eWEEK EDITORS

Seems that life is full of trade-offs. You order a Diet Coke so you can inhale a supersize order of fries. You buy nonfat ice cream so you can eat the entire half gallon during one episode of “The Sopranos.” You own a stock that is down 80 percent since last year at this time, […]

More users must upgrade their version of a key program underlying the Internet or risk damaging attacks by hackers that could affect systems far beyond their own, security experts warn. “We believe this issue is among the most serious the Internet will face,” said Shawn Hernan, team leader for vulnerability handling at Carnegie Mellon Universitys […]

Joy Lavalle gets online, and she stays online. There are bills to pay and groceries to buy, but shes not surfing to carry out those tasks. Instead, shes playing games — sometimes, for six or seven hours at a time. The 37-year-old homemaker, who lives in Spring Grove, Pa., has been an avid player on […]

After vanquishing most of their competitors, the coast is clear for regional Bells to raise rates for broadband services over Digital Subscriber Lines. SBC Communications is first out of the chute, quietly boosting standard residential Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) packages that sold for $40 per month last fall to $50. Market experts predicted others will […]

T1 as a digital subscriber line replacement? For those familiar with business-class DSL services this may seem like a one-step-forward, two-steps-back philosophy. But its happening. Even though DSL was promoted as a replacement service that was cheaper and more efficient than leasing a T1 line that moves traffic at 1.5 megabits per second, the technological […]

Almost below the radar, gaming and lotto sites have become among the most popular destinations on the Web. Such sites let players play free games with the chance to win millions of dollars in cash and prizes, and the companies that run them say their games are nothing more than harmless entertainment. However, experts say […]

Microsoft Case Goes to Audio Those interested in the ongoing battle between Microsoft and the U.S. Department of Justice can get an earful later this month. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, which is overseeing the antitrust case, said it will provide live audio of the oral arguments in Microsofts […]

The audio/video field is creeping closer to the computer domain, and CTOs and IS directors soon may find themselves responsible for both. Trust me—it recently happened to yours truly. During the last few years, our AV department went along its merry way, installing TVs and cameras and maintaining videoconferencing links that traverse two counties over […]

The fate of a far-flung network of government efforts to protect cyberspace is uncertain, with the leadership of the FBIs cybersecurity office vacant and the shutdown of a primary government cybervigilance office imminent. The Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office (CIAO) is mandated to close this year and many in industry are looking to the Bush administration […]

Like many other e-business sectors, application server vendors are experiencing a shakeout that, insiders predict, will leave only a few major companies standing. The rest are likely to be either bought, refocused or pushed into niche markets. The shakeout is a good-news, bad-news story for IT. While users may have fewer choices, the consolidation should […]