eWEEK EDITORS

U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Penfield Jacksons comments in a forthcoming book about the Microsoft trial have legal analysts worried he has dealt his ruling a serious blow. In a new book due out this week by author Ken Auletta called World War 3.0: Microsoft and its Enemies, Jackson bashes the company and the U.S. […]

In an otherwise bleak technology year ahead, B2B could prove to be a bright spot. Wall Street investment firms are expecting the currently sagging B2B market to bounce back. “The clear take-away is that B2B is the leading segment,” says Jamie Friedman, a VP at Goldman Sachs & Co. “We are very bullish on certain […]

Disney to aid Toysmart.com The Buena Vista Internet Group, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Co., has offered to pay bankrupt e-tailer Toysmart.com $50,000 to destroy its customer database, which contains personal information about shoppers. The offer, negotiated with the help of the Federal Trade Commission, must be accepted by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge […]

Macromedia Inc. is delving deeper into the advertising world with its Flash animation tool. While Flash is already being used by advertisers, previously its use was not directly encouraged by its maker. Now, Macromedia is trying to foster the use of Flash in rich-media advertising, which uses animation or interactivity to push products and services. […]

America Online and Time Warner waited a year and a day to receive final approval for their $103.5 billion deal, but rivals will have to wait longer to find their niche in the world created by the nations biggest communications merger. As if scripted by Hollywood, the marriage of past and future unfolded as Federal […]

What bugs me about Microsoft, Dell and Unisys teaming up to invent a more perfect voting process is that top executives at the first two companies either aligned themselves with a presidential candidate or hinted strongly as to their preference. Its no secret Dell CEO Michael Dell supported President-elect Bush. And Microsoft executives, disenchanted with […]

While it may be the toughest part of the implementation, the actions not just at the Windows 2000 Server. You need to be running Windows 2000 Pro at the desktop to make full use of the features of Active Directory. Need help? Even being a Microsoft rapid deployment partner (RDP) doesnt mean Windows 2000 appears […]

Its official: biometric technologies have emerged as the new front-runner in the race to become the security industrys next big thing. As manufacturing costs fall, a variety of affordable fingerprint scanners, retina/iris scanners and voice/face recognition systems are finding their way onto the market. Fueled by visions of impregnable fortresses, many are eager to leap […]

The Federal Trade Commission during the past few years has taken the lead among federal agencies in tussling with online privacy issues, but its aggressive stance may stall, or even be reversed, with the change in administrations. It is widely believed that President-elect George W. Bush will choose Commissioner Orson Swindle to chair the commission. […]

No Playing Around EToys is pulling the plug on its European operations as part of a strategy to stay in business. The online toyseller warned in December 2000 that sales had fallen short of expectations and that it would run out of money by the end of March. The companys British unit will cease operating […]

Tis the season for prognostication, so here are my predictions for the true first year of the millennium. Feel free to steal my prescience and claim it for your own. If Im right, youll look brilliant. If Im wrong, blame it on the liberal technology media. Microsoft Despite the ardent hopes of Messrs. Bill Gates […]

In chasin what I thought were moonbeamsI have run into a couple of walls …—Jim Croce, from “The Hard Way Every Time” All over America tonight, bartenders are listening, or pretending to listen, to a modern twist on an old, sad song. This story doesnt begin with, “There was a girl …” or “There was […]