eWEEK EDITORS

The European Union wants desperately to transform its 15 member nations into an “information society” capable of not just competing in, but leading the world economy. But manufacturers of computers, cellular telephones and other electronic equipment say that goal will be impossible to achieve unless the EUs copyright laws are changed. At the core of […]

Viruses that target mobile devices have surfaced only rarely — but thats about to change. As more people use cell phones and handheld computers to access corporate information, the potential for malicious code to spread rapidly to those devices is expected to increase dramatically. Industry experts point to the way pervasive Internet connectivity changed the […]

Its midsummer in baseball, and midslump in telecom — time for second-tier teams to acquire talent from cellar dwellers and make a run for the pennant. Thats what Centerpoint Broadband Technologies did 10 days ago, when it announced an all-stock deal to acquire Zaffire, a company with sturdy Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) technology, but […]

Coming to life Need help livening up the Web site? LiveWave Inc. says it has the answer. The Newport, R.I., company this month rolled out its ConvergenceCams suite of controllable remote video products. Robotic cameras The suite includes robotic cameras, multiformat distribution capabilities such as HDTV and MPEG-2 and numerous online streaming formats. Server components […]

Cisco Systems is among the dominant internet brands worldwide, but competing vendors would have you believe that the only way to stand apart from the crowd is to avoid the once-coveted “Cisco-Powered Network” designation. Often copied by competing networking gear manufacturers, the 4-year-old program provides free consulting and marketing help to carriers that purchase more […]

Agilent Technologies Inc. is readying a new version of its Firehunter eCommerce performance management tool that extends monitoring to client-side JavaScript applications. Firehunter eCommerce, which competes with Mercury Interactive Inc.s Topaz and Hewlett-Packard Co.s OpenView Internet services, provides monitoring of different Web services by creating and recording synthetic transactions that are tested against a Web […]

Volkswagen may become the first old Economy company to bring electronic auctions within its own operations on a large scale. The German automaker said it is taking control of its auction process for privacy reasons. The company said it doesnt want to risk exposing its parts contracts and prices on a third partys system. Volkswagen […]

With the benefit of a couple of weeks of perspective, its clear that there was not nearly as much good news for Microsoft as had first met the eye—and as the company would have had us believe—in the recent ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals. Study of the 39,000-word ruling reveals that time and […]

CRM spending is up by leaps and bounds Seventy-four percent of businesses will spend more money on customer relationship management software and hardware this year than they did last year—some by as much as 50 percent—according to a report from Internet research company Jupiter Media Metrix Inc., in New York. Despite the economic downturn, Jupiter […]

No one expects to be hacked, of course. But companies can protect themselves — just in case the unthinkable happens. “Cyberinsurance” is the moniker most often applied to policies that protect against losses from such security breaches. Traditional insurance companies, including American International Group, Lloyds of London and The St. Paul Companies, are now starting […]