eWEEK EDITORS

Dot-coms bleed pink slips. Does that mean the technology job market drops like a dot-com stock? Not at all. There are still more jobs available than candidates, as companies scramble to find personnel. John Gantz, chief research officer at International Data Corp., predicts that 1.5 million Internet executive jobs must be filled in 2001 — […]

What a difference a year, a new leader and a new flagship product can make. Just ask the folks who are watching PeopleSoft. “Id say the opportunities [for PeopleSoft experts and partners] is pretty fantastic,” says Laurie Orlov, an analyst at Forrester Research. You almost feel like knocking on some nearby wood when Orlov lists […]

The online holiday shopping season has ended, and it appears sales met analysts expectations by more than doubling over last years numbers. Still, that may not be enough to sustain some struggling Web retailers. During the eight-week period from the first week of November through Dec. 24, 2000, total online sales reached $9.8 billion, compared […]

The Internets breathtaking newness, by now, has faded. In 2001 the Net is part of our everyday routines. Many dot-coms have fallen back to Earth. “Aha!” we think, “Theres no such thing as the New Economy after all.” Ho-hum. Life goes on. And yet, huge tracts of digital terrain remain unexplored. Brand-new industries are springing […]

The jury is still out on whether Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan will be able to guide the U.S. economy in for a smooth landing, but one thing is certain: In the world of business-to-consumer and business-to-business commerce, the landing has been anything but smooth. Its been more like the kind of landing Wile E. […]

It was launched, like many great revolutions, with a song. Last year, Napster — in addition to enriching many digital music collections — sparked a fast-growing movement behind peer-to-peer computing. P2Ps apostles are convinced 2001 will be the Year of Peer, ushering in an new era of Internet computing. “Theres tremendous excitement, a tremendous number […]

The Internet corporation for assigned names and numbers will soon face its first enforcement challenge as a spat between Verio and Register.com gets increasingly nasty. Verio, a Web hosting and Internet access company, has called on the domain name systems management body to terminate its accreditation of Register.com, a large domain name registrar. At issue […]

Booming demand for faster Internet access over Digital Subscriber Lines left millions of prospective customers poking along at modem speed as the year ended. But those business and residential users awakened from their big-pipe dreams couldnt have been as disappointed as the service providers, which watched helplessly as vast potential revenue streams pooled in technological […]

You could call 3Coms Audrey an Internet pastry: Its a light, sweet and tasty snack, but essentially an unfulfilling experience. It has some fine qualities, to be sure. Unlike other Net appliances, Audrey works with just about any Internet service provider. If you dont have an ISP, it helpfully walks you through signing up for […]

The dot-com fire sale is hitting many former stars and their front men. Take Priceline.com, whose missteps and dot-com carnage bucketed its share price to less than $2. That drop hit Star Trek-famed William Shatner—aka Captain James T. Kirk—whose part payment for his “unique” renditions of popular songs netted him 135,000 shares of Priceline stock. […]

Lets Share The Federal Bureau of Investigation launched a program called InfraGuard, which it hopes will “expand direct contacts with private-sector infrastructure owners and operators” to promote sharing of information about cyberintrusions and vulnerabilities. Good luck. The private sector is reluctant to give such sensitive information to government agencies for fear it might leak or […]

When western multiplex and adaptive Broadband announced their intention to merge in November 2000, observers saw the move as the start of consolidation in a fragmented but healthy market for fixed wireless equipment. The future grew murky last week, as problems among competitive local providers hit vendors. Adaptive lowered its revenue expectations for the fourth […]