eWEEK EDITORS

Oracle corp. is pitching new services to aggressively woo software developers after seeing what company officials said are cracks in Microsoft Corp.s base of 3.2 million developers. The Redwood Shores, Calif., company will launch this week portal.oracle. com, a hosted environment where developers can build portals online for free. Oracle is also adding to its […]

More than a dozen people had crowded into the meeting room—employees from a business unit, from IT operations and from information security. The technical project leader was presenting the architecture he had designed for the business units e-business initiative. The company was planning to share product information with its business partners through an Internet portal. […]

A few weeks ago, i was approached by the operators of an independent Web site about a denial-of-service problem. It seems that a user did not take kindly to being banned from posting to the site and, in retaliation, began using a DoS attack known as a “Syn attack” against the site. Syn attacks use […]

I have one question about tanking PC sales: why did it take so long? After all, its the same old crummy PC. There are no groundbreaking features these days—even if you wanted to inflict more pain on yourself trying to get them to work. As a result, PC companies are revising their forecasts downward, and […]

Sony to issue Net biz tracking stock Sony Corp. of America—which ranked No. 8 on eWeeks 2000 FastTrack 500 list of e-business innovators—late last month said it will issue a tracking stock for its Internet business. The move could give the electronics company an infusion of cash to help it expand the 4-year-old Internet operation, […]

When Denver Broncos quarterback Gus Frerotte connected with wide receiver Ed McCaffrey in the end zone last month to seal a critical 38-37 victory over San Diego in the run-up to the NFL playoffs, fervid Broncos fans wanted to know about it right away, wherever they may have been. Until the beginning of this season, […]

Axents access-control application provides secure and flexible control over access to a businesss Web and intranet content without requiring tight integration with a companys Web servers. SHORT-TERM BUSINESS IMPACT // A business can get up and running with Webthority faster than with most rival access-control tools, making it possible to quickly protect potentially sensitive content. […]

At the risk of putting our tongue in cheek with sufficient force to dimple a chad, we hereby apologize for plunging the nation into turmoil. In a pre-election editorial, we weighed the election issues for IT but declined to endorse a candidate. With 18,661 Florida addresses receiving our print edition, we have to wonder if […]

Wilcam systems LLCs president and CEO, Gary Harbison, had the typical small- ISV dilemma: targeting larger customers with little more than a single product and a tiny staff—in his case, just six people. The answer for Harbison came after a meeting with a distributor late last year. WilCam would evolve its corporate attendance tracking software […]

New GE Chief Knows It The information technology savvy that Jeffrey Immelt showed as head of General Electrics Medical Systems division may have helped him win the job as replacement for GEs starlike CEO, Jack Welch. Immelt, who last week was tapped as president of GE and heir to Welch, is credited in part with […]

OmniSkys Internet service and Minstrel S Springboard-based wireless modem is a good way for those who use Handsprings Visor handhelds to get connected to e-mail and the Web. However, those who have the Visor Solo and Deluxe models will be disappointed to learn that the Minstrel S modem can be used only with Handsprings new […]

Eastman Kodak Co. is pushing forward with what it says is a bright idea: a new flat-panel-display technology that offers greater luminescence and generally outshines current LCD displays in performance. The Rochester, N.Y., company late last month established the Kodak Display business unit, which is devoted to advancing Kodaks so-called organic LED, or OLED, display […]