eWEEK EDITORS

The vendors we spoke with each think that their solution is the best way to ride the wave of convergence. Here are some of the arguments that floated past us: The Integrated Communications Platform (ICP) vendors are delivering a complete office solution. Even Vertical Networks product is called InstantOffice. Their goal is to provide everything […]

Compromise is in the air on Capitol Hill, and the end of duty-free online shopping could be near. The debate about whether to let states tax electronic commerce has grown more intense in the past six months. Potent pro-tax lobbying forces like the National Retail Federation have waded into the fray, and state and local […]

EToys and its subsidiaries, BabyCenter.Com and ParentCenter.com, could be forced into bankruptcy after an agreement with creditors expires this week. The Santa Monica, Calif., toy sellers unsecured creditors have agreed not to take action to collect on their debts, and eToys has agreed not to pay any past-due debts and to operate under a budget […]

Trademark disputes sank to an all-time low this month when The Pillsbury Company fired off cease-and-desist letters to the likes of Columbia University and Sun Microsystems. Seems Pillsbury has owned a trademark on the phrase “bake-off” since 1949, and it doesnt want anyone using the term to describe events at which software engineers test their […]

Fred Buehlers web strategy has a familiar ring to it: invest in promising startups, beef up the storefront and roll out new technology. What makes it remarkable is the timing. Even in the midst of a jittery economy and a parade of dot-com disasters like Go.com, the vice president of e-business for Eastman Chemical Co. […]

David Von Ancken is very, very pleased. “I could jump up and down all day telling you how happy I am,” he says. Von Ancken is the winner of an online film contest sponsored by Universal Pictures and Hypnotic.com, an Internet company that develops the work of “emerging” artists. Since winning the contest in January, […]

Its almost a perfect storm.” Thats how William Smith, manager of market-driven load management at Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), a nonprofit energy research group in Palo Alto, Calif., describes Californias energy crisis. Thanks to a confluence of misguided decisions—many of them related to deregulation—that triggered the Golden States current crisis, that analogy is apt. […]

Grove Urges IT Investment If congress is going to give U.S. citizens a tax break, then it should do something for small businesses, according to Intel Chairman Andrew Grove. With the economy slowing and small businesses already struggling to get online, Grove, who founded the chip maker, said last week that the federal government should […]

Most computers are born in spotless, well-lit factories where every task and part is carefully choreographed. Most of them die inside cluttered, dimly lit warehouses like the one operated by Axcess Technologies, an Austin electronics recycling firm. On a cool afternoon in early February, a trio of Axcess employees equipped with bulky electric screwdrivers methodically […]

Intel Corp.s failure last week to go through with a scheduled presentation of a new 64-bit processor fueled speculation that the chip may endure delays. Aside from the withdrawal at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference here, there are other indications the processor, code-named McKinley, may be running behind schedule. For one, the processors design has […]