eWEEK EDITORS

We live in a nation where the winner of the most powerful office in the land may have been decided by a lousy user interface. So, if typical Americans have trouble choosing the right options on a butterfly ballot — a sheet of paper with four arrows on the left, four arrows on the right […]

Thats Rich Heres a little factoid that wasnt included in all those press releases earlier this month about Microsoft Chief Operating Officer Bob Herbold resigning —former Silicon Graphics Chief Executive Rick Belluzzo, whos been at Microsoft for about 18 months, takes his place as COO and also picks up the title of president. Herbold, whos […]

The management of rich media is so important that IBM and Arthur Andersen both have built global practices to develop processes and structures to deliver it. But what tools are being used to build processes and frameworks? Who are these digital librarians? Divide the practice into two groups: the integrators (Arthur Andersen, Concero, IBM and […]

After 20 years in the MCI-WorldCom nest, Omar Leeman decided to fly. He left his safe, lofty job as president of the special markets group at WorldCom to head up a new kind of telecommunications carrier — Talk2 Technology — which is building out a next-gen applications infrastructure that will service telephone and wireless providers […]

Mondosoft, a Danish company that makes a remotely hosted search engine for large Web sites, is doing a little searching of its own these days. Having made a name for itself by directly selling its service to some big clients, including the Oakland Raiders and The Washington Times, Mondosoft Inc. is on the prowl for […]

One of the biggest problems for merchants facing Internet fraud is that criminals are getting more sophisticated and there are very few cops on the beat to catch them. “The Internet gives these criminals anonymity, and the international angle makes it very difficult to prosecute these criminals in jurisdictions outside of the U.S.,” said Mark […]

Maybe the problem with all those failed dot-coms is that they tried too hard. It turns out that at least one way to succeed as a retailer on the Internet is to let your customers do most of the work, not keep any inventory in stock, and sit back and watch the money roll in. […]

Oil Exchange Closes Oil and gas giant Chevron is closing its online oil marketplace after less than a year. The company says it will discontinue Silicon Valley Oil, the spin-off it had launched to operate the marketplace. Chevron says the spin-off was unable to sign on new customers at a rate needed to sustain long-term […]

Bea Systems Inc. is moving into the business-to-business integration and application arenas with three new products for its WebLogic application server. Set to roll out the products at its user conference in Dallas this week, BEA is playing catch-up with some customers. Edward Pick, chief technology officer of B2BGalaxy.com Inc., which builds B2B networks, said […]

One of the latest cyberscams involves international thieves using stolen credit cards to buy goods from U.S. Internet merchants. The crooks are setting up stateside addresses to receive the stolen property and then forwarding the goods overseas, primarily to Asia, Europe, Latin America and Russia. Just about every major Internet retailer has been hit, costing […]