eWEEK EDITORS

Two unlikely wireless license winners — retired mail carrier Vincent D. McBride and emergency room physician Scott Reiter — want their money back. They both won spectrum in the federal governments auction that ended in January, but havent yet received their licenses and might not ever get them. Theyve begun to scrutinize the auction process […]

New analysis software set to be launched by Microsoft Corp. in the fall is aimed at nontechnical staff whose enterprises use Microsofts SQL Server but who dont need the advanced functions of third-party tools. The Data Analyzer software, part of the Redmond, Wash., companys Office XP series, will be sold as an independent product, not […]

Not all cheeseburgers are created equal. Just ask the management team of Red Robin International Inc., a privately owned, 170-restaurant chain that spent years trying unsuccessfully to come up with the right recipe for quickly assembling menus that appealed to consumers in a variety of geographic areas. Red Robins problem was a common one: Sales, […]

Its the data, stupid. The stunning collapse of satellite telephony provider Iridium and the financial troubles of its competitors, Globalstar and ICO Global Communications, spotlight the limitations of a business plan weighted heavily toward voice. But satellite-based mobile communications companies wised up quickly and have begun to hone in on lucrative data services. Data connections […]

Adaptec Inc. strengthened its role in the storage connectivity market with its $150 million acquisition this month of Platys Communications Inc. By buying the Santa Clara, Calif., company, Adaptec will receive expertise in the storage-over-IP niche, specifically for SANs (storage area networks), Fibre Channel switches and NAS (network-attached storage) hardware, Adaptec officials said. It was […]

Scansoft Inc.s OmniPage Pro 11, with its ability to parse PDFs and flow text from one column to another, is a worthwhile upgrade. The softwares new OCR capabilities will free users from the chore of searching printed documents by hand and, of course, save rekeying of the printed page. And it will save documents as […]

As the unsolicited commercial electronic mail act of 2001 (H.R. 95) works its way through the federal legislative process, many of us wonder if it will have any perceptible effect on the slew of unsolicited garbage that flows into our e-mail accounts each day. Maybe the best way to judge the effectiveness of this bill […]

Whenever I feel lonely, I just think of all my new friends at Waggener Edstrom. Ive lost exact count, but I know that I spoke to at least eight different public relations people at the firm best known as Microsofts mouthpiece, while reporting a recent story on the transition to software as a service at […]

With WebApp, SPSS puts the combined power of statistical analysis and the companys extensive databases into the hands of any user with a connection to the Web. Based on a secure Orion server, WebApp affords full access to SPSS Base and its attendant modules. This model serves distributed users while centralizing processing and data. Relieving […]

Baltimore CEO Resigns With its shares battered in recent months, Baltimore Technologies CEO Fran Rooney decided to step down last week “to pursue other interests.” The company, which specializes in security and certificate authority products, says it has cash reserves of about $76 million and it plans to cut costs. Paul Sanders, the companys chief […]