eWEEK EDITORS

The arcane and secretive world of traffic trading among Internet backbones is in full daylight now that WorldCom has publicly posted its “peering” requirements for the first time. The result will likely be a wave of consolidations among smaller access providers and a codified first and second class of data carriage, industry experts said. With […]

ITL Metro, the competitive local exchange division of International Telecom, wanted to get into the lucrative central office exchange business. No problem — just scrape up a spare $10 million to $20 million to purchase a Class 5 switch and theyd be on their way to bundling lucrative voice and data services. But ITL Metro […]

Virtual central office technology is a business-to-business tool that is quickly moving into the home. “For every sale I make to a business customer, I get three to four residential customers,” says Joel Eisenberg, chief executive of Seattle-based competitive carrier ITL Metro. “Its a viral type of market. You dont sign up one customer — […]

The European Union and a group of European companies and organizations have launched a new project aimed at creating Internet filtering technology tailored for users in several European countries. The World Wide Web Safe Surfing Project is part of a $23.4 million initiative launched by the European Union in 1999 to help users surf the […]

Internet infrastructure and hosting company Loudcloud Inc. has announced a new performance testing service based on technology from Keynote Systems Inc. The service, called Global Response Smart Cloud, lets customers of Loudcloud, which is based in Sunnyvale, Calif., measure and compare the real-time response rates of their sites with their competition. Most important, since many […]

Getting complaints from customers that their servers are slow? Maybe its because everyones using bandwidth to cruise the Web. A new survey on Internet usage at work by online career site vault.com shows surprising agreement between employers and workers that non-work-related surfing is rampant. For example, employers see 25 percent of workers surfing for fun […]

Americans are in a big hurry to win. Need proof? U.S. sales of “instant- win” lottery tickets reached $15.6 billion in 2000, according to La Fleurs Magazine, a lottery industry trade publication. Its only natural, then, that marketers would find a way to give people that same rush of instant gratification on the Internet, a […]

Management consultancy A.T. Kearney Inc. and e-marketplace infrastructure provider i2Technologies Inc. last week announced a combined service and product offering called 2Source. The package will provide e-sourcing, category management services, auction capabilities, supply market solutions and request-for- proposal products via the i2 TradeMatrix Network. As part of the agreement, A.T. Kearneys parent company, Electronic Data […]

In many ways, Computer Sciences Corp. is one of the driving forces of IT consulting—its hit some roadblocks but still has plenty of gas in the tank. The 42-year-old company, which underwent a strong growth spurt in the past four years, has weathered plenty of storms. But like its competitors, both larger and smaller, it […]

The broadband build-out stopped short of Bayside business Park in Fremont, Calif. Pacific Bells central office is too far away to provide DSL. The cable modem network bypassed this industrial neighborhood. Baysides tenants—R&D operations, semiconductor fabricators, software developers. e-commerce startups and other small tech firms—were starved for bandwidth. “They basically had two choices: ISDN at […]

High expectations for online news operations are, well, yesterdays news for many big media companies. The New York Times Co., Industry Standard and News Corp. are among the latest to announce cost-cutting moves, due largely to the softening advertising market and decreased expectations for audience growth. New York Times Digital, the Internet unit of The […]

Mega-bell SBC Communications cant ignore price controls when its subsidiary sells Digital Subscriber Line service to other providers, the U.S. Court of Appeals ruled Jan. 9. The decision may make it easier for upstart carriers to compete. The appellant in the case was the Association of Communications Enterprises (ASCENT), a trade group that represents telecommunications […]