eWEEK EDITORS

Mariners in the Far East The Japanese love technology, and they love the Seattle Mariners. Now, Amazon.com and Major League Baseball are using technology to pump up the teams presence in Japan. Amazon last week launched the Seattle Mariners Store at its Japanese site, complete with products, CDs, videos and DVDs, all related to the […]

You think privacy is a big issue online? Just wait until wireless gets more pervasive. The potential for wireless to let Big Brother track your every move may drive some people to run for the woods, leaving technology behind. I care a lot about companies collecting information about my online browsing habits and selling it […]

In a novel co-launching effort, Palm Inc. and DataViz Inc. last week announced Version 4.0 of DataVizs Documents to Go software. Documents to Go Professional Edition Version 4.0 enables users to view Microsoft Corp.s PowerPoint files on Palm OS devices via an application called Slideshow to Go. It also includes the ability to create and […]

DOJ Probes Net Music The U.S. Department of Justice has initiated an antitrust investigation into Internet music, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. A DOJ spokeswoman declined to comment. The investigation reportedly concerns Pressplay, owned by Sony and Vivendi Universal; and MusicNet, owned by AOL Time Warner, Bertelsmann, EMI Group and RealNetworks. […]

New mobile wireless services are even farther from coming to market now that the Federal Communications Commission has decided to take a 5-year-old controversy over wireless licenses to the Supreme Court. Some say the FCCs decision to ask for high-court review of NextWave Telecoms licenses is no more than posturing by the agency to secure […]

Enterprises are thinking twice about investing in wireless data applications, slowing down the sales cycle as they try to justify the investment and examine their needs. That extra scrutiny is forcing providers of wireless data solutions, such as Xora, to find a niche and attract customers from specialty industry segments. Xoras middleware platform enables remote […]

Investors betting that the race to boost capacity on already-lit optical fiber networks will continue have placed a big-time wager on a Hitachi spin-off that is developing a 40-gigabit-per-second transmission module. “Service provider networks are not lighting up new fibers,” says Harry Bosco, president and CEO of OpNext. “When you look at the industry and […]

With e-mail being the Trojan horse by which most computer viruses enter the system, the danger of infection increases as the amount of e-mail traffic jumps. McAfee, a division of Network Associates Inc., last week introduced its WebShield e500 anti-virus appliance, a machine that scans large amounts of traffic and protects against not just viruses […]

Telecommuters and branch office workers can sometimes fall behind the IT curve because of their remote locations. To give service providers a way to deliver value-added services to small and remote offices, Filanet Corp. has launched a Web-based application for automatic service provisioning. With Service Provisioning Portal, service providers can centrally create and manage offerings […]

Back in the days of postcard Web sites, a load balancer sitting in front of a firewall was often more than enough to ensure the sites availability. But times and vendors have changed. Eric Giesa, F5 Networks director of product management, reflected on the changed dynamics that now shape the race for quality on the […]