eWEEK EDITORS

Booming demand for faster Internet access over Digital Subscriber Lines left millions of prospective customers poking along at modem speed as the year ended. But those business and residential users awakened from their big-pipe dreams couldnt have been as disappointed as the service providers, which watched helplessly as vast potential revenue streams pooled in technological […]

You could call 3Coms Audrey an Internet pastry: Its a light, sweet and tasty snack, but essentially an unfulfilling experience. It has some fine qualities, to be sure. Unlike other Net appliances, Audrey works with just about any Internet service provider. If you dont have an ISP, it helpfully walks you through signing up for […]

The dot-com fire sale is hitting many former stars and their front men. Take Priceline.com, whose missteps and dot-com carnage bucketed its share price to less than $2. That drop hit Star Trek-famed William Shatner—aka Captain James T. Kirk—whose part payment for his “unique” renditions of popular songs netted him 135,000 shares of Priceline stock. […]

Lets Share The Federal Bureau of Investigation launched a program called InfraGuard, which it hopes will “expand direct contacts with private-sector infrastructure owners and operators” to promote sharing of information about cyberintrusions and vulnerabilities. Good luck. The private sector is reluctant to give such sensitive information to government agencies for fear it might leak or […]

When western multiplex and adaptive Broadband announced their intention to merge in November 2000, observers saw the move as the start of consolidation in a fragmented but healthy market for fixed wireless equipment. The future grew murky last week, as problems among competitive local providers hit vendors. Adaptive lowered its revenue expectations for the fourth […]

The pickings were big but scarce when IntelliNet Corp. opened its doors in 1998. The consulting and management services firm had big ambitions. But the cost of implementing enterprisewide network management limited IntelliNets prospects to the Fortune 500. “Blue Cross, Sherwin-Williams and OfficeMax were among our early clients,” recalls co-founder and business development VP Edward […]

This year promises to be busy for wireless operators as they jockey for position in the global race to deploy new networks. In the U.S., though, operators will be busy working out the kinks of building untried next-generation networks, and consumers are unlikely to see commercial services before the dawn of 2002. But dont count […]

The latest episode in the 3Com and U.S. Robotics story might play out like something from a PBS television nature special: The offspring grows up and attacks its parent in a vicious fight for territory. Just four months after it officially spun off from 3Com, U.S. Robotics is moving aggressively to compete with its former […]

Understanding the whims of the stock market is a little like predicting the weather. You get some good indicators, but theres always the possibility the storm will blow over—or that youll get hammered when you least expect it. In the U.S., many people are worried about the Nasdaqs decline. To some extent, thats a reflection […]

Canadian Privacy A new Canadian law that limits the use of personal information by businesses went into effect Jan. 1. Canadas Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act makes it illegal to use personal data without a consumers consent. Initially, the law affects only federally regulated businesses such as telecommunications providers and banks, but it […]