eWEEK EDITORS

General Electric took a big step last week on the path to becoming a business-to-business e-market powerhouse that could rival the likes of Ariba and Commerce One. The international giants Global eXchange Services unit began offering its subscription exchange service, Express Marketplace, which provides a platform on which other companies can run exchanges, as well […]

Its time for privately held Web integrators to hire one messenger to serve the masses. Right now, those companies are using dozens of costly PR reps to send me the same exact message. Recently, for example, I received three e-mail pitches from private integrators within a one-hour period, all hawking the identical thing—”positive success” stories […]

Whos Got the Last Laugh Now? As a reporter who writes about Internet and dot-com companies, I — and my colleagues at the magazine — am precluded from owning stock in the companies we write about. Its an ethics thing. But while I was the belittled by my stock-owning friends last January for not being […]

It may be a new year, but last quarters slowdown continues to haunt the e-services sector. Even Sapient, one of the sectors star performers, has stumbled. The companys surprise earnings warning last Thursday delivered a harsh reality one day after investors cheered the feds interest-rate cut. For the week ended Jan. 4, our Partner Index […]

Hard hit by a combination punch of depressed stocks and poor earnings, the Web-integrator sector is ripe for consolidation. But dont expect any miracles from such actions, because buyers appear to be few and far between. Still bruised by a disastrous Q4, many Web integrators are cutting staff and closing offices to keep their businesses […]

The worst thing about laying communications cables under the sea isnt the ships food, nor the choppy waves. Its not the days when you have to handblast trenches in muddy sea bottoms or manipulate robot cars trundling the ocean depths. The worst days are much worse than that. Like the day one of Alcatels 300-foot […]

Instant messaging vendors are fighting to differentiate their products to avoid seeing them turn into commodities that all look and feel the same. While rivals of America Online have pushed the Federal Communications Commission to require the AIM client to be interoperable with others as part of its merger with Time Warner, the competitors are […]

The most popular pet-related Web site during the week of Dec. 14 was not Petco or PetsMart, according to the traffic trackers at 100hot.com. It was Kingsnake.com, a portal to all things reptilian and amphibian. The top ranking was no fluke. Kingsnake.com consistently is among 100hots top ten. More than 1.6 million unique visitors were […]

Venture capitalists have gone from smitten to sorry. The stock market has relegated it to the doghouse. The medias two-year panegyric has transformed into a scolding. Now its Congress turn to take another look at the Internet. From taxation to privacy, intellectual property to telecommunications, the sudden realization that everything with a dot-com after it […]

When historians look back on the current expansion phase of the Internet, they will identify one of its key drivers as the ascendancy of the software developer into the drivers seat. It used to be that the corporate Chief Information Officer, the information technology (IT) manager and other blended business/technology managers held the keys to […]