Monthly Archives: December 2001
BellSouth Readies Mobile Offerings
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.,...