eWEEK EDITORS

Tis the season for prognostication, so here are my predictions for the true first year of the millennium. Feel free to steal my prescience and claim it for your own. If Im right, youll look brilliant. If Im wrong, blame it on the liberal technology media. Microsoft Despite the ardent hopes of Messrs. Bill Gates […]

No Playing Around EToys is pulling the plug on its European operations as part of a strategy to stay in business. The online toyseller warned in December 2000 that sales had fallen short of expectations and that it would run out of money by the end of March. The companys British unit will cease operating […]

In chasin what I thought were moonbeamsI have run into a couple of walls …—Jim Croce, from “The Hard Way Every Time” All over America tonight, bartenders are listening, or pretending to listen, to a modern twist on an old, sad song. This story doesnt begin with, “There was a girl …” or “There was […]

What a difference a year, a new leader and a new flagship product can make. Just ask the folks who are watching PeopleSoft. “Id say the opportunities [for PeopleSoft experts and partners] is pretty fantastic,” says Laurie Orlov, an analyst at Forrester Research. You almost feel like knocking on some nearby wood when Orlov lists […]

Dot-coms bleed pink slips. Does that mean the technology job market drops like a dot-com stock? Not at all. There are still more jobs available than candidates, as companies scramble to find personnel. John Gantz, chief research officer at International Data Corp., predicts that 1.5 million Internet executive jobs must be filled in 2001 — […]

The online holiday shopping season has ended, and it appears sales met analysts expectations by more than doubling over last years numbers. Still, that may not be enough to sustain some struggling Web retailers. During the eight-week period from the first week of November through Dec. 24, 2000, total online sales reached $9.8 billion, compared […]

The jury is still out on whether Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan will be able to guide the U.S. economy in for a smooth landing, but one thing is certain: In the world of business-to-consumer and business-to-business commerce, the landing has been anything but smooth. Its been more like the kind of landing Wile E. […]

The Internets breathtaking newness, by now, has faded. In 2001 the Net is part of our everyday routines. Many dot-coms have fallen back to Earth. “Aha!” we think, “Theres no such thing as the New Economy after all.” Ho-hum. Life goes on. And yet, huge tracts of digital terrain remain unexplored. Brand-new industries are springing […]

It was launched, like many great revolutions, with a song. Last year, Napster — in addition to enriching many digital music collections — sparked a fast-growing movement behind peer-to-peer computing. P2Ps apostles are convinced 2001 will be the Year of Peer, ushering in an new era of Internet computing. “Theres tremendous excitement, a tremendous number […]

The Internet corporation for assigned names and numbers will soon face its first enforcement challenge as a spat between Verio and Register.com gets increasingly nasty. Verio, a Web hosting and Internet access company, has called on the domain name systems management body to terminate its accreditation of Register.com, a large domain name registrar. At issue […]