eWEEK EDITORS

On the Road Oracle and Wingcast — the Ford Motor and Qualcomm joint venture — said that all 2003 Ford vehicles will include technology that allows road warriors to access wireless e-mail, customer relationship management and sales force automation applications using voice commands. Battle Brewing A European Parliament committee last week voted to ban widespread […]

Microsoft Corp., reacting quickly to recent appeals court rulings on its antitrust case, is considering sweeping changes to its pricing models for hardware vendors and its largest corporate customers. The Redmond, Wash., company is set to make computer makers, or OEMs, pay more for the Windows operating systems they ship with new hardware, according to […]

Intel Corp. hopes to ignite sluggish summer sales by launching a slew of chips, but its efforts to turn up the heat may receive a chilly reception. Corporate customers, especially, appear increasingly reluctant to buy new equipment amid worries of a possible U.S. recession. “Weve been unable to bring in new machines for replacements for […]

Compaq Computer Corp.s announcement last week that it was lowering revenue estimates and cutting more jobs was the latest example of a company desperate to slash operating expenses. Fighting a softening economy and a price war in the PC industry, the Houston computer maker announced it will miss already-lowered estimates for the quarter and will […]

Microsofts surprise concessions on its browser and desktop real estate should finally give PC makers more control over how they package their products, but they do nothing to address the most pressing concerns about how Microsoft intends to leverage its market dominance on new technologies, critics and analysts said. Fearing that new legal challenges might […]

Like any megalopolis, the internet hosts a diverse crime world — every day, there are countless acts of thievery, fraud, breaking and entering, and plain old juvenile mischief. The small-town days of the Net, when you might have left your virtual front door unlocked, are long since gone. Today, “hactivism,” the sport of vandalizing Web […]

Organized crime rings in Russia and the rest of the former Soviet Union are increasingly hacking into U.S. e-commerce and banking Web sites, posing an enormous economic threat. Hackers have launched computer viruses and disruptive denial-of-service attacks, but the biggest danger comes from hackers with ties to organized crime breaking into computers, FBI officials said. […]

Webvan Breaks Down Webvan, the most pro-minent online grocer, has made its last delivery. The company, which has been struggling financially for months after rapidly expanding over the past year, last week shut down operations and indicated it will seek bankruptcy protection. Soon after the announcement, the NASDAQ halted trading of Webvans battered stock, and […]

Microsoft Corp., reacting swiftly to a recent appeals court ruling on its antitrust case, is considering sweeping changes to its pricing models for hardware vendors and its largest corporate customers. Sources who requested anonymity said it appears the company is set to make OEM partners pay more for the Windows operating systems they ship with […]

The ban on talking on cell phones while driving in New York has spurred a flurry of activity among developers of hands-free and voice recognition products, and is expected to stimulate the market for such devices. Enterprises are already considering how to outfit mobile workers with gear to comply with such regulations, because other states […]