eWEEK EDITORS

Greasing Palms It wasnt just the stock market slide that convinced me dot-coms were on shaky ground last year. The big tip-off was the noticeable drop in the amount of graft sent my way by companies, big and small. Just when I thought the promotional T-shirts, toys, food and other tchotchkes were being shunned in […]

Rebirth for BabyCenter Johnson & Johnson took advantage of a fire sale at struggling Internet retailer eToys to acquire parenting-resource Web site BabyCenter for about $10 million. Johnson & Johnson plans to roll BabyCenter into its consumer e-commerce initiatives, but will keep the operation in San Francisco. EToys is in the process of shutting down […]

Few people take commercial internet business history closer to heart than Sean Donelan. A modern-day scholar, Donelan combines his day job of design engineer at Equinix — which hosts Internet business exchanges — with efforts to document various business issues affecting interconnectivity between carriers. Peering, fiber-optic cable cuts, data center security, cracking, power outages — […]

Everyone hates slow load times, from users to Internet service providers. But few people can actually do something to keep things from slowing down, and even fewer can say they have helped to speed things up. Two of those who can are the engineers at Cisco Systems who designed the fastest routers on the planet. […]

Mary Evslin is a different kind of evangelist. Her pulpit is on the Internet, her congregation is an esteemed list of voice carriers. Regardless, thousands of loyal followers praise her name as the prophet of Internet telephony, instilling faith in the technology around the world. Its a little more credit than Evslin is used to. […]

The most appropriate response the press could have given to the Chicken Little-esque comments made by Qualcomm Chairman and Chief Executive Irwin Jacobs about when wideband Code Division Multiple Access networks will roll out? In a word: Puleeeze! In an interview with The Financial Times, and later during the companys annual meeting, Jacobs warned that […]

The Bank of Montreal may be more than 180 years old, but when it comes to rolling out wireless Internet applications, this venerable organization is as leading-edge as it gets. BMO committed early to the wireless Internet, and now stands to emerge as a major provider of mobile financial applications to the entire banking sector. […]

Glenn Ishihara has learned how to use pole positions to speed the rollout of affordable wireless service in remote markets. Tiny NTCH acquired its first commercial license on June 30, 1999, and since then Ishihara has been quietly piecing together wireless networks in lucrative but underserved areas such as Grand Junction, Colo.; Moab, Utah; and […]

A new service may jump-start the U.S. wireless text messaging market by making it much easier for a wireless user to send a message to a customer of a different wireless company. TeleCommunication Systems (TCS), a messaging infrastructure company, said the hosting service, available today, will encourage content providers to use Short Message Service (SMS) […]

Cash In Motorola says it has raised more than $1 billion in the first quarter by selling stakes in five wireless companies, and should take in another $2 billion in cash and stocks by shedding investments in Hong Kong and Mexico. In February, Motorola said it would begin slashing jobs and warned that its first-quarter […]