eWEEK EDITORS

Yahoo! Execs Say Adieu Two of Yahoo!s top international executives are leaving the company. Fabiola Arredondo, managing director at Yahoo! Europe in London, resigned earlier this month. Arredondo, who joined Yahoo! in 1997, will leave to pursue other business interests, according to the company. Meanwhile, Savio Chow, vice president and managing director at Yahoo! Asia, […]

IBM has good news to share with its allies at its PartnerWorld conference this week in Atlanta. The current alliance strategy is working—so much so, in fact, that the company is firing on almost every cylinder for the first time in decades. There are five basic drivers behind this top-to-bottom turnaround. First and foremost, IBM […]

That the latest security land mine facing it managers has been found among existing wireless networks shouldnt come as a surprise. After all, the Wired Equivalent Privacy algorithm, part of the 802.11 wireless LAN standard, was not designed as a strong security measure by todays standards. Nevertheless, we wonder why finding the holes took so […]

As the world of managed security grows, Christopher Darby, CEO of @stake Inc., in Cambridge, Mass., has decided to play the cards he was dealt and not join the application service provider rush. Instead, Darby intends to continue preaching the gospel of security as a process to @stakes high-end clients and fine-tuning the companys services […]

Ohms Law. Moores Law. Parkinsons Law. Theyre all critical to running a high-technology enterprise. But the most important law, by far, when it comes to ensuring the long-term success of a solutions provider, is Murphys Law. Assume, as a matter of course, that on any given customer engagement, everything that can go wrong, will go […]

Before calling in the experts to perform a vulnerability assessment of an enterprise network, there are a few basic steps IT managers can take to improve security. • Keep current with updates to security software—especially Secure Sockets Layer, virus protection, operating system patches and digital certificates. IT managers often overlook this simple security measure. • […]

Proposed efforts by the state of South Australia to crack down on offensive content online have underscored concerns among some Australians that such initiatives may be painting Australia as anti-Internet, and may discourage foreign investment. The proposed legislation for the state of South Australia, which includes the city of Adelaide, would let police take action […]

A new type of network service provider may soon emerge to rival Internet service providers and application service providers, selling storage as a utility over a network link to storage facilities offering terabytes of space. They owe their rise to simple economics: Customers can save a significant amount of money by contracting for storage with […]

Chip maker advanced Micro Devices Inc. got a big boost for its HyperTransport technology this month when more than 100 computer and communications companies pledged to support its adoption. HyperTransport, formerly code-named Lightning Data Transport, is a new architecture designed to dramatically boost data transfer inside PCs as well as networking and communications devices. The […]

Theres nothing like serendipity. So thought Clarity Systems principal Bill MacMullin when he came across Collective Communications Corp. at a conference last August. MacMullin, a professional-services consultant, had been working with client ICU Medical Inc. since October 1999, upgrading and improving the companys mobile communications system. ICUs 35 U.S. salespeople used the system to download […]