eWEEK EDITORS

How do you know that the Internet service provider taking your order actually has a network in place to fulfill it? The reality is, you dont. Analysts estimate that 70 percent of network connectivity sales are made by carriers that dont actually have the network to connect customers. But what if you could outsource provisioning […]

PC makers return this week from the warm glow of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to face a grim winter, kicked off by a year-to-year decline of 24 percent in PC sales during the critical month of December. Not only retail PC sales but also corporate spending plans are blowing chill winds through […]

Its probably bad enough to the French that the Web site is called Yahoo! Such a quintessentially American word, a lexical 10-gallon hat, the semantic equivalent of “McDonalds.” But its not the gauche name they are after. Its what has been for sale on the Web site: Nazi memorabilia. You can buy the stuff on […]

Some markets never get off the ground, while others get off the ground so fast they dont allow solutions providers to recoup their investment in people and training. A classic example was the computer-aided software engineering market, which was so slow to get real products out the door that it was eclipsed by simplified modular […]

Dont be surprised to see a Brio Technology Inc. salesperson at your door. New President and CEO Craig Brennan said he will waste little time in trying to reverse the fortunes of the struggling business intelligence software company, and aggressive sales tactics will be a method to that end. “One of the things our sales […]

The upheaval in the digital subscriber line market has continued for months, and independent carriers — Covad Communications, NorthPoint Communications and Rhythms NetConnections — are feeling the pain. As those carriers continue to cut back purchasing, the equipment manufacturers are getting squeezed as well. In particular, makers of voice-over-Digital Subscriber Line (VoDSL) gear are in […]

US Interactive is running out of time to maintain its stock listing on the Nasdaq. Short of a miracle, its stock, currently priced near 30 cents a share, is not likely to reach the $5 minimum bid price that it must maintain for 10 consecutive trading days prior to Jan. 29 to remain on the […]

Jeffrey Engelmann Marketing VP www.epit.com Climbing Out of the Pit Ever wonder how anything gets traded on the stock exchange floor with all that yelling and screaming? Enterprise software company ePit offers a solution. EPit, as in the “pit” of a stock exchange, provides a horizontal e-marketplace platform that makes it possible for traders to […]

Analysts are scratching their heads over Micron Electronics plan to turn its HostPro Inc. subsidiary into an application service provider, which would make Micron the first big-time PC maker to become an ASP. IDC analyst Melanie Posey was quoted as saying, “Its not the kind of thing you would set out to do unless youre […]

In a move that provides more clarity on a thorny issue surrounding legal jurisdiction in cyberspace, a key group of the worlds most developed nations has agreed on one of the primary conditions under which countries can tax profits from electronic commerce. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development — of which the U.S. and […]