eWEEK EDITORS

No wonder Massachusetts Route 128 fell off the technology road map. A government-sponsored road show to promote technology leadership is called the Dot.Commonwealth Coalition, and its latest pit stop, in Worcester, is featuring a program titled “Accelerating the New Economy.” Didnt anyone mention to those state bureaucrats that the phrases “dot-com” and “New Economy” are […]

The optical industry is getting a tuneup. Almost any device that can bring true intelligence closer to end users by tuning light waves is hot right now — especially tunable lasers, tunable filters and smarter switches. Companies that make networks smarter have a better-than-average shot at surviving in the industry tuneup that seems inevitable, experts […]

ArsDigita, a producer of web site content management and e-commerce applications, is scheduled to announce today that the 4.0 version of its software is available as open source code. The move is an unusual one for a private Java company. There are dozens of Java open source projects under way, but few, if any, for-profit […]

Corporate IT spending is down and your salespeople are telling you that times are tough. What do you say? No matter how you deliver it—and these days a kinder, gentler approach is by far better—the message should be fairly simple: No excuses. Corporate spending has dropped into the single digits (as a percentage of revenue), […]

The rumblings from Loudcloud began back in February. “It may seem like weve had frequent contact over the past few weeks, but we want to make sure you receive the right information at the right time,” wrote Loudcloud spokeswoman Jodi Baumann in a Feb. 27 e-mail. Attached were press releases announcing the companys “latest customer […]

In 1898, the feds imposed a 3 percent excise tax on telephone calls to help pay for the Spanish-American War. The war ended that same year, but the tax is still with us. It has been repealed and reinstated several times to bolster federal coffers during World Wars I and II, the Depression, Korea and […]

Research analysts must tread lightly if theyre downgrading a stock that their investment bank owns—which might explain why Mark DAnnolfo, analyst at Deutsche Banc Alex. Brown, used the word “reluctantly” when he recently lowered his rating on DiamondCluster International. Such wording is unusual. Deutsche Banc Alex. Brown makes a market in the common stock of […]

Care to buy a hosting center, an integration business or fiber for a telecom network? Be patient, the fire sales likely will start soon. PSINet, the telecom and e-commerce solutions provider, is expected to unload assets to pay off bondholders if it doesnt find a buyer. Meanwhile, MarchFirst is seeking buyers for various parts of […]

By now, its obvious that the economy and especially the technology industry are in the midst of a significant downturn. But hand-wringing over ever-dropping stock prices, new rounds of layoffs and lowered earnings projections isnt a strategy. Whats needed is a long-term view that embraces new investments in technology. This runs counter to what is […]

Streaming Internet multimedia to millions of people doesnt have to cost millions of dollars anymore. Thats the claim of AllCast, a small company with software that distributes multimedia streams over the Internet or corporate networks in a peer-to-peer fashion — an architecture the company said can save Net broadcasters 70 percent or more in bandwidth […]