eWEEK EDITORS

The typically staid wireless telecom crowd at the 3GSM World Congress last week was wowed by images of futuristic mobile devices helping run businesses and homes. But later, wireless technology leaders warned that such gee-whiz applications are years away. Business applications will be developed before mass-market uses for new technology, and in the U.S., widespread […]

Your clients burgeoning digital assets are worthless, unless they can be retrieved and put to use. Retrieving them requires a solid process to store, name and index those assets, much the same as finding a book at the neighborhood library requires a card catalog. While Dewey hasnt evolved into the digital age, digital asset management […]

Day in Court Today, it begins again. Microsoft will ask a panel of seven judges to reverse U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Penfield Jacksons order to split the company and declare his finding that the company violated antitrust laws null and void. Dividing the company into disparate pieces always seemed a long shot. But now […]

Use of mobile Web services limited … Just 7 percent of u.s. adults say they or someone in their households use Internet services accessed via a mobile phone, according to a recent telephone survey of 1,022 randomly selected households done by research company Taylor Nelson Sofres Intersearch, in Horsham, Pa. Only 4 percent of those […]

In a speech to the European-American Business Council last March, European Commissioner Erkki Liikanen touted Europes lead in wireless technologies and predicted that the Continent could leave the U.S. in the dust, rolling out third-generation wireless networks. A year later, 3G spectrum has been auctioned in Europe, and mobile phone users there still outnumber U.S. […]

Its advice about as old as the practice of computer security. Though typically offered as a sarcastic comment on the impossibility of “100 percent security,” it does represent a recognition of the primary source of security problems: the network connection. I know—its counterintuitive. Almost all of the hype and technological development of the past few […]

Napster Offers $1 billion Deal Napster, the online music-swapping service trying to stay alive despite a recent court ruling against it, last week offered $1 billion to the recording industry in hopes of bringing an end to legal proceedings. The company offered to pay major record companies $150 million per year in licensing fees over […]

If peer-to-peer applications become ubiquitous, they could break the existing business models of many Internet service providers and force them to raise their prices, experts said. Peer-to-peer computing, which lets networked computers act as both clients and servers, is the next great innovation on the Internet, according to some marketers. Napster is the best-known P2P […]

An eerie blue “X-Files” glow has alarmed residents near downtown Denver ever since Qwest Communications replaced the discreet US West logo on its high-rise headquarters with a garish neon monstrosity. The sign glares all the way to the Rocky Mountain foothills 15 miles away. Its as bright as a Las Vegas casino—without the rest of […]

Collective Communications offers channel partners a novel pricing model and recurring revenues. Collective charges nothing up front for its ePDA software. “They give away the razor, but you have to buy the blades,” explains channel partner Bill MacMullin. Customers contract for ePDA on either a per-transaction or bundled-package basis. On a transaction basis, the Collective […]