eWEEK EDITORS

Amid the ongoing debate over the wireless Internet — its either the next big thing or a another bust in the making — a growing number of major companies and financial organizations have begun quietly rolling out mobile applications and services. Besides early adopters Bank of Montreal and its Harris Bank subsidiary, several major financial […]

Musicians have long criticized the recording industry for limiting the opportunities of the majority of artists. But for Jenny Toomey, battling the injustices of the recording system has become her all-consuming project. “Eighty percent of artists are invisible: You dont hear them on the radio, you dont see them in the stores,” Toomey says. “The […]

With any luck, my last column convinced a few of you that taking a part of your network completely off the Internet is not as absurd as it may sound. No matter how many times some developer hypes his increasingly “Internet-aware” software, the fact remains that such awareness carries a very real price and may […]

A new crop of ultrathin servers on tap from a handful of computer makers may not be all theyre cracked up to be. According to IT professionals and industry analysts, manufacturers of such servers, dubbed “ultradense” servers, may have cut too many corners in designing the compact systems, making them ill-suited for the very businesses […]

Late last month, a hacker calling himself Fluffy Bunny attacked a Domain Name System server belonging to McDonalds fast food restaurants in England and redirected traffic to a dummy site in the U.S. Visitors found the familiar golden arches, but not much else looked the same. The company name had been changed to McDicks, and, […]

Peter Zandan made it cool to care. Three years ago, at a time when the Austin, Texas, technology world was dizzy with its own successes, Zandan was like many of his peers: He had money, cool technology and a lack of community. He knew little about the other technology players in town, and even less […]

Figuratively speaking, Kamran Sistanizadeh is a converted atheist. Yipes Communications co-founders Jerry Parrick and Ron Young decided to convert him as a co-founder shortly after a memorable lunch at a Silicon Alley restaurant, where the dynamic duo decided to go ahead with Yipes. As they remember it now, they wanted somebody to architect their next-generation […]

iQ NetSolutions this week plans to roll out ser-vice that brings the properties of peer-to-peer networking to corporate telephony. Imagine, if you will, a corporate telephone system with no private branch exchange or central switch. Technologically, it seems as plausible as Napster did before it rode peer-to-peer networking technology to worldwide notoriety. But by distributing […]

Perhaps the biggest current obstacle to the development of the biometrics market is the lack of well-developed or adopted standards. Until recently, with demand limited to extremely high-security projects primarily in the public sector, there has been little call for them. The emerging market has only just begun to become large enough to attract the […]

Weeks before Super Bowl XXXV, as John Stiening and his team huddled to plan strategy, they made a cold-sweat-inducing discovery: They would get sacked. Stiening and his engineers at eCreative Search Inc. weren?t diagramming Xs and Os—rather, they were trying to get a grip on capacity planning for the explosion of site visitors the big […]