eWEEK EDITORS

Mario Monti has used his office at the European Commission to aggressively enforce antitrust laws and ensure competition in the market for emerging technologies. And he hasnt shown any signs of backing off. His agency blocked the proposed merger between Sprint and WorldCom out of concern that the combined companies would have too much control […]

Elizabeth Carlassare is one hot salsa dancer. The 34-year-old is also an Internet strategist and coach for women in technology and women entrepreneurs, helping them reach their goals and craft the lives they want. “The Internet has created all kinds of opportunities for women,” says Carlassare, author of DotCom Divas: E-Business Insights from the Visionary […]

Michael Wolff is perhaps the most disillusioned of Silicon Alleys expatriates. The one-time New York entrepreneur — who chronicled his dot-com misadventures in Burn Rate — has written off the Internet for dead. Wolff, now a media columnist for New York magazine, spoke with Senior Writer Max Smetannikov. Is Silicon Alley, as it was in […]

Widley revered as one of the internets founding fathers, Vinton Cerf has taken on a unique position that will enable him to play a significant role in its future growth and development. Cerf, a senior vice president at WorldCom, was chosen late last year to succeed Internet entrepreneur Esther Dyson as chairman of the Internet […]

Ever so carefully, cable operators are letting data trickle through their pipelines to rival Internet service providers in the first trials of “open access.” The early forays are designed to blaze a technical trail some operators once thought impassable. But no one in the industry doubts that once the obstacles are cleared, the trickle could […]

Flaws found in software used to identify servers on the Internet can leave an enterprises domain servers open to a range of hacker attacks, security experts say. If unchecked, the problem could raise serious vulnerability issues, thus leaving an enterprises domain name system (DNS) servers open to outages, denial-of-service (DOS) attacks, and other hacker mischief, […]

Want a law passed in Washington? If you cant please the chairman of the appropriate committee, well, to paraphrase New Yorkers: Fuhgeddaboutit. Thats what makes Louisiana Congressman W.J. “Billy” Tauzin a force in high technology. After 20 years on Capitol Hill, he is the new chairman of the House Commerce Committee, through which just about […]

Refocusing Williams Communications, hoping to focus its attention on its 33,000-mile fiber-optic network, will sell its enterprise services business unit, Williams Communications Solutions, to Platinum Equity Holdings. “Our decision was prompted by a need to meet the growing demand for broadband network services,” says Williams Chief Executive Howard Janzen. Good News, Bad News Jupiter Research […]

Geneva — Everyone agrees that intellectual property protection must be brought up to Internet speed, but in two days of meetings here last week, the World Intellectual Property Organization was unable to gain ground on an international solution. Intellectual property protection has traditionally been a national issue. But which nations laws should apply when a […]

The wacky days of unlimited dot-com financing are over, but some Internet retailers and start-ups are — surprise — still attracting investors. Take the case of BabyPressConference.com, an online hospital maternity service, which just landed $4.9 million in funding led by Primedia and Toys R Us. The Web site allows parents to introduce their newborns […]

CarOrder Remodels Online car seller CarOrder is taking a radical step to revive its flagging fortunes. The Austin, Texas, company has purchased two auto dealerships in California to use as inventory supply bases for its online operations. CarOrder was hit hard in the dot-com crash last year. It stopped taking orders in August and laid […]

Analysts saluted, but privacy advocates squawked when Nortel Networks introduced a suite of smart switches last week designed to tap into users Web surfing habits and learn things such as what banner ads would most likely seduce them. Executives for the giant Canadian equipment maker said the new suite will revolutionize the delivery of Internet […]