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With its future growing bleaker, AT&T replaced the leader of its Broadband unit in preparation for an apparent sale of cable operations as the companys revenues continue to decline. AT&T reported third-quarter earnings of $3.13 per share on revenue of $13.1 billion. On a pro forma basis, which adjusts for the consolidation of Excite@Home and […]

NEW YORK — On the eve of Microsofts festive Windows XP launch party, which will include an outdoor concert by rock artist Sting in midtown Manhattan on Thursday, industry watchers are predicting that languishing PC makers will not get any immediate relief from the new operating system. Major PC vendors, including Compaq Computer, Dell Computer, […]

Compaq Computer Corp., which warned three weeks ago that it would post a loss for the quarter, posted earnings Tuesday worse than analysts expected and again lowered its forecasts for the remainder of the year. The Houston-based computer maker, which last month agreed to a buyout by Hewlett-Packard Co., blamed a drop in overall sales […]

BMC Software, which makes mainframe system management software, is extending the reach of its Patrol system down to the desktop, including Linux desktops. BMCs Patrol for Linux manages Linux on the desktop. Patrol for Unix manages Red Hat or SuSE Linux on servers. The products for managing Linux in distributed systems, including desktops and Intel […]

Groove Networks has learned that IT departments still want these things called “servers.” Until now, the Beverly, Mass., company – founded in 1997 by Ray Ozzie, the creator of Lotus Developments Notes – has sold only peer-to-peer collaboration software, which lets users PCs communicate directly with each other. On Wednesday, Oct. 24, Groove will launch […]

Voice on the Internet pioneer Net2Phone on Tuesday, Oct. 23, announced that its year-end losses more than doubled, its CEO has quit, and a consortium formed by AT&T, IDT and Liberty Media has taken over management and now controls 60 percent of voting shares. The new management hopes to parlay Net2Phones Voice-over-Broadband technology into profits […]

Struggling online publishing companies considering a move to paid subscriptions might want to think twice, says a new market report. According to a study of 1,895 newspaper-site visitors by Borrell & Associates, free content still rules the day. Seventy-one percent said they would go elsewhere if a site imposed subscription fees. The number of news […]

Informatica is attempting to put data mining information into end users hands more quickly. To do so, it has upgraded its business analytics applications and produced the Informatica Analytic Delivery Server for sending results to desktops, wireless devices and even voice recognition systems. In an announcement at its San Francisco user group meeting yesterday, Informatica […]

The American medical system would be better able to respond to bioterrorism threats like anthrax if the nations hospitals, doctors and epidemiologists were connected via the Web, according to the eHealth Initiative, a newly formed consortium of health care IT companies. High-speed Web connections would allow medical providers to share information about symptoms, outbreaks, treatment […]

Intel Corp. on Tuesday announced it has started sampling an updated version of its flash memory chip thats only half the size of its predecessor and consumes less energy, making it more ideally suited for cell phones and handheld digital devices. Intel contends the new chip, now being shipped to manufacturers for testing, will be […]

ORLANDO, Fla.—Application developers need to do a better job of considering enterprise storage needs. At least, thats the word from a top executive at Computer Associates International Inc. President and CEO Sanjay Kumar also said Tuesday that storage needs to be accessible from anywhere, easy to manage, always available and housed only on high-throughput devices. […]

Prudential financial spent nearly $10 million redesigning its web site, but the company isnt expecting a hard-dollar return on the investment. That might seem strange in these troubled times, but its an indication of just how integrated Web assets have become in Prudentials overall corporate strategy. “We felt we should reorganize the site and provide […]