Monthly Archives: December 2001

BellSouth Readies Mobile Offerings

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Communications giant BellSouth Corp. and wireless platform provider Air2Web Inc. next Monday will announce a partnership to deliver new corporate mobile services to BellSouth...

Restructuring Deal Could Save HP-Compaq Merger

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The Packard family foundations rejection Friday of Hewlett-Packard Co.s proposed merger with Compaq Computer Corp. doesnt necessarily kill the deal, but HP executives are...

States Proposals on Microsoft Are Brilliant

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The remedies proposed Friday by the nine states still fighting the Microsoft case represent the first middle ground between a wrist slap and the...

Agere Systems to Sell FPGA Portfolio for $250 Million

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Agere Systems announced on Monday that it will sell its field programmable system chip (FPGA) product portfolio and all related software design tools to...

GAO Site Defaced by “Alqaeda” Hackers

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A group claiming to be part of a large hacker organization known as the Alqaeda Muslim Alliance compromised several servers belonging to the U.S....

Peregrine Starts Adapter Business Unit

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Peregrine Systems Inc. announced this morning a new line of business focused solely on integration. The infrastructure management software developer already has IBM and...

Israeli Teens Held in Goner Virus Probe

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Four Israeli teens are in police custody after admitting Saturday to writing and then distributing the Goner virus, which tore through corporate networks worldwide...

EarthLink to Purchase OmniSky Assets, Subscribers

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EarthLink on Friday announced that it will acquire the subscriber base and certain wireless infrastructure components of the troubled OmniSky Corporation.San-Francisco based OmniSky announced...

Level 3 to Acquire McLeod Dial-Up Business

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Global communications and information services provider Level 3 announced on Friday that it has reached agreement with McLeodUSA to acquire some of its Internet...

Lawson Software Announces IPO

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For the first time in its quarter-century history, enterprise resource planning software maker Lawson Software is making a public offering. The St. Paul, Minn.,...