eWEEK EDITORS

Californias electricity shortage has wreaked havoc, but a looming natural gas shortage may be even more calamitous. If current rates of withdrawal continue, Pacific Gas & Electrics gas storage facilities will be empty by the end of February — a month earlier than the utility expected. If demand increases and the utility runs out of […]

David Lord, former chief executive and founder of Toysmart.com, is now chief executive and founder of Expound, a Bedford, Mass., company that provides solutions and services to improve how companies interact with customers, employees, partners and suppliers. Lord spoke about his new venture with Senior Writer Laura Lorek. How is life after Toysmart? Life is […]

This month, Sun Microsystems Inc., in introducing Sun ONE, became the latest company to outline a Web services strategy, joining others such as Microsoft Corp., IBM, Hewlett-Packard Co. and Oracle Corp. Suns chief technology officer, Greg Papadopoulos, sat down with eWeek Senior Writer Roberta Holland to discuss the initiative. eWeek: What pieces of the Sun […]

Even Sapient Corp., the proverbial bellwether of the e-services consulting space, has felt the chill. Although the companys Q4 results were in line with its previously lowered estimates, Sapient has shown it is not immune to the slowdown in corporate IT spending. Regardless, the company still produced better Q4 results than its competitors, many of […]

The latest war in the web hosting space might mark the beginning of a shift in control of the commercial Internet. During the past six months, a united front of carrier-neutral colocation players and managed service providers (MSPs) has begun to develop services that allow them to offer packages that would rival turnkey offerings from […]

The fight for control of the telecommunications networks that are the lifeblood of the Internet may be brewing in Washington, D.C., but its shaping up in the tradition of good ol boy Louisiana politics. At the heart of the battle is the powerful new chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Rep. Billy Tauzin, […]

Developers of the worlds most popular mobile phone standard will design their next set of security specifications in public, setting the stage for what experts predicted will be an effectively snoop-proof cell phone. Although developers have yet to even choose which voice- and data-scrambling algorithm will be the successor to the widely criticized global system […]

With a new Mr. Fixit in the drivers seat, the nations largest broadband Internet provider is using a different roadmap to navigate the technical wilderness. Hossein Eslambolchi, acknowledged as one of the brightest minds to emerge from AT&Ts Bell Laboratories, will run Excite@Home as interim president, just two months after backing out of a job […]

Vincent D. McBrides life has changed a lot since he read an article about the Federal Communications Commissions spectrum lotteries about 10 years ago. Back then, McBride was delivering mail for the U.S Postal Service in East Los Angeles, fending off pit bulls with pepper spray. “Those pit bulls would turn around, blink, and say, […]

Regional bells and their competitors continue to argue over sharing space for equipment five years after they were told to find a way to colocate. The Federal Communications Commission last month fined SBC Communications $94,500 for failing to notify competitors that the company had no more space to share in several central offices in the […]