eWEEK EDITORS

David R. Ditzel is the rare technologist who not only likes to be on the theoretical leading edge, but the contentious firing line as well. He is currently contending that only through a combination of his firms Crusoe hardware and software will effective mobile devices be built for the Internet. Crusoe offers its own blend […]

Robbie Bach is betting more than half a billion dollars that Microsoft has got game. Make that a totally awesome, wet-your-pants, slime-green-colored game machine called Xbox, which Microsoft is certain will thrash the likes of Nintendo and Sony in the ferociously competitive video game business. Bach is heading up what is perhaps Microsofts most aggressive […]

Remember when almost all homeowners owned mowers and tended their own lawns? Notice how these days many people dont have time to roll their own mowers and are increasingly outsourcing their lawn-care tasks? With information technology professionals busy and in short supply, and with increased network complexity, a similar trend toward partnering to get telecom […]

Cisco Systems isnt winning many friends on Capitol Hill — or in Silicon Valley — as Californias energy crisis continues. The networking giant was chastised for its ongoing opposition to a proposed power plant in San Jose last week, at the beginning of a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing on Californias energy woes. […]

Cisco Systems isnt on the ropes yet, but tension is palpable in the battle for the network core and edge as scrappy Juniper Networks — directed by Chief Executive Scott Kriens — rolls out faster, smarter routers and gobbles up market share along the way. In typical entrepreneurial fashion, Kriens has declared time and again […]

Delivering time-sensitive information is the essence of Netscan iPublishings business. Unfortunately, information wasnt flowing freely among the small firms three offices in Virginia, Florida and Pennsylvania. Ten editorial staffers based in Florida report breaking legislative and regulatory news from print and Web sources. Their data is sent to Netscans Virginia headquarters, where it is combined […]

After sampling the joy of VPN at the office, many customers will want VPN access from home and while on the road. But remote VPN access can give hackers a pipeline into otherwise secured networks. Every remote user should be equipped with a personal firewall such as ZoneAlarm ($20), BlackICE ($40) or Norton Personal Firewall […]

I almost look forward to doing my taxes for 2000, my first full year as a regular employee since 1995. I avoided earning any self-employment income, so the dreaded Schedule C wont be necessary. But the time required to render unto Caesar is still outrageous. Ten years ago, it took an average of nine hours […]

Fingerprinting May Aid Voters Among the many issues swirling around the latest presidential election were questions about the absentee voting of military personnel from Florida. Global services company Electronic Data Systems and a security enterprise, Identix, went to Washington last week to demonstrate technology they said will ameliorate the confusion by removing the need to […]

As the Starship Ciena rocketed from tech supernova to tech black hole and back again over the past four years, Patrick Nettles sat in the pilots chair, cooling nerves with his mantra, “Steak before sizzle.” Nettles isnt easily rattled. After founder David Huber left Ciena, the companys fortunes were in the hands of this southern […]