople used the system to download […]

When thin-client computing leader Citrix Systems Inc. announced a major revamp of its flagship MetaFrame software last month, company officials boasted of the products new management features, improved scalability and restructured pricing. But if a coterie of challengers gets its way, the decision in the enterprise wont just be between Citrix or no Citrix anymore. […]

If you like an argument, youll love XML. Extensible Markup Language is touted as the ultimate solution to every industrys dreams of business-to-business process efficiency. But first, of course, there has to be agreement on the schemata and tags that go into industry-specific XML standards. And as the agribusiness industrys AgXML initiative demonstrates consensus can […]

With its release last month of Zend IDE Client and Debug Server 1.0, Zend Technologies Ltd. has made a competent first step toward providing a quality commercial integrated development environment for PHP. As a 1.0 release and as the first product of its kind that eWeek Labs has seen, Zend IDE lacks several key ingredients […]

Stepping out of a long shadow is not easy. But Arthur Andersen hopes to shine, as the company moves into the consulting spotlight on its own. The accounting firm long operated as Andersen Consultings sidekick, until a bitter divorce split the company into two parts two last year. “The reality check is they always operated […]

Its one thing to say, “Theres a better way.” Its quite another to point out the direction. Cooper Interaction Design claims to have a map. One of a new breed of design firms focused on making technology usable, the Palo Alto, Calif., company said the problem with hard-to-use technology is a failure by its creators […]

Technology dinosaurs, rejoice. IBMs Advanced Technical Services (www.ibmuser.com) is offering RPG training over the Internet. So turn off your CB-Radio and put down the Pop Rocks. Youre gonna love RPG (Report Program Generator), an IBM program thats older than a few of our editors. At 30 years of age, RPG is still quite popular. ATS […]

Business customers have increasing reason to doubt Digital Subscriber Line service, and some experts are even steering them away from the technology. With leading business-class Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) carrier Covad Communications in serious financial trouble and once high-flying NorthPoint Communications on the sidelines nursing a bankruptcy, customers arent sure where to turn. “We already […]

More than a million business customers of Ronald Lauders RSL Communications may have to find new ways to connect as the telecom empire built by the cosmetics heir crumbles. Once high-flying RSL has been delisted from Nasdaq and is staying afloat with a $100 million personal loan from its chairman, Estee Lauder heir Ronald Lauder. […]

A new company launched last week introduced tools that companies can use to enhance collaboration between employees and business partners. Flypaper Inc. announced a hosted platform that allows companies to build custom applications to streamline business-to-business transactions. TeamSpace, the first application to use the platform, provides document management, group discussion, task and contact list management, […]

C. Michael Armstrongs dream of selling local phone service through a national cable partnership has quietly died, leaving the AT&T chairman with a patchwork of cable telephone franchises and a bleak future competing with the regional Bells. While officials at AT&T Broadband remain bullish on their budding cable telephone service, the business now appears lost […]