eWEEK EDITORS

If youre wondering what the well-dressed host will be wearing this year, look for managed services, bigger infrastructures and wireless offerings to be all the rage. Top-tier hosting players like Digex Inc., Exodus Communications Inc. and Intira Corp. all have full agendas for 2001, as they and others seek differentiation and a break with their […]

Think the Internet was a pretty cool idea? Theres a new product allegedly coming out that one journalist predicts will “change the world.” And hes not just blowing smoke: Amazon.coms Jeff Bezos and Apples Steve Jobs both have seen the prototype and reportedly are very impressed. Online magazine Inside.com reports that “IT”—code-named “Ginger”—is an invention […]

As west coast utilities struggle to keep up with fast-growing demand for electricity, a Milpitas, Calif., start-up claims that a transceiver chip technology breakthrough may cut the power needed to run high-speed network equipment by two-thirds. The leaner chips manufactured by BitBlitz Communications could slash the amount of energy consumed by Internet traffic and save […]

Making Tracks The Ear hears that longtime hosting chief Mitch Ferro has left WorldCom to pursue other goals, following his predecessor Paul Hoffman out the door. The brain drain may be one sign that WorldComs hosting business is going through a stage of “telco-ization,” a process that normally brings big company politics into the business […]

E-calls common within 5 years By 2006, nearly one-quarter of all Internet users will regularly make VOIP phone calls from their PCs, according to a report released this month by IT and telecommunications industry research company Ovum Ltd., in Boston. Some 166 million Internet users, or 23 percent of the current worldwide total, are expected […]

Like so many miniature Frankenstein monsters, Internet appliances in various permutations have swarmed into the market with promises of quick and simple access. But they have been feeble creatures, spurned by consumers content to stick with their PCs. Now, Internet appliances have found their biggest advocate to date: Sony has joined the fandango with the […]

Although it remains to be seen whether PriceWaterhouseCoopers prediction that e-commerce sales would reach $10.2 billion in 2000—up nearly 100 percent from $5.2 billion in 1999—has come to pass, another holiday online shopping season has entered the accounting ledgers, and preliminary reports indicate it was a good one—for those dotcoms that survived. One thing is […]

Throw Away Your Billfold Now that Palm has replaced your paper organizer, it wants to zap away your wallet. Last week, the company showed off new “e-wallet” features that will allow Palm handheld users to make purchases via the devices infrared communications port. Palm says it is working with Ingenico and Hewlett-Packards VeriFone division, two […]

For hundreds of years, fishermen in many remote places of the world have risked their lives by venturing out to sea without the benefit of knowing the days weather forecast. These days, a villager in South America pulls the daily weather forecast off the Internet and reads it to the fishermen and other residents over […]

When installing a domain controller, Win2K Server gets cranky if it cant find a DNS server that handles SRV (service) records. The DNS servers for most major ISPs run BIND (short for Berkeley Internet Name Domain) v8.1 or later, which handles the records correctly. (As of this writing, the latest version of BIND is 9.0.1.) […]

AT&T and Avici Systems put their competitors on notice last week by announcing that Ma Bell has completed its coast-to-coast Internet Protocol network and will use Avicis routers, which carry traffic at 10 gigabits per second. “Its very important for both companies,” said Seth Spaulding, senior analyst at Epoch Partners. AT&T becomes just the second […]

Last year wasnt a disaster for every ambitious carrier or service provider: Both Telseon and Yipes Communications made good on their vows to provide fast, high-bandwidth service in 20 U.S. cities by Dec. 31. Telseon and Yipes are among the pack of companies trying to break the traffic bottleneck around Americas largest cities by taking […]