eWEEK EDITORS

Most computers are born in spotless, well-lit factories where every task and part is carefully choreographed. Most of them die inside cluttered, dimly lit warehouses like the one operated by Axcess Technologies, an Austin electronics recycling firm. On a cool afternoon in early February, a trio of Axcess employees equipped with bulky electric screwdrivers methodically […]

Grove Urges IT Investment If congress is going to give U.S. citizens a tax break, then it should do something for small businesses, according to Intel Chairman Andrew Grove. With the economy slowing and small businesses already struggling to get online, Grove, who founded the chip maker, said last week that the federal government should […]

Intel Corp.s failure last week to go through with a scheduled presentation of a new 64-bit processor fueled speculation that the chip may endure delays. Aside from the withdrawal at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference here, there are other indications the processor, code-named McKinley, may be running behind schedule. For one, the processors design has […]

This quarter, most large carriers are testing tunable lasers. These devices speed ones and zeroes down optical networks and jump from wavelength to wavelength faster than an eyeblink. The market for tunable lasers is expected to grow from $100 million last year to about $1.5 billion in the next couple of years, according to the […]

The recent denial-of-service attack on Microsoft represents a new level of threat on the Internet and illustrates how security is now an issue that extends beyond a corporations boundaries into territory it doesnt directly control. Security experts say site managers and enterprise e-commerce managers can take many steps to ward off or minimize the effects […]

The Pleasant Hill, Calif., teenager claiming to be the cracker “Pimpshiz” says he defaced more than 200 Web sites last year to protest the copyright-infringement lawsuits against Napster — but investigators contend the suspects real objective wasnt hacktivism. Law enforcement officials accuse Robert Lyttle, a 17-year-old high school junior, of plotting to hack his way […]

Over the past few weeks, DiamondCluster International chairman and CEO Mel Bergstein, and Javier Rubio, the companys president of Europe and Latin America, have been jetting around North America and Europe visiting clients and potential clients, most of them Global 2000 companies. The purpose of their whirlwind tour is to educate clients about Diamonds (formerly […]

Smart solutions providers in the SMB market are always looking for ways to expand their business. Voice and data convergence represents a huge payoff, but only if you provide the right solution at the right price. There are plenty of opportunities to sell the technology. Thats because very few providers currently are able to reap […]

Sun Microsystems last week announced its Open Net Environment, a software strategy that plays up its Java and Internet integration capabilities. While the software contains few new elements, it maneuvers Sun into a more competitive stance versus Microsoft as a developer platform. “This announcement may appear boring but it has real significance,” said Frank Gillett, […]

Fifteen months after the Clinton administration relaxed export controls on data-scrambling hardware and software, some U.S. companies are still finding the approval process a troublesome thicket. “Encryption and export control laws are out of control,” said Sun Microsystems Chief Executive Scott McNealy, in a recent speech at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. “We […]

London Calling One 2 One, the smallest mobile operator in the U.K., launched an unmetered service package last week, hoping to recruit British callers from landline service. Precept Max offers unlimited, anytime calling for about $111 per month, a bargain for anyone whos on the phone for more than 40 minutes a day. Data Flowing […]

Its been a tough couple of years at Ingram Micro. The mass distributor turned over most of its top management team, watched helplessly as its stock price got pummeled, and spent the last 12 months figuring out what can be fixed, what cant and where to go next. Even with some of the biggest competition […]