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Hewlett-Packard says it hasnt closed its much-hyped Garage Program, it just found a new home for it. Following the fizzle of the dot-com boom, the company last week quietly folded the year-old incubator program into its New Ventures organization, a Hewlett-Packard venture arm. The Garage Program initially was strongly marketed with the nostalgic theme of […]

Bruce Sterling would no doubt hate the idea of being a hero of any kind — sung, unsung, whistled or hummed. But Sterling deserves recognition for his career as a journalist, futurist and malcontent. Its a career that has paralleled the Internet explosion. In 1992, he published his investigative book, The Hacker Crackdown: Law and […]

Fingerprint readers. Voice-print identifiers. Retina or iris scanners. Face-recognition systems. Those are the things that spy stories are made of. In most peoples minds, they are the very essence of high-tech security, and everyone knows that no supersecret headquarters worth its salt is without its share of such devices. But biometrics has extended its reach. […]

Whenever Im asked to define the focus of eWeeks eBizStrategies section, I begin with one simple idea: Managers building e-business enterprises learn the most from other managers doing the same thing. Journalists and pundits are a dime a dozen. But theres nothing quite as credible as an e-business manager talking about his or her lessons […]

Earthquake Rattles Seattle Bill gates spoke, and the earth moved. Actually, only a part of the earth moved last week when a strong earthquake—with a magnitude of 6.8—rocked the Pacific Northwest. The quake injured about 250 people and caused more than $1 billion in damages. And it was only coincidence that it happened when Bill […]

For Lee Blezard, being a project manager is the business equivalent of conducting an orchestra. “I apply my attention and send resources to the places that need it to make everything come together,” said the veteran manager at Nortel Networks Corp., in Brampton, Ontario. In the last 10 years, Blezard has managed everything from software […]

Free ISP Juno Online Services wants its users to contribute their idle clock cycles to a distributed “supercomputer,” which the struggling service would rent to research organizations and corporations that need massive computation power. The plan would require users to install client software and leave their PCs on 24 hours a day. The client would […]

Companies wiring buildings for broadband access are starting to sing the blues. Building local exchange carriers (BLECs) are struggling with a sluggish economy, lower-than-expected demand and very few avenues for new capital. The net result will be fewer independently wired buildings in the future, industry experts said. BLECs blame Wall Street for the sudden reversal […]

We last reported on our experiences with satellite Internet service from Tachyon back in November. Since then, our results have been a mixed. On the plus side, when the system works, the setup delivers very fast Internet connectivity. Theres a little latency—on the order of about a second or so—but when performing a file download, […]

The nearly ubiquitous personal digital assistant has begun to take its place among wireless phones and notebook computers in the arsenal of mobile business tools. “Corporate users have been accepting handheld devices more and more,” says Ian Cullimore, president and chief executive at Informal Software in Santa Clara, Calif. “Although early adopters started buying them […]