eWEEK EDITORS

Nearly 20 years ago, MTV was the height of cool, with its weird images of rock stars wearing shredded leotards and polka-dot dresses. Its logo was an astronaut planting a flag. MTV has planted its flag on the Net as well, but in this medium, its symbol of conquest is not the only flag on […]

Entertainment companies are retrenching when it comes to the Internet and digital content, but everyone is trying to figure out what they need to do to thrive in this brave, new world. In terms of interactive TV, most content producers, such as ABC, Fox and HBO, have some form of iTV projects in the works […]

If there is one question that i get asked most consistently, it is “As a dot-com CTO, what is your most difficult challenge?” Choosing just one may be the biggest challenge of all. Im confronted by all the challenges of any financial services organization: namely, to ensure that clients money and accounts are accurately accounted […]

Many people using the Internet to search for music do not fit the image of the Napster-happy college student — and Ted Boucher could be their poster boy. A 50-year-old retired advertising and public relations manager living in the Washington, D.C., area, Boucher spends his days scouring the Net for traditional folk music, both as […]

Analysts said Lucent Technologies took the right steps to stem losses after the networking giant announced plans to cut 16,000 jobs and slash spending by $2 billion a year. While turning around the culture at the troubled company will cause suffering, observers said Lucents new optical networking products show promise. “Its obviously going to be […]

Imagine youre stuck with 1,200 legacy system experts, scattered all over the world. Granted, theyve been your enterprises backbone, developing legacy systems for finance, warehousing and purchasing, but, still, they dont exactly form a cutting-edge e-business work force. You cant fire them; that would be both ungrateful and politically suicidal. So what do you do? […]

With plenty of fanfare, big industry players introduced online marketplaces for everything from planes and automobiles to hotel rooms last year. But months later, many dont have much to show. Major air carriers American Airlines, Continental Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Northwest Airlines and United Airlines announced plans to launch T2, now known as Orbitz, a […]

As manager at a radio station, Ken Freedman gets plenty of feedback from listeners. Last year, he got a smattering of comments from people who were clearly sick of Internet hype. This one was typical: “I wish your DJs would shut up about the Internet already.” Freedman, station manager at WFMU in Jersey City, N.J., […]

The new chief executive chosen to lead the body charged with managing the Internets domain name system walks into the job as somewhat of an unknown quantity, an attribute some say is needed. An apparent outsider to the politics surrounding the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, M. Stuart Lynn, 63, will formally succeed […]

The days of the free phone ride appear to be numbered. Companies have been dropping — or at least rethinking — the provision of free calls over the Internet from personal computers to standard telephones. The market conditions causing well-established Internet telephony companies such as Deltathree, Net2Phone and PhoneFree.com to re-evaluate their offerings also led […]