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London Time Bandwidth trading company Arbinet-thexchange expanded its spot market for telephone minutes last week when it turned up a switch in London, letting members trade phone time on either side of the Atlantic. Increased European demand pushed the company to activate the switch, said CEO Curt Hockemeier. Navy Smarts The U.S. Navys plans to […]

HotJobs Joins Monster.com TMP Worldwide, owner of job-listing site Monster.com, plans to buy competitor HotJobs for about $460 million in stock. The two sites combined will have more than 650,000 job listings and 14 million résumés, according to TMP. The company says it plans to maintain HotJobs as a separate site. E-Mail Junkies We cant […]

Long-haul and metro network operators are beginning to wring value from already-lit fiber by selling individual wavelengths of light to bandwidth-hungry businesses not rich enough to afford individual fibers for different data services. Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) gear allows operators to load on new features and add capacity to their networks more cheaply than […]

Content Bridge, the first operating content peering exchange, has a problem: Its only two resellers are going under, and customers and partners are hesitant to join. In the volatile world of content delivery networks (CDNs), content peering has long been a contentious issue, with at least five initiatives running concurrently to establish a standard that […]

An oil giant is showing other businesses how to use the Internet to bolster the supply of technical experts. The problem: BP — the worlds third-largest oil company — has hundreds of leases in the Gulf of Mexico, but doesnt have the resources to analyze the boatloads of seismic data from each tract in order […]

Two vulnerabilities have been discovered that could wreak havoc on the most widely used database software on the Internet, Oracle8i, according to security experts. The first and most serious hole would allow hackers to overflow the buffer of 8is Transparent Network Substrate (TNS) Listener, which is responsible for establishing connections between a client and remote […]

Revolutions happen when people make a big deal of little things. When they do, they are willing to risk much and endure much. It has happened many times in human history, and its commemorated in the holiday, July 4, we celebrate the week this issue of eWeek is published. It has been well-documented that Great […]

Microsoft is launching a two-pronged offensive against what it sees as its chief competition on the Internet: open source code. In a preliminary license for its wireless Internet tools, the software giant appears to be floating a trial balloon by explicitly banning the use of open source code. Microsofts language, which could become part of […]

While every move Microsoft Corp. makes in the near future is likely to come under intense scrutiny—following the appeals courts ruling last week in the Microsoft antitrust case—Microsoft critics say the company is continuing to try to suppress competing technologies. Last week, the Redmond, Wash., software company announced plans to work with Ottawa-based software maker […]

A key Pentagon agency has picked open source code. The U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency announced last week that it was adopting 25,000 copies of StarOffice 5.2, a set of desktop applications that Sun Microsystems has released as open source code. The agency, which manages computing, communications, and command and control for the Department of […]