eWEEK EDITORS

Rick Rickertsen began writing his book, Buyout: An Insiders Guide to Buying Your Own Company, before the technology market crashed. So his advice to managers on buying back their companies is littered with terms like “personal fulfillment” and “realizing your dreams.” But while that language no longer resonates in a devastated market, the COO of […]

Laid-off dot-comers should take a lesson from some folks who recently lost their jobs with Nortel Networks. The techies put their collective minds together and built a Web site that highlights their skills and experience. The site, hiretoptalent.com, showcases the workers from five different Nortel locations, and lists them by name and job skills. Clicking […]

Busy Ballmer That Steve Ballmer sure gets around. Last Monday morning, Microsofts chief executive was on a conference call with eBays Meg Whitman to announce that the popular auction service had signed on as a supporter of its .Net platform — a set of technologies Microsoft is proposing for integrating Web sites, services and devices. […]

Amid widespread criticism that its business model is too narrow to succeed— and in the wake of a lukewarm initial public stock offering— Loudcloud Inc. will try to expand its audience with new MSP offerings due early next month. Loudcloud is expected to announce a technology delivery model, an integration component to its Opsware suite […]

Robert Bowman has gone from PCs to the Padres. Last fall, he left as president and chief executive of electronics e-tailer Outpost.com to head up Major League Baseballs new Internet unit, MLB Advanced Media. Bowmans game plan: to consolidate the leagues 30 individual club sites into a single portal. The division also recently announced a […]

A sad chapter in the history of Digital Subscriber Line service will close this week, when the assets of NorthPoint Communications hit the auction block. Rumors are swirling, not only about what will happen to more than 100,000 mostly business customers, but about which company might purchase the bankrupt company. Potential suitors include Microsoft, Sprint […]

Melbourne, Australia – the Internets domain-name management body spent a good part of its quarterly meeting here grappling over the terms of its agreement with VeriSign, the biggest player in the domain-name market. In the end, it put a new configuration of that agreement out for public comment and scheduled a vote for April 2. […]

Its hard to imagine how running AT&T Broadband could get more complicated. With its parent company splitting into four competing parts, AT&T Broadband is operating in legal limbo, as courts and regulators sort out limits on AT&Ts share of the cable market. Meanwhile, AT&T Broadband Chief Executive Dan Somers must steer the worlds largest cable […]

Microsoft Courts eBay Microsoft and online auction firm eBay have formed an e-commerce partnership to gain wider acceptance for their Internet technologies. EBay will support Microsofts software-as-a-service plan, .Net initiative, Passport Internet-authentication technology and Windows 2000 server. Microsoft, in turn,will integrate eBays marketplace technology into some of its online properties. Novells New Network Network software […]

Using technology as old as World War II and as young as last weeks breakthrough, chipmakers are transforming optical networks with devices that slice, dice and relight optical fiber and all its traffic. The companies are not short on astonishing claims: Gemfire has a device that it says can pump erbium atoms onto eight channels […]